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Sources: YouTube execs ignored internal warnings, concerns about the spread of toxic videos, and proposals to change recommendations, in favor of engagement — A year ago, Susan Wojcicki was on stage to defend YouTube. Her company, hammered for months for fueling falsehoods online …
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| Emily Birnbaum / The Hill: |
Google will require contracting firms to give US workers health care benefits, parental leave, $15/hr min. wage, more, by 2022, following activism from Googlers — Google said on Tuesday it will require its contracted and temporary workforce to receive full benefits, including comprehensive health care …
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| Ted Johnson / Variety: |
DOJ warns the group behind the Oscars that potential rule changes limiting the eligibility of Netflix and other streaming services could raise antitrust issues — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that its potential rule changes limiting …
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| Edmund Lee / New York Times: |
Sources: more than 200,000 people subscribed to Apple News+ in its first 48 hours, more than Texture had at its peak — Executives have been burned by their previous dealings with big tech companies. But Apple's promise of a billion devices worldwide was too good to pass up. Even for Rupert Murdoch.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google has officially started the process of shutting down and deleting all consumer accounts on its failed social network platform Google+ — The deletion of personal accounts starts today — Google has officially started the process of shutting down and deleting all consumer accounts …
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Ars Technica, 9to5Google, Android Police, Android Authority, Mashable, Appleosophy, XDA Developers, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @ow, @hunterwalk, @dcseifert, @dcseifert, @dbfig, and @marktraphagen
| New York Times: |
Singapore introduces draft bill that requires sites to take down fake news raising concerns among human rights advocates over repression — HONG KONG — Singapore introduced draft legislation on Monday that it said would combat false or misleading information on the internet …
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Tweets: @mikeives, @nytimes, @fightfortheftr, @kenroth, and @nytimestech
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Facebook says it will stop asking for email passwords to verify new accounts; previously, it used them to verify accounts whose email addresses didn't use OAuth — Responding to criticism, Facebook says it will stop asking users for their email passwords as a means of verifying some new accounts.
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Tweets: @noahshachtman, @inafried, and @inafried
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
a16z raises new $2B fund and says the firm's 150 employees are being registered as financial advisers, so they can go deeper on riskier bets, like buying crypto — Emerging from the financial crisis in 2009, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz laid out their campaign to take on Silicon Valley.
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TechCrunch, CoinDesk, CNBC, Silicon Valley Business …, Business Insider, Cointelegraph, and Messari Crypto
Tweets: @bizcarson, @alexrkonrad, @melt_dem, @alexrkonrad, @reformedbroker, @alexrkonrad, @dtunkelang, @dawnc331, @zalzally, @iankar_, @bizcarson, and @bizcarson. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft makes Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac generally available with a new start window, more coding space, better C++ support, and smarter debugging — Microsoft today announced that Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac has hit general availability — you can download it now from visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads.
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
Microsoft closes the Microsoft Store's book category, offering full refunds on ebook purchases and a $25 credit to those who annotated their ebooks — I guess the only surprise here is when this would happen. But Microsoft is indeed shutting down the ebook functionality in its Edge web browser and in the Microsoft Store.| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel announces its second-generation Xeon Scalable processor, Cascade Lake, new Optane memory modules, Intel-developed Agilex FPGAs, and more — Today is the big day in 2019 for Intel's Enterprise product announcements, combining some products that should be available from today …
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SiliconANGLE, SiliconANGLE, AnandTech, Tom's Hardware, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Ars Technica, PC Gamer, GeekWire, AnandTech, AnandTech, AnandTech, and Slashdot. Tweets: @chiakokhua
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Security researcher finds massive spam operation in an unsecured server, now inactive, which sent 5M+ emails over 10 days that 160K+ people clicked through — Five million emails in ten days — For ten days in March, millions were caught in the same massive spam campaign.
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Security Discovery. Tweets: @haveibeenpwned, @zackwhittaker, @zackwhittaker, @gossithedog, @j0hnnyxm4s, and @mayhemdayone
| Matthew Boyle / Bloomberg: |
Walmart will let customers order groceries by voice through Google Assistant beginning this month, expanding the service to other platforms in the coming months — - Prior purchase data will help identify preferred brands, size — Retailer to expand service to more platforms in coming months| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat is testing Status, a Bitmoji on the Snap Map depicting what a user is doing, and Passport, a private compilation of Statuses, in Australia — Today's teens missed the Foursquare era, so Snapchat is giving them another shot with a new feature to aid in-person meetups.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Source: Arizona Beverages, one of the largest drink suppliers in the US, is reeling after a ransomware attack; FBI warned them beforehand of a malware infection — Arizona Beverages, one of the largest beverage suppliers in the U.S., is recovering after a massive ransomware attack last month, TechCrunch has learned.| Rani Molla / Recode: |
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