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| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Twitter says it will add labels and warning messages to tweets about COVID-19 with misleading or disputed content and plans to expand the labels to other topics — (Reuters) - Twitter Inc will add labels and warning messages on some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID-19 …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researcher: PCs with Thunderbolt ports have an unpatchable flaw letting hackers with physical access circumvent data safeguards; some new PCs are not affected — The so-called Thunderspy attack takes less than five minutes to pull off with physical access to a device, and affects any PC manufactured before 2019.
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| Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post: |
Facebook, YouTube, and Vimeo say they are removing a viral 26-minute trailer for “Plandemic”, a conspiracy film that features well-known anti-vaxxers — Social media companies including YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook are removing a viral conspiracy theory video because of its claims regarding the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 768G processor with faster graphics performance and global 5G support — Qualcomm isn't wasting any time following up last year's Snapdragon 765G gaming chip with a more powerful model. It's unveiling the Snapdragon 768G, a follow-up that appears to address what many gamers want the most: raw performance.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Premium email app Newton Mail says it has been bought by new owners and will still charge $50 per year — The $50-per-year email service has been bought again by new owners — Newton Mail is returning to life once again under new ownership, marking the unexpected third life for the premium email app.
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Tweets: @newtonmailapp, @cgartenberg, @dcseifert, @martinsfp, @ow, and @joshuatopolsky
| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Apple has gone on a cloud computing hiring spree in recent months, bringing on many well-known engineers, a sign it's committed to improving its infrastructure — It's getting cloudy over at Apple. — Over the past few months, Apple has gone on a cloud computing hiring spree …
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Tweets: @bizcarson, @protocol, and @tomkrazit
| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin's third “halving”, the programmed event where mining rewards drop, has occurred, lowering the payout to 6.25 BTC per block; the last halving was in 2016 — Bitcoin's third halving, the network's quadrennial landmark and the most anticipated event this year in the cryptocurrency industry, has finally happened.
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Decrypt, Forbes, The DeFi Bridge, Cryptonews, and The Block
Tweets: @lopp, @bramcohen, @bramcohen, @bramcohen, @bramcohen, and @mdudas
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify begins rolling out a new feature called Group Session, which lets multiple Premium users control a listening session — Spotify is today introducing a new feature, Group Session, that will allow two or more of its Premium users in the same space to share control over they music being played.
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The Verge, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, TechHive, CNET, Gizmodo, Engadget, Neowin, Thurrott, Android Central, Droid Life, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @wongmjane, @irvinebroque, @paulgelb, @jeremarketer, @drakerehfeld, @markcwebster, @ldrogen, @b_fung, @ericajoy, and @caseynewton
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Sources: Dave McClure is raising $10M to buy out some LPs of 500 Startups' first fund using his Practical Venture Capital firm, which is raising a $100M fund — Venture capitalist Dave McClure is raising $10 million for a special purpose vehicle to buy out some limited partners in the first fund …
Tweets: @axios
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft and Intel have developed an approach to detect malware by first converting its binary form into a grayscale image then applying deep learning methods — Microsoft and Intel Labs work on STAMINA, a new deep learning approach for detecting and classifying malware.
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TechSpot, OnMSFT.com, Engadget, WinBuzzer, and SecurityWeek
| Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
Jeffrey Katzenberg blames COVID-19 for Quibi's paltry downloads as execs lower projections from the 7M users and $250M revenue they estimated for its first year — Downloads of the $1.8 billion short-form streaming app, meant for phones, are paltry. “I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus,” Mr. Katzenberg said.| Steve Neavling / News & Views, Detroit Metro Times: |
Michigan's governor implores Facebook to better enforce its rules after threats of violence against her surface in private groups, one of which FB has removed — Dozens of angry Michiganders, fueled by conspiracy theories and disinformation about the coronavirus, are promoting violence … | Sam Goree / The Conversation: |
Study of websites from the top 1,000 US businesses shows colors, layouts, and AI-generated attributes have became more similar between 2010 and 2016 — Over the past few years, articles and blog posts have started to ask some version of the same question: “Why are all websites starting to look the same?”
Tweets: @campuscodi
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Database developer MemSQL raises a $50M debt facility, bringing its total raised to $158M — Database tech developer MemSQL today announced it signed a debt facility that provides up to $50 million of new capital. Co-CEO Raj Verma says it will chiefly be used to deliver new and existing products …
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