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Facebook disables email and phone number search after malicious actors abused the features to scrape public profile data; company says most accounts affected — 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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| 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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| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
Delta and Sears say malware attack at chat vendor [24]7 last year led to data breach that included credit card details of “hundreds of thousands” of customers — Delta Air Lines and Sears Holding Corp. on Thursday disclosed a data breach that may have exposed the payment card details …
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Coinbase is launching Coinbase Ventures, a $15M incubator fund making seed-stage investments, that is searching for founders over cryptocurrencies — - Popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is launching a vehicle for early-stage investments called Coinbase Ventures.
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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 … | 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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| 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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| 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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| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
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