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Major spam group River City Media left 1.4B email addresses, combined with real names, IPs, and often physical addresses, exposed online — Today we release details on the innerworkings of a massive, illegal spam operation. The situation presents a tangible threat to online privacy …
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Fitbit unveils Alta HR with heart rate monitoring, available at the end of March for $150; Alta HR, Blaze, and Charge 2 get improved sleep tracking — This might be the tracker you want to wear both day and night. — Fitbit's thin Alta tracker dropped around this time last year, and the company is already making an update to it.| Bradford Cross: |
AI predictions: bots go bust, fewer machine learning acquihires, AI is cleantech 2.0 for VCs, MLaaS dies again, full stack vertical AI startups actually work — With AI in a full-fledged mania, 2017 will be the year of reckoning. Pure hype trends will reveal themselves to have no fundamentals behind them.
Tweets: @treehcapital, @omrvp, and @stevesi
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Identity management firm Okta acquihires Stormpath, which provides identity and user management services to developers, acquires license to use Stormpath's tech — Okta, the $1.2 billion identity management startup for enterprises that some tip for an IPO this year, has made an acquisition … | Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Consumer Reports will begin assessing cyber security and privacy safeguards when scoring products, publishes first draft of standards for the new testing — Consumer Reports, an influential U.S. non-profit group that conducts extensive reviews of cars, kitchen appliances and other goods …
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Jay Z launches new venture capital firm, Arrive, to fund startups, offer branding support, more — Jay Z's new venture capital firm Arrive, has arrived - the rap and business mogul has been planning the launch for awhile, according to reports that surfaced in February …
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PR Newswire, Engadget, Rolling Stone, CNNMoney, The Tech Portal, Business Insider, and Mashable
Tweets: @moorehn and @caseynewton
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
How an image of Chuck Schumer and Putin made it from Reddit to Trump's Twitter account in less than 24 hours — Twenty hours. That's about how long it took for a picture to make its way from the depths of Reddit to the Twitter account of the president of the United States.| Sam Altman / Y Combinator: |
Y Combinator opens registrations for its free ten-week Startup School online course featuring guest lectures, group office hours, and a Slack community — We're excited to announce our new online Startup School, with classes beginning on April 5. Anyone can sign up at StartupSchool.org …
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Silicon Valley Business …, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, and VentureBeat
| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Twitter says move from chronological to algorithmic timeline has upped engagement in key metrics including retweets and likes, but doesn't say by how much — What do you see when you open Twitter? Until a year ago, the answer was straightforward: With minor exceptions … | New York Times: |
Sources: ability of Trump-linked data firm Cambridge Analytica to create “psychographic” profiles of consumers for precise ad targeting is exaggerated — Standing before political and business leaders in New York last fall, Alexander Nix promised a revolution.
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The Guardian, Washington Post, and Forbes
Tweets: @mathieuvonrohr, @derekwillis, @nickconfessore, @steveolson, and @ericklinenberg
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Profile of Koko, a chat service that uses AI and crowdsourcing to provide basic cognitive therapy — Can an app that lets strangers — and bots — become amateur therapists create a safer internet? — Illustrations by Peter Steineck — In January 2016, police in Blacksburg, Virginia …
Tweets: @fraser, @rosalindpicard, and @omidyarnetwork
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK's mobile-only Atom Bank for millennials raises $102M at a $320M valuation led by the Spanish BBVA bank, which also led its previous $128M round in Nov 2015 — Atom Bank, a startup out of the U.K. that has built a mobile-only bank targeting consumers between the ages of 18 and 34 … 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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What's new in Zoho Tables with Apple's latest OS updates — Your work shouldn't slow you down when you're on the move.With our latest updates for iOS 27, we're bringing more of Apple Intelligence …
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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.
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