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Google to stop scanning Gmail email content to target ads, will use other user info it has for ad targeting — The move is designed to ease concerns of enterprise customers — Diane Greene pushes ad change to chase Microsoft in enterprise — Google is stopping one of the most controversial …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
After reports of sexual harassment, Justin Caldbeck takes indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital, apologizes for behavior, says he'll seek counseling — Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck is taking an indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital, the Silicon Valley firm he co-founded …
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| Reid Hoffman / LinkedIn: |
The tech industry should treat sexual harrassment of founders by VCs much like HR departments treat workplace abuses — Entrepreneur. Product Strategist. Investor. — I don't often write immediate reactions to recent news. However, after reading an article published …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
A number of female founders allege unwanted sexual advances and harassment by Binary Capital's Justin Caldbeck — “What do you know about a VC named Justin Caldbeck?” — That was the question a (now former) colleague asked last year, at the end of an unrelated conversation.
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| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Source: Samsung Galaxy Note8 to come with 6.3" display, dual 12MP cameras, and 6GB of RAM, launches in second half of September, will retail for €999 — EXCLUSIVE: — Samsung is making preparations to launch its most expensive cellphone yet, telling partners that its Galaxy Note8 will retail for €999.
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| Chris Williams / The Register: |
32TB of Windows 10 internal builds, core source code leak online — Finding exploitable bugs suddenly easier — Exclusive A massive trove of Microsoft's internal Windows operating system builds and chunks of its core source code have leaked online. — The data - some 32TB of installation images …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Instagram is testing “favorites”, editable lists allowing users to share posts with a limited group of friends — Reinventing the friends list — Instagram has begun testing a way to share posts with a more limited group of friends. Called favorites, the feature attempts …
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9to5Mac, CNET, Engadget, Mashable, iDownloadBlog.com, Refinery29, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com, MacRumors, Android and Me, Seeking Alpha, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Fortune
Tweets: @kevinweil, @bijanstephen, @mims, @joshelman, and @benedictevans
| Reuters: |
Firms like Cisco, IBM are acceding to Russia's demands to review source code of security products, raising fears knowledge gained can be used for cyberattacks — Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product …
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The Register, Silicon Valley Business …, CRN, Engadget, The Daily Caller, ValueWalk, and Seeking Alpha
| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook has removed 30+ pages run from Macedonia, many of which relied on US politics to drive traffic; publishers assumed they were safe after buying ads — Two false posts from Facebook pages that the social network removed due to terms-of-service violations. — BuzzFeed News
Tweets: @niemanlab, @buzzfeedben, @rkapkap, @davidmackau, @craigsilverman, @mattmittenthal, @miriamelder, and @jimwaterson
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Algorithmia, a marketplace for algorithms, functions and machine-learning models, raises $10.5M Series A led by Google's new AI fund — About a month ago, word spread that Google had quietly launched a new fund for investing into AI companies. Now this fund has made its first (or at least its first public) investment.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Satellogic raises $27M Series B led by Tencent, with CrunchFund participating, for affordable, high-resolution imaging satellites — Space tech company Satellogic has raised $27 million in a Series B round led by Chinese internet giant Tencent, and with participation by CrunchFund (disclosure …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Google starts removing “confidential, personal medical records of private people” from search results — Google quietly added a new category of information Thursday — Health joins financial data, revenge porn as banned subjects — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has quietly decided …
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