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Twitter will let users record and add up to 140 seconds of audio to tweets, rolling out to iOS users in the coming weeks — Twitter is where you go to talk about what's happening. Over the years, photos, videos, gifs, and extra characters have allowed you to add your own flair and personality to your conversations.
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Zoom backtracks on end-to-end encryption, saying it plans to offer E2EE to all tiers of users who verify phone numbers and will start testing it in July — - Company will require users of free service to verify identity — Video-conferencing app will test strongest encryption in July
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
DOJ proposes Congress adopt new legislation adding conditions to Section 230 protections, opening up Facebook, Google, Twitter, others to additional liability — The Justice Department is urging Congress to limit the legal protections enjoyed by online platforms, seeking to narrow the law …
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
Sen. Josh Hawley announces a bill targeting Section 230, letting consumers sue platforms with 30M+ US MAUs over alleged censorship of political speech and more — Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) Wednesday will introduce legislation that would give consumers grounds to sue companies like Facebook …
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
eBay confirms that ex-CEO Devin Wenig is the person who allegedly ordered six eBay employees to initiate a cyberstalking campaign; Wenig is not being charged — Surveillance. Harassment. A live cockroach delivery. US attorneys have charged six former eBay workers in association with an outrageous cyberstalking campaign.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
No, Google didn't demonetize The Federalist and Zero Hedge, as NBC's misleading story claims, and it is not an example of anti-conservative bias — from the another-day-another-story dept — So, earlier today, NBC reported that Google had “banned” two well known websites from its ad platform, namely The Federalist and Zero Hedge.
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| John Bolton / Wall Street Journal: |
Book excerpt by Trump's former national security adviser: Trump offered in 2019 to reverse Huawei's criminal prosecution if China agreed to a trade deal — The president pleaded with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for domestic political help, subordinated national-security issues …
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| Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: |
Sundar Pichai says Google will increase its proportion of execs from underrepresented groups by 30% by 2025, contribute $175M+ for Black business owners, more — Not new to debates on race, Google seeks to address ‘systemic racism’ in society — Google announced a new hiring goal …
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| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Uber to sell the software that powers its ride-hailing business, starting with public transit agencies; California Marin county is first to buy Uber's software — - Ride-hailing giant partners with California county officials — Program is Uber's first software sale with a third party
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
As the HEY debacle shows, the text of Apple's App Store policies is vague, and their arbitrary interpretation and enforcement makes things worse — Arbitrariness is a feature, not a bug — I started this morning all riled up and ready to write a newsletter about how Google is using … | John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase launches Rosetta, an open-source framework for blockchains that makes integrating with them and listing them on exchanges simpler and more reliable — Crypto exchange Coinbase is hoping to streamline how it adds new tokens to its platform. — The San Francisco-based exchange rolled …
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High school students are using social media and anonymous Google Docs to call out fellow students for racist behavior, sometimes with unintended consequences — Learning has been online and remote this semester. So too, now, are call-outs of questionable behavior.
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @thecompanyman, @taylorlorenz, and @madinatoure
| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Y Combinator's online bootcamp, Startup School, relaunches as a continuous year-round program, instead of an eight week program running multiple times per year — About three years and more than 100,000 participants later, Y Combinator is relaunching its free online bootcamp Startup School as a continuous year-round program.| The Information: |
Sources: TikTok expects its US revenue to hit $500M this year; in 2019, TikTok brought in about $200M to $300M in worldwide revenue — TikTok has taken off like a rocket ship in the U.S. and around the world, creating a new mobile video experience that has left YouTube and Facebook scrambling to keep up.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Amazon says AWS Shield mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack in mid-February, the largest ever; the previous record was a 1.7 Tbps DDoS attack from March 2018 — The previous record for the largest DDoS attack ever recorded was of 1.7 Tbps, recorded in March 2018.| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
Documents from an ACLU lawsuit show Microsoft tried to sell facial recognition tech to the DEA in late 2017, six months before the company called for regulation — Last week, Microsoft said it would not sell its facial recognition to police departments. But new documents reveal it was pitching …
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Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @rmac18, @zackwhittaker, and @j0hnnyxm4s
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google announces Assistant improvements, an Actions Builder for developers, and that AMP articles will soon be supported on Google Assistant Smart Displays — AMP articles are also coming to Google Assistant Smart Displays — Google Assistant Smart Displays will be able … | VICE: |
Investigation into a “supply chain” of people who scrape OnlyFans content en masse before reposting it for free, often on other adult websites or Discord — In late February, rumors of a massive database of adult content stolen from OnlyFans subscription-only accounts spread through social media.
Tweets: @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @hshaban, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @motherboard, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, and @bigblackjacobin
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google is testing a way for users to buy Android app subscriptions outside of the app itself, like directly from the Play Store listing page — Alongside the Android 11 beta news and updates to Android developer tools, Google has quietly rolled out a significant change in how Android app developers … | Mark Zuckerberg / USA Today: |
Facebook launches Voting Information Center for accurate election information and tools for voter registration, aiming to help register 4M people via its apps — The 2020 election is going to be unlike any other. It was already going to be a heated campaign, and that was before the pandemic …
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Civil rights groups, in a full-page ad in the LA Times, push for Facebook ad boycott during July to protest what they see as the company's inaction on hate — Anti-Defamation League, NAACP and others seek protest of what they say is company's failure to make its platform a less-hostile place| Bloomberg: |
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