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Department of Justice indicts three Russians, including two intelligence agency employees, and a Canadian in connection with 2014 Yahoo breach — Two members of a Russian intelligence agency “protected, directed, facilitated, and paid” hackers to break into Yahoo's systems in 2014 …
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Google debuts Family Link in limited beta for Android, letting parents supervise web access, Gmail account creation, app downloading, more for kids under 13 — Google has its eye on your kids. — The tech giant is opening up its many online services to kids under 13 with a new tool called Family Link …
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Behind Genius' shift from web annotations to becoming a video-focused media company, after laying off a quarter of its staff last month — Genius, which raised $56.9 million on the promise that it would one day annotate the entire internet, has been losing its minds.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Airbnb, Lyft, Dropbox, and 55 other tech firms file brief opposing Trump's revised travel ban, but Apple, Google, and Microsoft don't sign, unlike in February — A group of 58 companies, including Lyft, Airbnb, and Dropbox, are protesting the revised travel ban on majority-Muslim countries … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Teen quiz app Wishbone compromised, exposing names of users, 2.2M email addresses, and 287K phone numbers after hackers took contents of unprotected database — A popular social networking app that allows users to create and vote on simple two-choice quizzes lost millions of users records …
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GoPro says it will cut 270 jobs, around 17% of its workforce, to achieve profitability, and posts better than expected Q1 guidance; stock up 7%+ — GoPro announced Wednesday that it was cutting 270 jobs to reduce its operating expenses and achieve profitability.
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Amazon to help developers cover costs of hosting their Alexa skills on AWS with monthly $100 credits — New promotional credits include a one-time $100 AWS credit that's valid for 12 months, plus an additional $100 recurring credit that's doled out on a monthly basis.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
After raising $72M, Sirin Labs sold just under $10M of its $14K+ Solarin secure smartphones, now plans to pivot with $20M in the bank, laying off ~30 people — So much for super-private, high-end phones for the super-rich? Sirin Labs, the startup that makes the Solarin …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook begins rolling out its Town Hall service, which identifies local government representatives, in the US — In Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's nearly 6,000-word manifesto published last month, he laid out a number of global ambitions he had for the social network in the days ahead …
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DeepMind researchers detail algorithm for training neural nets on multiple sequential tasks, allowing neural nets to retain knowledge while learning new tasks — Breakthrough should improve ability to learn sequence of tasks — Research may also have implication for study of brain synapses
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
GitLab acquires Gitter, which develops chat rooms for code repositories, with plans to open source the code — EXCLUSIVE: — GitLab, a startup that provides open source and premium source code repository software that people use to collaborate on software, is announcing today that it has acquired Gitter … | Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
Report: US digital ad spend to rise 16% in 2017 to $83B, as ad revenue of Snapchat to rise 158%, Facebook by 32%, Google by 15%, and Twitter to drop by 4.7% — Snapchat poised for “explosive growth” but will remain a small piece of the entire digital ad pie, according to eMarketer's forecastSponsor Posts
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