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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
YouTube to launch a paid version of YouTube Music next week, at $10/month; YouTube Red will be replaced by YouTube Premium, and it will cost extra — YouTube Music is launching Tuesday, and YouTube Red is going away. It's being replaced by YouTube Premium, and it will cost extra.| 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 … | 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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Tweets: @ceciliakang, @lasesana, @murphindc, @tonyromm, and @tonyromm
| Andrew Rice / Wired: |
Profile of Ajit Pai, the FCC chairman who orchestrated the net neutrality repeal and a nerdy conservative ideologue reviled by some and cast as a hero by others — IN MARCH, AJIT Pai, the 45-year-old chair of the Federal Communications Commission, took to the internet … | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Hacker breaches servers of Securus, a firm enabling real-time warrantless cell location tracking for cops, and provides access to its 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.
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Tweets: @josephfcox, @thememoryhole2, @intangiblecoins, @jason_koebler, and @josephfcox
| 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
| 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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Tweets: @ep_president, @tom_watson, @jason_kint, @europarl_cat, @kostasrossoglou, @jude_kd, @tonyromm, @jimwaterson, @sarahfrier, @buzzfeednews, and @sarahfrier
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
PluralSight, which offers software development courses, prices IPO at $15/share, has raised $310.5M already and may raise up to $357M total by public debut — Pluralsight priced the shares in its IPO at $15 this afternoon, above its previously set target range of between $12 and $14 …
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| 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, @tomwarren, @maryjofoley, @patrickmoorhead, and @parth2eets
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie says Cambridge Analytica ran voter suppression campaigns for Bannon, targeted African-Americans with “disengagement tactics” — Appearing before the Senate Judiciary committee today as part of the ongoing investigation of Cambridge Analytica …
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| Chloe Aiello / CNBC: |
Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan, who was fired last November following disclosure of Uber's 2016 data breach, is joining Cloudflare as its CSO — - He said he chose Cloudflare because the company matches his passion for “securing the whole internet.” — The announcement comes at a pivotal …
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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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Didi Chuxing.EN, The Verge, New York Times, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, MIT Technology Review, Quartz, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @suilee and @didichuxing
| 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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Tweets: @cnbc, @adammklein, @jacknicas, @b_fung, and @mattgertz
| 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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Daring Fireball, MacRumors, Twitter, MacStories, Android Authority, The Verge, Engadget, Android Central, Neowin, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, 512 Pixels, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @twitterdev, @henshaw, @sirstendec, @mcnees, @joenrv, @twitterdev, and @tomwarren
| 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cask Data, a startup that builds solutions to run big data analytics services based on Hadoop, joins Google Cloud; terms not disclosed; Cask had raised $40M — Google is pushing hard on its efforts to build out a deeper enterprise business around Google Cloud, which continues …
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| 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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The Guardian. Tweets: @cwarzel, @sarahfrier, @cwarzel, @cwarzel, @johnpaczkowski, and @zarzarbinkss
| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Jürgen Schmidhuber, the controversial AI pioneer whose Swiss startup Nnaisense is working on developing an artificial general intelligence (AGI) — Jürgen Schmidhuber says he'll make machines smarter than us. His peers wish he'd just shut up.
Tweets: @roydanroy, @muellerfreitag, @valleyhack, @atbwebb, and @mark_riedl
| 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 … | 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, @itsnicolenguyen, @mims, @baekdal, @paulbernaluk, @libbycwatson, @chronotope, @dymaxion, and @tupp_ed
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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