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UK govt, Guardian, Sainsbury's, others pull ads from YouTube as Times of London investigation finds ads appearing with extremist videos; Google promises changes — Guardian newspaper also halts ads, citing ‘hate-filled videos’ — YouTube owner Google says it's ‘committed to doing better’
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Apple pledges to build two additional research and development centers in China, spend at least $507M on research institutions in the country — Company intends to spend at least $500 million on such centers — Tim Cook's attending a forum in Beijing over the weekend
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Hackers at Pwn2Own competition exploit combination of bugs in Microsoft Edge, Windows 10, and VMware Workstation to escape virtual machine and compromise host — Hack worked by stitching together three separate exploits. — Contestants at this year's Pwn2Own hacking competition in Vancouver … | Natt Garun / The Verge: |
EU tells Facebook, Twitter, and Google to update their ToS and gives companies one month to propose measures to better protect consumers from scams — Navigating your way around the internet may seem intuitive if you've grown up with access to it most of your life — but for those who are just beginning …
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| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Minnesota judge orders Google to divulge information on anybody who searched for variations of financial fraud victim's name — Order seeks data for “any/all user or subscriber information” related to the searches. — Police in a small suburban town of 50,000 people just outside Minneapolis …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Sources: WikiLeaks asks tech firms to agree to conditions before receiving details of CIA zero-days — Last week, WikiLeaks promised it would share the technical details and code of the hacking tools that the CIA has allegedly developed against Google, Apple, Microsoft and other tech companies.
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Amazon debuts “Outfit Compare” feature in iOS app, helping Prime members decide between outfits after they upload two photos of themselves in different outfits — Amazon has been steadily pushing its way into fashion over the past several years, with investments in its own private labels … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
FBI arrests person who allegedly tweeted seizure-inducing strobe at Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald — An arrest has been made three months after someone tweeted a seizure-inducing strobe at writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Kurt Eichenwald. The Dallas FBI confirmed the arrest to The Verge today …
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Chance the Rapper says Apple paid him $500K “plus a commercial” to exclusively stream his album Coloring Book on Apple Music for two weeks — After some criticism about the artist's integrity and independence, Chance the Rapper made a series of tweets and revealed …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Wireless communications lobby group CTIA says web browsing and app usage history isn't “sensitive information” in filing against FCC's broadband privacy rules — ISP lobby groups make case against the FCC's broadband privacy rules. — ISPs that want the federal government … | Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica UK: |
Google open-sources new JPEG encoder that reduces file sizes by around 35%, and is compatible with existing browsers, photo editing apps, and the JPEG standard — New algorithm is based on human psychovisual system. Images look better, too. — Google has developed and open-sourced …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
As MuleSoft closes up 45%+ on its first day of trading, valued at about $3B+, CEO Greg Schott talks about IPO timing, potential acquisitions, more — MuleSoft, a San Francisco-based SaaS integration company, last night priced the year's first big enterprise software IPO, raising $221 million.
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