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Zuckerberg says Cambridge Analytica breached Facebook's trust, which caused Facebook to break users' trust, and vows to prevent it from happening again — I want to share an update on the Cambridge Analytica situation — including the steps we've already taken and our next steps to address this important issue.
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
In interview, Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook has made mistakes in building its platform, the fixes will not be easy, and will cost “many millions of dollars” — In a wide-ranging interview, the Facebook CEO admitted that the social networking giant may have made mistakes in opening up its network so much a decade ago.
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| CNN: |
Highlights from CNN's interview of Mark Zuckerberg: “I'm really sorry that this has happened” and that he is “happy to” testify before Congress — Mark Zuckerberg is responding to the fallout following the revelation that Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed the personal data of 50 million Facebook users.
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| Facebook: |
Facebook to review all apps that had extended data access in 2014 and prior, audit suspicious ones, inform users about misuse, revoke permissions of unused apps — Protecting people's information is the most important thing we do at Facebook. What happened with Cambridge Analytica was a breach of Facebook's trust.
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Source: Best Buy has ceased ordering new smartphones from Huawei and will stop selling Huawei products once existing inventory runs out over the next few weeks — It's going to get harder for Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei to sell its smartphones in the US.
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Police release video of moments before fatal Uber autonomous car collision; Uber's safety driver appears to look at something off-camera before the collision — Here's what the car — and its operator — saw. — Three days after an Uber self-driving vehicle fatally crashed into a pedestrian in Tempe …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Google AI chip researcher Dave Patterson and Alphabet board chair John Hennessy share $1M Turing Award for their research on RISC chip architecture — SAN FRANCISCO — In 1980, Dave Patterson, a computer science professor, looked at the future of the world's digital machines and saw their limits.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter and Google lose key information security leaders: Michael Coates leaves Twitter after three years, and Michal Zalewski leaves Google after 11 years — Michael Coates joined Twitter in 2015 — Twitter's chief information security officer is leaving the company, sources familiar with the matter have told The Verge.| Bloomberg: |
Starting in April, YouTube will ban videos that promote or link to sites selling guns and videos showing how to assemble guns; some accounts already affected — Google's new policy prohibits promotion of guns, bump stocks — At least one video gun blogger ditched YouTube for PornHub
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is working on blockchain-related technology for its cloud business; source says this includes a distributed ledger to verify transactions — Alphabet division developing a distributed digital ledger — Company insiders say cloud is natural home for the technology
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: YouTube is the top grossing US iOS app for the first time, and has earned $12M+ worldwide so far in March, up 150% YoY — YouTube just became the Top Grossing iPhone app in the U.S. for the first time on Tuesday, after flirting with the top spot a number of times over the years, but never reaching higher than No. 3.
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Uber says it has rescinded job offer to former Amazon VP Assaf Ronen after discovering work history discrepancy, says Manik Gupta will be interim VP of Product — Amazon's voice-shopping VP, Assaf Ronen, was set to replace Daniel Graf as product head. — Uber has rescinded a job offer …
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| Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company: |
Slack updates privacy policy to comply with GDPR, says customers with certain premium services can download all data, including DMs, without informing members — Slack just updated its privacy policy and tools, and one of the changes may give some users pause.
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| Harper Neidig / The Hill: |
Senate votes 97-2 to advance controversial Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA/SESTA); Trump will now likely sign it into law — The Senate on Wednesday passed a controversial online sex trafficking bill, sending it to President Trump
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