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Facebook says it will ban white nationalist and white separatist content, pointing users to nonprofits, after initially only banning white supremacist content — After a civil rights backlash, Facebook will now treat white nationalism and separatism the same as white supremacy …
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Apple says it is “sorry” that a “small number of users” are still experiencing issues with third-generation butterfly keyboards in newer MacBooks — Nop, I havn'tt fogottttn how tto witt. No did my ditto go on vacattion. — You s, tto sha tth pain of using …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases watchOS 5.2 with support for the second-generation AirPods, extends ECG functionality to Hong Kong, the UK, and 18 other countries in Europe — Apple today released watchOS 5.2, the fifth update to the watchOS operating system that runs on modern Apple Watch models. watchOS 5.2 comes …
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Microsoft granted US court order to take control of 99 websites the company says are linked to Iranian hacking group Phosphorus and host them on its own servers — Microsoft has won a restraining order in a U.S. court in order to take control of domains used by an Iranian hacker group.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Lightspeed Venture Partners says VC Chris Schaepe has left the firm after admitting he hired Rick Singer to aid in the college admissions process for his son — Silicon Valley venture capitalist Chris Schaepe is out at Lightspeed Venture Partners, after telling his partners …
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Mercury News, Recode, Business Insider, Fast Company, TechCrunch, and Los Angeles Times. Tweets: @eringriffith
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai met with President Trump to discuss contracts and other ongoing partnerships with the US government — ‘Meeting ended very well,’ Trump tweeted — On Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai met with President Trump to discuss contracts and other ongoing partnerships with the US government.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Spotify says it will begin to personalize some of its human-curated playlists — Spotify is starting to algorithmically personalize some of its curated playlists, making a major change to how people discover music on the streaming service. — Spotify is already known for having …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Three pioneers of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio, win the $1M Turing Award for their work on neural networks — SAN FRANCISCO — In 2004, Geoffrey Hinton doubled down on his pursuit of a technological idea called a neural network. — It was a way for machines …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Hands-on: new AirPods have markedly reduced sound latency, faster device sync, and Hey Siri, a big step up from double-tapping; sound quality is mostly the same — The Apple AirPods have led the truly-wireless earphone industry and maintained their crown ever since their release in late 2016.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
FTC says it has shut down and settled lawsuits with four robocalling companies responsible for “billions” of US calls — Four “robocalling” companies, including an operation that allegedly scammed businesses by pretending to be Google, have shut down and settled lawsuits with the Federal Trade Commission.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Twitch launches Squad Stream, a new feature that will let up to four Twitch streamers go live simultaneously in one window, available for Partners first — A feature perfect for battle royale games — Twitch today announced a new feature designed to help creators boost the profile …
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Twitch Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Engadget, CNET, Tubefilter, GeekWire, Variety, and VG247. Tweets: @twitch
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mailchimp acqui-hired Shopify competitor LemonStand, which said on March 5 it was shutting down, in February; Mailchimp says deal unrelated to Shopify breakup — Here's an interesting twist on the story from last week about the break-up between Shopify and Mailchimp, after the two said they were at odds …
Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Office Depot and tech support vendor Support.com to pay the FTC $35M for allegedly persuading customers to buy computer repair services using fake malware scans — Office Depot and Support.com, Inc, a tech support software provided from California, will pay $35 million and $10 million respectively …
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Federal Trade Commission, Federal Trade Commission, The Register, Jesse Jones Seattle, Financial Times, and MarketWatch. Tweets: @tomgara
| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Sources: Google is secretly assessing work completed on Dragonfly, its censored search engine for China, leaving some staff concerned work on it continues — Google executives are carrying out a secret internal assessment of work on a censored search engine for China, The Intercept has learned.
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Sources: Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun is seeking to sell Grindr, the popular gay dating app, after a US govt panel raised concerns about its ownership — (Reuters) - Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech Co Ltd is seeking to sell Grindr LLC, the popular gay dating app it has owned since 2016 …
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TechCrunch, Wired, Mashable, The Mac Observer, Gizmodo, Engadget, Threatpost, TechCrunch, The Verge, Fortune, TechNode, Reuters, and Seeking Alpha
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Memo: Microsoft's marketing chief Chris Capossela tells employees not to engage in any public-facing April Fool's Day pranks because of “unwanted news cycles” — No Clippy pranks this year — Everyone hates April Fools' Day, and Microsoft is taking a stand against its own corporate pranks.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
The EU's Copyright Directive, with its controversial Article 11 and 13 provisions, has the potential to further fracture the open web based on location — How the Copyright Directive reshapes the open web — It's strange to think about now, but until the 1920s, you didn't generally need a passport to travel.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @senficon, @susanwojcicki, @eff, @alexstamos, @distortedvideos, @motherboard, @josebove, and @matthewlesh
| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
BitTorrent says it is relaunching BitTorrent Live, its defunct Sling TV-like service, as a Snapchat-like social media app for iOS and Android, currently in beta — BitTorrent today announced it is reviving one of its most ambitious services as it looks for ways to expand since being acquired by blockchain startup Tron last year.
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TorrentFreak, PR Newswire, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, The Block, Variety, and The Daily Hodl
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
How a vulnerability disclosure by researchers to Atrient, a vendor of player reward kiosks for casinos, led to competing claims of assault and blackmail — “Ethical hackers” tried to disclose problems to a casino software company—it got messy. — People who find security vulnerabilities commonly run …
Tweets: @vickerysec, @k8em0, and @vickerysec
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researcher warned ASUS of hacking risks two months ago, after finding ASUS staff published passwords to GitHub repos; some passwords were public for over a year — A security researcher warned Asus two months ago that employees were improperly publishing passwords in their GitHub repositories …
Tweets: @zackwhittaker
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