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Sources: Facebook CSO Alex Stamos to leave amid disagreements with top execs over disinformation, will stay until August; his team is down from 120 to 3 people — Facebook's chief information security officer, Alex Stamos, will leave the company after internal disagreements over how the social network …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: US FTC is investigating Facebook's use of personal data and whether it violated policies by allowing Cambridge Analytica to receive some user info — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is probing Facebook over whether it violated terms of a consent decree over its use of personal data …
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Cambridge Analytica execs filmed boasting of entrapping politicians with sex and bribes, explaining how to spread info online without it looking like propaganda — Senior executives at Cambridge Analytica - the data company that credits itself with Donald Trump's presidential victory …
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Tweets: @gossithedog, @camanalytica, @nathanielpopper, @axios, and @gossithedog
| Facebook: |
Facebook hired a digital forensics firm to conduct an audit of Cambridge Analytica, but their team had to step down at the request of the UK ICO — We have hired a digital forensics firm, Stroz Friedberg, to conduct a comprehensive audit of Cambridge Analytica.
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| Fred Imbert / CNBC: |
Facebook closes the day at $172.56 per share, down 6.77% and 10%+ below its all time high set on February 1 — - Shares of the social media giant fell after reports said political analytics firm Cambridge Analytica was able to collect data on 50 million people's profiles without their consent.
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| Alexandria Sage / Reuters: |
Uber pauses self-driving tests in all cities after a pedestrian was struck and killed in AZ by one of its cars in autonomous mode that had a human safety driver — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A woman was killed by an Uber self-driving sport utility vehicle in Arizona, police said on Monday …
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Tempe, AZ police say Uber likely not at fault for self-driving car fatality after preliminary investigations reveal collision was unavoidable in any mode — Pushing a bicycle laden with plastic shopping bags, a woman abruptly walked from a center median into a lane of traffic and was struck …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
A look at the potential impact of EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which grants standardized data protection rights to users across 28 countries — CONSUMERS HAVE LONG wondered just what Google and Facebook know about them, and who else can access their personal data.
Tweets: @sarahludford and @nitashatiku
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
German fintech company N26 raises $160M Series C led by Tencent and Allianz. bringing its total raised to $215M, says it has attracted 850K customers — German startup N26 just raised a $160 million Series C round led by Tencent and Allianz — some of N26's existing investors are also participating.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Xilinx debuts ACAP, a platform aiming to make chips more flexible than traditional FPGAs for a range of apps by enabling hardware and software programmability — After four years of work, Xilinx is announcing today its adaptive computer acceleration platform (ACAP), which is a new kind … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google Pay now lets you use prepaid public transport passes, starting in Las Vegas — Google has announced a new service that lets travelers use Google Pay in conjunction with prepaid virtual travel passes. — Google revealed in January that it was combining Android Pay and Google Wallet under …
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| Bernadette Tansey / Xconomy: |
AI startup Mythic raises $40M Series B led by SoftBank to help bring its high-speed low-power AI chip to market — Mythic, which last year unveiled its novel computer chip designed for artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B fundraising round led … | Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
BlackBerry shares up 5%+ after announcing partnership with Microsoft to bring Office 365 mobile apps to its security-focused BlackBerry Dynamics for enterprise — - BlackBerry will partner with Microsoft to provide a secure environment for Microsoft Office apps.
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| Facebook: |
In addition to Patreon-like subscriptions for creators, Facebook is testing badges and a leaderboard for top fans, new content rights management tools, more — By Fidji Simo, VP of Product and Sibyl Goldman, Director of Entertainment Partnerships — Every day on Facebook …
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