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Matthew Keys sentenced to 24 months under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for his role in 2010 LA Times hack, must surrender to custody June 15, plans appeal — Former Reuters Journalist Matthew Keys Sentenced to Two Years for Hacking — This story has been updated throughout with further information from the sentencing.
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Chrome 50 launches with push notification improvements, no longer supports Windows XP/Vista or OS X Snow Leopard/Lion/Mountain Lion — Chrome 50 arrives with push notification improvements, drops support for old Windows and OS X versions — Google today launched Chrome 50 for Windows … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
European Parliament adopts tough new data protection rules — The final vote on reforms to Europe's data protection laws has just taken place in the European Parliament, with MEPs agreeing the new data protection directive — bringing to a close some four years of work to update existing legislation which dates back to 1995.
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Vine adds Watch button to channels letting users watch an account from start to finish, as it becomes more of an entertainment platform than a social network — Vine releases a Watch button because scrolling is too much work — Vine, Twitter's social network turned entertainment platform … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook demos personalised avatars for Oculus users based on a 3D scan, VR selfies taken while “visiting” a 360 degree photo — Oculus demos a VR selfie stick — Oculus wants to let you go anywhere in the world instantly, look like yourself, and even take a photo while you're there, and today it demoed how at F8.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Obama appoints former NSA director Keith Alexander, Uber CSO, MasterCard CEO, and Corporate VP of Microsoft Research to cybersecurity panel — Obama appoints execs from MasterCard, Uber, and Microsoft to cybersecurity panel — The White House today released a list of names President Barack Obama …
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ESPN to live stream three-day drone racing event on ESPN3, and air one-hour roundup specials for TV, as skeptics question the nascent sport's mainstream appeal — Drone racing just became a mainstream sport, thanks to ESPN — There's a hotel in Williamsburg—the expensive part of Brooklyn …
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Facebook working on AI that can automatically tag people in videos, says its director of applied machine learning — Facebook will soon be able to automatically tag your friends in videos — Facebook is making big strides in using its artificial intelligence systems for image recognition … | Lucinda Shen / Fortune: |
GoPro poaches top Apple designer Daniel Coster to be VP of design; GoPro shares jump over 18% — GoPro Poached a Top Apple Designer and Shares Are Soaring — Shares of GoPro gpro popped nearly 16% in afternoon trading Wednesday after a report said the troubled camera maker had poached a member of Apple's aapl elite design group.| Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab: |
Twitter generates 1.5% of traffic for typical news organizations, 8 tweets per post, 3 clicks per tweet, says Parse.ly report that analyzed data from 200 sites — Twitter has outsized influence, but it doesn't drive much traffic for most news orgs, a new report says| Miguel Helft / Forbes: |
Facebook hires Regina Dugan, head of Google's ATAP and former DARPA chief, to lead new Building 8 R&D group that has budget of hundreds of millions of dollars — Google's ATAP Head Regina Dugan Joins Facebook To Start DARPA-Inspired Team — Regina Dugan, the high profile former head of DARPA …
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Apple hires Cynthia Hogan, top NFL lobbyist and former aide to Joe Biden, as vice president for public policy and government affairs — Apple hires NFL, Biden veteran for key policy role — Apple has hired Cynthia Hogan, a top lobbyist for the National Football League and former aide … Thanks:@tonyromm
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