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The IRS' system for accepting online tax returns is working again after being down most of Tuesday; tax filing deadline without penalties delayed to Wednesday — BREAKING: The Internal Revenue Service will let taxpayers submit their tax returns without penalty through the end of the day Wednesday …
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Cambridge Analytica planned to raise funds via an ICO to create a system that would let people store and sell their online data to advertisers, says ex-employee — SAN FRANCISCO — The embattled voter-profiling firm Cambridge Analytica quietly sought to develop its own virtual currency … | 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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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
NY AG launches inquiry into cryptocurrency exchanges, sends letter to 13, including Coinbase and Kraken, seeking information on their operations and more — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched an investigation into bitcoin exchanges today, his office announced.
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| Bloomberg: |
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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Tweets: @waltmossberg, @alistairmbarr, @elanazak, @ohmdee, @cullend, and @shiraovide
| Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central: |
Microsoft adds support for FIDO2 passwordless authentication to Windows Hello, following last week's announcement of Yubico's FIDO2 USB Security Key — If you're looking to ditch your passwords for something a little more secure, it's been a good week. After the debut of the new WebAuthn standard … | Rachel Sandler / Business Insider: |
SF Board of Supervisors voted to regulate electric scooters from startups such as Bird and Spin, requiring them to apply for a permit to operate on city streets — - San Francisco has voted to regulate electric scooters, requiring them to apply for a permit before operating on city streets.
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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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Tweets: @zittrain, @mikeofcc, @profwrightgmu, @mattblaze, @senmarkey, @mcandrew, @mclyburnfcc, and @tmcsweenyftc
| Davey Alba / BuzzFeed: |
Sources describe turmoil at Kickstarter under founder and CEO Perry Chen, who retook the top job in March, as ~50 of 120 staff have left, including 7 top execs — Since founder Perry Chen took back the reins at Kickstarter, the company has landed in a period of turmoil set in motion …
Tweets: @nattgarun, @buzzfeednews, @maxtemkin, @andyorin, @daveyalba, @katienotopoulos, @daveyalba, and @daveyalba
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Kaspersky Lab report: attacks spotted in Japan that hijack DNS settings of routers to reroute traffic to domains that could then infect some Android smartphones — Malware authors have hijacked DNS settings on vulnerable routers to redirect users to sites hosting Android malware.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: ZTE exploring options for its phone operating systems after ban blocking US firms from selling to ZTE may prevent it from using Google's Android — Google's Android operating system powers ZTE phones globally — ZTE Corp. executives are evaluating software options …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google releases Chrome 66 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android with a slew of developer features and blocking by default autoplaying content with sound — Google today launched Chrome 66 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions in this release include autoplaying content muted by default …
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| 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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| Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
DocuSign plans to price its shares between $24 and $26 each for its upcoming IPO, which could raise up to $649M and give it a market cap of about $3.5B — The San Francisco-based electronic signature company said it plans to sell about 16 million shares for between $24 and $26 each.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Google announces that Dialogflow Enterprise Edition, a tool to build chatbots using tech from its API.AI acquisition in 2016, is generally available — Building conversational interfaces is a hot new area for developers. Chatbots can be a way to reduce friction in websites and apps …
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| Sarah Dai / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba confirms self-driving car tests, joining Baidu and Tencent in China's autonomous car race — The autonomous driving market in China now has a major new player after Alibaba Group confirmed it has been conducting self-driving vehicle tests. — Alibaba joins its rival internet giants Baidu …
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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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Tweets: @microsoft, @rsaconference, @dnvolz, @dangillmor, @rondeibert, @brokep, @e_kaspersky, @bradsmi, @marcorubio, and @chuckrobbins
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon quietly launches an Android browser for emerging markets starting in India, touting it as “fast, lite and private” — Amazon has quietly launched an Android web browser app for emerging markets, where access to mobile data and high-speed connectivity is more limited.
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The Digital Reader and The Verge
| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Pornhub says it now accepts user payments in Verge cryptocurrency, a rebranded version of Dogecoindark, for things such as buying Premium subscriptions — So you can be extra incognito — Pornhub has started accepting cryptocurrency as a payment option, the company announced today.
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The Next Web, vergecurrency, Bitcoinist.com, Digital Trends, NewsBTC, CoinDesk, CoinDesk, TechSpot, Wired, Mashable, and Forbes
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Facebook deleted almost 120 cybercrime private discussion groups, with ~300K members, that ranged from spam to ID theft, hours after tip from Brian Krebs — Hours after being alerted by KrebsOnSecurity, Facebook last week deleted almost 120 private discussion groups totaling more than 300,000 members … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
IBM reports Q1 revenue of $19.1B, up 5% YoY, vs $18.84B estimated, its second consecutive quarter of increasing revenue after a five-year drought — IBM stock fell more than 5 percent after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for the first quarter on Tuesday.
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