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Microsoft debuts WSL 2, featuring “dramatic” performance increases, support for Docker, and shipping with a Linux kernel, to be updated through Windows Update — Microsoft today announced Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2—that's WSL 2. It will feature “dramatic file system …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft announces ElectionGuard, an open source platform for securely handling voting data, available this summer with a pilot during the 2020 elections — When it comes to voting, we've come a long way from dropping pebbles into an amphora, but still not nearly far enough …
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Microsoft on the Issues, Microsoft on the Issues, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, OnMSFT.com, Associated Press, Axios, BetaNews, Firstpost Tech, WinBuzzer, CyberScoop, TechSpot, Dark Reading, Windows Central, Galois, Inc., and ZDNet
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Fluid Framework, a new web-based modular platform for document creation, available to developers later this year — Today marks the start of Build, Microsoft's annual developer conference, and this morning's keynote address was predictably newsy.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Interviews with Microsoft executives shed light on the company's decision to rebuild its Edge browser with Google's Chromium, after Edge's flaws became clear — Microsoft's Edge web browser, released in 2015, hadn't made much progress by the summer of 2017.
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @jordannovet, @yudhishthu, @hkanji, @stroughtonsmith, and @backlon
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Satya Nadella and other Microsoft execs talk about the future of AI, the company's approach to open platforms, and how the era of the “talented jerk” is over — MICROSOFT HASN'T ALWAYS had a reputation for being “open,” but CEO Satya Nadella and the rest of his executive team …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| @twittereng: |
Starting today Twitter lets you add images, GIFs, and videos to quote tweets — Exciting news: Today we are launching the ability to Retweet with GIF, photos, and video! We find solutions to many challenges as we build for a global, vocal audience. Here is a glimpse into our process as we worked on this feature. https://twitter.com/...
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The Verge, Engadget, CNET, Firstpost Tech, Search Engine Journal, TechCrunch, iPhone Hacks, MSPoweruser, Android Authority, Droid Life, KnowTechie, 9to5Mac, and MacStories
Tweets: @twitter, @kantrowitz, @twitterdesign, @mattnavarra, @hilaryphuffman, @pkedrosky, and @reckless
| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Google to update Android Auto in the summer to make it more intuitive with features like a dynamic, persistent bar for navigating apps, and a default dark mode — A bunch of little changes that should make Android Auto easier to use — Android Auto is getting a little refresh …
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The Keyword, Gizmodo, Neowin, TalkAndroid.com, Thurrott, Droid Life, and Android Police
Tweets: @backlon, @derekmross, and @sokane1
| Vice: |
More than 100 Riot Games employees walked out on Monday to protest the company's use of forced arbitration to settle sexual harassment lawsuits — ‘League of Legends’ developers walkout to protest the company's use of forced arbitration to settle sexual harassment lawsuits.
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Riot Games, Kotaku, Los Angeles Times, Dot Esports, Boing Boing, USgamer.net, Android Central, PC Gamer, The Daily Dot, Forbes, IGN, and GameSpot
Tweets: @tha_rami, @jason_koebler, @teamcoworker, @jasonschreier, @jason_koebler, @rowankaiser, @nicalexiac, and @beckhallstedt
| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Alexa keeps recordings of conversations triggered by its wake word but doesn't allow a user to opt out of the collecting of recordings, unlike Google Assistant — When Alexa runs your home, Amazon tracks you in more ways than you might want. — Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recordings?
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Symantec: a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group co-opted and repurposed NSA hacking tools to attack US allies and private companies in Europe and Asia in 2016 — Chinese intelligence agents acquired National Security Agency hacking tools and repurposed them in 2016 to attack American allies …
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Symantec, CyberScoop, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @ericgeller, @malwarejake, @crispinburke, @msuiche, @malwaretechblog, and @cauchon
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
How Epic Games and ILM tried to recreate the Apollo 11 moon landing using HoloLens 2 for a demo that failed to run during Microsoft's Build 2019 keynote — The story of a tech demo 20 years in the making that fell apart in mere minutes. — How Epic & ILM's John Knoll Tried to Recreate …
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PCWorld, The Verge, and GeekWire
Tweets: @tomverhoeff, @jank0, @jank0, @fxshaw, and @matvelloso
| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Electric motorbike startups in India such as Bounce and Vogo are competing with Uber and Ola by serving people who cannot afford current ride-hailing services — BANGALORE, India — In Uber's vision of the future, self-driving cars will whisk us everywhere, eliminating the need for its millions of human drivers.
Tweets: @nytimes, @vindugoel, and @nicolegelinas
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook updates its video guidelines to promote original content, loyal and engaged viewership — Facebook today announced a series of changes to the way it ranks videos on its social network, which determines how widely they're distributed. According to the updated guidelines …
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Facebook, Facebook, SlashGear, Variety, Tubefilter, Marketing Land, and Search Engine Journal
Tweets: @poolhouseagency, @smexaminer, and @warjesseagle
| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Facebook says it has opened a “war room” in Dublin to monitor EU elections, ahead of voting later in May, with about 40 employees — The social network took the wraps off a special operations center in Dublin ahead of this month's European Union voting.
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Facebook, The Guardian, CNET, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @cwarzel, @cwarzel, @digiphile, @davidfickling, @alexstamos, @hutchinson, @edbott, and @ianclucas
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