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US Labor Department says in court that it found “systemic” pay disparities against women at Google; Google disputes findings, says government provided no data — Allegations of possible employment violations emerge at court hearing as part of lawsuit to compel company, a federal contractor, to provide compensation data| Greg Otto / Cyberscoop: |
Months after failing to sell NSA hacking tools, hacking group The Shadow Brokers publicly releases the alleged exploits — The Shadow Brokers, the mysterious group linked to exploits stolen from the National Security Agency, released a large catalog of files Saturday that give further insight …
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| Walt Mossberg / The Verge: |
Walt Mossberg is retiring in June, shortly after the 2017 Code Conference, ending a 47-year career at publications including the WSJ, Recode, and The Verge — Thanks for reading, watching, listening — It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist.
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google adds fact checking information to search results and Google News worldwide — Last October, Google launched support to highlight fact-checking articles within Google News in the US and the UK. Now those articles will get special presentation as part of general Google searches worldwide.
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eWeek, Recode, Refinery29, Android Authority, Google, AOL, Christian Science Monitor, The Tech Portal, Droid Life, Breitbart, Ars Technica, International Business Times, The Daily Caller, TalkAndroid.com, The Guardian, Highsnobiety, Digital Trends, Wall Street Journal, SiliconBeat, Android Police, AndroidGuys, CIO.com, SlashGear, Silicon Valley Business …, Android Central, UMBC ebiquity, WebProNews, Engadget, 9to5Google, plus.google.com, Ubergizmo, Neowin, MacRumors, Bloomberg, Naked Security, iPhone in Canada Blog, Axios, Tech2, NBC Bay Area, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Tech Narratives, Mashable, Business Insider, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Poynter, Search Engine Roundtable, MediaNama, Fortune, Tech2, and VentureBeat
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers uncover BrickerBot-powered botnet attacks that are designed to brick poorly secured Linux-based routers and other IoT devices — Ongoing “BrickerBot” attacks might be trying to kill devices before they can join a botnet. — Researchers have uncovered a rash of ongoing attacks designed … | Michael Kan / ITworld.com: |
WikiLeaks: After Russian-made Carberp financial malware was leaked in 2013, CIA borrowed elements of the malware for deployment on Windows systems — The CIA's hacking operations allegedly borrowed elements from the Carberp financial malware when the code was leaked in 2013| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix's chief product officer Neil Hunt to depart in July after 18 years, will be replaced by Greg Peters; chief talent officer Tawni Cranz also leaving — Greg Peters to take over as chief product officer in July; chief talent officer Tawni Cranz is departing| Taylor Wofford / Motherboard: |
Current and former insiders of Something Awful on how forums on the site, which was founded in 1999, presaged current internet culture — I sometimes suspect that we're seeing something in the Internet as significant as the birth of cities. It's something that profound and with that sort of infinite possibilities.
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
TaskRabbit exploring a sale after the firm received inbound interest from a strategic buyer, CEO confirms; sources say there is more than one interested buyer — The gig economy startup has hired advisers after a possible purchaser surfaced during a recent funding process.| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Twitch is asking Canadian court to force PayPal, CloudFlare, others to hand over identifying info of a spambot creator — PayPal, Cloudflare, Shaw, and Whois “are involved” in attacks, Twitch claims. — Amazon-owned video streaming site Twitch is taking a scorched-earth approach in a bid …
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| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Uber responds to Waymo's lawsuit in a court filing, says it never received the documents Levandowski downloaded from Waymo, has different Lidar design, more — Uber has said from the beginning that Google's claims of intellectual-property theft involving self-driving-car technology are “meritless.”
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New York Times, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, Tech Narratives, BGR, TechCrunch, Automotive News …, Vanity Fair, Seeking Alpha, Wired, Wall Street Journal, and Recode
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Department of Homeland Security has withdrawn its order to unmask @ALT_uscis Twitter account that criticized Trump, prompting Twitter to drop its lawsuit — Just one day after being sued in federal court, Homeland Security has withdrawn its order to unmask the @Alt_USCIS account …
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Source: Internet Association, which represents Facebook, Google, Twitter, others, will meet with FCC's Ajit Pai next week to discuss net neutrality rule changes — Some in Silicon Valley fear the draft blueprint from FCC Chairman Ajit Pai lacks teeth. — A short-lived ceasefire over net neutrality is quickly coming to an end.| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
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