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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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| 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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The Daily Beast, Business Insider, Inquirer, Gizmodo, The Hacker News, and Telegraph
Tweets: @noahshachtman, @inafried, and @inafried
| 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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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
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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| Ben Makuch / Motherboard: |
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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, BetaNews, 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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Electronic Frontier Foundation, Bloomberg, TIME, The Guardian, CNN, CNBC, Human Rights Watch, Engadget, The Guardian, Financial Times, Protego Press, Techonomy, Forbes, The Register, The Margins, Phys.org, Committee to Protect …, MediaNama, ZDNet, and Tech.co
Tweets: @nytimes, @mikeives, @fightfortheftr, @nytimestech, and @kenroth
| 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.| 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.
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Popular Mechanics, ZDNet, Inquirer, Boing Boing, BetaNews, The Verge, Softpedia News, Engadget, Good e-Reader, TechSpot, gHacks Technology News, SlashGear, PCWorld, OnMSFT.com, The Digital Reader, WinBuzzer, Neowin, and Windows Central
Tweets: @nixxin, @arablit, @lorenbordeaux, @joshuasfouts, @100millionbooks, @stroughtonsmith, @maryjofoley, and @stroughtonsmith
| 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, Coinspeaker, PYMNTS.com, Silicon Valley Business …, Cointelegraph, Business Insider, and Messari Crypto
Tweets: @matigreenspan, @reformedbroker, @melt_dem, @dawnc331, @iankar_, @bizcarson, @dtunkelang, @zalzally, @bizcarson, @bizcarson, @alexrkonrad, @alexrkonrad, and @alexrkonrad. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| 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
| 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, Ars Technica, TechSpot, PC Gamer, GeekWire, AnandTech, AnandTech, AnandTech, and Slashdot. Tweets: @chiakokhua
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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