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The US Department of Housing and Urban Development files charges against Facebook, says company's ad targeting tools enable violations of Fair Housing Act — 'Facebook is discriminating against people based upon who they are and where they live,' says HUD secretary| Motherboard: |
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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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
UK's review of Huawei's telecommunications equipment finds “significant” security problems but does not call for an outright ban — LONDON — A British review of Huawei found “significant” security problems with the Chinese company's telecommunications equipment …
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| 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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Kong, the open source API management platform company previously known as Mashape, raises $43M Series C led by Index Ventures — Kong, the open core API management and lifecycle management company previously known as Mashape, today announced that it has raised a $43 million Series C round led by Index Ventures.
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| M.G. Siegler / 500ish Words: |
Apple's “It's show time” event was weird, with very little tech, a focus on content and star power, and Oprah basically pitching others to sign up with Apple — Some thoughts on Apple's truly bizarre “It's Showtime” event — Note: this preamble was adapted from my newsletter published yesterday.
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
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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| 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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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Rela, a popular Chinese lesbian dating app, exposed data on 5M users, including dates of birth, height and weight, and sexual preferences, since June 2018 — Rela (.), a popular dating app for gay and queer women, has exposed millions of user profiles and private data because a server wasn't protected with a password.
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The Mac Observer, Gizmodo, and TechNode
| 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.
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| 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
| 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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