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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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Tweets: @elizabeth_joh, @jezcorden, @c0up, @derekakessler, @scottbix, @mgsiegler, @kevinroose, @clintcoady, and @cdmcapital
| Facebook: |
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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Tweets: @jheftmann, @carlquintanilla, and @shiraovide
| New York Times: |
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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| Dylan Byers / CNNMoney: |
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Tweets: @foxbusiness, @tonyromm, and @sarahfrier
| 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.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will acquire GIF platform Tenor, which is integrated into a variety of keyboards and messaging apps like Facebook Messenger — Google will be acquiring Tenor, which powers a variety of GIF keyboards on phones and messengers like Facebook Messenger, the companies announced today.
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| 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, and On MSFT. Tweets: @shanselman
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google adds support for 39 more languages to Maps — Google today announced that Google Maps is getting support for 39 additional languages. — The newly supported languages are Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian …
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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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia announces support for Kubernetes container orchestration on Nvidia GPUs and will contribute its GPU enhancements to the Kubernetes open source community — This has been a long time coming, but during his GTC keynote, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang today announced support …
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| 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.| 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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple refreshes 9.7" iPad with Pencil support and A10 Fusion, all other specs stay the same; ships this week starting at $329 for consumers and $299 for schools — Apple is introducing a new iPad today at its education event in Chicago. Rumors of a new, cheaper iPad emerged recently …
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| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
A US appeals court revives Oracle's billion-dollar copyright claim against Google, saying Google's use of Java wasn't “fair use” — Google could owe Oracle Corp. billions of dollars after an appeals court said it didn't have the right to use the Oracle-owned Java programming code …
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Tweets: @joshbloch, @martinfowler, and @cemerick
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
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| 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.| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
On-demand shipping/delivery startup Shyp, which raised a total of ~$63M, is ending operations and laying off all its employees — The company that hoped to revolutionize shipping is ending operations today-a poster child for a whole era of venture-funded ideas that has come and gone.
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Axios, Kevin Gibbon, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, Yourstory.com, Gizmodo, PYMNTS.com, TechSpot, and Business Insider
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
A deep look at JavaScript-based cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive, a cryptojacking tool used to steal processing power of users' devices for mining Monero — Multiple security firms recently identified cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive as the top malicious threat to Web users …
Tweets: @briankrebs, @briankrebs, and @marloegroup
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