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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
How LocationSmart, which has “direct connections” to major US carriers including AT&T and Verizon, sells millions of Americans' real-time phone location data — The company embroiled in a privacy row has “direct connections” to all major US wireless carriers, including AT&T … | Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
Sources: about a dozen Google employees resign in protest over the firm's continued involvement in providing image classification AI to Pentagon's Project Maven — It's been nearly three months since many Google employees—and the public—learned about the company's decision …
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9to5Google, Fortune, Business Insider, The Register, Engadget, CNET, Bloomberg, TalkAndroid.com, Vanity Fair, Ubergizmo, Forbes, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Fedscoop, Android Authority, TechSpot, Android Central, reddit.com, and Axios
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google revamps consumer storage plans, now called Google One, adds $3/mo. tier for 200 GB, drops 2 TB plan price to $10/mo., and adds free product tech support — Google is revamping its consumer storage plans today by adding a new $2.99/month tier for 200 GB of storage and dropping the price … | New Scientist: |
Investigation: data collected by Facebook quiz myPersonality was shared with researchers over insecure site, leaving 3M+ users' details vulnerable for 4 years — Data from millions of Facebook users who used a popular personality app, including their answers to intimate questionnaires …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Facebook suspends ~200 suspicious apps as part of investigation and audit of apps, out of “thousands” reviewed so far — Did you just notice a Facebook app has gone AWOL? After reviewing “thousands” of apps on its platform following a major data misuse scandal that blew up in March …
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darkREADING, Reuters, Facebook, Washington Post, USA Today, International Business Times, Recode, Digital Trends, iDownloadBlog.com, East Bay Times, BleepingComputer.com, The Guardian, TechSpot, The Next Web, Nextgov, Slate, SlashGear, Financial Times, Engadget, Socialnomics, Marketing Land, Adweek, Quartz, TheStreet, The Register, Neowin, Gizmodo, Motherboard, Mashable, The Hill, Business Insider, The Verge, VentureBeat, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, DataBreaches.net, Axios, Deadline, BuzzFeed, Financial Times, and Fortune
Tweets: @profcarroll, @mixblendr, @techcrunch, @facebook, @dseetharaman, @timothyrevell, @facebook, @fbnewsroom, and @f_kaltheuner
| Lily Katz / Bloomberg: |
At CoinDesk's Consensus crypto conference in NYC, with 100+ sponsors, Lamborghinis cruise the streets and gimmicks include staged protests by mock bankers — John Nouri makes a living renting out exotic cars for weddings, birthdays, bachelorette parties, and now ... Bitcoin conferences?
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Tweets: @waynevaughan, @token_mario, @cnbc, @coindesk, and @crypto
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: New Enterprise Associates to sell stakes in about 20 startups worth roughly $1B, in response to the slowdown in IPOs — New Enterprise Associates seeks to create new venture-capital firm that would buy its stakes in about 20 companies — New Enterprise Associates …
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Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @danprimack, @scottmaustin, @pkedrosky, @benedictevans, and @garrytan
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
As SCOTUS kills law that banned gambling on sports in most states, media firms with exposure to sports streaming events, including online betting firms, win big — Whoever had the over on DraftKings' boss Jason Robins and FanDuel chief executive Matt King being given a potential billion dollar windfall …
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ESPN, CNBC, GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Fortune, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Nieman Lab, USA Today, PC Gamer, Gamasutra, CNET, and The Ringer
| Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
Snapchat starts showing unskippable six-second ads in the middle of Shows; ads don't link to longer videos or e-commerce sites like its typical video ad unit — Snapchat viewers are seeing a new type of ad—ones they have to watch. — On Monday, the first forced-view ads …
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Ubergizmo, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, and iPhone Hacks
| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Tesla engineers discussed adding eye tracking and better sensors to Autopilot to help alert drivers, were rejected over tech's ineffectiveness and cost — Executives rejected adding more tech warnings to inattentive drivers, due to concerns over effectiveness and costs
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SiliconANGLE, CNET, Ubergizmo, Engadget, BGR, Electrek, The Verge, SlashGear, and CNBC
Tweets: @elonmusk, @ryanfelton, @elonmusk, @petercampbell1, @robinivski, and @jowens510
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Ripple announces the Xpring initiative, which aims to incentivize startups, through investments, grants, and incubation, into building an ecosystem around XRP — It's finally happening. Ripple is making a push to expand the use of the XRP cryptocurrency it created into new verticals …
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Ripple, Crypto Recorder, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoNinjas, CCN, and Crowdfund Insider. Tweets: @exarpycom
| BBC: |
Xerox calls off its sale to Japan's Fujifilm after reaching a deal with activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason; Fujifilm disputes Xerox's decision — Technology firm Xerox has ended its controversial sale to Japan's Fujifilm after reaching a deal with activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason.
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Xerox Newsroom, Digital Trends, Financial Times, CNNMoney, and Fortune
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says ~85% of new spending to go toward original content, plans to have about 1,000 originals total by the end of 2018 — Netflix is sharply steering its new content spending toward original projects, with around 85% of new spending going toward original TV shows …
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Business Insider, Tubefilter, Axios, IGN, TechCrunch, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @ballmatthew and @chris_ciaccia
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon tests display ad offering letting Amazon merchants purchase spots across other sites and apps, amid its move to stop buying Google shopping ads — - New service lets merchants run Amazon ads on other sites, apps — Amazon abruptly stopped buying Google shopping ads recently| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
How WhatsApp is being used to spread misinformation, share fake polls, and exacerbate religious divides ahead of national elections in India — MANGALORE, India — Waving a giant saffron flag, Pranav Bhat last week joined a political rally for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and India's ruling party … | Seb Joseph / Digiday: |
Advertisers on Facebook are re-examining their ad spend commitments to the platform as average price per ad goes up and ad targeting gets harder after GDPR — Advertisers are more concerned that they are wasting money on Facebook than they are about the platform's privacy lapses.| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon says its board has adopted a “Rooney Rule” to increase board diversity, after its initial opposition sparked employee outrage — The company says it is merely formalizing a practice that was already in place. — Amazon said on Monday that it would adopt a policy whereby women … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Singapore-based Carro, an automotive classifieds and financing service, raises $60M Series B co-led by SoftBank Ventures Korea, Insignia Ventures, and B Capital — Carro, an automotive classifieds service and car financing startup based in Singapore, has closed a $60 million Series B round to scale its business in Southeast Asia.
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TechNode and Tech in Asia
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Offline support for Gmail on web now rolling out with support for search, delete, archive, and compose functions — The new Gmail launched with a slew of new features last month, and Google announced that more were on the way. While Smart Compose may have grabbed all the attention at I/O 2018 this week …
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Ars Technica, TalkAndroid.com, Android Central, and Ubergizmo
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers warn about critical flaws in PGP and S/MIME that can reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails, recommend uninstalling those tools from email clients — The flaws, can expose e-mails sent in the past and “pose an immediate threat.” — The Internet's two most widely used methods …
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Tweets: @eff, @protonmail, @jwildeboer, @rupertg, @tqbf, @matthew_d_green, @eff, @eff, @torproject, @bartongellman, @codelancer, @dguido, @gnupg, @protonmail, @matthew_d_green, @astepanovich, @seecurity, @eff, and @dangoodin001
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