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YouTube showed a link and description of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as part of its fact checking, underneath live streams of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire — A fire has broken out at the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral today, and as you'd expect, many news networks are offering live coverage of the breaking situation.
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| Wired: |
Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over the last 15 months as the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolded — Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook.| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Hulu has repurchased AT&T's 9.5% stake in the business for $1.43B, giving Hulu a valuation of $15B; Disney said in November that Hulu was worth $9.26B — - Hulu bought back AT&T's 9.5 percent stake in the entity for $1.43 billion, valuing the streaming company at $15 billion.
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Google outlines new Android developer relations policies, says it will take more time to review apps by developers that don't yet have a track record — Thank you for all the feedback about updates we've been making to Android APIs and Play policies. We've heard your requests for improvement as well as some frustration.| Dave Gershgorn / Quartz: |
Satya Nadella says that Microsoft is making changes to how HR investigates incidents, creates an Employee Advocacy Team to help staff through complaint process — Microsoft employees have been telling executives in recent weeks how workplace harassment and discrimination has pervaded unchecked throughout …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook will discontinue P2P payments in Messenger in the UK and France on June 15; the service will remain active in the US — Facebook is pulling away from its ambitions to provide peer-to-peer money transfers via Messenger in Europe. Today, the company announced that it would be discontinuing … | Megha Mandavia / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Indian government has asked Apple and Google to take down TikTok from their app stores, following a Madras High Court order to ban the app — MeitY's order will stop further downloads, but people who already the app will be able to still use it. — BENGALURU: Google and Apple …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Canalys analysts forecast that the installed base of smart speakers will grow 82.4% YoY from 114M units in 2018 to 207.9M in 2019 — Smart speakers' global installed base is on track to top 200 million by the end of this year, according to a report out today from analysts at Canalys.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
Source: Twitter left up tweets threatening Rep. Ilhan Omar's life, which would typically be removed once reported, so law enforcement could investigate them — Twitter left up tweets threatening Rep. Ilhan Omar's life over the weekend so law enforcement could investigate them, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Tweets: @kantrowitz, @kantrowitz, @dcbigjohn, @matt_kiser, and @carnage4life
| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Despite publicly pausing verification, Twitter has verified 10,000+ accounts in recent months but withheld the privilege from anyone without backchannel access — Jack Dorsey's mother and father, the '80s band Whitesnake, a “war room” associated with Donald Trump's reelection campaign …
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| Bloomberg: |
Foxconn will mass produce iPhones in India this year, including newer models, according to Foxconn's chairman Terry Gou, who will step away from day-to-day role — - Apple's main production partner is prepping an output shift — Foxconn's Terry Gou says he'll step back from the day-to-day
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Leapwork, which develops a process automation platform that can be used by non-technical staff, raises $10M Series A led by DN Capital and e.ventures — Most work involving computers is highly repetitive, which is why companies regularly have developers write code to automate repetitive tasks.
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Some companies attacked in 2017's NotPetya ransomware plague have been denied insurance coverage over “war exclusion” clauses — LONDON — Within days of a cyberattack, warehouses of the snack foods company Mondelez International filled with a backlog of Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers.
Tweets: @nicoleperlroth, @nytimesbusiness, @jckichen, @nytimesbusiness, and @puiwingtam
| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
6sense, which uses big data to predict in real time when people are looking to buy products, raises $27M led by Industry Ventures, bringing total raised to $63M — 6sense, a San Francisco-based startup that uses big data to predict in real time when people are looking to buy products …
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Facebook rolls out dark mode for Messenger globally, after previously hiding it behind an Easter egg that required users to send a moon emoji to get the feature — It's official now — Facebook Messenger's dark mode is rolling out to globally today, as announced on Facebook's product blog.| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Starz apologizes for “inadvertently” issuing DMCA takedown notices for tweets to stories merely reporting about TV show leak, says it suffered a security breach — Facing a backlash over overzealous copyright enforcement, Starz issued an apology for inadvertently taking down tweets to articles about TV show piracy Monday.
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