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UK govt, Guardian, Sainsbury, others pull ads from YouTube as Times of London investigation finds ads appearing with extremist videos; Google promises changes — Guardian newspaper also halts ads, citing ‘hate-filled videos’ — YouTube owner Google says it's ‘committed to doing better’
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Minnesota judge orders Google to divulge information on anybody who searched for variations of financial fraud victim's name — Order seeks data for “any/all user or subscriber information” related to the searches. — Police in a small suburban town of 50,000 people just outside Minneapolis …
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| Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica UK: |
Google open-sources new JPEG encoder that reduces file sizes by around 35%, and is compatible with existing browsers, photo editing apps, and the JPEG standard — New algorithm is based on human psychovisual system. Images look better, too. — Google has developed and open-sourced …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
FBI arrests person who allegedly tweeted seizure-inducing strobe at Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald — An arrest has been made three months after someone tweeted a seizure-inducing strobe at writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Kurt Eichenwald. The Dallas FBI confirmed the arrest to The Verge today … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
YouTube to discontinue video annotations editor May 2, encourages creators to use mobile-friendly End Screens and Cards features instead — To be replaced by Cards and End Screens — YouTube today announced that it will be replacing its annotations engine with what it calls End Screen and Cards … | Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Internal docs: Uber's 43 self-driving cars drove 20,365 miles last week with human intervention every 0.8 miles and “critical interventions” every 200 miles — A first look at Uber's progress. — Some of Uber's self-driving cars aren't driving as smoothly as the company hoped they would.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
As MuleSoft closes up 45%+ on its first day of trading, valued at about $3B+, company CEO Greg Schott talks about IPO timing, potential acquisitions, more — MuleSoft, a San Francisco-based SaaS integration company, last night priced the year's first big enterprise software IPO, raising $221 million.
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| Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider: |
Chance the Rapper says Apple paid him $500K “plus a commercial” to exclusively stream his album Coloring Book on Apple Music for two weeks — After some criticism about the artist's integrity and independence, Chance the Rapper made a series of tweets and revealed …
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft says newest processors, including Intel's Kaby Lake and AMD's Ryzen, will require latest Windows version for support — It looks like a policy announced a year ago is going to kick in. — A recently published Knowledge Base article suggests that Microsoft is going to block Windows Updates …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Netflix to replace star ratings with thumbs up and thumbs down in coming weeks after A/B testing showed thumbs got 200% more ratings — Get ready to say good-bye to star ratings on Netflix: The company is getting ready to replace stars with Pandora-like thumbs-ups and thumbs-downs in the coming weeks.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: iMessage App Store has 5K apps six months after launch, with games topping category list at 25.9%, but dev interest is waning — When the iMessage App Store first launched, it was touted as the next big platform for apps - a new way for developers to gain users and make money … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Sources: WikiLeaks requires tech firms to sign off on conditions before getting CIA exploit details, 1 possibly being 90-day deadline before broader disclosure — Last week, WikiLeaks promised it would share the technical details and code of the hacking tools that the CIA has allegedly developed …
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