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White House won't sign Christchurch Call to Action, an effort by governments and social media companies to fight online extremism, citing free speech concerns — The White House will not sign an international call to combat online extremism brokered between French and New Zealand officials …
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Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Google, and Amazon sign on to the Christchurch Call to Action, commit to a 9-point plan to stop spread of terrorist content online — Today, Facebook's Vice President for Global Affairs and Communications Nick Clegg joined G7 government and industry leaders …
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| Heather Kelly / CNN: |
Facebook will now ban anyone who violates its “most serious policies” from using Facebook Live for a set period of time, starting with their first offense — San Francisco (CNN Business)Two months after the mass shooting at a mosque in New Zealand was live-streamed by the accused gunman …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
White House launches tool to solicit information from people who had social media accounts suspended or banned and who suspect political bias behind the actions — 'If you suspect political bias caused such an action to be taken against you, share your story with President Trump'
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| Washington Post: |
Trump issues order blocking US companies from doing business with information and communications technology companies owned or controlled by a foreign adversary — Amid a deepening trade war with China, President Trump on Wednesday declared a “national emergency” to protect U.S. communications networks … | Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: |
Behind Twitter's plan to fix problems like disinformation, harassment, and outrage through its new prototype app twttr — In March, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone tweeted a screenshot of an iPhone homescreen along with a message: “Notice our new prototype? ...
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Report details Apple's “long and painful divorce” with Intel, says Apple's custom 5G modems may not arrive until 2025 — The Information is out today with a detailed report on the falling out between Intel and Apple over the last few years that led to settling with Qualcomm …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Ajit Pai proposes a new rule that would allow carriers to block robocalls by default and lets customers block calls from numbers not on their contacts list — ‘The American people are fed up with illegal robocalls’ — On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission announced a new measure … | ProPublica: |
Sources: two US data recovery firms touting hi-tech solutions for unlocking data after ransomware attacks instead just paid the ransom and charged victims extra — Firms That Promised High-Tech Ransomware Solutions Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers — As ransomware attacks crippled businesses …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Several security researchers say iOS security controls have made it very hard to determine whether an iPhone has been compromised without jailbreaking it first — A recent vulnerability in WhatsApp shows that there's little defenders can do to detect and analyze iPhone hacks.
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| New York Times: |
Sources describe Uber's IPO process and the setbacks that led Uber's $120B pre-IPO valuation floated by bankers to fall to its current market cap of $69B — Last September, Uber's top executives were pitched by some of Wall Street's biggest banks, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
Tweets: @m_delamerced, @mikeisaac, and @mikeisaac
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says a bug in its Titan Security Keys' Bluetooth pairing protocols is exploitable by hackers in close physical proximity, provides free replacement keys — Google today disclosed a security bug in its Bluetooth Titan Security Key that could allow an attacker in close physical proximity …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Quibi, the upcoming mobile streaming service led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, is planning to raise up to $1B, following a $1B raise in August — Quibi, the mobile video streaming service headed by Hollywood and tech veterans Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
User finds that Google was hiding three Google Pay privacy settings, like sharing creditworthiness, from its default view; Google says it was a bug it is fixing — Update 5/15/19 1:07 PM EST: Google has replied to our questions with the following statement:| Google AI Blog: |
Google details Translatotron, its project to directly translate speech from one language into speech in another without intermediate text — Speech-to-speech translation systems have been developed over the past several decades with the goal of helping people who speak different languages to communicate with each other.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
SanDisk introduces the first 1TB microSD card, for $450 — Have you been salivating at the thought of stuffing a 1TB microSD card into your phone? You can finally act on that impulse. SanDisk has made the record-setting Extreme card available both through its own store and (when it's in stock) …
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Tom's Guide, TechCrunch, The Verge, Android Authority, TechRadar.com, ZDNet, and Digital Trends. Tweets: @tomgrissom
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft releases its SPTAG algorithm, used to answer questions on Bing, as MIT-licensed open source on GitHub — Search engines today are more than just the dumb keyword matchers they used to be. You can ask a question—say, “How tall is the tower in Paris?”—and they'll tell …
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The AI Blog, VentureBeat, The Register, SiliconANGLE, OnMSFT.com, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @maxschleiffer
| Owen Bowcott / The Guardian: |
UK Supreme Court finds in favor of civil rights organizations and rules that GCHQ's powers to hack into internet services should be subject to judicial review — Supreme court says GCHQ's hacking powers should be subject to judicial review — Government security decisions will in future … | Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
In email to staff, Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan says management will not voluntarily recognize its employee union Kickstarter United, wants NLRB election instead — “I know this position is disappointing to some of you who were hoping the company would voice support for this effort," he wrote| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Valve releases Steam Link, its service for streaming desktop games to another device, on iOS and Apple TV, almost a year after its initial App Store rejection — Almost exactly a year after its initial rejection from the App Store, Valve today has officially released Steam Link on the App Store.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance says it is back online and has resumed trading activity, after being hacked for $40M+ in bitcoin — Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has resumed trading activity. Users can now cancel open orders, deposit crypto assets into their Binance account, and of course buy and sell cryptocurrencies.
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Binance, CoinDesk, Coinspeaker, NullTX, Bitcoinist.com, and Cointelegraph. Tweets: @cz_binance
| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Because of US law, Google keeps advertisers from naming sanctioned countries as targets or exclusions in campaigns, leading to ads being served in those places — AS DIRECTOR OF paid search at Greenlane Marketing, a web marketing firm based in Eagleville, Pennsylvania …
Tweets: @issielapowsky and @jason_kint
| Matthew Leising / Bloomberg: |
Chainalysis research estimates that about 376 users, known as “whales”, control a third of all Ether, compared to 448 people who own 20% of all Bitcoin — - New study says so-called whales don't move Ether prices much — Bitcoin price found to be good indicator of where Ether trades
Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Karat, which uses engineers to interview, test, and evaluate other engineers for jobs with clients like Citrix, Roblox, and InVision, raises $28M Series B — A high demand for engineering talent in our digital world has driven companies that need to make these technical hires to cast their nets wider in the search for good people.
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| Thomas Franck / CNBC: |
In an SEC filing, Berkshire Hathaway reveals it owned 483,300 Amazon shares at the end of the quarter ended March 31, currently worth $904M — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway on Wednesday revealed in a government filing the size of its stake in e-commerce giant Amazon.Sponsor Posts
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