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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook shuts down Partner Categories, says it will stop using data from third-party aggregators like Experian to supplement its own data for ad targeting — Facebook says it's going to stop using data from third-party data providers like Experian and Acxiom.
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Facebook, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Fortune, 9to5Google, Ad Age, The Guardian, TechCrunch, Business Wire, IT Management, MSPoweruser, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Barron's Online, Yourstory.com, USA Today, Jon Loomer Digital, Ubergizmo, Engadget, Gizmodo, CNET, The Verge, The Next Web, Axios, Ars Technica, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @jeannebright, @antoniogm, @can, @joshconstine, and @azeem
| Channel 4 News: |
Despite claims of data being deleted, leaked cache from a Cambridge Analytica source details personality and psychological profiles of 136K people in Colorado — Facebook said it took steps to ensure harvested campaign data had been “destroyed”. But Channel 4 News has now discovered …
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Engadget, Silicon Republic, Yourstory.com, TechSpot, Business Insider, International Business Times, and Tom's Hardware
Tweets: @channel4news, @povediitz, and @profcarroll
| Madison Malone Kircher / New York Magazine: |
Facebook says it is investigating reports that user archives from the Download Your Information tool contain videos that users did not post — Have you downloaded your Facebook data archive yet? Facebook makes it easy to obtain a ZIP file of all the data it has on you: your status updates … | Facebook: |
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
Tweets: @coryweinberg, @iconews, @brendenwood, @mattrosoff, and @caseynewton
| New York Times: |
A look at how Atlanta is dealing with a ransomware attack, one of the most sustained and consequential cyberattacks ever mounted against a major American city — ATLANTA — The City of Atlanta's 8,000 employees got the word on Tuesday that they had been waiting for: It was O.K. to turn their computers on.
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Tweets: @lilyablon, @aaschapiro, @dpatil, @nytimes, and @mykecole
| Andrew Gebhart / CNET: |
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.| Washington Post: |
Ecuador has barred Julian Assange from using the internet from its embassy in London, saying he violated an agreement not to interfere in international affairs — LONDON — Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks, has been barred from using the Internet at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London …
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Motherboard, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Associated Press, CNN, NPR, Newser, Reuters, Gizmodo, SlashGear, CNET, and The Guardian. Tweets: @comunicacionec
| 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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CNET, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Financial Times, Reuters, Fortune, PYMNTS.com, TechSpot, Yourstory.com, CNBC, TheStreet, Seeking Alpha, The Next Web, Recode, Quartz, The Hill, Silicon Valley Business …, ValueWalk, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, TWICE, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Newser, and GeekWire
Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @brianklaas, @jonathanvswan, @kurtbardella, @kimmasters, @catspecter, and @joshuatopolsky. Thanks:@dmccabe
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Researcher finds some VPN providers leak IP addresses via WebRTC bug which was discovered in 2015, but says audit is incomplete and other VPN's need testing — Around 20% of today's top VPN solutions are leaking the customer's IP address via a WebRTC bug known since January 2015 … | Robin Kurzer / Marketing Land: |
LinkedIn rolls out native video ads in the news feed that auto-play on mute and lets businesses and publishers add video on their Company Pages — LinkedIn is offering businesses two outlets for using video on the platform. Companies can now run native video ad campaigns and include video within …
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| Windows Developer Blog: |
Microsoft's new private audience option in Dev Center will allow developers to publish an app to Microsoft Store that'll be visible only to people they specify — One of the consistent themes that the Dev Center Team hears from the Windows developer community is that first impressions are important.
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Microsoft Docs, On MSFT, MSPoweruser, The Register, Neowin, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @qmatteoq
| Bernie Woodall / Reuters: |
Uber reaches settlement with family of autonomous vehicle accident victim killed in Tempe, Arizona — TEMPE, Ariz. (Reuters) - The family of the woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] self-driving vehicle in Arizona has reached a settlement with the ride services company …
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| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's education-focused events in 2012 and 2018 show that its vision does not fit with reality because of a lack of understanding of what teachers need — Making The Grade is a weekly series from Bradley Chambers covering Apple in education. Bradley has been managing Apple devices in an education environment since 2009.
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Macworld, Engadget, BrianMadden.com, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, MacRumors, and Business Insider
Tweets: @jbailey626, @fraserspeirs, and @danfrakes
| CNBC: |
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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New York Times, The Verge, Engadget, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Seeking Alpha, and Axios. Tweets: @daveleebbc
| 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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Ripple, PYMNTS.com, The DonorsChoose Blog, EdSurge, Mashable, CBS Dallas, CCN, Crowdfund Insider, Bitsonline, and Bitcoinist.com
Tweets: @donorschoose, @marshallk, @bostonschools, @hunterwalk, and @anildash
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Snap cuts about 100 employees focusing on the advertising side of the business; this downsizing said to be the final step in restructuring process — The reductions this time center on its ad division — Snap Inc. is cutting another set of employees, focusing this time on the advertising side …
Tweets: @shaig
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
DocuSign files for IPO seeking $100M, reports revenue of $381.5M for fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2017, up 52% YoY, and net loss of $115.4M over that same period — Fifteen years after it was founded in Seattle, digital signature pioneer DocuSign on Wednesday registered to become a publicly traded company … | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
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