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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Zuckerberg says News Feed will focus on what friends share, de-emphasize content from publishers and brands as it moves to favor interactions over passive posts — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook introduced sweeping changes to the kinds of posts, videos and photos that its more than two billion members …
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| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Dropbox has confidentially filed for an IPO, with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan leading the listing; Dropbox was valued at $10B in 2014 — File-sharing company valued privately at $10 billion — Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan are said to lead potential listing
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| Erin Griffith / Wired: |
Steve Jurvetson, who left DFJ in Nov., held event described as a “sex party” in new book Brotopia; Elon Musk, who attended, calls excerpt “salacious nonsense” — EARLIER THIS MONTH, a Vanity Fair report revealed sordid tales of Silicon Valley sex parties.
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| New York Times: |
House votes 256 to 164 to extend Section 702 FISA warrantless surveillance program for six years with minimal changes; bill now proceeds to the Senate — WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to extend the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
AMD says it is making firmware updates available for Ryzen and EPYC processors this week to fix Spectre flaws, updating older processors “over the coming weeks” — Zero risk, but not zero impact — AMD's initial response to the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws made it clear “there is a near zero risk to AMD processors.”
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Intel releases breakdown of performance slowdown on Windows 10 after Spectre and Meltdown patches: ~6% for 8th-gen CPUs, ~7% for 7th-gen, ~8% for 6th-gen — Your personal computers will be less than 10 percent slower after you install the Spectre/Meltdown fix, Intel has revealed in a blog post.
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Tweets: @x0rz, @rogoway, and @helgeklein
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Skype partners with Open Whisper Systems, which makes Signal, to begin testing of end-to-end encrypted “Private Conversations” — Secured using the same encryption standard behind the Signal app — Microsoft is testing a new feature for Skype: end-to-end encrypted chat conversations …
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Tweets: @leolaporte and @lorenzofb
| Giles Turner / Bloomberg: |
Filings show Google quietly bought UK sound tech startup Redux, which turns surfaces like phone displays into speakers — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has quietly acquired a U.K. startup focused on technology that turns surfaces such as phone displays into speakers.
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| Jessica DiNapoli / Reuters: |
Sources: Peter Thiel joins other bidders in making an offer in bankruptcy court for Gawker's remaining assets, including domains and 200K+ articles — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Venture capitalist Peter Thiel has made an offer for Gawker, hoping to overcome legal hurdles and rival bidders …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google to vet videos in the Google Preferred ad program with human moderators and AI, after concerns from marketers over videos including Logan Paul's — Google is planning a new push to vet top-tier YouTube videos that it bundles for major advertisers, people familiar with the plan said.
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Tweets: @daiwaka, @harrymccracken, and @snazzyq
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: in 2015-2016 Uber used “Ripley” tool to remotely shut down the company's devices and shield files and data from police raids in foreign countries — At least two dozen times, the San Francisco headquarters locked down equipment in foreign offices to shield files from police raids.
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Tweets: @thestalwart, @x0rz, @noahedavis, @tictoc, @trauring, and @shiraovide
| Paul Kunert / The Register: |
Sources: IBM to reassign up to 30% of the ~103,000 staff in its Global Technology Services wing this year, resulting in job cuts through attrition of ~10,100 — The result? One-third of GTS to be ‘redeployed’ or not replaced when they leave — Exclusive IBM has indicated …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Ripple partners with global payment company MoneyGram to pilot the use of XRP tokens on MoneyGram's network using Ripple's xRapid service — Ripple, a blockchain company and rival to bitcoin, on Thursday announced a tie-up with Dallas-based money transfer giant MoneyGram.Sponsor Posts
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