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| Katrin Bennhold / New York Times: |
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) …
Tweets: @fabiochiusi
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Analysis: Amazon Channels, which resells subscriptions to HBO, Showtime, and others, now accounts for 55% of à la carte direct-to-consumer video subscriptions — Amazon has quietly become a major player in the subscription video sales business: Amazon Channels, the company's platform …
Tweets: @basche42
| 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 … | 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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| 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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Tweets: @backlon and @trickholland
| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
Archives show ex-CIA officer who allegedly leaked Vault 7 files to WikiLeaks uploaded some CIA-related source code to a personal website tied to his real name — Joshua Schulte uploaded CIA code to a personal website linked to his real name, archived versions of the site show.
Tweets: @x0rz and @allthingsnatsec
| 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 … | 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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Business Wire, Engadget, HousingWire, and Seeking Alpha
| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Inside the community of “Bird hunters”, who search for and charge e-scooters for firms like Bird and compare the activity to playing Pokémon Go, but for money — Every afternoon around 4:00 p.m., when school lets out, Brandon, an 18-year-old high-school senior in Los Angeles … | 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
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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