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A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking — My focus for the last couple of years has been understanding and addressing the biggest challenges facing Facebook. This means taking positions on important issues concerning the future of the internet. In this note, I'll outline our vision …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is working on rebuilding its messaging services to be more interoperable, ephemeral, privacy-focused, with end-to-end encryption — A major new blog post about Facebook's future — Facebook will increasingly shift its focus away from public posts to encrypted …
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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
If Facebook pivots to privacy, News Feed becomes a legacy product, its new business model will likely be commerce, and misinformation will be harder to track — By 2015, Mark Zuckerberg had grown uncomfortable with his messaging history. His old instant messages had gotten him into trouble in the past …
| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
A senior Facebook source says the company has no plans to enter China, after Zuckerberg says Facebook won't build data centers in countries that violate privacy — Facebook does not see any path forward in China, a senior source inside the company told BuzzFeed News on Wednesday …
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| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Mark Zuckerberg on the need for a “privacy-focused platform” focused on messaging to complement “public platforms”, the challenge of monetization, and more — ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, described a sweeping new vision for his platform.
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| Kimberly Adams / Marketplace: |
Edison Research estimates Facebook has 15M fewer US users today compared to 2017, with the biggest drop seen in the 12 to 34 age group — Listen To The Story — Marketplace — All the bad press about Facebook might be catching up to the company. New numbers from Edison Research show …
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| Scott Rosenberg / Axios: |
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| CNN: |
Huawei sues the US government, challenging a law that bans federal agencies from buying the company's products — Shenzhen, China (CNN Business)Embattled Chinese tech giant Huawei is suing the US government in its most aggressive move yet to fight back against accusations that its technology poses a global security threat.
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| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
NSA releases free public version of Ghidra, a set of tools developed internally for software reverse engineering, to excitement among malware researchers — The National Security Agency released a free, public version of Ghidra, a set of tools developed internally for software reverse engineering.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it is making its Windows calculator app open source, available now on GitHub — Windows developers can help build the calculator now — Microsoft is making the source code for its Windows calculator available on GitHub today. The software maker wants to …
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Amazon says it will close all 87 of its US pop-up stores in April; the kiosks, in Whole Foods and other stores, let customers try Amazon products and services — - The company is also planning to open dozens of grocery stores and potentially thousands of Amazon Go stores, according to earlier reports.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Bytedance is planning to launch a Slack-like work collaboration app; Bytedance had a $1.2B loss last year after mixed results of its TikTok expansion — In 2017 ByteDance, owner of such popular apps as newsfeed service Toutiao, made a slim profit.| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Sources: a common practice among bounty hunters and stalkers is to impersonate cops and claim there's a crisis to get real-time cell location data from telcos — In several cases, a stalker impersonated a US Marshal and reported a fake kidnapping in order to get telecom companies to give them real-time cell phone location data.
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Nintendo announces VR kits for its Labo line of Switch DIY cardboard accessories; they cost $40 and $80 and will be available on April 12 — Nintendo is getting into the virtual reality game — Nintendo's getting into virtual reality, but not in the way you might expect.
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| CNBC: |
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase say their joint healthcare company will be called Haven — - The joint health-care venture between Amazon, J.P. Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway finally has a name. And that's Haven. — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google brings its Duplex AI restaurant booking assistant to 43 states for Pixel 3 owners starting today and will soon roll it out to other Android users and iOS — No moment wowed the audience at last year's I/O more than Duplex. The demo of the artificial intelligence restaurant …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google announces TensorFlow Privacy, an open source module for its machine learning framework, which lets developers safeguard data with differential privacy — The company's new TensorFlow Privacy module lets devs safeguard data with differential privacy — Google has announced a new module … | Gregory Barber / Wired: |
| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
Following criticism, Valve says it will not distribute Rape Day, a game set to arrive in April on Steam that would have let players abuse women — Game about raping women in a zombie apocalypse pulled from Steam — Valve says it will not allow Rape Day, a visual novel that would have let players …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Sources describe the gray market for prototype iPhones, oftentimes with security features disabled, that iOS hackers have used to probe internals and find bugs — Very few people have heard of them, but “dev-fused” iPhones sold on the grey market are one of the most important tools for the best iOS hackers in the world.
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