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Kevin Systrom had the CEO title, but Zuckerberg controlled Instagram's destiny, with unwavering focus on building a great business, not simply a great product — In the hours after The New York Times broke the story that Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger had resigned from Instagram … | Bloomberg: |
Google publishes a proposed framework for privacy regulation, a 3-page document, and taps its privacy lawyer Keith Enright to become chief privacy officer — - Longtime lawyer Keith Enright to testify before Senate — Washington ramps up pressure on tech over privacy policies
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: in recent months, Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives had begun preparing for the possibility that the Instagram co-founders would leave — Conflicts included Facebook's tweaks seen as promoting the social network's growth at the expense of the photo-sharing app| Rob Pegoraro / Yahoo! Finance: |
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| David Faber / CNBC: |
Qualcomm expands its lawsuit against Apple, claiming Apple stole source code and chip secrets and gave them to Intel to improve the performance of iPhone chips — - Qualcomm hopes the court will amend its allegations to an existing lawsuit against Apple for breaching the so called master software agreement …
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Microsoft announces that it is enabling keyboard and mouse support on the Xbox One, rolling out first to Xbox Insiders in the coming weeks — Game developers will have to enable the support — Microsoft is enabling keyboard and mouse support on the Xbox One.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter announces a new policy around dehumanizing language and says it will now ask everyone for feedback about its policy changes, starting today — Twitter says it's going to change the way it creates rules regarding the use of its service to also now include community feedback.
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| Zach Koch / The Keyword: |
Google says that in Chrome 70, coming mid-October, it will allow users to disable linking Google website and Chrome sign-ins — We recently made a change to simplify the way Chrome handles sign-in. Now, when you sign into any Google website, you're also signed into Chrome with the same account.
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Former Facebook content moderator sues the company for allegedly failing to protect her and others as they viewed violent videos and images, says it led to PTSD — In the class action lawsuit, the woman says that thousands of content moderators are subjected to “highly toxic” content as part of the job.
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| Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central: |
Microsoft says its Microsoft Whiteboard collaboration app is out now on iOS and available on the web in preview, two months after launching on Windows 10 — Two months after first launching on Windows 10, Microsoft's Whiteboard collaboration app is expanding its horizons to iOS and the web.
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Monero devs disclose major bug in Monero wallets that would have let attackers maliciously “burn” XMR cryptocurrency; private fix was first pushed to exchanges — Monero developers have disclosed a major bug that could really have been nasty. Until now, attackers … | Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast: |
Former NSA employee Nghia Hoang Pho sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for taking home classified files that were then allegedly stolen by Russian hackers — A mysterious hacker clan. A controversial Russian cybersecurity specialist. A top-secret developer with sticky fingers.
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: |
Safari's Siri Suggested Websites feature found promoting conspiracy sites and misinformation; Apple says it removes any inappropriate suggestions when notified — Apple's Safari, one of the internet's most popular web browsers, has been surfacing debunked conspiracies, shock videos … | Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Google is reversing part of its ban on cryptocurrency-related ads, plans to allow ads from regulated crypto exchanges in the US and Japan starting in October — - Google is reversing part of its sweeping ban on cryptocurrency-related advertising and plans to allow regulated crypto exchanges to buy ads in the United States and Japan.| Daniel Roberts / Yahoo! Finance: |
Coinbase announces a new process to more rapidly list digital assets compliant with local law and will now publicly announce new listings only at or near launch — announced on Tuesday a new policy for adding assets, and it constitutes a major change for America's biggest cryptocurrency brokerage.
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Inside the meeting of federal and state law enforcement that signals a willingness to probe tech giants; MS AG: “focus is going to be on antitrust and privacy” — A meeting of the country's top federal and state law enforcement officials on Tuesday could presage a series of sweeping …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says Alexa skill developers can now sell “consumables” such as hints or extra points for games, expanding Alexa's in-app purchase capabilities — Alexa skill developers will now be able to sell “consumables” within their voice apps, known as Alexa skills, Amazon announced this morning.| Noah Buhayar / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's Alexa fund is investing in a $6.7M round for Plant Prefab, a maker of prefabricated homes that wants to let buyers customize houses with voice devices — - Technology giant makes its first investment in a homebuilder — Plant Prefab to let buyers customize homes with voice devices| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Cody Wilson quits as director of Defense Distributed, which he founded to distribute blueprints of guns that can be 3D printed, following sexual assault charges — Defense Distributed, the Texas company founded to distribute blueprints of guns that can be made by a 3-D printer … | Reuters: |
Indian version of Tinder is trialing a new feature called “My Move”, which, like Bumble, gives women control over starting a conversation — (Reuters) - The Indian edition of dating app Tinder is trialing a new feature which gives women an additional level of scrutiny and security …
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