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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Police confirm four shot at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, three hospitalized, one dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound, suspected shooter was a woman — San Bruno received multiple 911 calls from headquarters, report says — Police have responded to multiple 911 calls at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, CA.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Twitter account of YouTube product manager Vadim Lavrusik was hacked and shared fake news during YouTube HQ shooting; Twitter deleting hoax tweets from account — As Twitter users searched for news about today's shooting at YouTube headquarters, hackers were actively compromising a verified employee account to spread misinformation.
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| New York Times: |
Apple hires John Giannandrea, formerly Google's chief of search and AI, to run Apple's machine learning and AI strategy, reporting to Tim Cook — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple has hired Google's chief of search and artificial intelligence, John Giannandrea, a major coup in its bid to catch …
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| Alex Stamos / Facebook: |
Facebook deletes 70 FB accounts, 138 FB Pages, and 65 Instagram accounts run by Russia's Internet Research Agency this morning, shares samples of IRA content — This morning we removed 70 Facebook and 65 Instagram accounts — as well as 138 Facebook Pages — that were controlled by the Russia-based Internet Research Agency (IRA).
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @alexstamos, @marshallcohen, @marshallcohen, @joshconstine, and @kantrowitz
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Overview of gaming laptops using Intel 6-core CPUs, including Samsung Notebook Odyssey Z, Acer Nitro 5, Gigabyte AERO 15/15x, Asus ROG Zephyrus M, Asus ROG G703 — Gaming laptops are getting faster and thinner — Intel unveiled its first Core i9 chip for laptops earlier today …
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| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: |
Dell debuts a new range of lower-priced G Series gaming laptops and refreshes XPS, Alienware, and Inspiron lines, some with new 6-core Intel chips — Dell unveils a huge refresh of the Inspiron PC line, the XPS and Alienware line, and it introduced a new, lower-priced G series gaming laptops.
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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Spotify closes at $149.60 on its first day, down ~10% from opening but still far above private market price of ~$132, giving the company a market cap of ~$26.5B — Spotify is done with its long-awaited “direct listing” experiment. The music streaming company went public without the IPO.| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
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| Reuters: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is not planning to extend its compliance with Europe's GDPR law to users globally — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law … | Forbes: |
36 female VCs launch All Raise, an initiative to increase funding for women from 15% to 25% in 5 years and double the percentage in partner roles in 10 years — AILEEN LEE STARED at the email in her drafts folder for nearly a month, unsure what to do. The summer of 2017 had been brutal for venture capital.
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| Thuy Ong / The Verge: |
Snapchat introduces group video chat for up to 16 people, group audio chat for up to 32 people, and “Mentions” in Stories that allow users to tag friends — You can video chat with up to 16 friends or 32 with just voice — Snapchat is introducing several new features this week …
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| Facebook: |
Facebook is rolling out an “About this article” button in the US, showing where an article's been shared, the publisher's Wikipedia entry, and related stories — By Taylor Hughes, Software Engineer; Jeff Smith, Product Designer; and Alex Leavitt, UX Researcher
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| Frank Bajak / Associated Press: |
In letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, DHS acknowledges existence in Washington DC of unauthorized “stingray” devices, used to track cell phones, intercept SMS messages — For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existence in Washington of what appear …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft acquired enterprise report rendering tech from Forerunner Software; Forerunner says it will support customers through Oct. 2020 — Microsoft has bought Forerunner Software's Mobilizer and Report Viewer products with the intent of improving its client-side report rendering capabilities.
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| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
BlackBerry sues Snap for allegedly infringing on six messaging patents, two of which are also in the suit it filed against Facebook last month — BlackBerry is suing Snap Inc. for patent infringement. — Does that sound familiar? Well, you may be thinking of that time last month …
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Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @joshconstine, @mgsiegler, and @_darrencohen
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Internal Facebook white paper says Trump campaign spent $44M on FB ads while Clinton team spent $28M from June-November 2016; Trump team ran 5.9M ad versions — The president's ad campaign was 'more complex than Clinton's' — Trump focused on new donors; Clinton on ensuring broad appeal| Arjun Panchadar / Reuters: |
Apple says men earn 5% more on average than women at its UK operations, including retail, due to more men in senior roles; median gap was 2% in favor of women — (Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Tuesday that men earned 5 percent more on average than women at its UK operations, although the median pay gap was 2 percent in favor of women.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cloudera beat Q4 FY2018 estimates with revenues of $103.45M but stock is down 27%+ in after hours trading following weak guidance for Q1 FY2019 — Cloudera stock fell more than 28 percent after the company posted guidance that fell below analysts' expectations.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Intel sells embedded software unit Wind River to TPG for an undisclosed sum, after acquiring the company in 2009 in a deal valued at $884M — Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Wind River gets more investment and Intel gets more focus. Intel bought Wind River in 2009 in a deal valued at $884 million.
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