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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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Tweets: @brycecovert and @jasonlk
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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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CNET, Macworld, Gizmodo, Insanely Great Mac, Digital Trends, Tech Times, TechSpot, TechCrunch, The Hill, The Mac Observer, Liliputing, International Business Times, The Next Web, Neowin, Mercury News, Investor's Business Daily, PYMNTS.com, Nieman Lab, iLounge, MacDailyNews, The Verge, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Silicon Valley Business …, Mashable, iMore, MAC blog, AppAdvice.com, Business Insider, Axios, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, Engadget, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @waltmossberg, @alistairmbarr, @elanazak, @ohmdee, @cullend, and @shiraovide
| New York Times: |
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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Tweets: @agschneiderman, @agschneiderman, @cryptocurrfiles, @coindesk, @coindesk, @thestalwart, and @russellbrandom
| 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 …
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| 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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| 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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| 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
| 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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| 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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CNET, Reuters, Android Police, TechCrunch, PhoneDog.com, Android Beat, Android and Me, and MIT Technology Review
| 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
| 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 … | 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, CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, CoinDesk, Digital Trends, NewsBTC, Wired, TechSpot, Mashable, and Forbes
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon quietly launches an Android browser for emerging markets 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 Verge and The Digital Reader
| 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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Google Cloud Platform Blog, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, and 9to5Google
| 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.| 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 … | 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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Engadget, Smart Cities Dive, TheDrive, Quartz, MIT Technology Review, ecns, and Seeking Alpha
| 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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