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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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Tweets: @zoom_us, @josephfcox, @ingridlunden, @josephfcox, and @privacymatters
| 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 … | Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
Sen. Josh Hawley's bill targeting Section 230 seems largely toothless, mandating companies only adhere more closely to their own rules — Sen. Josh Hawley, one of Facebook's most vocal critics on Capitol Hill, introduced new legislation on Wednesday that would purportedly chip away … | 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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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @yair_rosenberg, @sarafischer, @brooklynmarie, @kevinroose, @mikeisaac, @tvietor08, @mosseri, @marwilliamson, @robleathern, @thekenyeung, @ruskin147, and @donnabrazile. Thanks:@thekenyeung
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The distinction of business vs. consumer as a justification for Apple's rejection of HEY from the App Store for not using in-app purchases is flimsy — This statement is paraphrased by Pierce, not a direct quote, but on its surface this business/consumer distinction seems untenable.
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Tweets: @benedictevans, @beirutspring, @film_girl, @dhh, @dhh, @firstadopter, @martinsfp, @firstadopter, @jasonfried, and @zachwaugh
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Tweets: @dhh, @dhh, @benthompson, @dhh, @pierce, @dhh, @maxlynch, @timsweeneyepic, @mgsiegler, @stroughtonsmith, @dhh, @dhh, @dhh, @benthompson, @dhh, @bzamayo, @virtualgoodz, @benthompson, @alexhern, @benthompson, @shl, @kantrowitz, @futurepaul, @nickstatt, @snazzyq, @futurepaul, @benthompson, @akitaonrails, @jasonfried, @nbashaw, @reckless, @carnage4life, @jeffseibert, @mattyglesias, @willoremus, @benthompson, @jsusek, @tomwarren, @mynameismurray, @dhh, @steven_aquino, @dhh, @themacalope, @chrismessina, @jasonfried, @protocol, @reckless, @gruber, @alecstapp, @dhh, @jdeamattson, @briannawu, @lazerwalker, @amyhoy, @harrymccracken, @rustyshelf, @benedictevans, and @stroughtonsmith
| 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: @j0hnnyxm4s, @zackwhittaker, and @rmac18
| 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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Tweets: @davidzipper, @tweetermeyer, @daveleeft, and @jonathon_klein
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Apple says its head of diversity and inclusion Christie Smith, who joined in 2017, is leaving — - Apple VP of Diversity and Inclusion Smith had joined in 2017 — Company planning $100 million initiative to promote equality — Apple Inc.'s head of diversity and inclusion Christie Smith is leaving the iPhone company.
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, and iMore
Tweets: @caro_milanesi and @markgurman
| 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 … | 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.| 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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| 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.| New York Times: |
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
| 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 … | 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, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @motherboard, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, and @bigblackjacobin
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP, are encouraging big advertisers to pull spending from Facebook — Anti-Defamation League, NAACP and others seek protest of what they say is company's failure to make its platform a less-hostile place| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Barcelona and New York-based Onna, which offers a service that integrates workplace tools, raises $27M Series B led by Atomico — Onna, the “knowledge integration platform” (KIP) that counts Dropbox and Slack as backers, has raised $27 million in Series B funding.
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Google cracks down on The Federalist and ZeroHedge for violating policies on race-related content and may permanently suspend their access to Google Ads revenue — - Google is cracking down on two right-wing outlets, ZeroHedge and The Federalist, for violating its policies on race-related content.
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