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WikiLeaks releases 8,761 alleged CIA classified docs and files from 2013-2016 describing malware, zero-day exploits for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux — Press Release Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
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After the BBC investigates Facebook's failure to remove sexualized images of children, Facebook reports BBC journalists to UK's National Crime Agency — Facebook has been criticised for its handling of reports about sexualised images of children on its platform.
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Amazon drops its case concerning First Amendment rights extending to Alexa commands and audio capture after defendant in murder trial agrees to hand over data — Amazon has abandoned its legal battle to protect its Alexa assistant with First Amendment rights — for now at least.| Rachael King / Wall Street Journal: |
HP Enterprise to acquire flash storage vendor Nimble Storage for about $1B in cash, about 41% above Nimble's roughly $700M market value as of Monday — Hewlett Packard Enterprise hopes the acquisition of the flash-storage systems maker will boost sales — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co … | Elena Cresci / The Guardian: |
DoNotPay, a free bot service for appealing parking tickets, can now help refugees fill out asylum applications for the US, Canada, and the UK — ‘Robot lawyer’ DoNotPay is giving free legal aid to refugees seeking asylum in US and Canada, and asylum support in UK
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Shazam, which crossed 1B app downloads in September 2016, launches brand-sponsored AR features — Shazam was one of the winners of the early app rush. Its app had a simple function — identifying what song is playing — that's led to 1 billion downloads on iOS and Android so far.| Andrew Brust / ZDNet: |
Confluent, the company behind open source streaming data project Apache Kafka, raises $50M Series C round led by Sequoia Capital — Confluent, the company behind open source streaming data project Apache Kafka, closes a Series C round that more than doubles its total financing.
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Facebook launches Advanced Measurement tool for marketers to check performance of ads against rival services, pricing TBD, marking end of the Atlas brand — - Facebook is launching a new tool called Advanced Measurement that lets advertisers stack up how their Facebook campaigns performed compared with other platforms.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitch debuts Pulse, a Twitter-like service where broadcasters can share videos, images, and text with their friends and followers — This is what disruption looks like — Whenever I wonder what will eventually happen to Twitter, which is something I think about literally every day …
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Adobe's Lightroom apps for Android and iOS can now shoot RAW HDR photos on iPhone 7, 6S, SE, 9.7" iPad Pro, Pixel, Pixel XL, Galaxy S7, and S7 Edge — Lightroom mobile's in-app camera is getting an update today that'll let it capture RAW HDR photos. — Adobe says the photos are made by stitching together three RAW images.
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Verizon announces it will offer 25Mbps FiOS fiber-optic internet as a pre-paid service in select East Coast markets at $60 a month — Verizon announced on Monday that it is making its FiOS fiber-optic data, voice and television package available as a pre-paid service.
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is officially seeking a COO; source: search is down to two finalists — Some dream names for job include former Disney COO Tom Staggs and CVS' Helena Foulkes — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick just told his employees at an all-hands meeting this morning that the company … | Shan Wang / Nieman Lab: |
Profile of Sidewire, a social network that vets users, giving access to experts only; around 100 of its 800 “verified experts” are in its tech vertical — The closed discussion platform shuts out the noise of Twitter's eggs and trolls and is betting on — gasp! … Sponsor Posts
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Introducing the new Zoho Analytics: Agentic analytics for every business — We're excited to announce the launch of the new Zoho Analytics! This release marks a major shift for the product …
Introducing the new Zoho Analytics: Agentic analytics for every business — We're excited to announce the launch of the new Zoho Analytics! This release marks a major shift for the product …
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