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| Jeff Bezos: |
Jeff Bezos publishes letters from AMI that he says show threats to publish his nude photos unless he stops probing AMI's earlier reporting and motivations — Something unusual happened to me yesterday. Actually, for me it wasn't just unusual—it was a first. I was made an offer I couldn't refuse.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google warns about two iOS zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers have been actively exploiting; the vulnerabilities have been fixed in iOS 12.1.4 update — iOS users are advised to update to iOS 12.1.4; release which also fixes infamous FaceTime bug. — A Google top security engineer …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 12.1.4 with a fix for the Group FaceTime bug, says a security audit of FaceTime revealed a bug in Live Photos on FaceTime, which it has fixed — Apple has turned its Group FaceTime feature back on following the release of iOS 12.1.4 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it has notified app developers to remove code that lets them record how a user interacts with their apps without explicit user consent — Apple is telling app developers to remove code that allows them to effectively record how a user interacts with their iPhone apps …
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Tweets: @steved3, @zackwhittaker, and @panzer
| BBC: |
Germany orders Facebook to stop combining data from WhatsApp, Instagram, and third-party sites with data in a user's main Facebook account without their consent — Germany's competition authority has told Facebook it can only continue gathering so much data about users from beyond its app and website if it gets individuals' consent.
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| Jason Hiner / CNET: |
Google Fiber to shut down in Louisville on April 15 after an experimental “nanotrenching” technique to deploy fiber in trenches only two inches deep, failed — Google's trick to more rapidly and cheaply deploy its super-speedy Google Fiber project has hit a wall …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils Adiantum, a new form of encryption for data on lower-end smartphones and other devices with insufficient processing power — Google officially unveiled a new form of encryption today, designed to secure data stored on lower-end smartphones and other devices with insufficient processing power.
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Google Online Security Blog, Wired, The Keyword, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Neowin, The Nokia Blog, ZDNet, Droid Life, PhoneArena, BleepingComputer, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @wired
| Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: |
Investigation finds that Amazon at times uses tips earned by contracted drivers of its Flex program to cover their promised base pay — Amazon at times dips into the tips earned by contracted delivery drivers to cover their promised pay, a Times review of emails and receipts reveals.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter reports Q4 revenue of $909M, up 24% YoY, ad revenue of $791M, up 23% YoY, net income of $244M, and MAUs of 321M, down by 9M YoY; stock closes down 9%+ — After strong results from Facebook and Snap this quarter, all eyes were on Twitter to see if the other big …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon joins Microsoft in expressing support for regulating facial recognition tech, offers guidelines for the “responsible use” of the technology — Amazon supports the creation of a “legislative framework” covering facial recognition technology.
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Amazon Web Services, The Seattle Times, CNN, ZDNet, Vox, Wired, The Hill, and GeekWire. Tweets: @jlkoepke
| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
News aggregator Nuzzel sold to Scroll, which is building a news subscription service; Nuzzel founder Jonathan Abrams and COO Kent Lindstrom to leave the company — News aggregator Nuzzel has found a new home and leadership and is undergoing some product changes.
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Scroll Blog, TechCrunch, Nieman Lab, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @arctictony, @alexeheath, @annehelen, and @mattmcgee
| Dana Hull / Bloomberg: |
Self-driving car startup Aurora raises $530M, led by Sequoia, with Amazon, T. Rowe Price, and others participating, valuing the company at more than $2.5B — The self-driving startup Aurora Innovation Inc. has raised $530 million from a group of investors led by Sequoia Capital …
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TechCrunch, Aurora Blog, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, CNBC, Telegraph, PYMNTS.com, CNET, USA Today, Index Ventures, Business Insider, and Mashable
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook says it has restructured its “youth team” of 100+, will increase its investment in Messenger Kids, and that the meme app LOL will be shuttered — Facebook is restructuring its “youth team,” shutting down its new teen meme app LOL, and doubling down on Messenger Kids.| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Sources: Apple has moved its modem engineering unit to its in-house hardware technology group led by Johny Srouji, Apple's SVP of hardware technologies — Apple Inc has moved its modem chip engineering effort into its in-house hardware technology group from its supply chain unit …
| Google Open Source Blog: |
Google says it is open sourcing ClusterFuzz, a tool it developed to automate bug detection in software via fuzzing, which has found 16K+ bugs in Chrome — Fuzzing is an automated method for detecting bugs in software that works by feeding unexpected inputs to a target program.
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TechCrunch and VentureBeat
| Olivia Zaleski / Bloomberg: |
Sources: on-demand delivery startup Postmates has confidentially filed for an IPO and could be valued at more than $1.85B — - Company could be valued at more than $1.85 billion in IPO — Postmates working with JPMorgan and Bank of America on listing
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Reuters, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Postmates, and Business Insider
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
T-Mobile President says the company won't develop its own streaming TV bundle, will instead help with discovery and billing for existing subscriptions — T-Mobile doesn't want to compete with other carriers or teleco's by developing its own “skinny bundle” of streaming TV channels …
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YouTube, The Streamable, AppleInsider, TmoNews, Android Police, 9to5Mac, and AFTVnews
| Julia Boorstin / CNBC: |
Tim Armstrong is launching a new firm, the dtx company, to invest in and showcase direct-to-consumer startups via large scale real world pop-up events around US — - It's called “the dtx company” and will invest in direct-to-consumer product companies and launch “experiences” in parts of the U.S. that are underserved.
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Tweets: @backlon, @pkafka, @yoda, and @davegershgorn
| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Facebook says it has 7M+ advertisers and 90M+ small businesses using its products, will soon allow businesses to respond to Instagram messages from Facebook — Facebook took another step today towards unifying its family of apps by announcing that businesses will now be able to receive … | Nicholas Megaw / Financial Times: |
Sources: SoftBank's Vision Fund to invest $440M in UK online banking startup OakNorth, valuing it at ~$2.8B — SoftBank's Vision Fund is set to invest $440m in British banking start-up OakNorth, according to two people close to the deal, in what will be the largest ever European fintech fundraising.
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NASDAQ.com, The Times & The Sunday Times, City A.M., and Reuters
Tweets: @ft and @arashmassoudi
| Kurt Badenhausen / Forbes: |
Foot Locker has invested $100M in GOAT Group, which operates online sneaker marketplace GOAT; sources say the investment brings GOAT Group's valuation to $550M+ — The first Foot Locker store opened in 1974 in City of Industry, California. The company's mission over the past four-plus decades …
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TechCrunch, Foot Locker, Inc., and Investor's Business Daily
| April Glaser / Slate: |
Sources: over the past week, Square, Chase, PayPal have pulled their services from 1776.shop, an online store affiliated with far-right organization Proud Boys — There's an e-commerce site associated with the Proud Boys. Square, Chase, and PayPal just pulled their services.
Tweets: @dangillmor, @aprilaser, and @lizthegrey
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Jack'd, a gay dating app with 1M+ downloads from the Play store, stored users' images, posted and marked as private in chat sessions, on an unsecured AWS server — Online-Buddies was exposing its Jack'd users' private images and location; disclosing posed a risk.| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Spotify's new Terms of Service, which go into effect on March 1, will give Spotify the authority to immediately terminate accounts that use ad blockers — Cracking down on ad blockers — Spotify is now explicitly banning ad blockers, as stated in an updated Terms of Service policy sent out today.
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