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Cloudflare launches 1.1.1.1, a privacy focused free consumer DNS service — It's no joke how much data your internet service provider can collect about you. A new service from Cloudflare aims to change that. — These days, you may wish you had a magic switch you could flip to keep your data more secure.
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Roundup of April Fools' Day gags and pranks from tech companies — April Fools' day is almost upon us, but each year at least a few companies are unable to restrain themselves, pushing out their pranks early. Google's various divisions do a decent job each year.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is building a Custom Audiences certification tool that will require a written pledge from advertisers that they have user consent for ad targeting data — Facebook is scrambling to add safeguards against abuse of user data as it reels from backlash over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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How Fortnite became a smash hit, reportedly making $100M+ per month, by combining the popular building and battle royale shooter genres in one accessible game — It's a shooter game for people who hate shooter games. — A recent record-breaking Twitch stream — which saw 628,000 people tuning …
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Q&A with French President Emmanuel Macron on new national AI strategy, which will see the government invest €1.5B over five years into AI research and startups — ON THURSDAY, EMMANUEL Macron, the president of France, gave a speech laying out a new national strategy for artificial intelligence in his country.
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
DOJ asks the Supreme Court to moot the case against Microsoft on email data stored in Ireland after the Cloud Act became law — Now that Congress has made clear that a U.S. search warrant covers emails stored overseas, the Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to moot … | Gemini Advisory: |
Payment systems at Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores breached; credit card data of 5M+ customers allegedly stolen — Key Judgements — On March 28, 2018, a JokerStash hacking syndicate announced the release for sale of over five million stolen credit and debit cards
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Report: Netflix is in advanced talks to acquire EuropaCorp, a movie studio co-founded by Luc Besson — Apple might have passed on A24, but there's rumors floating around that another production company might be acquired by a media giant. — According to French media outlet Capital … | Geoff Golberg: |
Investigation of a Twitter user's followers shows that Twitter is relatively good at detecting fake/bot accounts, but only removes a fraction of them — Someone bought my Twitter account 10K fake/bot followers, and here's what I learned about Twitter's spam detection tools — Story First, Data Second| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
The first Android Go phone in US, ZTE Tempo Go, goes on sale for $80, unsubsidized — For a while, ZTE and Alcatel seemed like they were in a bit of a race to be the first company to release an Android Go phone in the US. Two weeks ago, Alcatel announced that its 1X would be coming stateside sometime soon …
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Two former backup drivers for Uber's self-driving cars say long, monotonous, solitary work hours and a false sense of security jeopardized safety — The first time Ryan Kelley lifted his hands off the wheel of a self-driving Uber, he felt like he'd landed a role in a dress rehearsal for the future.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Amazon Music is shutting down its Storage service for uploaded MP3s, will remove all songs on April 30 unless users select an option to keep them — The cloud MP3 locker is being shut down, so go save your music while you still can — We've known since last year that Amazon Music …
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