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How Facebook's shifting priorities and inferior monetization options for Instant Articles are leading some big publishers to abandon the format — Facebook's Instant Articles promised to transform journalism — but now big publishers are fleeing — Inside Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters …
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| Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed: |
How Zuckerberg has polished his image to win people over, beginning with greater use of personal FB posts in 2015 and culminating in his current US talking tour — Until recently — , Mark Zuckerberg's most iconic public appearance may have been the image of the young startup founder sweating through …
Tweets: @annehelen, @jacobwe, @buzzfeednews, @nxthompson, @martinsfp, @matt_cagle, @glennf, @annehelen, @kimmaicutler, and @nitashatiku
| Katie Benner / New York Times: |
Leaked documents reveal the hotel industry's plan to combat Airbnb with lobbying, pushing for bills at state level, and funds for anti-Airbnb research — SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, Airbnb underwent a rough regulatory patch. — The short-term rental company became a Federal Trade Commission target … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google reaches $7.8M out-of-court settlement in Android antitrust case in Russia, which was originally filed by Yandex — Google has reached a settlement with Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) agency in the antitrust case the Russian search rival Yandex had originally filed …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
AI technique called “generative adversarial networks”, where neural networks are pitted against one another, could lead to unsupervised learning — The day Richard Feynman died, the blackboard in his classroom read: “What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
Tweets: @ericschmidt and @googleresearch
| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Several hours passed before Facebook removed a video of a murder shared on the social network — Facebook took posts down hours later — A Cleveland man is at large after reportedly killing someone and uploading the footage to Facebook. The video appears to show a man identified by police …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Windows exploits disclosed by Shadow Brokers have been patched on all currently supported versions of Windows — Microsoft says it has already patched the Windows exploits released by the Shadow Brokers group. The hacking tools, likely originating from the NSA …
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eWeek, Petri, BBC, Tech Times, SiliconANGLE, SANS Internet Storm Center …, MSRC, Quartz, InfoWorld, Motherboard, Help Net Security, Fortune, CNNMoney, Security Affairs, Softpedia News, BetaNews, SlashGear, Engadget, Mashable, On MSFT, The Hacker News, CNET, and Reuters
Tweets: @arstechnica, @zackwhittaker, @thegrugq, @swiftonsecurity, @snowden, @phillip_misner, @josephfcox, and @snowden
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
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Motherboard, Techdirt, Recode, Ars Technica, TechSpot, GitHub, New York Times, ZDNet, Forbes, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Washington Post, NEWSBTC, TechCrunch, BBC, InfoWorld, Neowin, Cisco Blog, Engadget, The Register, RT, AskWoody, Fortune, CNNMoney, New York Magazine, Windows Central, Cult of Mac, Security Affairs, Mashable, Federal Computer Week, Business Insider, emptywheel, and TechConnect
Tweets: @motherboard, @lorenzofb, @arstechnica, @mossadnews, @misterch0c, @zackwhittaker, and @kateconger
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft confirms that just about a dozen Windows Phone models will officially support the Windows 10 Creators Update — Microsoft is rolling out a new test builds for Windows 10 to phone Insiders (and to PC users), while acknowledging that only a dozen or so Windows Phone models will get Windows 10 Creators Update.| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
The next Mac Pro should prioritize versatility as aggressive minimalism, among other factors, led to failure of the 2013 Mac Pro — Much of modern Apple's design philosophy is to relentlessly strip down most products to the bare minimum in certain areas as technological progress allows …
| Robert Fenner / Bloomberg: |
China's Ant Financial ups offer for MoneyGram by 36% to $1.2B; MoneyGram board approves deal — Ant Financial raised its agreed offer for MoneyGram International Inc. by 36 percent as the financial-services company controlled by Chinese billionaire Jack Ma tries to top a competing offer.
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Reuters, New York Times, Tech in Asia, MediaNama, and TechCrunch
| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Robert Taylor, the innovator who played key roles in the invention of Arpanet, the Alto computer, and the computer mouse, dies at 85 — Like many inventions, the internet was the work of many inventors. But perhaps no one deserves more credit for that world-changing technological leap …
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Tech Times, CNET, Engadget, Memex 1.1, TechSpot, NPR, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, The Guardian, AlmanacNews.com, and YourStory.com
Tweets: @katiehafner, @michael_nielsen, @nytobits, @stewartbrand, @xor, and @guyraz
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
How Google, Apple, and Microsoft and their operating systems are faring in their fight for the cheap computer market — The war for cheap computers is about to begin — It feels like a long time since we've had a great big knock-down, drag-out operating system battle.
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