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| Rashaan Ayesh / Axios: |
Trump signs an EO designed to limit Section 230 protections by directing the Commerce Department to press the FCC to roll back portions of Section 230 — President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday designed to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Trump's EO has limited power, as content created by a platform, like Twitter's labels, is not covered by Section 230 and the FCC lacks authority to enforce EO — We've officially reached pure silly season when it comes to internet regulations. For the past two years now, every so often …
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| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Trump EO misreads Section 230 by conflating two independent subsections and asking the FCC to link the two provisions together, despite previous rulings — This post based its initial analysis on a draft Executive Order. It has been updated to reflect the final order, available here.
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| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
Source: Trump's executive order was rushed through using an old draft that was circulated last year, overriding concerns from agencies and Section 230 reformers — After Twitter slapped a fact-check label on two of President Trump's tweets about mail-in ballots late Tuesday, the president ordered his staff to respond.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Twitter adds a rule violation notice to Trump's tweet threatening Minneapolis protestors, saying it glorifies violence; users must click to see the tweet — Twitter said Friday morning that a tweet from President Trump in which he threatened shooting in response to civil unrest in Minneapolis violated the company's rules.
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| Will Oremus / OneZero: |
Inside Twitter's decision to fact-check Trump's tweets, while expecting that Trump would respond and the decision could spark a reassessment of Section 230 — ‘We knew from a comms perspective that all hell would break loose,’ says Twitter's vice president of global communications
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz is stepping down as CEO, says the company has raised “significant” funding and pivoted to spatial computing for enterprise — Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz confirmed he has raised a new round of funding, and he also said that he will step down as the augmented reality company's top executive.| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google releases Android Studio 4.0, with Motion Editor for making MotionLayout animations and tools to allow previewing apps in 3D and in multiple screen sizes — In a normal year, Google I/O would traditionally mark the release of a new version of Android Studio.| João Carrasqueira / Neowin: |
Twitter now lets users schedule tweets in advance, up to 18 months, and gives users the option to save tweet drafts from its web app — A few weeks ago, it was reported that Twitter was testing the ability to let users schedule tweets to be published at a specific time.
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| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
Microsoft says the Xbox Series X will support “thousands” of Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One games at launch, doubling the fps in some cases — Thousands of games will be supported on the next-gen Xbox — Microsoft's next-generation Xbox will launch with support for “thousand of games” …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
ACLU sues Clearview AI in Illinois alleging the facial recognition startup violated residents' privacy by scraping, selling their online photos without consent — Alleging Clearview violated a well-known Illinois biometric privacy law — The American Civil Liberties Union … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
NSA warns Russia-linked Sandworm hacking group has been actively exploiting a now-patched flaw in Exim mail transfer agent since Aug., exposing ~2.5M servers — The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) says that Russian military threat actors known as Sandworm Team have been exploiting …
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| The Markup: |
Investigation finds many tenant screening services, relying on algorithms to find infractions and widely used by landlords, often produce flawed reports — Computer algorithms that scan everything from terror watch lists to eviction records spit out flawed tenant screening reports.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Facebook says it will now verify identities of users behind profiles that have a “pattern of inauthentic behavior” and whose posts “rapidly go viral” in the US — Facebook has been verifying the identities of Page managers for a while in its quest to stamp out misinformation …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube launches Video Chapters, letting creators add timestamps to their videos, for all users across iOS, Android, and desktop — If you've ever found yourself scrubbing your way through a long YouTube video to get to the “good” part, you'll appreciate the new feature YouTube is launching today: Video Chapters.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Samsung is partnering with Winklevoss' crypto exchange Gemini to allow users to more easily trade and store digital assets on mobile phones — - Gemini's app will integrate with Samsung's blockchain wallet — Partnership seen making crypto use easier on Samsung phones| CNBC: |
Cisco to acquire ThousandEyes, which provides SaaS network performance monitoring, for a price that sources say is ~$1B — - ThousandEyes says its customers include Microsoft, Slack, PayPal and Lyft. — Cisco has been snapping up cloud software companies to make up for slowing growth in its core networking business.
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