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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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| Sarah Skidmore Sell / Associated Press: |
The Internal Revenue Service's payment site has been down for much of the day, preventing many Americans from filing taxes electronically — Just in time for tax day: the IRS website to make payments is down. — The IRS did not have an immediate explanation for the failure.
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irs.gov, Washington Post, The Register, AppleInsider, Engadget, Quartz, Fedscoop, CNBC, GeekWire, and Fortune
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
New York AG Schneiderman launches an inquiry into cryptocurrency exchanges, sending a letter to 13 of them, including Coinbase, Gemini, Kraken, and Bitfinex — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched an investigation into bitcoin exchanges today, his office announced.
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ag.ny.gov, Business Insider, CoinDesk, Bloomberg, MIT Technology Review, Motherboard, and NewsBTC
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Ex-Cambridge Analytica employee tells UK Parliament that Kogan/GSR's Facebook datasets/questionnaires were not the only ones CA used, cites two other FB quizzes — Far more than 87 million people may have had their Facebook data harvested by Cambridge Analytica, according to evidence from former employee Brittany Kaiser.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Digital Trends, UK Parliament, Politico, and Engadget
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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, Digital Trends, The Verge, Windows Blog, BetaNews, Windows Central, TechSpot, The Hacker News, ZDNet, PCWorld, Inquirer, Engadget, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, bit-tech.net, The Register, GeekWire, and CNET
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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 …
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| 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?| Facebook: |
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Tweets: @dseetharaman, @dseetharaman, @geoffreyfowler, and @daveleebbc
| 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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The Verge, The Moscow Times, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, The Guardian, TechCrunch, PiunikaWeb, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, TechSpot, Reuters, Meduza.io, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Ubergizmo, Inquirer, Associated Press, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, Crime Russia, The Register, and MacDailyNews
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| Kim Hart / Axios: |
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn says she's leaving after 8+ years at the agency, a day after FTC's Terrell McSweeny, also an Obama nominee, announced retirement — Long-time Democratic FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn announced Tuesday that she will be leaving after more than eight years at the agency.
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Engadget, Gizmodo, The Verge, TechCrunch, and Federal Trade Commission
Tweets: @zittrain, @mikeofcc, @profwrightgmu, @mattblaze, @senmarkey, @mcandrew, @mclyburnfcc, and @tmcsweenyftc
| 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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Digital Trends, Thurrott.com, Google Developers Blog, PCWorld, Inquirer, Tom's Guide, BGR, Tech Times, ValueWalk, Android Police, CNET, Engadget, and The Verge
| 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 …
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Mashable, The Register, and American Civil Liberties Union
Tweets: @briansolis, @b_fung, @forbes, and @eff
| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook partners with Mumbai-based Boom on a pilot fact checking project of English-language content in Indian state of Karnataka, ahead of state elections — Facebook is finally going to start fact-checking news on its platform in India, its largest market with more than 240 million users.| 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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CoinDesk, The Next Web, vergecurrency, Wired, CoinDesk, TechSpot, NewsBTC, Forbes, and Mashable
| 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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TechCrunch, Digital Trends, The Next Web, Engadget, Mashable, Fortune, and 9to5Google
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon adds International Shopping feature to its mobile apps, letting users easily shop for products when abroad with support for 5 languages and 25 currencies — Displaying in five new languages and 25 local currencies, with pricing, shipping, import duty estimates, and customs clearance
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Engadget, Business Wire, and BetaNews
| 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 … | 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 … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Twilio makes its SIM-based Programmable Wireless service for IoT developers generally available — For a communications platform like Twilio, getting into wireless always seemed like a logical next move and a year ago, the company did just that with the beta launch of its SIM-based Programmable Wireless service for IoT.
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ProgrammableWeb.com and ZDNet
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Harbor raises $28M from a16z, Founders Fund, others, to help businesses legally issue cryptocurrency tokens tied to ownership of real-world assets like fine art — Harbor helps businesses legally issue cryptocurrency tokens that represent ownership of real-world assets like real estate, fine art, company equity, and investment funds.| New York Times: |
Sources: Huawei, which has sought to increase US business, dials back political outreach, laying off some staff including the face of its lobbying efforts in DC — SHENZHEN, China — In a grand hotel ballroom on Tuesday, Huawei executives laid out a soaring vision for the future.
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Digital Trends, CNET, Android Authority, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Liliputing, FierceWireless, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, and Financial Times
Tweets: @nytimes, @paulmozur, and @paulmozur
| 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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VentureBeat, GeekWire, GeekWire, and The Register
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