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Sources: Apple plans to integrate recently acquired magazine app Texture into Apple News and debut its own premium news subscription service next year — Company integrating Texture purchase into Apple News offering — About 20 Texture staff were cut soon after Apple acquisition
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Intel unveils two Threat Detection Technology features: letting software scan system memory for malware using integrated GPUs and advanced telemetry tools — The company is also using its processors' performance monitoring to detect malicious code. — Since the news of the Metldown …
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Intel Newsroom, The Verge, Windows Blog, BetaNews, Windows Central, ZDNet, BleepingComputer.com, PCWorld, Engadget, Cult of Mac, gHacks Technology News, bit-tech.net, Softpedia News, Inquirer, Ubergizmo, The Register, GeekWire, and CNET
Tweets: @patrickmoorhead and @tomwarren
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Based on ARPU, Facebook might have to charge $11-$14 for monthly subscriptions to offset ad revenue, but it would empower users with choice and a sense of value — Would it make us love or hate ads? — Would being asked to pay Facebook to remove ads make you appreciate their value or resent them even more?
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iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, AppAdvice.com, and Hacker Noon. Tweets: @seldo
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Following questions from Congress about Facebook's web tracking of users who aren't logged in, the company details what data it collects and how — Last week, Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of the US Congress. He answered more than 500 questions and promised that we would get back on the 40 …
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| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
Microsoft, Facebook, 30+ firms pledge to not help states mount cyberattacks against “innocent civilians and enterprises”; Google, Apple, Amazon decline to join — WASHINGTON — More than 30 high-tech companies, led by Microsoft and Facebook, plan to announce a set of principles … | Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
After Telegram moved some of its infrastructure to AWS and Google cloud, Russia banned 1.8M Amazon and Google IP addresses, impacting many other online services — Roskomnadzor, Russia's telecommunications watchdog, banned today over 1.8 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and Google's cloud infrastructure.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases updated DIY AI Vision and Voice Kits for $89.99 and $49.99, with a Raspberry Pi Zero and a companion app for Android, available at Target — Launched last year, Google's AIY Projects are simple hardware kits for building AI-powered devices like an Assistant speaker and a camera with image recognition capabilities.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Snap releases seven new templates and Giphy integration for its Lens Studio, and now lets creators build their own face filters for the first time — Snap releases seven new templates for Lens Studio, plus Giphy integration — Snap is expanding its developer platform to let creators build face filters …
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Surveillance firm Terrogence, a US government vendor, has been building a massive facial recognition database from photos on Facebook, YouTube, and other sites — When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica revelations … | Lawrence Hurley / Reuters: |
US Supreme Court rules that Microsoft email privacy dispute with the DOJ is moot, following the passage of the Cloud Act — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) privacy fight with the Justice Department over whether prosecutors … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Tokenized securities startup Harbor raises $28M led by Founders Fund with participation from a16z, following a $10M Series A in February — Harbor helps businesses legally issue cryptocurrency tokens that represent ownership of real-world assets like real estate, fine art, company equity, and investment funds.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft announces the Azure Sphere stack for securing IoT devices, includes a Linux-based OS, custom silicon for microcontrollers, and matching cloud service — Microsoft is introducing new custom silicon, a Linux-based embedded OS and cloud service aimed at securing microcontroller-based devices.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 launches with new features that make it easier to securely embrace Kubernetes and other container orchestration tools — The second edition of Docker's enterprise product adds more security and management features for seamless and safe Kubernetes adoption.
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Investors, bankers, and analysts say they expect a wave of IPOs from some of the most highly valued and recognizable start-ups over the next 18 to 24 months — SAN FRANCISCO — Jason Pressman spent Thursday morning cheering from the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange as shares … | Alfred Ng / CNET: |
TaskRabbit informs users that it is investigating a cybersecurity incident and that it has temporarily taken down its app and website — The handyman-for-hire app sent an email to users today recommending they change their passwords if they used the same ones for different websites.
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Dept of Commerce blocks sales from US firms to ZTE for seven years, after alleged false statements to officials that followed guilty plea on sanctions violation — LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Commerce has banned American companies from selling components …
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Tweets: @baldingsworld, @tradelawnews, @paulmozur, @rdr0b11, and @johnhendel
| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Pornhub says it now accepts user payments, such as for buying Premium subscriptions, in Verge cryptocurrency — So you can be extra incognito — Pornhub has started accepting cryptocurrency as a payment option, the company announced today. The site now accepts Verge cryptocurrency …
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The Next Web, Wired, vergecurrency, Forbes, and Mashable
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China's Weibo backs down from censoring gay content following backlash from users, after saying it would ban it along with other content to comply with new law — BEIJING — Bowing to intense pressure from millions of internet users, a Chinese social media site said on Monday that it would scrap plans …
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Tweets: @vmosco, @seldo, @mikedelmoro, @ehundman, @hernandezjavier, @alfonslopeztena, and @kenroth
| Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg: |
US-based Kraken, one of the longest-operating cryptocurrency exchanges, is ending its services in Japan by end of June, citing rising costs of doing business — Kraken, one of the longest-operating cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, will end its trading services for Japanese residents.
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Bitcoinist.com, NewsBTC, and Reuters
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Adobe says it has acquired voice app startup Sayspring; Sayspring CEO says it will do away with paid plans and the platform will become invite-only — Adobe today announced it has acquired Sayspring, a platform for building and prototyping voice apps like Alexa skills or Google Assistant actions.
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Adobe Blog, Sayspring, Digital Trends, ZDNet, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, and Voicebot
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Tempo Automation raises $20M Series B, led by P72 Ventures, to fund its new electronics manufacturing factory in San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood — Manufacturing printed circuit boards in San Francisco sounds crazy given the high cost of labor and real estate, but Tempo Automation has raised $20 million to do just that.
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VentureBeat, Silicon Valley Business …, and Tempo
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FBI, DHS, and UK's National Cyber Security Centre issue joint alert warning of a Russian-led global campaign to attack and infiltrate internet infrastructure — State-sponsored Russian hackers are actively seeking to hijack essential internet hardware, US and UK intelligence agencies say.
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US-CERT, Wired, CSO, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Business Insider, Forbes, Bloomberg, Inquirer, Newser, Ubergizmo, Boing Boing, Engadget, BT.com, Financial Times, New York Post, TechSpot, and Engadget
| Jeff Engel / Xconomy: |
Boston-based marketing chatbot firm Drift raises $60M Series C led by Sequoia Capital — David Cancel and Elias Torres built their last startup, a marketing automation company called Performable, with just $3 million from venture capitalists. — They raised that funding round in late 2009 …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and Business Wire
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Sources: Huawei, which has sought to increase US business, has laid off all its US-based employees and is dialing back political outreach — SHENZHEN, China — In a grand hotel ballroom on Tuesday, Huawei executives laid out a soaring vision for the future.
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