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Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter reveal open source Data Transfer Project to let users move the data they want between services while preserving privacy — An open-source collaboration for “the future of portability” — Today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter joined …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
WhatsApp to test limiting the forwarding of messages to 20 chats globally and 5 chats in India in a bid to stop the spread of fake news — The social messaging service has been blamed for its role in spreading dangerous and inaccurate information. — Facebook-owned WhatsApp is making changes …
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Facebook executives struggle to describe a coherent strategy to deal with misinformation on the site; it's a hodgepodge of “exceptions to the exceptions” — Facebook was once the most nimble company of its generation. The speed at which it adapted to every challenge was legendary.
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| Kirsten Grind / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook suspends data analytics firm Crimson Hexagon, which boasts repository of 1T social media posts, as it investigates the company's government contracts — Facebook says it was probing whether data-analytics firm Crimson Hexagon's government contracts comply with Facebook policies
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Cyberattack on Singapore's largest healthcare institution SingHealth steals details of 1.5M patients, including the Prime Minister — Local media say the hack is believed to be state-sponsored — Singapore has been hit by what local media is calling the country's worst ever cyber attack.| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
Google says it got duck.com after buying video compression startup On2 in 2010; will now redirect domain to a page with links to DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, and more — Google owns Duck.com, which has been driving rival search engine DuckDuckGo up the wall for over six years.
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Sources: event-planning company Eventbrite has filed confidentially for an IPO; the company has raised more than $350M and was valued at more than $1B in 2014 — Event-planning company has filed confidentially for an IPO — Event-planning company Eventbrite Inc. has filed …
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Inside state-sponsored trolling efforts that combine virtual hate mobs, surveillance, and misinformation to silence critical voices and spread disinformation — Sitting cross-legged on a charpoy, an Indian day bed, Mahaveer Prasad Khileri taps on his laptop, his face lit by the screen … | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
San Francisco says it expects to issue permits for its 24-month electric scooter pilot program sometime in August, selecting from 12 applicants — The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is still reviewing the 12 applications from companies to operate electric scooters in the city.
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Facebook plans to launch Athena, likely a constellation of small internet-delivering satellites, starting in 2019, after downgrading a drone project last month — FIBER OPTIC CABLES are the gold standard of a good internet connection, but laying them can be expensive, and in some parts of the world, a physically daunting task.| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Lyft says it will enhance its background checks after revelations that an undocumented immigrant who has been charged with serial rape worked as a Lyft driver — Lyft is scrambling to reinforce its background checks after revelations that an undocumented immigrant who has been charged with serial rape had worked as a Lyft driver.| Javed Anwer / India Today: |
Indian telecoms regulator mandates that all smartphone users should be able to install its anti-spam app by January; iPhone could be in breach of the regulation — It's a fight that is going on for some time. Apple, the maker of the iPhone, and TRAI, the agency that regulates telecom networks in India … Sponsor Posts
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