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Tech CEOs from Apple, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Twitter, and others have spoken out against the Trump administration's “zero-tolerance” immigration policy — “It's heartbreaking to see the images and hear the sounds of the kids,” Tim Cook said.
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| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
In internal open letter to CEO Satya Nadella, more than 100 Microsoft employees protest the firm's work with ICE and ask that it stop working with the agency — SAN FRANCISCO — In an open letter posted to Microsoft's internal message board on Tuesday, more than 100 employees protested …
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| Satya Nadella / LinkedIn: |
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says new US border policy to separate immigrant children from parents is abhorrent and “simply cruel and abusive” — Below is an e-mail I sent to all Microsoft employees today sharing my views on U.S. immigration policy. This is an incredibly important topic and one I care deeply about.
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| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed: |
Medium and GitHub scrub posts and database containing ICE employee LinkedIn data citing rules against doxxing; Twitter suspends bot tweeting info from database — Medium and GitHub say posting the LinkedIn data of a targeted group of employees constitutes doxing. The artist who made the database disagrees.
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
After Senator Wyden's probe into whom the US carriers sell real-time location data to, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint say they are reexamining the practice — Carriers forced to make changes after leak of real-time phone location data. — Verizon and AT&T have promised to stop selling …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU Parliament committee votes for tougher copyright rules that could force tech firms to bear liability for copyright infringement in user generated content — In a key vote this morning the European Parliament's legal affairs committee has backed the two most controversial elements …
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| Rob Bennett / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft News launches on Android and iOS as a rebranded MSN app, also powers news on Windows 10, Skype, Xbox, and Outlook.com — Microsoft has been in the news business for more than 23 years. When we launched MSN in 1995, the news industry was just beginning to provide content online.
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Bithumb, one of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, suspends asset deposit and withdrawal services after ~$31M hack, promises full reimbursement — Bithumb, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea by trading volume, is halting asset deposit and withdrawal services …
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Tweets: @bithumbofficial and @business
| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
University of Cambridge professor Jon Rust warned about dangers of Cambridge Analytica in '14; Facebook now accuses his department of being complicit in scandal — IN DECEMBER 2014, John Rust wrote to the head of the legal department at the University of Cambridge, where he is a professor, warning them that a storm was brewing.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook debuts game show platform that lets creators add quizzes, polls, and more to live and on-demand video; Facebook tests ability to award prize money — Rather than build its own HQ trivia competitor, Facebook is launching a gameshow platform. Today the company announced a new set … | Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
| Patricia Hernandez / The Verge: |
Theater chain AMC announces AMC Stubs A-List, a MoviePass-like $19.95/month service that lets patrons watch three films a week — It'll be twice as expensive, but it boasts fewer restrictions than MoviePass — The largest theater chain in America has announced that it will now offer …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Meditation app Calm raises $27M Series A led by Insight Venture Partners at a pre-money valuation of $250M — Meditation startup Calm has raised $27 million in a series A round of funding led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures and … | Michael Moritz / Financial Times: |
Chinese tech companies now surpass almost all their global rivals in size and value, even US giants, which will fundamentally reshape the world — Cast your eyes down the list of the world's most valuable private technology companies and you might be put in mind of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Tweets: @jonrussell, @jrichlive, @patrickc, @soundboy, @calebwatney, and @sub8u
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase announce that doctor and writer Dr Atul Gawande will be CEO of their as-yet unnamed joint healthcare venture — Amazon, BerkshireHathaway and JPMorgan Chase have not been especially public about their plans for how they plan to take on employee healthcare … | Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Symantec: a hacking campaign launched from China, with the likely intention of espionage, breached satellite and defense companies in the US and Southeast Asia — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A sophisticated hacking campaign launched from computers in China burrowed deeply into satellite operators …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Cloud and Unity to build managed services and tools for creating connected games; Unity moving infrastructure for its current services to Google Cloud — Unity's engine and technology is playing a big role in the current wave of 3D and virtual reality games.
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Sources: AT&T in talks to acquire AppNexus, which operates one of the largest independent ad exchanges; source says AppNexus won't sell for less than $2B — AT&T is in talks to acquire the advertising company AppNexus, Cheddar has learned. — Privately-held AppNexus operates …
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Wall Street Journal, Recode, CNBC, and Axios
Tweets: @pkafka, @pkafka, @alexeheath, and @alexeheath
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
VirusTotal launches Monitor aimed at helping developers mitigate false positives by letting them upload and scan new code against their 70+ antivirus partners — It's been six years since Google acquired VirusTotal, a service that allows users to upload any file to check it for malware … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Privacy-focused Brave browser is testing its own tech for ads that will eventually pay users with its Basic Attention Tokens for viewing or interacting with ads — Brave, a browser that blocks conventional online ads and strips privacy-invading trackers off the web, has begun testing its own technology for supplying advertisements.Sponsor Posts
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