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Reuters:
French presidential candidate Macron's campaign says it was targeted in a “massive” hack, after about 9GB of data was posted to Pastebin  —  French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign said on Friday it had been the target of a “massive” computer hack that dumped …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Intel remote management flaw more severe than first thought, allows hijacking using any authentication string; Intel expects patches to arrive in coming week  —  Patch for severe authentication bypass bug won't be available until next week.  —  A remote hijacking flaw that lurked in Intel chips …
Alex Heath / Business Insider:
Ohioan recounts dinner with Zuckerberg, the presence of eight former secret service agents, and how Zuck said he has spoken to Trump multiple times on the phone  —  About two weeks ago, Daniel Moore received a cryptic phone call.  —  The 57-year-old resident of Newton Falls …
Business Insider:
Sources: Facebook planning on premiering about 24 TV-like shows in mid-June, has greenlit virtual-reality dating show from Condé Nast Entertainment  —  Facebook has kicked its push for TV-like shows into high gear and is aiming to premiere its slate of programming in mid-June …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Strategy Analytics: Apple shipped 3.5M Watches In Q1 2017, capturing 15.9% market share in wearables, Xiaomi shipped 3.4M wearables, and Fitbit shipped 2.9M  —  Apple became the world's largest wearables vendor in the first quarter of 2017 with an estimated 3.5 million Apple Watch shipments …
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch:
Ultrahaptics raises $23M Series B for ultrasound-based “touchless interfaces” that users can feel, bringing total raised to about $40M  —  As huge tech companies continue to dump money into VR and AR technology looking to convince us digital objects in front of us are actually real …
AFTVnews:
Possible image of Echo with a built-in touchscreen and camera found on Amazon's servers  —  Here is the first look at what Amazon's upcoming Echo with a built-in touchscreen looks like.  I was able to locate this unfortunately low resolution image on Amazon's servers in a similar manner …
Jason Del Rey / Recode:
Square is rolling out debit cards that draw money from users' Square Cash accounts  —  It's a prepaid card, not a real debit card.  But it's like the one Jack Dorsey recently showed off.  —  Last month, Jack Dorsey teased the launch of a Square debit card.

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Wall Street Journal:
UMG shares fall 25%, the record company's worst day since its 2021 IPO, following disappointing Q2 results; UMG is down 40%+ over the past 12 months

Minho Kim / New York Times:
Sarah B. Rogers, Trump's nominee to lead USAGM, says she would reinstate some agency employees; if confirmed, she would still serve in the State Department

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Rich McCormick / The Verge:
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Recode:
Sources: Amazon and Apple close to an agreement to launch Amazon video app on Apple TV; Amazon employees expect the app in Q3
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