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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Hacker breaches Securus; alleged data taken included 2,800+ usernames, email addresses, phone numbers, and hashed passwords and security questions — 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.
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Tweets: @josephfcox, @thememoryhole2, @jason_koebler, @intangiblecoins, and @josephfcox
| 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
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Senate narrowly votes to block Ajit Pai's repeal of net neutrality rules; the resolution next heads to the House, where it faces long odds — Senate defies “armies of lobbyists,” but House may help FCC kill net neutrality. — The US Senate today voted to reverse the Federal Communications …
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| 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” …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple has quietly explored opening a campus in Northern Virginia, to accommodate 20,000 employees, as well as in North Carolina, according to multiple reports — For the last several months, Apple has been exploring locations for a new campus focusing on technical support, and according to new reports …
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| 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 …
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| Graham Rapier / Business Insider: |
SEC created a satirical cryptocurrency site called HoweyCoins to warn investors about ICO scams, complete with a nine-page whitepaper and an expiring 15% bonus — - HoweyCoin, a satirical ICO website made the the US' top securities regulator, is a warning against scams.
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Tweets: @vitalikbuterin and @sec_news
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
YouTube will use Content ID data to display full music credits and link to the official videos of artists and songs — YouTube is to begin surfacing more song and artist information for videos that are hosted on the YouTube platform. — The Google-owned video-streaming giant has long offered …
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Engadget, Android Police, The Verge, Music Ally, CNET, RAIN News, Tubefilter, and 9to5Google
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter delays shutdown of legacy APIs to August 16, makes Account Activity API generally available, reduces free Premium Sandbox subscriptions allowed to 15 — 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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Tweets: @twitterdev, @twitterdev, and @tomwarren
| 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 … | Reuters: |
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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| 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 …
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TechCrunch. Tweets: @alexhern, @mims, @baekdal, @itsnicolenguyen, @paulbernaluk, @libbycwatson, @chronotope, @dymaxion, and @tupp_ed
| 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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Amazon Developer Services, Engadget, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, Voicebot, ZDNet, and VentureBeat
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Alphabet's Jigsaw will expand its free Project Shield service, which helps protect 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.| 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, @cwarzel, @johnpaczkowski, and @zarzarbinkss
| Kelsey Graeber / BuildZoom: |
Analysis of building permits shows Facebook has filed $900M+ in construction permits for West Campus building projects, mostly used for office space, since 2015 — Since the grand opening of the Gehry-designed building named ‘MPK 20’ and de facto launch of Facebook's West Campus in March 2015 …
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| 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 … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Compound, a startup that's building a money market for crypto assets, raises $8M seed led by a16z and gets the first investment from Coinbase's new venture fund — Compound wants to let you borrow cryptocurrency, or lend it and earn an interest rate. Most cryptocurrency is shoved in a wallet …
Tweets: @joshconstine
| 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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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
San Francisco-based Parsable raises $40M Series C led by Future Fund to expand its platform that aims to digitize documents used by industrial workers — As we increasingly hear about automation, artificial intelligence and robots taking away industrial jobs, Parsable … | Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Intel launches OpenVINO toolkit to help developers deploy AI models across a broad range of IoT devices — The OpenVINO toolkit should make it easy for developers to deploy AI models across a broad range of IoT devices. — Intel on Wednesday is unveiling OpenVINO, a toolkit designed …
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