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Senate votes 50-48 to repeal Obama-era regulations requiring that ISPs ask before sharing customer data — The Senate voted Thursday to make it easier for internet service providers to share sensitive information about their customers, a first step in overturning landmark privacy rules …
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Facebook Messenger rolls out @mentions within chats and News Feed-style reactions to messages — Group chat will get a bit less chaotic with the global rollout of two Facebook Messenger features it was previously testing in Vietnam. — Users can now @mention friends in a group chat to send … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
WikiLeaks releases mostly decade-old documents detailing CIA techniques for compromising Macs and iOS devices using EFI, UEFI, and firmware malware — Earlier this month, when WikiLeaks dumped a cache of hundreds of secret documents allegedly detailing the CIA's hacking operations …
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Microsoft announces patent licensing program for connected cars, with navigation, entertainment, and voice recognition features, signs first deal with Toyota — Microsoft is making a fresh attempt to convince companies to use its technology for connected cars.| TechCrunch: |
Sources: Amazon has finalized a deal to acquire Middle Eastern rival Souq.com for $650M, below its $1B valuation from February 2016 — Amazon continues its march across the globe, and one of its newest targets is the Middle East. According to multiple reports that we have confirmed with our own sources … | James Cook / Business Insider: |
Filing: SoundCloud raises $70M in debt funding to build a “financially sustainable platform”, following a $100M raise in June 2016 — Music streaming service SoundCloud has raised $70 million (£56 million) in debt funding, according to documents filed with Companies House in the UK.
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Twitter's core features have slowly been “unbundled” by Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and others, leading to Twitter's overall decline — How Amazon and Reddit are rethinking the unthinkable — On Tuesday, Reddit announced it was introducing profile pages.
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Instagram says it will start blurring “Sensitive Content” that doesn't merit removal and opens two-factor authentication to all — Instagram is already doing a lot to spot and censor posts that violate its community guidelines, like outright porn, but now it's also taking steps …
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Apple acquires Workflow, an automation tool for iOS, will keep three-person team and make app freely available in the App Store — Apple has finalized a deal to acquire Workflow today — a tool that lets you hook together apps and functions within apps in strings of commands to automate tasks.
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Intel consolidates its AI efforts into one group, led by Naveen Rao, that combines engineering, labs, software, and hardware — Intel artificial intelligence unit will be led by former Nervana CEO Naveen Rao. — Intel has put its artificial intelligence efforts under one group led by Naveen Rao …
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Adobe demos three retail-enablement apps for Hololens which use augmented reality to visualise analytics for marketers — An emerging technology group at Adobe has shown off a trio of retail enablement apps that use augmented reality to visualize analytics.
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Android 2016 security report: 50% of devices in use at the end of 2016 had not received a platform security update in one year — Google has spent the past year working with third-party manufacturers and phone carriers to improve its update system for Android, which is often criticized …
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