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Facebook takes down 471 Facebook pages and accounts, as well as 41 Instagram accounts, for coordinated inauthentic behavior originating in Russia — Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.
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Tim Cook calls on Congress to pass privacy legislation and on the FTC to create a “data-broker clearinghouse”, enabling users to track and control their data — We all deserve control over our digital lives. That's why we must rein in the data brokers
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Google to buy Fossil's smartwatch IP, which Fossil has developed following its Misfit acquisition in 2015, for $40M — New smartwatch innovation is promised from the big deal — The Fossil Group and Google have exclusively revealed to Wareable that Google will pay Fossil $40 million …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Facebook says it will ask its employees to take down their reviews of Portal devices on Amazon after three employees were caught leaving 5-star reviews — Whoops — Facebook's Portal smart displays have had an uphill battle, trying to convince people to willingly give …
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April Underwood, promoted to the role of chief product officer at Slack 10 months ago, is leaving the company to focus on investing — Slack is losing its chief product officer April Underwood ahead of a direct listing expected in 2019. — Underwood joined Slack, the provider … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Mastercard says its updated policy to end automatic billing after free trials is only for physical products not digital services — A misleading blog post is currently being updated — Ever sign up for a free trial, only to get slapped with a monthly fee when you forget to cancel in time?
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“Collection #1” database, which claims to contain records of ~773M unique email addresses and 21M passwords, some of them hashed, shows up on the web — THERE ARE BREACHES, and there are megabreaches, and there's Equifax. But a newly revealed trove of leaked data tops …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Jeff Bezos announces re:MARS, a public extension of the invite-only MARS conference focused on forward-looking tech, taking place in Las Vegas on June 4 to 7 — The event is an extension of Amazon's semi-secret MARS conference, but will include plenty of self-promotion
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says a bug led to the “Protect your Tweets” setting being disabled for some Android users for almost five years, making their tweets public — Twitter accidentally revealed some users' “protected” (aka, private) tweets, the company disclosed this afternoon.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
In an internal post, Sophie Alpert, a Facebook manager who oversaw React, says she quit after being harassed for criticizing Facebook's lack of diversity — - A Facebook engineering manager who ran an open-source project left earlier this month after being harassed by her colleagues.
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Square launches Square Card, a debit card for small businesses that gives them immediate access to money from sales made on their Square payments system — - The fintech company is launching a debit card for small businesses that gives them immediate access to sales made on the Square payments system.
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Houseparty says the popular mobile game Heads Up will now be available inside its app with “packs” of words costing $0.99 or more — Building an ad-free social network through shared experiences — Houseparty, the group video chat that has carved out a niche among a segment …
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Facebook hires former Google AR/VR engineering lead Ryan Cairns to head Portal, as current Portal head Rafa Camargo shifts to leading hardware for AR/VR — Facebook is bringing on the engineering lead for Google's entire AR/VR team to tackle Portal hardware.| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Snap CFO Tim Stone resigned after a dispute with management over pay, going around CEO Evan Spiegel to ask Snap's board for a significant raise — - Stone went around Spiegel to seek pay bump, people say — Executive also sought promotion to Khan's former strategy job
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Amazon Web Services announces AWS Backup, a fully-managed, centralized service for customers to back up their data across AWS services and on-premises — Centralized backup service makes it easier and more cost-effective for customers to automate backups of their data and meet business and regulatory requirements
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Microsoft pledges $500M to tackle housing crisis in Seattle: $475M for loans to housing developers over three years and $25M for resident services — The pledge is the largest in the company's 44-year history, and comes as Microsoft and other tech giants that have driven …
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