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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple working on new AirPods with “Hey Siri” and new wireless chip, coming as soon as 2018, and another water resistant model, coming as soon as 2019 — Company working on water resistance, more Siri integration — Apple CFO says wearables revenue rose almost 70% last year
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| Yoel Roth / Twitter: |
Twitter's updated API will limit users from performing simultaneous actions across multiple accounts and using automation; gives developers until 3/23 to comply — Keeping Twitter safe and free from spam is a top priority for us. One of the most common spam violations we see is the use …
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Tweets: @twitterapi, @mattnavarra, @intelwire, @davidsrudin, @dangillmor, @ow, @thegrugq, and @tweetdeck
| Matt Novak / Gizmodo: |
Twitter issues statement saying its tools and rules are apolitical, after a number of conservative Twitter users lost thousands of followers during bot purge — Twitter suspended thousands of accounts overnight and conservatives on the platform aren't happy about it.
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Tweets: @richardbspencer, @mflynnjr, @prisonplanet, @vijaya, @mitchellvii, and @jack
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Elon Musk, an OpenAI co-founder, leaves OpenAI board to avoid conflict of interest with Tesla's AI efforts, will stay on as a donor and advisor — Musk will remain a donor to the nonprofit organization, which focuses on AI safety and ethics — Tech billionaire Elon Musk is leaving the board of OpenAI …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton invests $50M in newly-formed Signal Foundation, a non-profit that will maintain Signal app, and joins as its executive chairman — IN THE FOUR or so years since it launched, end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal has become the security community's gold standard …
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9to5Mac, Signal Blog, Engadget, CNNMoney, PYMNTS.com, The Hill, The Next Web, Gizmodo, CNET, Tom's Hardware, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @alexeheath, @yashalevine, @trevortimm, @caseynewton, and @a_greenberg
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
How Amazon's Createspace publishing arm was used to launder money using stolen credit cards, dubious ebooks, and by impersonating authors — Patrick Reames had no idea why Amazon.com sent him a 1099 form saying he'd made almost $24,000 selling books via Createspace, the company's on-demand publishing arm.| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
YouTube, Facebook remove some of the conspiracy videos claiming Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg was an actor but, in many cases, only after promoting them — - YouTube promoted a video featuring a conspiracy theory claiming that one of the survivors of the school shooting last week in Parkland, Florida, is a paid actor.
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Recode, New York Times, CNNMoney, TechSpot, Wired, New York Magazine, Slate, Adweek, Motherboard, Mashable, Washington Post, Engadget, The Guardian, USA Today, CNNMoney, New York Times, Tubefilter, Deadline, CNET, POPSUGAR Living, Variety, CNN, The Verge, The Independent, The Hill, Fast Company, Polygon, and Media Matters for America
| Om Malik: |
Despite recent moves to strengthen social connections, Facebook's real agenda and core DNA is to extract user data and make more money by keeping users addicted — Facebook's (much deserved) media nightmare continued this week when it came under criticism for spamming members who signed up for two-factor authentication.
Tweets: @mdudas, @stevesi, @jason_kint, and @jguynn
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
AWS Serverless Application Repository, which automatically manages machine resources, is now generally available and can be accessed from the Lambda console — Following a speedy beta testing phase, Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that its AWS Serverless Application Repository …
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VentureBeat, AWS News Blog, ZDNet, and What's New with AWS
| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Former employee sues Google, claiming he was wrongfully fired for criticizing Damore memo and posting “politically liberal” content on internal message boards — IN JANUARY, FIRED Google engineer James Damore filed a lawsuit alleging that Google discriminated against white men and political conservatives.| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Sources: Telegram contacts investors for second pre-ICO sale, amount still being determined but estimated to bring total raised to $1.6B+ before public ICO — The company is raising even more cash for its controversial blockchain-powered network — You have to admire Pavel Durov's audacity.
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BGR, NewsBTC, Neowin, and Cointelegraph.com News
Tweets: @kantrowitz, @kantrowitz, and @mikeisaac
| Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
Founder of defunct exchange BitFunder arrested, charged with perjury over hack enabling theft of bitcoin worth ~$775K in 2013, ~$70M today; SEC files fraud suit — (Reuters) - The operator of a shuttered bitcoin-denominated exchange was arrested on Wednesday on federal charges that he lied …
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