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| Hannah Kuchler / Financial Times: |
Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook “underinvested” in safety and security and that she and Zuckerberg should have spoken about Cambridge Analytica scandal sooner — Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's second-in-command, said she personally made “mistakes” and that the company had been too slow …
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| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
Zuckerberg Q&A: users who didn't disable email/phone number search should assume their public info was scraped by sophisticated actors who evaded rate limiting — Since the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal first broke last month, Facebook has tried out a number of PR strategies to address the growing outcry.
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Tweets: @adage, @gizmodo, @ashk4n, and @joshconstine
| 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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| Julia Angwin / The Atlantic: |
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| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
Delta and Sears disclose data breach including credit card details originating at online chat vendor [24]7 in September 2017, affecting hundred of thousands — Delta Air Lines and Sears Holding Corp. on Thursday disclosed a data breach that may have exposed the payment card details of hundreds of thousands of online customers.
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Tweets: @mgsiegler, @jstrauss, and @maggiejordanacn
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple says the planned update to the Mac Pro will not arrive until 2019, and it has formed the Pro Workflow Team to focus on professional users — A year ago, I visited the Apple campus in Cupertino to figure out where the hell the new Mac Pro was. I joined a round-table discussion …
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Tweets: @trixxy, @llsethj, @mgsiegler, @jsnell, @mgsiegler, @stammy, @bdsams, @stroughtonsmith, @stroughtonsmith, and @markgurman
| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Despite Trump's tirades, available evidence and analysts suggest Amazon has helped mitigate USPS decline, with parcel shipments reaching 5.7B in 2017 — SEATTLE — Five times in the last week, President Trump has pointed his Twitter arrows at Amazon over what he insists is a bad deal for the United States Postal Service.
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Gizmodo, MarketWatch, Business Insider, Bloomberg, CNBC, Seeking Alpha, The Independent, Snopes.com, MarketWatch, Inc.com, MarketWatch, CNBC, PolitiFact, Recode, Howard Lindzon, Yahoo! Finance, Fortune, BloombergQuint, and The Guardian
Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @realdonaldtrump, @jaycaruso, @dealbook, @jeffmacke, @esglaude, @politifact, @guypbenson, @patrickruffini, @ddale8, @reformedbroker, @ddale8, @zeynep, and @zeynep
| 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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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Facebook debuts AR-based Target Tracking, letting users launch AR experiences by pointing their phone at an image or QR code, available in beta — Facebook is adding a new augmented reality feature called target tracking, which lets people launch AR experiences by pointing their phone at an image.
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| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Amazon Key rolls out keyless entry, remote lock and unlock, and guest access to all US users and adds five new compatible smart locks, bringing total to eight — A handful of Amazon Key's main features are being rolled out across the US. — That means you can now use the service anywhere … | Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Sources: Facebook asked several US hospitals to share anonymized data about patients for a proposed research project, but plan is on hold amid privacy scandals — - Facebook was in talks with top hospitals and other medical groups as recently as last month about a proposal to share data …
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Tweets: @chrissyfarr, @shiraovide, @chrissyfarr, @oliviasolon, and @chrissyfarr. Thanks:@chrissyfarr
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Twitter says it suspended 274K accounts for promoting terrorism in last six months of 2017, bringing total to 1.2M since August 2015 — It suspended more than 274,000 accounts just in the last six months of 2017. — Twitter suspended more than 1.2 million accounts that were promoting terrorism …
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Twitter, Engadget, Press Association, TechCrunch, GeekWire, CNET, Business Insider, Axios, Fortune, ZDNet, The Outline, and Forbes
Tweets: @policy and @russellbrandom
| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft pledges to let joint venture partners and customers keep any patents or design rights from their work with the company — Microsoft said its tech customers would own patent rights — Policy designed to clarify ownership rights in new ventures — Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith …
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The Official Microsoft Blog, ZDNet, On MSFT, The Register, TechSpot, CNBC, FOSS Patents, bit-tech.net, and Engadget. Tweets: @bradsmi
| Benjamin Haas / The Guardian: |
50+ AI academics call for boycott of South Korean university, KAIST, following a since-deleted post announcing a partnership with weapons-maker Hanwha Systems — Academics around the world voice ‘huge concern’ over KAIST's collaboration with defence company on autonomous weapons
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| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
Sources: fewer than expected Spotify shareholders sold stock during listing, potentially driving price up; 5% of potentially available shares traded at open — Initial share supply shortage seen as driving up price briefly — Music-streaming company's trading volume below big tech IPOsSponsor Posts
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