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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter says it will use thousands of behavioral signals on accounts, not just content of individual tweets, when filtering search, replies, and recommendations — Act like a jerk, and Twitter will start limiting how often your tweets show up. — On Tuesday, Twitter announced a massive change …
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Tweets: @willoremus, @cwarzel, @jack, @hannahkuchler, @kt_so_it_goes, @twittersafety, @delbius, @willoremus, @josephfcox, @fabiochiusi, @yashar, @kantrowitz, and @kantrowitz
| The Guardian: |
Facebook releases first content moderation report: 583M fake accounts closed in Q1 2018, action taken on almost 1.5B accounts and 2.5M instances of hate speech — Firm's first quarterly moderation report also shows scale of spam, hate speech and violence — Facebook took moderation action …
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @dancow, @eff, @chris_skinner, @kantrowitz, @facebook, @nitashatiku, @nitashatiku, @facebook, and @joshconstine
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Uber will no longer require arbitration for individual claims of sexual assault or harassment by riders, drivers, staff, but class action suits still disallowed — In a surprise move, Uber said on Tuesday it is changing its long-standing policy of mandatory arbitration to exempt employees …
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Tweets: @susanthesquark, @aaschapiro, @sarahljaffe, @noamscheiber, @nytimesbusiness, @mikeisaac, @uber, @saraashleyo, @uber, @barneyh, @ariannahuff, @kerrymflynn, @dkhos, @uber, and @uber
| Alistair Barr / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook says he urged President Trump to fix the DACA immigration issue in a recent White House meeting, and told him tariffs were the wrong approach to China — - Cook urged fixing DACA immigration issue in Trump meeting — Apple ups buybacks because stock is ‘good value,’ Cook says
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VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, Fox News, SlashGear, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, Investor's Business Daily, Digital Trends, TechSpot, RAIN News, MacRumors, Business Insider, Fortune, Patently Apple, Cult of Mac, South China Morning Post, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, MacRumors, Seeking Alpha, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, hypebot, and The Hill. Tweets: @waltbtig
| Neer Varshney / The Next Web: |
HTC announces plans for Exodus, an Android phone that will come with native support for protocols like Bitcoin and Ethereum and have an improved DApp experience — HTC is developing a new Android phone that will be powered by blockchain technology. — The phone, named Exodus …
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The Verge, Android Police, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, CoinDesk, CNET, Android Authority, ZDNet, Pocket-lint, Droid Life, PCMag, CCN, Android and Me, and Android Central
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| Eric Geller / Politico: |
White House eliminates cyber coordinator role, meant to harmonize the government's cybersecurity policies, after Rob Joyce's exit, to “streamline authority” — The Trump administration has eliminated the White House's top cyber policy role, jettisoning a key position created during …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Microsoft provides a peek at Surface Hub 2: 50.5-inch Teams-powered tablet with a 4K+ display that can rotate into a portrait mode, due in 2019 — Remember the Surface Hub? You probably don't. Unlike Microsoft's other PCs — the Surface Pro, Book, Laptop and Studio …
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Tweets: @surface, @backlon, @pierce, @tomwarren, @tapbot_paul, @marcoarment, @marcoarment, @tomwarren, and @panos_panay
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp refreshes Groups to let admins more easily manage their Groups and users more quickly catch up on missed messages, to better take on Telegram — Facebook just installed its VP of Internet.org as the new head of WhatsApp after its CEO Jan Koum left the company.
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WhatsApp.com, CNET, Reuters, Mashable, MSPoweruser, Adweek, BetaNews, MacRumors, and Digital Trends. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google finally adds support for ARCore on Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ — Augmented reality technology has gotten much more popular over the past couple of years, and with the arrival of ARCore, it's gotten a whole lot better on Android. Now, Samsung's latest flagships finally offer support.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Youth Portal, a site to educate teens on how their data is being used and guidelines on how to post — There's probably an important gap in attention being paid at internet companies to young kids that are good targets for parental controls and older ones who are having …
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Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @mcwm, @mekosoff, @caseynewton, and @rrhoover
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
AT&T's DirecTV Now launches its cloud DVR, alongside a new tier with 100 hours of recording and 90 days of storage for $10/month more, adds more content, more — AT&T's over-the-top streaming service for cord cutters, DirecTV Now, is finally beginning to roll out its cloud DVR feature - a year and a half after its launch.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tweetbot 3 for Mac arrives with a new look, a few new features like a combined Notifications view, and a tentative reprieve from Twitter's API deprecations — One of the more popular desktop clients for Twitter, Tweetbot, is today launching a completely rewritten version of its software, Tweetbot 3 for Mac.
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Mac App Store, The Verge, Six Colors, MacStories, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, and Android Central. Tweets: @alexeheath
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Verizon becomes the latest big company to expand Amazon AWS usage, will migrate over 1,000 business-critical apps, database systems, and more — Wireless network operator Verizon Communications Inc. has become the latest big enterprise to move a large chunk of its business applications …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Responding to UK parliament's summons threat, Facebook says Zuckerberg “has no plans to meet with the committee or travel to the UK at the present time” — Facebook says that it won't send Mark Zuckerberg to the UK to appear before a Parliamentary committee that threatened …
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UK Parliament, The Guardian, Politico, CNET, TechSpot, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch, CNBC, and Axios. Tweets: @daveleebbc
| Wall Street Journal: |
Kaspersky Lab says it will relocate some core operations from Russia to Switzerland, after US and UK intelligence agencies expressed concern about interference — Russian antivirus-software company will set up a new data center in Zurich by late 2019 — Russian antivirus-software company …
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Business Wire, Kaspersky Lab official blog, Axios, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Security Affairs, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, Axios, The Register, Inquirer, CNET, Reuters, BetaNews, and Fortune. Tweets: @e_kaspersky
| Adam White / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase debuts Coinbase Prime, a platform for institutional investors, Coinbase Custody, for cryptoasset safekeeping, and Coinbase Markets for better liquidity — The cryptocurrency market is maturing rapidly as more sophisticated institutional participants enter the space.
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Fortune, Business Insider, Recode, SludgeFeed, NewsBTC, Bloomberg, Financial Times, CNBC, Bitcoinist.com, CoinDesk, The Next Web, CoinSpeaker, Mashable, Bitsonline, TechCrunch, Axios, Fortune, and Bitsonline. Tweets: @aaronklein
| Shane Harris / Washington Post: |
Sources: US government identified a former CIA employee as a suspect in last year's Vault 7 leak of a large portion of the CIA's computer hacking arsenal — The U.S. government has identified a suspect in the leak last year of a large portion of the CIA's computer hacking arsenal …
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Gizmodo, New York Times, Motherboard, Cyberscoop, CNET, and The Hill
Tweets: @w7voa, @bubbaprog, @zackwhittaker, and @shaneharris
| Dan Frommer / Recode: |
Circle raises another $110M in round led by Bitmain, pushing its valuation up to almost $3B, says it's launching USD Coin, a new product tied to US dollar value — The company is also launching a new “USD Coin” tied to the value of the U.S. dollar. — Circle, a cryptocurrency startup led … | Ari Rabinovitch / Reuters: |
Israeli government says Intel will invest about $5B in expanding production operations in the country between 2018 and 2020 — JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Intel Corp said on Tuesday it had submitted plans to expand its production operations in Israel, with the government saying the U.S. chipmaker would invest about $5 billion.
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Berlin- and San Francisco-based Prisma, which is expanding on Facebook's GraphQL, raises $4.5M seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins — Prisma, a Berlin and San Francisco startup that is betting big on GraphQL — the data query language originally developed by Facebook to make it easier … Sponsor Posts
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