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Hacker breaches Securus, a controversial firm enabling real-time warrantless cell location tracking for cops, and gives access to clients' data to reporter — A hacker has provided Motherboard with the login details for a company that buys phone location data from major telecom companies and then sells it to law enforcement.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is planning to release a line of lower-cost 10-inch Surface tablets, priced at ~$400, with USB-C as soon as the second half of 2018 — - Tablets priced about $400 prepped for second half of 2018 — Surface computers now compete with PCs, Apple's IPad Pro
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Tweets: @kevinctofel, @maryjofoley, @patrickmoorhead, and @parth2eets
| Alexander J Martin / Sky News: |
European Parliament president says Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will give evidence to the European Parliament in person as early as next week — Mark Zuckerberg will appear before the EU Parliament in person to answer questions about Facebook's use of data. — The hearing will “hopefully” … | Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post: |
Sources: Apple has quietly explored opening a campus in Northern Virginia to accomodate 20,000 employees, with state officials proposing several sites — Apple has quietly explored the idea of opening a campus for 20,000 employees in Northern Virginia, further advancing the possibility …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter delays shutdown of legacy APIs from June 19 to August 16, as it launches its replacement — Twitter is giving developers more time to adjust to its API platform overhaul, which has affected some apps' ability to continue operating in the same fashion.
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
With GDPR imminent, investigation finds Facebook lacks privacy controls for information inferred about users, including sensitive details used in ad targeting — Social network categorises users based on inferred interests such as Islam or homosexuality — Facebook allows advertisers …
Tweets: @alexhern, @mims, @baekdal, @dymaxion, @tupp_ed, @paulbernaluk, @libbycwatson, and @chronotope
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Investigation shows buying fake Facebook accounts is easy and affordable; one seller says there are always thousands in stock as marketplaces thrive — Thirty minutes and a little bitcoin can buy you an army of believable Facebook users. — Audrey Mitchell is a 23-year-old New York City transplant from London.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @cwarzel, @sarahfrier, @cwarzel, @zarzarbinkss, @cwarzel, and @johnpaczkowski
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Whole Foods debuts new discount program for Amazon Prime customers, with 10% off hundreds of sale items and rotating weekly specials, rolling out first in FL — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Whole Foods Market are making a surgical strike in the already brutal grocery price war.
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Facebook to let users share voice messages with friends, archive Stories, and save photos and videos from the in-app camera directly to the Facebook cloud — All three features are rolling out to India first — Facebook, the app you used to use before Instagram, is making three updates … | Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Hands-on with OnePlus 6, coming May 22: 19:9 ratio 6.28" AMOLED display and a small notch, starting at $529 for 6GB RAM/64GB model, $629 for 8GB RAM/256GB — It's been only six months since the launch of the OnePlus 5T, but today the company is pushing out a new device that both packs … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Alphabet's Jigsaw will expand its free Project Shield service, which helps protects against DDoS attacks, to US political campaigns ahead of midterms — WITH MIDTERM ELECTIONS looming and primaries already underway in many states, anxiety has been building over the possibility of cyberattacks that could impact voting.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Alexa developers get eight free voices to use in skills, courtesy of text-to-speech service Amazon Polly, launching today in English in the US — Now Alexa's voice apps don't have to sound like Alexa. Amazon today is offering a way for developers to give their voice apps a unique character …
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Sources: the health care joint venture announced by Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon, and JPMorgan Chase in January is struggling to find a CEO — - After initially interviewing health-care executives, the group is now focused more on finding an entrepreneur. — The group is structured … | Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo: |
After passenger's murder, Didi no longer shows profile pictures or lets users rate and tag each others' appearances, removing tags like “long legs”, “beauties” — China's ride-sharing behemoth Didi is trying to make its platform safer for users after a 21-year-old woman … | Tim Peterson / Digiday: |
Apple News now lets all publishers use Google's DoubleClick to serve ads following tests last year — Apple News has officially begun letting publishers use Google's DoubleClick for Publishers to serve ads into their Apple News articles following tests last year and an expansion earlier this year.
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MacRumors, Marketing Land, iMore, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, and AdExchanger. Tweets: @digiday
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Google partially rolls back autoplay-blocking update in Chrome 66 after it disabled audio for many web-based games, urges developers to update before October — Google is partially and temporarily rolling back a recent Chrome change that blocked autoplaying audio, after web developers complained …
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Tweets: @mylesborins and @mistydemeo
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Critics say many jails in the US are increasingly using video-calling services to cut costs and boost profits by restricting or eliminating in-person visits — We tried one of the awful video services many jails offer instead of visitation. — When Rebecca Parr visited her nephew Justin Harker recently …
Tweets: @schestowitz, @johndyer, @f2fknox, @arilamm, @arstechnica, and @binarybits
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
European online gaming firm Paddy Power Betfair says it's in talks to buy FanDuel, source says for $600M-$700M, a day after SCOTUS killed ban on sports gambling — European online gaming company Paddy Power Betfair confirmed that it is in talks to acquire FanDuel, one day after the U.S. Supreme Court struck … | Liana B. Baker / Reuters: |
Sources: US cybersecurity company Tanium raises $175M at a ~$5B valuation from TPG Growth, marking its third investment in the firm — (Reuters) - TPG's growth investment arm has raised its stake in Tanium Inc with a $175 million investment, valuing the U.S. cyber security start-up at about $5 billion …
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Huawei launches Honor 10 with 5.84" 19:9 LCD 2280×1080 display, Kirin 970 and dedicated NPU, and 24MP + 16MP dual-camera, available in Europe from €399 — In a world filled with rectangular blocks with displays, it takes a large effort to differentiate.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram app code reveals a Usage Insights dashboard that displays “time spent”, an emoji bar, and replies to comments from notifications — Instagram may be jumping into the time well spent movement, following the unveiling of Google's new time management controls last week.| William Wilkes / Wall Street Journal: |
How automation is leading to job growth in certain industries where robots take on repetitive tasks, freeing humans for more creative, problem-solving duties — Automation is leading to job growth in certain industries where machines take on repetitive tasks, freeing humans for more creative duties| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
French online course platform OpenClassrooms raises $60M Series B and says it has 3M monthly users — French startup OpenClassrooms is raising $60 million from General Atlantic, with existing investors Citizen Capital, Alven and Bpifrance also participating.
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