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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 letting Cambridge Analytica receive some user information — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is probing Facebook over whether it violated terms of a consent decree over its use of personal data …
| Channel 4 News: |
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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| 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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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg summoned by UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Select Committee to testify regarding Cambridge Analytica scandal — This is a breaking news story, please check back later for more.| 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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| 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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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google says it will spend $300M over the next three years to support journalism and fight disinformation through the newly announced Google News Initiative — ‘We need to do more’ — Google is announcing new efforts today to support the media industry by fighting misinformation and bolstering journalism …
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| Jim Albrecht / The Keyword: |
Google debuts Subscribe with Google, which lets users buy subscriptions to news sites using Google Accounts and access them from apps, sites, and search results — If you've ever subscribed to a news site, you know that it can sometimes be an onerous task. This isn't the publisher's fault, it's just the way websites work.
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| Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg: |
Telegram loses bid in Russia's Supreme Court to block security services such as FSB from getting access to encryption keys of user data, plans to appeal ruling — Messaging service plans to appeal Supreme Court's decision — Regulators could block Telegram service if it fails to comply
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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 …
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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, and 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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google expands its Instant Apps to games in Play Store, letting gamers get a native app experience without having to formally install anything — Last year, Google launched Instant Apps, a way for developers to give users a native app experience that didn't involve having to install anything.| David Radcliffe / The Keyword: |
Google confirms it purchased Manhattan Chelsea Market building for $2.4B, says there will be “little or no impact” on current operations — It's been 18 years since Google NYC first established our single-person sales “office” in a Starbucks on 86th St. After moving from 86th St …
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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