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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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Tweets: @cullend and @shiraovide
| 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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Washington Post, irs.gov, Engadget, The Verge, The Register, AppleInsider, CNET, Fedscoop, SlashGear, Quartz, CNBC, GeekWire, and Fortune
Tweets: @brycecovert and @jasonlk
| 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, Politico, Digital Trends, UK Parliament, The Verge, and Engadget
| New York Times: |
Documents and emails show Cambridge Analytica's plans, now on hold, to debut its own token via ICO to help people store and sell their online personal data — SAN FRANCISCO — The embattled voter-profiling firm Cambridge Analytica quietly sought to develop its own virtual currency …
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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, CNET, Business Insider, Bloomberg, Axios, CoinDesk, MIT Technology Review, and NewsBTC
Tweets: @agschneiderman, @coindesk, @thestalwart, @russellbrandom, and @coindesk
| 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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Microsoft on the Issues, Cybersecurity Tech Accord, Engadget, Digital Trends, BetaNews, CNNMoney, Cyberscoop, The Verge, Reuters, Gizmodo, CNBC, ZDNet, GeekWire, VentureBeat, New York Times, WRAL TechWire, MIT Technology Review, PR Newswire, Bloomberg, MSPoweruser, and Inquirer
Tweets: @rondeibert, @rsaconference, @microsoft, @dangillmor, @brokep, @dnvolz, @e_kaspersky, @bradsmi, @marcorubio, and @chuckrobbins
| 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, TechSpot, BetaNews, Windows Central, Cult of Mac, On MSFT, PCWorld, Inquirer, Engadget, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, The Register, bit-tech.net, GeekWire, and CNET
Tweets: @patrickmoorhead and @tomwarren
| 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, CNET, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, The Verge, TechCrunch, and Federal Trade Commission
Tweets: @zittrain, @mikeofcc, @profwrightgmu, @mattblaze, @senmarkey, @mcandrew, @mclyburnfcc, and @tmcsweenyftc
| 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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Digital Trends, BetaNews, SecurityWeek, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Register, iPhone Hacks, Mercury News, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, CNNMoney, 9to5Mac, AppAdvice.com, BGR, The Guardian, Social Media Today, The Next Web, Fortune, CNET, The Daily Caller, MediaNama, USA Today, Mashable, CNBC, ZDNet, and Facebook
Tweets: @jbenton, @seldo, and @dseetharaman
| 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, @daveyalba, @daveyalba, @katienotopoulos, @daveyalba, and @andyorin
| 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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ZDNet, The Verge, DSLreports, The Moscow Times, Cult of Mac, The Guardian, Gizmodo, Meduza.io, 9to5Google, PiunikaWeb, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, TechSpot, TechCrunch, Reuters, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Associated Press, Ubergizmo, Inquirer, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, MacDailyNews, Crime Russia, The Register, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @snowden, @vladsavov, @duckduckgo, @snowden, @kasparov63, @catvshumanity, @yashalevine, @jamesiry, @ow, @ariurotl, @mashasng, @vismarcheg, @rannor_ru, @epicrive, and @coinfaceme. Thanks:@campuscodi
| 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.| 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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Digital Trends, CoinDesk, The Next Web, Wired, vergecurrency, CoinDesk, TechSpot, Forbes, NewsBTC, and Mashable
| 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.| 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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Business Wire, Engadget, BetaNews, and Lifehacker
| 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
| 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 … | 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 …
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GeekWire, TechCrunch, Windows Central, CNNMoney, and On MSFT
Tweets: @agidari and @richardrubindc
| 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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Digital Trends, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Mashable, Engadget, Fortune, and 9to5Google
| 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.| 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
| 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 … | 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
| BBC: |
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.Sponsor Posts
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