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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
After teasing a new social media platform, Trump debuts a new section on his website that's effectively a blog, ahead of the Oversight Board's decision on Wed. — A true poster never logs off for long — After months of promising his own social media network for banned posters …
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| Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: |
Signal says Facebook shut down its ad account over an Instagram ad campaign that showed the user data Facebook collects to sell ads — A series of Instagram ads run by the privacy-positive platform Signal got the messaging app booted from the former's ad platform, according to a blog post Signal published on Tuesday.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
On Day Two of the Apple vs Epic trial, Sweeney said he would have taken an exclusive App Store deal, Apple recounted Epic's praise of Apple's Metal API, more — The Apple vs. Epic trial continued today, with Epic CEO Tim Sweeney testifying and facing cross-examination from Apple's layers.
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| Nick Statt / Protocol: |
At trial, Tim Sweeney contends that the App Store taking “30% off of the top” is an existential threat to Fortnite becoming a metaverse or platform for creators — Epic CEO Tim Sweeney finished his time on the stand Tuesday afternoon, during day two of the Epic v. Apple trial.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google reveals the Pixel Buds A-Series in a now-deleted tweet, which mentions a new Fast Pair feature — At the end of March, we exclusively reported about Google's next wireless earbuds, and the first image leaked a week later. Google today announced the “Pixel Buds A-Series” on Twitter, though the reveal was entirely an accident.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Dell patches a recently discovered 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting hundreds of millions of Dell systems, which gives local attackers full PC control — Hundreds of millions of Dell desktops, laptops, notebooks, and tablets will need to update their Dell DBUtil driver to fix …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Twitter buys Scroll, the $5/month service that removes ads from partner news sites; Scroll's Nuzzel email service will shut down on May 6 — The Nuzzel email service is winding down and the future of Scroll is uncertain — Twitter's acquisition spree continues today with Scroll …
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| Carmen Reinicke / CNBC: |
Dogecoin's price surged roughly 40% on Tuesday, reaching a market cap of $69B, up 11,000% YTD, and making Dogecoin the fourth-largest cryptocurrency — The latest cryptocurrency star is a coin named after a meme of a Shiba Inu dog that was started as a joke.
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| Adam Janofsky / The Record: |
Study: 60% of 73 K-12 apps from 38 schools in 14 states across the US send student data to a variety of third parties, roughly 50% to Google and 14% to Facebook — The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed schools around the country to adopt and rely heavily on new technology.| Rebecca Szkutak / Forbes: |
LoanSnap, whose AI system analyzes users' finances and recommends a loan to improve their financial health, raises $30M Series B led by True Ventures — Serial entrepreneur Karl Jacob has tried to tackle a lot of industries in his career, from social networking to cybersecurity.
Tweets: @adamnash and @richardbranson
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook says that Workplace has 7M paid subscribers, up 40% YoY, as it announces new features, like Microsoft 365 and G-Suite calendar integrations — - Facebook's Workplace enterprise communications software has now reached 7 million paid subscribers. — The milestone is up 40% from 5 million last May.
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| William Ralston / Wired: |
An in-depth look at the fallout from a ransomware attack on Finnish private mental health provider Vastaamo, which exposed therapists' notes about patients — A mental health startup built its business on easy-to-use technology. Patients joined in droves. Then came a catastrophic data breach.
Tweets: @sonicwall, @calebhowe, and @hatr
| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Basecamp CEO apologizes to staff without announcing any further policy changes and says Basecamp would be “rooting for” employees who recently left the company — The software company has been under fire for how it handled employees' concerns about culture
Tweets: @moonpolysoft, @caseynewton, and @brianchoffman
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram unveils a “captions sticker”, which automatically captions videos to make them more accessible without sound, coming first to Stories and then Reels — Instagram is making its video Stories and Reels more accessible with the launch of a new “captions sticker” …
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Tweets: @mosseri, @nash, and @cubanalaf
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft open sources Counterfit, an AI security risk assessment tool that comes preloaded with algorithms that can be used to evade and steal AI models — Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — Microsoft today open-sourced Counterfit …
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| John Tozzi / Bloomberg: |
Collective Health, which offers employers a health benefits management platform, raises $280M in funding at a $1.5B post-money valuation — Health-coverage IT firm raises $280 million from investors, including major seller of Blue Cross Blue Shield plans — Startup Collective Health …
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