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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
WhatsApp now limits forwarding of viral messages, forwarded five or more times, to one group at a time, to fight the spread of misinformation — Restrictions on frequently forwarded messages intended to disrupt false Covid-19 claims — WhatsApp is to impose a strict new limit …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook's experimental product unit debuts Tuned, an iOS app creating a “private space” for couples, letting them keep a photo diary, exchange notes, and more — Keep a photo diary and check in on each other's moods — First, Facebook launched a dating feature, and now …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 75 comes with a revamped address bar designed to make searches faster and a few performance tweaks — Mozilla today launched Firefox 75 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Firefox 75 includes a revamped address bar with significant search improvements, a few performance tweaks, and a handful of developer features.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: Quibi had more than 300,000 downloads on its launch day; heavily promoted in Apple's App Store, it reached #3 but just #29 on Google Play — Quibi, the oddly-named mobile streaming service founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, was downloaded over 300,000 times on launch day …
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Sensor Tower Blog, TechSpot, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Bloomberg, Engadget, and Yahoo Finance
Tweets: @mat, @eric_seufert, and @ben_katz
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Microsoft buys corp.com, a domain that receives sensitive info from misconfigured Windows PCs, for an undisclosed sum to keep it out of the hands of bad actors — In February, KrebsOnSecurity told the story of a private citizen auctioning off the dangerous domain corp.com for the starting price of $1.7 million.
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ZDNet, BleepingComputer, Windows Central, Thurrott, GeekWire, Yahoo Finance, MSPoweruser, and WinBuzzer
Tweets: @briankrebs and @seldo
| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
Book excerpt: Apple's Information Systems & Technology group, which makes internal tools, operates in tumult, hampering its output and alienating contractors — Life in Apple's Information Systems & Technology division reminds some of a sweatshop. An exclusive excerpt from Always Day One …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iMore, Cult of Mac, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @iansherr, @buzzfeednews, @mhbergen, and @pranavdixit
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Book excerpt from Sarah Frier's No Filter covers how Mark Zuckerberg's jealousy held back Instagram and drove off founders, who gradually lost independence — Over the past decade, Instagram has become an engine of commerce and cultural influence with few peers—aside from its parent company …
Tweets: @turnernovak, @silviakillings, @markets, @tsgiles, @bradstone, @karissabe, @kylerhasson, @sarahfrier, @jason_kint, and @sarahfrier
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft expands xCloud beta registration to 11 European countries, rolling out the preview gradually to avoid overloading the internet — Microsoft is rolling out the preview gradually due to coronavirus internet impact concerns — Microsoft is starting to open up its xCloud game streaming beta to countries across Europe.| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
WeWork sues SoftBank over alleged breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty, a few days after SoftBank said it would not consummate its $3B tender offer — Just days after SoftBank announced that it would not consummate its $3 billion tender offer for WeWork shares that would have bought … | The Guardian: |
Facebook says it will start actively removing false claims that link Covid-19 to 5G, which have started entering the mainstream — Perfect storm of conditions helped nonsense theories about 5G and coronavirus to take hold — A year ago, hoax theories about the dangers of 5G had barely pierced …
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The Independent, BBC, Windows Central, TechSpot, and Tech.co
Tweets: @chastaylor, @ramseycampbell1, and @shortbloke
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Interview with Masayoshi Son on WeWork and the role of the Vision Fund within SoftBank; he expects 15 companies in the Vision Fund portfolio to go bankrupt — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Between the WeWork debacle and the coronavirus, the markets …
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ZDNet and Business Insider
Tweets: @alexrkonrad, @arjunkharpal, @jasonlk, @mattysino, @forbes, and @forbes. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Italian email service Email.it confirms breach; hackers claim they have data of 600K+ users, including plaintext passwords, and are selling it on the dark web — Italian email provider Email.it confirms security breach. — The data of more than 600,000 Email.it users is currently being sold …
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HackRead, WeLiveSecurity, and TechRadar.com
| Stephanie Nebehay / Reuters: |
UN says China was the biggest source of applications for international patents last year, with Huawei its biggest filer, pushing US out of long-held top spot — GENEVA (Reuters) - China was the biggest source of applications for international patents in the world last year … | Feargus O'Sullivan / CityLab: |
A look at Airbnb's challenges amid the pandemic crisis, as global bookings fall and prospects for the travel accommodation industry turn murky — The short-term rental market is reeling from the coronavirus-driven tourism collapse. Can the industry's dominant player stage a comeback after lockdowns lift?
