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In an email to advertisers, Twitter insists it will remain a safe place for brands after Elon Musk's takeover, as campaign groups predict rising toxicity — Campaigners and car manufacturers among groups to express concern over Tesla chief's $44bn takeover
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google now accepts requests to remove Search results that include users' contact info, like physical addresses, phone numbers, and emails, and login credentials — If you put in a request and it agrees they're harmful — Google says it's expanding the types of personal information …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Twitter says it overstated mDAUs from Q1 2019 to Q4 2021 by up to 1.9M per quarter because it counted multiple accounts owned by one user — How did this happen twice? — Twitter overstated the number of daily users on its service for three years straight, overcounting by up to 1.9 million users each quarter.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Twitter reports Q1 revenue of $1.2B, up 16% YoY but below estimates, and $513M net income; mDAUs reached 229M; Twitter will offer no guidance pending Musk's bid — - Twitter reported earnings for the first quarter of 2022. — It could be one of its last as a public company …
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| Meta: |
Meta reports Q1 revenue of $27.9B, up 7% YoY, net income of $7.5B, down 21% YoY, Family of Apps daily active people of 2.87B, up 6% YoY; stock jumps 10%+ — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported nancial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2022.
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| Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: |
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
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| Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance: |
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Cloudflare says it mitigated a 15.3M rps HTTPS DDoS attack earlier this month, one of the largest of its kind, targeting a customer in the crypto industry — Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said today that it mitigated one of the largest volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that has been recorded to date.
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| Frank Konkel / Nextgov: |
The NSA says it has re-awarded its $10B cloud computing contract, codenamed “Wild and Stormy”, to AWS, after Microsoft contested the decision — Amazon Web Services beat out Microsoft for the contract after a bid protest battle. — The National Security Agency has re-awarded …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google expands its sensitive ad categories, letting users limit ads for dating, parenting, weight loss, and more across its Display network, not just YouTube — The company is adding to its sensitive ad categories — Google is expanding its sensitive ad categories options …
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
An overview of the iPhone's autocorrect feature and how it has evolved, including an interview with Ken Kocienda, who created the autocorrect keyboard software — Tpying truble? During the iPhone's first 15 years, its keyboard software has evolved, but it still sometimes flubs your lines.
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU will file antitrust charges against Apple next week for allegedly blocking third-parties from using NFC for Apple Pay — EU will accuse the tech giant of blocking financial groups from its Apple Pay mobile system — Apple is set to face fresh antitrust charges …
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| Kim Masters / The Hollywood Reporter: |
What went wrong at Netflix: sources say VP of content Cindy Holland's departure in 2020 let chief content officer Ted Sarandos prioritize quantity over quality — As rivals toggle between schadenfreude and fear, top creators and insiders are increasingly becoming vocal about what's gone wrong with the streaming giant's culture.
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| William Li / Counterpoint Research: |
Global PC shipments fell 4.3% YoY in Q1 2022 to 78.7M units; Apple shipments rose 8% YoY while HP fell 16% due to decreasing Chromebook sales — Taipei, London, Hong Kong, Boston, Toronto, New Delhi, Beijing, Seoul - April 28, 2022 — Global PC shipments fell 4.3% YoY in Q1 2022 …
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TechSpot, AppleInsider, Apple Must, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, and Gizchina. Tweets: @frankcatalano
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Documents published by the FCC detail a drone made by Snap, called Pixy, with a camera, rounded rectangular design, USB-C, and more — See Snap's unannounced drone from almost every angle — including inside — It appears Snap is working on a drone called Pixy, and the whole thing …
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Tweets: @mgsiegler, @qwongsj, @caseynewton, @trevorcroker, @jaypeters, @mcproulx, @parkerortolani, and @mcwm
| Reuters: |
Weibo says it will publish the locations of users based on IP addresses on their account pages and posts to combat “bad behaviour”; users cannot opt-out — Weibo , China's equivalent of Twitter, told users on Thursday it would start to publish their IP locations on their account pages … | The Information: |
Sources: the FTC opens an inquiry into whether Elon Musk complied with its reporting rules as he amassed his 9.1% stake in Twitter between January and April — Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter takeover is unlikely to raise antitrust concerns. But what is already being scrutinized …
Tweets: @joshua_sisco
| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Internal email: Amazon now permanently lets its warehouse workers keep their cell phones while they work, after temporarily lifting its ban during the pandemic — The concession to warehouse workers follows the first union victory at an Amazon warehouse in US history. — Lauren Kaori Gurley
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Tweets: @spencersoper, @motherboard, @motherboard, and @laurenkgurley
| Abhijit Ahaskar / Livemint: |
India requires cyber incidents reported within 6 hours, VPN providers to register users' real names, wallet providers to keep KYC records for five years, more — India's nodal cybersecurity agency, Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), has directed all service providers, intermediaries …
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| João Carrasqueira / XDA Developers: |
A Microsoft support page shows it is testing the Microsoft Edge Secure Network, a built-in VPN-like service for Edge powered by Cloudflare — Microsoft is testing a VPN-like service for its Edge browser, adding a new layer of security and privacy to the browsing experience.
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| Will Sattelberg / Android Police: |
Google blocked 1M+ apps that violated its policies from being published on the Play Store in 2021, and banned 190K developer accounts for malicious behavior — No one wants some off-brand Candy Crush knockoff melting their phone — As smartphones become the primary device for millions of users …
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Google Online Security Blog, ZDNet, TechRadar, and Neowin
| Megha Paul / Tech.eu: |
Antwerp-based Venly, which makes tools for companies to offer NFTs, wallets, and other blockchain services, raises a €21M Series A led by Courtside Ventures — To increase its reach in the gaming industry, the Belgian startup will launch an accelerator track for game studios and web3 startups
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