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Facebook to bring outside advisors for a civil rights audit of its impact on minority groups and to investigate claims it's biased against conservative voices — To address allegations of bias, Facebook is bringing in two outside advisors — one to conduct a legal audit of its impact …
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Gizmodo, The Verge, Vanity Fair, Silicon Valley Business …, and BuzzFeed
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Facebook confirms it has fired one of its security engineers who allegedly used privileged access to stalk women online — After a member of the information security community provided evidence to Facebook's chief information security officer, the company has terminated a security engineer …
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Gizmodo, Engadget, NBC News, Houston Chronicle, CNET, TechCrunch, and TechSpot
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
LG announces G7 ThinQ with 6.1" QHD+ LCD display and notch, dual 16MP rear cameras, 3,000mAh battery, Snapdragon 845, Android Oreo, Assistant button, and more — Photography by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge — After months of leaks, LG's new G7 ThinQ phone is officially here.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hulu says it has surpassed 20M subscribers in the US, introduces offline mode, and inks animation deal with DreamWorks — Hulu now has over 20 million U.S. subscribers - that's up from the 17 million-plus it claimed in January. The news of its subscriber growth is being delivered alongside …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nokia to sell its digital health division to Eric Carreel, cofounder of Withings, which Nokia acquired for €170M in 2016; deal expected to close late Q2 2018 — Nokia's unsuccessful foray into digital health hardware and services looks like it is finally coming to an end.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook says it's partnering with RED to develop a professional-grade VR camera, as part of its Surround 360 platform; pricing and release TBD — We don't yet know what it looks like, or how much it will cost — Facebook is partnering with camera maker RED to develop …
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| Giovanni Buttarelli / European Data Protection …: |
Ahead of GDPR, EU data watchdog says internet platforms that collect user data are like “sweatshops” exploiting users in exchange for so called “free” services — The digital information ecosystem farms people for their attention, ideas and data in exchange for so called ‘free’ services.
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Researchers say critical infrastructure software had security flaws that could have let hackers shut down factories, power plants, and water systems remotely — Researchers discovered security flaws in two software programs used worldwide to control manufacturing sites, power plants …
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ZDNet, Tenable, The Register, MIT Technology Review, BetaNews, Cyberscoop, Gizmodo, and SecurityWeek
| Apple: |
Apple Q2: revenue of $61.1B, up 16% YoY, as iPhone sales rise 3% YoY to 52.3M, iPad sales rise 2% YoY to 9.1M, Mac sales fall 3% YoY to 4.08M; stock up 3%+ — Revenue Grows 16 Percent and EPS Grows 30 Percent to New March Quarter Records — New $100 Billion Share Repurchase Authorization Announced, Dividend Raised by 16 Percent
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
| Nicholas Schmidle / New Yorker: |
Behind the debate on whether the CFAA should be amended to allow private companies and citizens that are victims of cybercrimes to “hack back” — American companies that fall victim to data breaches want to retaliate against the culprits. But can they do so without breaking the law?
Tweets: @hatr, @ericgeller, and @malwaretechblog
| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
Signal says Amazon has warned the company to stop using the anti-censorship domain-fronting technique if it wants to continue using AWS — Telegram has been putting up an impressive fight against the governments of Russia and Iran in high-profile efforts to censor the messaging service over the last few weeks.
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
BMW, GM, Ford, Renault, and others form a coalition, the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI), to apply blockchain tech in the automotive sector — Four of the world's largest carmakers have joined tech providers and startups to form the biggest-ever consortium focused on applying blockchain tech in the automotive sector.
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The Pentagon is moving to halt the sales of Huawei and ZTE phones in retail outlets on US military bases around the world, citing potential security threats — Move intensifies a squeeze the Trump administration has put on the two Chinese tech firms — The Pentagon is moving to halt …
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| Jessica Toonkel / Reuters: |
Verizon's Oath signs distribution deal to place four of its apps, Newsroom, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance, and Go90, on Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ devices in the US — (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc's Oath Inc subsidiary has signed a deal to place four of its most popular apps on millions … | Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Overcast 4.2 released with enhanced privacy that encourages anonymous accounts at login and removes automatic loading of remote ad-tracking images by default — Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas: — Anonymous sync by default — Overcast has offered anonymous sync accounts since 2014.
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Pixel Envy, mjtsai.com, The Sweet Setup, and The Brooks Review
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google is launching .app domains, the first top-level domains secured with built-in HTTPS, to its Early Access Program on May 7 and to all on May 8 — Over three years after Google paid $25 million to gain the exclusive rights to the “.app” top-level domain, the company …
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The Keyword, Android Police, SiliconANGLE, Inquirer, The Verge, SlashGear, and CNET
| Shelly Banjo / Bloomberg: |
A look at the frenzy to hire young talent in the Chinese tech industry, where three-quarters of tech workers are younger than 30 and age discrimination is legal — Ou Jianxin said goodbye to his wife and two young children shortly after 9 a.m. on a cold day last December.| Carlos Tejada / New York Times: |
Xerox says its chairman, CEO, and majority of its board are leaving, to be replaced by allies of shareholders that oppose Fujifilm merger — Xerox's plan to merge its business with Fujifilm of Japan looks to be increasingly in jeopardy, as its chairman, its chief executive and a majority …
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TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Reuters, Xerox Newsroom, CNNMoney, Wall Street Journal, and The Register
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness and @nytimestech
| Erin Griffith / Wired: |
Pandora study finds that too many ads can push users to subscribe, but not enough to compensate for lost ad revenue from those listening less due to more ads — AT BEST, ADVERTISING is something people tolerate while consuming media. At worst, it's a turnoff.| Manish Singh / The Outline: |
Facebook has quietly ended its Free Basics program in more than six nations and territories in recent months including Myanmar and Latin American markets — Facebook enabled ethnic-cleansing-related hate speech in Myanmar; many died and thousands fled. Rather than take responsibility, it's turning away.
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Tweets: @julieowono, @caseyjohnston, @michellemanafy, @r0h1n, @outline, and @oneunderscore__
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Interview with Mark Zuckerberg on his recent Congressional testimony, goals for F8 keynote, the three-year timeframe for fixing Facebook, and more — Mark Zuckerberg knew his keynote speech at F8 this year would not be like any other. His previous appearances at Facebook's annual developer's conference …
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AdExchanger, TechCrunch, Tech Times, The Hacker News, MediaNama, Ubergizmo, CNET, The Verge, Newser, and Engadget. Thanks:@gfififi
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