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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Highlights and audio from Mark Zuckerberg's conference call with reporters on Cambridge Analytica scandal, Boz memo, GDPR, and more — “This is going to be a never-ending battle” said Mark Zuckerberg . He just gave the most candid look yet into his thoughts about Cambridge Analytica …
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Cambridge Analytica denies Facebook's claim that it accessed data on 87M Facebook users, claims it “licensed data for no more than 30M people” — Cambridge Analytica is refuting a report by Facebook today that said Cambridge Analytica improperly attained data on up to 87 million users.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook says Cambridge Analytica may have collected information on as many as 87M people, mostly in US; original reports pegged the number closer to 50M — On Monday, April 9, you can find out if you were one of them. — Cambridge Analytica may have had data from more unwitting Facebook users than originally thought.
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| Makini Brice / Reuters: |
Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on April 10 and the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will testify next week before congressional committees …
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| Mike Schroepfer / Facebook: |
Facebook limits data available from Pages API, Events API, Groups API, and Facebook Login, will now need to approve every app that uses them — Two weeks ago we promised to take a hard look at the information apps can use when you connect them to Facebook as well as other data practices.
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| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces AWS Secrets Manager, which allows developers to programmatically insert credentials in applications without writing them into the source code — Amazon Web Services announced a new service today that could solve one of the biggest security headaches facing users of the cloud platform.
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| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
AWS' Amazon SageMaker service now allows developers to experiment with machine learning models locally on personal computers before moving them to the cloud — Amazon Web Services announced today a new way for machine learning developers to build and deploy models through its cloud.
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| New York Times: |
Letter circulating within Google, signed by 3,100+ employees, protests the company's involvement in a Pentagon program that uses AI to interpret video imagery — WASHINGTON — Thousands of Google employees, including dozens of senior engineers, have signed a letter protesting the company's involvement …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it will invest $5B in IoT over the next four years to boost research and the development of products, services, and new programs — Microsoft, the ‘intelligent cloud/intelligent edge’ company, plans to step up its work in IoT research, products and programs.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Sirin Labs chooses Foxconn subsidiary FIH Mobile to manufacture its blockchain smartphone, called Finney, will ship first units in October to Turkey and Vietnam — The device will make it easier for people to use digital coins — Sirin is competing with a slew of blockchain phone rivals
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| Lucian Armasu / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel revises roadmap for Spectre patches, now does not plan to patch some older chips including Yorkfield (2007), Bloomfield (2008), Intel Atom “SoFIA” (2015) — Updated, 4/4/2018, 7:00am PT: Added Intel's statement. — Intel hinted in a previous microcode update guidance … | Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg: |
Sources: at a private dinner with Trump last night, Oracle CEO criticized the bidding process for a big Pentagon cloud-computing deal as being rigged for Amazon — Competing for multi-billion Pentagon cloud-computing deal — President said to tell Catz at dinner he expects fair bidding
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