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Facebook introduces new Privacy Shortcuts menu, simplified settings menu on mobile, and tools to find, download, and delete your Facebook data — Last week showed how much more work we need to do to enforce our policies and help people understand how Facebook works and the choices they have over their data.
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Documents reveal that a Palantir Technologies employee, in his personal capacity, suggested to Cambridge Analytica to use a mobile app to harvest Facebook data — As a start-up called Cambridge Analytica sought to harvest the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans in summer 2014 …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook will not unveil its smart speakers at F8 while it deals with data misuse scandal but still plans to launch speakers later this year — Social network had hoped to show off devices at F8 in May — Company still plans to launch products later this year
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed: |
Cambridge Analytica co-founder and whistleblower Wylie started a new firm, Eunoia, in 2014 that had the same dataset of 50M+ Facebook users, according to emails — “We have developed a series of algorithms that can predict the personality traits of individual voters by analyzing their voterfile, social, online and consumer data."| Jonathan Swan / Axios: |
Sources: Trump is “obsessed” with Amazon, with his antipathy surfacing when discussing tax policy or antitrust cases; he is not concerned about Facebook — Capitol Hill wants Facebook's blood, but President Trump isn't interested. Instead, the tech behemoth Trump wants to go after is Amazon …
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Source: Lior Ron, the head of Uber freight and co-founder of Otto, which Uber bought in 2016, is leaving the company — The company last week suspended its autonomous driving tests in all cities after a fatal collision in Arizona. — Ron co-founded Otto, an autonomous vehicle start-up, which Uber bought in 2016.
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Google Home devices can now connect to any bluetooth speaker using the Google Home app without the need for a separate Chromecast audio streamer — The Google Home will now let you listen to music on your own Bluetooth speakers — no Chromecast streamer required.
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google starts blocking uncertified Android devices from using its core apps, will allow exceptions for custom ROMs — Google has always controlled which devices ship with its proprietary GApps—a package that includes such necessities as the Play Store and Google Play Services.| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Docker founder and CTO Solomon Hykes is leaving the company, citing need for new enterprise-focused CTO — Solomon Hykes, who as Docker founder and chief technical officer laid the groundwork for one of the most quickly adopted enterprise computing technologies ever developed, is leaving the company.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
The Alliance for Open Media, which counts Google, Apple, Amazon as members, releases new royalty free 4K UHD standard AV1 that uses 30-40% less network capacity — AV1 compression technology from companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Netflix is here. And it's blowing up the video industry's patent rules, too.
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Pandora takes on Spotify with dozens of personalized playlists built using its Music Genome to fit users' moods, activities, and genres — Just ahead of Spotify's public debut planned for early April, Pandora is punching its rival where it hurts: personalized playlists.| Neer Varshney / The Next Web: |
Ripple donates $29M in XRP to US public school charity DonorsChoose․org, the largest donation it's ever received — Ripple has donated $29 million to fund school supplies for students in public schools in the US. This donation was made through DonorsChoose.org …
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| Theo Douglas / Government Technology News: |
AT&T's FirstNet and Verizon launch dedicated public safety networks for first responders, with private core services for members — The nation's two dedicated first responder networks are going live this week with private core services for members, representatives of both entities said.
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AT&T, Verizon Fios & Custom TV, firstnet.gov, Telecompetitor, CNET, Engadget, and FierceWireless. Tweets: @karlbode
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft launches open source tool for developers to create custom Linux distribution packages for Windows 10 — After starting with Ubuntu, Microsoft has added a number of Linux distributions to its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Linux runtime environment.
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Windows Command Line Tools …, Thurrott.com, BleepingComputer.com, MSPoweruser, Liliputing, BetaNews, The Register, On MSFT, and Softpedia News. Tweets: @shanselman
| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Princeton University study finds 90% of affiliate marketing ads on YouTube and Pinterest are not disclosed, violating FTC guidelines — IF YOU SEARCH for the millennial makeup brand Glossier on YouTube, one of the first results likely to appear is from Olivia Jade, a fashion and beauty vlogger with over one million subscribers.| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
Latest Snapchat beta features a “Connected Apps” tab, hinting that Snap, like Facebook, will enable sharing of user data with third-party apps — As Facebook users are uninstalling apps they connected long ago via Facebook log-in, Snapchat may be pushing for its community to do the exact opposite.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce launches Salesforce Integration Cloud, following last week's announcement it will acquire SaaS integration company MuleSoft for $6.5B — Salesforce hasn't wasted any time turning the MuleSoft acquisition into a product of its own, announcing the Salesforce Integration Cloud this morning.Sponsor Posts
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