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| Zeynep Tufekci / Wired: |
Free speech online has grown even as Facebook, Google, Twitter control more attention; most effective censorship now is meddling with trust, not muzzling speech — FOR MOST OF modern history, the easiest way to block the spread of an idea was to keep it from being mechanically disseminated.
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| Steven Johnson / New York Times: |
An in-depth look at the potential of decentralized blockchain tech that aims to fix some of the internet's fundamental structural problems — Yes, it's driven by greed — but the mania for cryptocurrency could wind up building something much more important than wealth.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
22 attorneys general file lawsuit to stop FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules; Mozilla, other net neutrality advocates also filed suits against FCC — The legal fight against the Federal Communications Commission's recent repeal of so-called net neutrality regulations began on Tuesday …
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Tweets: @agschneiderman, @clarkstacey, @senmarkey, and @agkarlracine
| Brian Boucher / artnet News: |
Google's Arts & Culture app becomes the number one free app on the iOS App Store after its face-matching feature that was added in December goes viral — The search behemoth's app was all the rage on social media this weekend. — Googling yourself took on a whole new meaning this weekend.
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| Liz Hamren / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft brings 15-inch Surface Book 2 to 17 more countries starting today; both 15-inch and 13-inch variants will come to more countries over next two months — Surface Book 2 is the most powerful Surface we've ever built, and customers love that they can run their most demanding applications from anywhere.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube says new creators will need 4K hours of watch time and 1K subs to join Partner Program for ad revenue; Google Preferred videos to be reviewed by humans — YouTube is making its creator revenue-sharing program more restrictive and will start manually reviewing all videos …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Podcast network TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and trademark infringement in connection with the distribution of audio and video content — TWiT, officially known as This Week in Tech, is suing Twitter. The audio and video media platform alleges breach of written contract …
Tweets: @sgtmuffin and @mikeelgan
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Kaspersky Lab says it's found an Android spying app, likely by Italian vendors, that relies on five exploits to gain root access and can steal WhatsApp messages — Skygofree is among the most powerful spy platforms ever created for Android. — Last year, researchers found …
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Tweets: @kaspersky and @3ncr1pt3d
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Internal email shows Google has opened an office in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, the global hardware hub that is home to Tencent, Huawei, and ZTE — A month after announcing plans to open its first AI lab in China, Google is expanding again through a move into Shenzhen.
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| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Cryptocurrency values decline sharply, with Ethereum dropping as much as 30%, Bitcoin down 25%+, and Ripple down 40%+ at one point on Tuesday — - Ripple, the third-largest digital currency by market capitalization, briefly drops 46 percent below $1, according to CoinMarketCap.| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Ripple and its investors hold many billions of dollars worth of XRP cryptocurrency, which is not meaningfully tied to Ripple's core tool used by banks, xCurrent — - Ripple could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars a month by selling a tiny fraction of its XRP holdings.| Bloomberg: |
China Labor Watch report finds some workers at Catcher iPhone plant worked around noxious chemicals when safety equipment was not present; Apple, Catcher deny — Rights group alleges 14 violations of Apple supplier standards — Apple says it investigated claims, found no standards breached
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