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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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| 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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg refutes earlier reports, says Facebook will make GDPR controls available globally, notes different markets, laws may require different formats — Mark Zuckerberg refuted a Reuters story yesterday that said Facebook would not bring Europe's General Data Protection Regulation privacy safeguards around the world.
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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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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook confirms it scans the text and images people send each other on Messenger; the content gets blocked if it doesn't abide by the platform's rules — System is supposed to detect content that violates standards — Company on the defensive about how it handles private data
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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft brings Files Restore to all OneDrive customers, letting users restore their entire OneDrive to a point in last 30 days, and adds ransomware detection — Microsoft is bringing more of the OneDrive and Outlook security protection tools it offers its Office 365 business customers to consumers.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
While Trump attacks Amazon, the company's deals with the government to shift computing services to the cloud are predicted to grow to $2B+ in 2018 — The company has won billions of dollars in business to help the government shift computing services from legacy mainframes onto the cloud| Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg: |
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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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| 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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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
MoviePass parent company acquires Moviefone from Oath for $15M; Oath will continue selling Moviefone's digital ad inventory — MoviePass is saying “Hello — and welcome to Moviefone!" — Helios and Matheson Analytics, the majority owner of MoviePass, announced the acquisition of Moviefone from Verizon's Oath subsidiary.| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Microsoft patches critical remote code execution flaw in Malware Protection Engine, the component used in MS apps like Windows Defender and Security Essentials — Yesterday, April 3, Microsoft released an emergency security update via Windows Update that fixes CVE-2018-0986 … | Jeff Engel / Xconomy: |
Massachusetts-based 6 River Systems, which makes automated warehouse robots, announces $25M Series B led by Menlo Ventures, bringing total raised to $46.6M — The land grab in the warehouse automation market is intensifying. — After Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) paid $775 million for Kiva Systems in 2012 …
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