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Google will ban all cryptocurrency-related advertising, including ICOs, wallets, and trading advice across all of its ad platforms, starting June 2018 — - The company will no longer allow ads about cryptocurrency-related content, including initial coin offerings (ICOs), wallets, and trading advice across any of its ad platforms.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google removed 3.2B “bad ads” in 2017, up from 1.7B in 2016, and blocked 320K publishers, 90K sites, and 700K mobile apps for content policy violations — As the world's largest search engine and a digital advertising behemoth, Google has a lot to answer for when it comes …
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube will add Wikipedia information to videos about popular conspiracy theories within weeks to provide alternate viewpoints — Pushing back on crazy theories — YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about popular conspiracy theories …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube has started limiting the number of hours its part-time content moderators can view disturbing videos to four hours per day — A move to protect workers' mental health among growing criticism — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said today that the video platform … | Bloomberg: |
French finance minister says France will take legal action against Apple and Google over “abusive commercial practices” taking advantage of French developers — Action follows investigation into application contracts — Finance minister says fines could be in ‘millions of euros’
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| Bloomberg: |
Broadcom abandons its $117B takeover bid for Qualcomm after President Donald Trump blocked the deal, citing security risks — Chipmaker Broadcom Ltd. has abandoned its $117 billion takeover bid for Qualcomm Inc., Bloomberg News reports. — The decision was made after U.S. President Donald Trump blocked …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Stack Overflow's annual survey of 100K+ developers: Rust, Kotlin, and Python most-loved languages, 73% more excited by AI than concerned about its dangers — Stack Overflow's annual survey shows Android developer language Kotlin has soared in popularity. — Video: Apps at risk …
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
ICANN's proposal to comply with EU's GDPR by restricting access to Whois information via an accreditation program faces criticism from privacy advocates, EFF — IF YOU HEAD over to a Whois service and search for wired.com, you'll see that this site is registered to our publisher Conde Nast at One World Trade Center in New York City.
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| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ launched with 1.4GHz quad-core processor, dual-band WiFi, gigabit ethernet over USB 2.0, Bluetooth 4.2, and Power over Ethernet for $35 — Despite selling over 14 million of its low-cost DIY computing boards, the Raspberry Pi Foundation adheres to a slow release cycle.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google Station, a public network of free WiFi hotspots in high-traffic locations, is launching in Mexico with 60+ hotspots and 100+ planned by year's end — Google's Station WiFi is no longer reserved for the eastern hemisphere. As of today, the public hotspots are available in over 60 …
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Experts reveal 13 alleged flaws in AMD Ryzen and EPYC chips, just 24 hours after showing AMD, that allow malware to be installed on secure portions of the chips — Researchers say they've discovered critical security flaws in AMD chips that could allow attackers to access sensitive data …
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| Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review: |
YC-backed Nectome aims to preserve brains of terminally ill patients through a fatal embalming process for future digitalization; Sam Altman is on its wait list — Nectome will preserve your brain, but you have to be euthanized first. — The brain of an elderly woman …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 59 arrives with faster page load times, better private browsing, and option to block sites from asking to send notifications or access device's location — Mozilla today launched Firefox 59 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The release builds on Firefox Quantum, which the company calls …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Let's Encrypt releases service securing HTTP connections via free “wildcard” certificates and the ACME v2 protocol to automate certificate request verification — In a victory for securing Web, anybody can now get a certificate valid for every site in a domain.
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| IMF Blog: |
IMF head Christine Lagarde outlines plan to regulate cryptocurrencies by using technology such as distributed ledger tech, biometrics, AI, and cryptography — Whether Bitcoin's value goes up or Bitcoin's value goes down, people around the world are asking the same question: What exactly is the potential of crypto-assets?
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Fortune, The Register, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, Bitsonline, Motherboard, Reuters, BetaNews, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph.com News, CCN, and Axios
Tweets: @fabiochiusi, @trengriffin, @neuwaves, @lagarde, and @ldrogen
| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
Walmart to offer home delivery of groceries in 100 cities by year's end by partnering with delivery companies using contract workers, starting with Uber — Retailer to partner with delivery startups after Amazon, Kroger and others roll out similar services
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Reuters, Business Wire, BuzzFeed, USA Today, CNBC, Dallas Morning News, Business Insider, CNET, Bloomberg, Recode, and Fortune. Tweets: @delrey
| Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo: |
How conservative activists from Project Veritas use hoax job recruitment and seduction to catfish tech giants like Twitter; experts question legality — Mo Norai has worked in Silicon Valley for a decade. He's done stints at Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Apple, but only as a contract worker … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Binance announces it's developing a new blockchain called Binance Chain, which it hopes will facilitate the creation of a new decentralized exchange — Binance announced Tuesday that it is launching a public blockchain to facilitate the creation of a new decentralized exchange.
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Binance, Bitcoinist.com, SiliconANGLE, CoinSpeaker, The Merkle, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph.com News, BetaNews, Bitsonline, ZDNet, CCN, WeLiveSecurity, International Business Times, and Mashable
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