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Explaining Our Community Standards and Approach to Government Requests — By Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management, and Chris Sonderby, Deputy General Counsel — Every day, people around the world use Facebook to connect with family and friends, share information and express themselves.
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| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Facebook confirms people can use chosen names, clarifies rules regarding hate speech, nudity, and more — Facebook clarifies community standards, confirms people can use chosen names — Social network says some nudity is acceptable too — Facebook clarified its real name policy on Sunday night …
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Google is working on an open API to allow any app integrate with Google Now — A Google Now open API is in the works... and support for theme park ride queue times — Google Now will one day be able to work with information from all of the apps you use.| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
YouTube introduces interactive cards to complement annotations - and they work on mobile too — YouTube annotations - often useful uploader addendums, other times annoying distractions. Today though, the video platform is announcing a new and improved tool: cards.
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Bill Gurley amps up bubble talk, predicting “dead unicorns” this year and a Facebook revenue hit — Bill Gurley predicts ‘dead unicorns’ in startup-land this year — A crash would affect more than just startups. Bill Gurley, the prominent investor behind Uber and Snapchat …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Facebook to announce ad performance measurement tool on its own and third party apps next week — Mobile Ad World Braces for Facebook's Move Into Measurement — Facebook next week is expected to announce a tool to help mobile app developers measure whether an ad caused people to download an app …
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Microsoft launches Office 2016 and Skype for Business previews — A leaked version of Office 2016 gave us an early look at a new colorful theme early today, and now Microsoft is ready to let anyone test its upcoming Office client. Starting today, the software maker is launching … | Pew Internet: |
Pew survey examines changes in American attitudes about online privacy post-Snowden — Americans' Privacy Strategies Post-Snowden — It has been nearly two years since the first disclosures of government surveillance programs by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden …
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| Jordan Pearson / Motherboard: |
‘Sirius’ Is the Google-Backed Open Source Siri — Sirius, a Google-funded open source program similar to Apple's Siri or Google's Google Now voice recognition application, could finally democratize the virtual assistant. — RIght now, virtual assistants are a game for the big kids of the tech world …
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| Martin Robinson / Eurogamer.net: |
Xbox head Phil Spencer on Xbox One's future and its unification with PCs through Windows 10 — Phil Spencer's new vision for the Xbox One — The Xbox chief on the change of direction that will help Xbox in its fight against PlayStation. — Things have been looking up for the Xbox One …
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IDC revises projections for 2015 PC shipments downward, now expects a 5% drop this year — No, Really, the PC Is Dying and It's Not Coming Back — A little while back, we started to hear a few voices speaking up against the drumbeat of doom. No, PCs weren't dead. They were maybe even coming back.| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
T-Mobile extends Data Stash to prepaid customers, includes the same 10GB of free LTE data; unused data rolls over for up to a year — T-Mobile extends 10GB free LTE data to prepaid customers, includes data rollover for up to a year — T-Mobile announced Data Stash back in December … | New York Times: |
Authorities Closing In on Hackers Who Stole Data From JPMorgan Chase — It has become a familiar pattern: The computer system of a big American company is breached, the personal information of tens of millions of customers is stolen and a public outcry ensues. Rarely are the thieves caught.Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Equals:
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Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
Pro tips: 5 ways to close WhatsApp leads in Zoho CRM — This is a guest post by Orkhan Jafarli, Growth PM at TimelinesAI.More buyers now reach out on WhatsApp before they ever fill out a form.
Pro tips: 5 ways to close WhatsApp leads in Zoho CRM — This is a guest post by Orkhan Jafarli, Growth PM at TimelinesAI.More buyers now reach out on WhatsApp before they ever fill out a form.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
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OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
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The Talk Show With John Gruber:
'A Scam Held Together With Patriotism and Golden Paint', With Quinn Nelson
The director's commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
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The Upstarts Podcast:
Abridge's Shiv Rao: The Doctor Founder Taking On Microsoft In Healthcare AI
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
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Big Technology Podcast:
OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
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Great Chat:
Too big to laugh: how tech lost its sense of humor
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
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Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
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