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Airbnb Newsroom, New York Times, Observer, Financial Times, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, Crunchbase News, and Business Insider
Tweets: @ljungman, @trengriffin, @hkanji, @ericacbarnett, @strongtowns, @neil_lovitt, @traveltf, @redlightvoices, @citylab, and @stevekovach
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Facebook Gaming launches Tournaments for esports amateurs early due to the pandemic, letting anyone organize or join one — Facebook Gaming is launching tournaments for esports amateurs today in early access across the globe. In the era of social distancing, Facebook believes that game can bring us together.| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
Samsung forecasts Q1 2020 operating profit of $5.2B, up 2.7% YoY, beating analyst estimates, and consolidated sales of ~$44B; stock is up 3%+ — - Samsung said it expects 6.4 trillion Korean won ($5.23 billion) in first-quarter operating profit for 2020, up 2.7% from the 6.23 trillion won it posted for the same period a year earlier.
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Tweets: @kifleswing and @hedgehogoptions
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Source: the 2020 iPad Pros do not have a U1 Ultra Wideband chip — Joe Rossignol, MacRumors, “2020 iPad Pro May Not Have a U1 Ultra Wideband Chip After All”: … So the tech specs don't mention it, Apple never mentioned it, and the U1-enabled features in iPhone 11 models aren't there.
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Mobile website builder Universe raises $10M Series A from GV as it moves into commerce and looks to compete with Shopify — A startup that has framed itself as an Instagram for websites is now squaring up against Shopify as it nabs new funding from Google's venture capital arm.
Tweets: @bentossell, @gvteam, @eniacvc, and @mgsiegler
| New York Times: |
Some teachers in the US say under 50% of their pupils participate in online learning; absence rate seems higher in low-income households, marking digital divide — Teachers at some schools across the country report that less than half of their students are participating in online learning.
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Computerworld, Government Technology News, and Nieman Lab
Tweets: @whipclyburn, @naithanjones, @reprokhanna, @grace4ny, @gpollowitz, @williegarson, @jeromehuntphd, @frankpallone, and @nytimes
| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Trump signs an executive order to formalize a committee for evaluating national security concerns that could stem from foreign ownership of US telecom assets — It has the simplest name, but the sort of shadowy overtones that national security writers lust after.
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The White House, Telecoms.com, and Nextgov
| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Cato Networks, which offers a cloud-based security service that protects remote workforces, raises $77M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners — Cato Networks has raised $77 million in venture capital as the company expands the reach of its cloud-based security service.
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FinSMEs, Channel Partners, and SiliconANGLE
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Shippo, a shipping software and services startup, raises $30M Series C led by D1 Capital Partners, bringing its total raised to ~$60M — Early this afternoon Shippo, a shipping software and services company, announced that it has closed a $30 million Series C. The funding round roughly doubles …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Payments processor used by governments in AR and OK to collect court fines and utility payments left years of transactions exposed, now shared on a hacker forum — A payments processor used by local governments to collect court fines and utility bill payments from residents across Arkansas …
Tweets: @zackwhittaker and @zackwhittaker
| ProPublica: |
Amazon's self-publishing arm gives white supremacists and neo-Nazis, often banned from other platforms, unprecedented access to a mainstream audience — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.
Tweets: @byianjames, @mimapamundi, and @propublica
| Taylor Lyles / The Verge: |
Google updates Pixel 4 to require open eyes to use the phone's face unlock feature by default, with the option to disable it — Apple's had a similar feature since 2017 — Google released an update for the Pixel 4 today requiring users to have their eyes open when using face unlock to open the phone.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
SoFi says it's acquiring Galileo, a Utah-based financial services API and payments platform, in $1.2B cash and stock deal; sources say Accel's return is 4x — Venture firm Accel has a pattern of investing in profitable, previously bootstrapped businesses. Last November, it led 1Password's … Sponsor Posts
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