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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter launch the Data Transfer Project to enable users to move the data they want between services, without impairing privacy — An open-source collaboration for “the future of portability” — Today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter joined …
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Tweets: @anildash, @googlepubpolicy, @avinash, @caseynewton, @juliesbrill, @vgcerf, @carnage4life, @policy, and @rrhoover
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
WhatsApp to test limiting the forwarding of messages to 20 chats globally and 5 chats in India in a bid to stop the spread of fake news — The social messaging service has been blamed for its role in spreading dangerous and inaccurate information. — Facebook-owned WhatsApp is making changes …
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Tweets: @facebook, @ethanz, @digiphile, @anniegowen, @ritaparada, @nirav, @karaswisher, and @sub8u
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Facebook executives struggle to describe a coherent strategy to deal with misinformation on the site; it's a hodgepodge of “exceptions to the exceptions” — Facebook was once the most nimble company of its generation. The speed at which it adapted to every challenge was legendary.
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Business Insider, Columbia Journalism Review, Engadget, Poynter, Slate, CNNMoney, Observer, Hit & Run, Vox, The Guardian, Xconomy, Forbes, Beyond Search, Vanity Fair, Techonomy, The Hill, Firstpost, and Mercury News
Tweets: @antoniogm, @jeffgiesea, @nytimes, @felixsalmon, and @doyle_kevin
| Kirsten Grind / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook suspends marketing analytics company Crimson Hexagon which boasts of having 1T public posts from social media, after questions about its govt contracts — Facebook says it was probing whether data-analytics firm Crimson Hexagon's government contracts comply with Facebook policies
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Engadget, Crimson Hexagon, Fast Company, The Wrap, The Drum, TechSpot, and Variety
Tweets: @sarahfrier, @dmac1, @wsj, and @dseetharaman
| Anthony Cuthbertson / The Independent: |
DuckDuckGo says that Google confuses customers by redirecting traffic from duck.com domain, which the search giant owns, to google.com — Google controls the duck.com web address, meaning users searching for its rival DuckDuckGo are diverted back to Google — For many people, Google is the internet.
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Stratechery, CNET, The Precursor Blog, The Verge, The Register, Firstpost, and Mercury News
Tweets: @shiraovide, @duckduckgo, @rmac18, @caseynewton, @bradgcoza, @carnage4life, @cameronmaske, and @textfiles
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Cyberattack on Singapore's largest healthcare institution SingHealth steals details of 1.5M patients, including the Prime Minister — Local media say the hack is believed to be state-sponsored — Singapore has been hit by what local media is calling the country's worst ever cyber attack.| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
San Francisco says it expects to issue permits for its 24-month electric scooter pilot program sometime in August, selecting from 12 applicants — The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is still reviewing the 12 applications from companies to operate electric scooters in the city.
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Engadget, Business Insider, Uber Under the Hood, and SFMTA
| Scott Porch / Fast Company: |
How Comcast is moving beyond the set top box as it rolls out its Xfinity X1 interface on smart TVs, starting with betas on Roku TV and some Samsung TVs — If you'd like to use the interface on Comcast's Xfinity X1 set-top box—and you should, it's fantastic—but aren't so sure about the box itself, stay tuned.
Tweets: @rsingel
| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Lyft says it will enhance its background checks after revelations that an undocumented immigrant who has been charged with serial rape worked as a Lyft driver — Lyft is scrambling to reinforce its background checks after revelations that an undocumented immigrant who has been charged with serial rape had worked as a Lyft driver.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank's Vision Fund is seeking to invest almost $1B in Chinese AI company SenseTime, which has raised more than $1.2B this year — - A deal would be SenseTime's third major funding in past year — SenseTime uses artificial intelligence for facial recognition| Javed Anwer / India Today: |
Indian telecoms regulator mandates that all smartphone users should be able to install its anti-spam app by January; iPhone could be in breach of the regulation — It's a fight that is going on for some time. Apple, the maker of the iPhone, and TRAI, the agency that regulates telecom networks in India … | Erica Werner / Washington Post: |
US lawmakers drop provision that blocked lifting of ZTE sanctions, strengthen CFIUS authority to block Chinese investments in a compromise defense spending bill — Senate Republicans have dropped their attempt to reimpose U.S. sanctions on the Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE …
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Android Authority, The Verge, Engadget, Bloomberg, Axios, South China Morning Post, Mercury News, Politico, Business Insider, New York Times, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and Associated Press
Tweets: @marcorubio and @ronwyden
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