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February 9, 2016, 2:10 PM

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter introduces First View, new video ads placed at the top of users' timelines — Timing Is Everything: Twitter Unveils First View Ads, Videos At The Top Of Your Timeline — Twitter has been in the spotlight for the past several days over allegedly imminent (longstanding) plans to change the order of Tweets in your timeline.

Eric Geller / The Daily Dot:

Obama unveils $19B Cybersecurity National Action Plan, asking Congress for 35% increase in cybersecurity funding — Obama unveils $19 billion plan to overhaul U.S. cybersecurity — President Obama on Tuesday unveiled an expansive plan to bolster government and private-sector cybersecurity …

More: The White House, Wired, Reuters, New York Times, Engadget, BuzzFeed, Digital Trends, The Next Web, Re/code, CSO, The Verge, The Register, ZDNet, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, CNN, SecurityWeek, Silicon Republic, Access Now, Associated Press, Reuters, Washington Post and Defense One. Tweets: @mkaiserncsa. Thanks:@ericgeller

Jason Tanz / Wired:

Andy Rubin's Playground is developing technology to help companies build AI-enabled devices, first available for startups in which Playground has invested — Andy Rubin Unleashed Android on the World. Now Watch Him Do the Same With AI — A couple of years ago, Andy Rubin …

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Verge, Android Authority, Graham Cluley, 9to5Google, SlashGear and playgroundblog. Tweets: @brianroemmele. Thanks:@jasontanz

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg Business:

Amazon Is Building Global Delivery Business to Take On Alibaba — New unit would connect Chinese factories with U.S. shoppers — Strategy will turn FedEx and UPS into Amazon competitors — In recent weeks, speculation has mounted that Amazon.com Inc. plans to launch a global shipping …

More: The Verge, Business Insider, GeekWire and Investor's Business Daily. Tweets: @amir

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Amazon launches free cross-platform 3D game engine Lumberyard, with Twitch integration — Amazon takes on Unity et al with Lumberyard, a free cross-platform game engine — Amazon has unveiled two new products aimed squarely at the professional game-developer fraternity: Lumberyard …

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Twitter Forms A “Trust & Safety Council” To Balance Abuse Vs Free Speech — Twitter's latest step in the tricky balancing act of championing free speech without also handing a free pass to orchestrated harassment via its platform is the announcement today that it's formed a “Trust & Safety Council” …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google allows Adblock Fast back in Play store, after pulling the app last week and slowing app updates for other ad blockers last week — Google Reverses Its Decision To Ban Ad Blocking Apps From The Google Play Store — Google appears to have reversed its earlier decision to ban ad blockers …

More: log.rocketshipapps.com, PCWorld and VentureBeat

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Gmail Now Warns Users When They Send And Receive Email Over Unsecured Connections — Google is marking Safer Internet Day, which falls today, by introducing new authentication features to Gmail to help better identify emails that could prove to be harmful or are not fully secure.

More: Gmail Blog, Engadget, Google Drive Blog, 9to5Google, PCWorld, The Verge, The Next Web and VentureBeat

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:

Oculus reveals first “Oculus Ready” PCs, with bundles starting at $1499 and pre-orders beginning February 16 — Oculus reveals first “Oculus Ready” PCs, bundled starting at $1,499 — Asus, Dell, and Alienware towers certified to run virtual reality.

More: Oculus, The Next Web, Engadget and The Verge

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Kickstarter just hit 100,000 successfully funded campaigns — Kickstarter hit a big milestone overnight: the successful funding of a 100,000th campaign. It's taken Kickstarter nearly seven years to reach 100,000 funded projects, but the rate at which projects are being funded is much faster than it used to be.

More: The Kickstarter Blog, VatorNews, TechSpot, Kickstarter, Silicon Republic, Tech Insider, Mashable, The Next Web, Engadget, Digital Trends and Crowdfund Insider

Tweets: @jkaz, @sacca and @ellenchisa

Julia Fioretti / Reuters:

French data protection authority gives Facebook three months to stop tracking non-users and halt some transfers of personal data to US — French data privacy regulator cracks down on Facebook — The French data protection authority on Monday gave Facebook three months …

Julie Bort / Business Insider:

Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad resigns amid compliance issues, COO David Sacks becomes CEO, Josh Stein named Chief Compliance Officer — The CEO of one of Silicon Valley's hottest startups has suddenly resigned — Parker Conrad, cofounder and CEO of high-flying Zenefits …

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Google will stop running Flash display ads on January 2, 2017 — Google today announced that the Google Display Network and DoubleClick Digital Marketing are completely ditching Flash for HTML5 next year. More specifically, advertisers will no longer be able to upload display ads built …

More: AdWords - Google+, Digital Trends and The Next Web

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