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Inside Facebook's deletion center in Berlin, where 1,200 people review posts violating firm's rules or German law and decide what is free speech or hate speech — A country taps its past as it leads the way on one of the most pressing issues facing modern democracies: how to regulate the world's biggest social network.
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| Linda Kinstler / The Atlantic: |
German law requiring social media companies to take down hate speech within 24 hours prompts far right claims of lack of clarity, chilled speech, and censorship — The new year was just a day old when Alice Weidel, the 38-year-old co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the RED Hydrogen One Android phone with a 5.7-inch “holographic” display, coming to Verizon and AT&T sometime this summer starting at $1,195 — Come for the holograms, stay for the modules — We just got a look at the upcoming RED Hydrogen One smartphone …
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| Patrick Winn / GlobalPost Investigations: |
Interviews with experts and defectors detail North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau, whose hackers are estimated to have stolen $650M+ — The Reconnaissance General Bureau, North Korea's equivalent to the CIA, has trained up the world's greatest bank-robbing crews.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
McAfee report: North Korea-linked hackers posted three apps on Google Play to steal personal info from defectors; hackers made contact with targets via Facebook — Apps hosted in Google market for two months were spread over Facebook. — Researchers said a team of hackers tied …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple is telling developers to remove CallKit from apps listed in App Store in China after government request, likely because of CallKit's VoIP functionalities — Apple has started cracking down on yet another type of application in China. Following the earlier removal of VPN apps … | Monica Alleven / FierceWireless: |
Qualcomm says it will incorporate WPA3 into chipsets this summer for mobile devices and on all Wi-Fi networking infrastructure products — Qualcomm Technologies is getting a jump on things as it announced this week that it will be applying the industry's newest Wi-Fi security protections across its portfolio.
Tweets: @davezatz
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Bank of America begins rolling out its AI-powered assistant, Erica, which will help its 25M mobile clients do banking tasks by voice, text, and gestures — The virtual assistant will be available to Bank of America's 25 million mobile clients — Bank of America on Friday officially introduced Erica …
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| Mehreen Khan / Financial Times: |
Majority of European Parliament members are pushing for Mark Zuckerberg's testimony, due to be given in a private session on Tuesday, to be streamed live — MEPs have revolted against plans for Mark Zuckerberg to attend a closed-door grilling in the European Parliament next week … | Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Inside Alphabet's three-day machine learning bootcamp, started this spring, which aims to impart AI know-how to ~12 of CapitalG's portfolio companies, like Lyft — - Alphabet's CapitalG is offering a new program for its portfolio companies, including AirBnb, Lyft, and CrowdStrike| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
Report: Snap CEO was inspired by Chinese apps for Snapchat redesign, wanted to make the app friendlier to older users, launched redesign despite staff concerns — Snap's stock price is now hovering around its lowest point ever since the company went public last year.
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Tweets: @joshconstine, @cityofthetown, @chandism, @mattnavarra, @carnage4life, @amir, @kmclaughlinsf, and @jessicalessin
| Ernie Smith / Motherboard: |
A history of the music industry's first efforts at creating music streaming services after Napster and why they failed given the importance of streaming now — Lessons from the music industry's initial consumer-hostile reaction to the Napster saga. Going from $16 CDs to unlimited streaming is really hard.
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