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Facebook should let users share their social graph with any competing network and offer friend lists in a useful, interoperable format from its data export tool — It's time to free the social graph — Twitter, Vine, Voxer, MessageMe. Facebook has repeatedly cut off competitors … | Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Fallout from data collection scandal has not spread much beyond Facebook to include other platforms because it is hard to pinpoint harm from privacy violations — It is nearly four weeks since the Cambridge Analytica scandal erupted, and something surprising has happened. — Or rather, not happened.| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: US iPhone users spent an average of $58 each on in-app purchases in 2017, up 23% YoY; entertainment apps spending up 57%, lifestyle apps up 110% — Games, dating apps and streaming services contributed to a rise in consumer spending in iPhone apps last year … | Christopher Balding / Bloomberg: |
Chinese government is getting increasingly involved in its tech companies by installing Communist Party committees at some firms, investing state funds, more — The government wants control of a booming new industry. — As Bloomberg News reported this week, a key stumbling block … | Jeff Dunn / Ars Technica: |
Google researchers showcase AI tech that can isolate individual voices within a noisy environment in videos with a single audio track by watching mouth movement — Google researchers try to replicate the “cocktail party effect” for computers. — Google researchers have developed …
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Review of Macs' eGPU support, new with macOS 10.13.4: performance gains are decent, especially for Metal, but support is limited to Thunderbolt 3 and AMD cards — Performance doesn't disappoint, but lack of strong software support does. — When Apple released macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 on March 29 … | Chris Wood / BBC: |
Partial fingerprints in a picture of a hand holding drugs, found in a WhatsApp message on a phone, helped convict drug dealer in UK — A pioneering fingerprint technique used to convict a drugs gang from a WhatsApp message “is the future” of how police approach evidence to catch criminals.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
7Park Data analysis: at Netflix and Hulu, 80% and 97% of US viewing is of licensed content, respectively; 42% of Netflix users watch mostly licensed content — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Comp Jumps 54% in 2017, to $8.9 Million, on Higher Personal Security Costs| Benjamin Herold / Education Week: |
Study finds ~3,337 free apps in Google Play's Designed for Families program that may violate COPPA, a federal law aimed to protect children from online tracking — Thousands of free apps available in the Google Play store are potentially violating a major federal data-privacy law intended …
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| Tom McKay / Gizmodo: |
Pentagon spokesperson says there has been a “2,000% increase in Russian trolls in the last 24 hours”, following Syria air strikes on Friday night — As Donald Trump's administration, backed by France and the UK, launched a series of missile attacks on Syrian installations allegedly used …
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| Russ Juskalian / MIT Technology Review: |
How UN's Building Blocks program is using permissioned blockchain based on open source Ethereum code to distribute UN-facilitated food aid to recipients — A few times a month, Bassam pushes a shopping cart through the aisles of a grocery store stocked with bags of rice, a small selection of fresh vegetables, and other staples.| Chris Bing / Cyberscoop: |
As US Cyber Command's split from NSA approaches, sources describe tensions between military and intelligence about who should lead offensive cyber-operations — Cyber-warfare specialists serving with the 175th Cyberspace Operations Group of the Maryland Air National Guard engage in weekend training …
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