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50+ Microsoft staff sign letter to Satya Nadella and Brad Smith demanding an end to a $479M US Army contract to license HoloLens tech for combat and training — A group of Microsoft employees is circulating a letter among the company's over 130,000-person staff demanding that executives cancel a $479 million contract with the US Army.
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Some popular apps send sensitive info to Facebook via the company's analytics SDK, such as a user's heart rate, intent to get pregnant, and home listings viewed — Wall Street Journal testing reveals how the social-media giant collects a wide range of private data from developers; ‘This is a big mess’
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| Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: |
After reports of pedophiles using YouTube comments to sexualize videos of children, YouTube warns creators it may demonetize videos with inappropriate comments — A new controversy this week over the sexualized exploitation of children on YouTube has set off a wave of advertiser boycotts …
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Tweets: @teamyoutube, @itsdanbull, @baekdal, @immortalhd, @colleenb123, @broderick, and @teamyoutube
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Twitter co-founder and former CEO Ev Williams is stepping down from the company's board — Twitter Co-founder and former CEO Ev Williams is stepping down from the company's board, according to a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. — “It's been an incredible 13 years …
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
Sources characterize Zuckerberg's May announcement of Facebook's Clear History tool as an example of the company's history of prioritizing optics over substance — Last May, Facebook promised to create a “Clear History” function it said would give users more control over their data.
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New Yorker. Tweets: @jgrovum, @johnpaczkowski, @samueljscott, @nickconfessore, @eff, @pierresabbagh, @itsnicolenguyen, @morroweric, @shapingyouth, @tomnamako, @mat, @mat, @rmac18, @rmac18, and @shiraovide
| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News: |
YouTube says it will remove ads on anti-vaccine videos, launches info panel below anti-vaccine videos that links to the Wikipedia page for “vaccine hesitancy” — YouTube on Friday said it would prevent channels that promote anti-vax content from running advertising …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
What to expect at MWC 2019: new flagships from Sony, LG, and Chinese companies, foldable phones from Huawei and others, return of HoloLens, and a lot of 5G hype — 5G's early steps will continue, and the Galaxy Fold could get some competition — In the next few days …
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Android Police, 91mobiles.com, CNET, The Verge, CNET, International Business Times, Wall Street Journal, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, ZDNet, Digit, GQ India, Business Times, India Today, NDTV Gadgets 360, WIRED UK, Technology Personalized, Android Central, IEEE Spectrum, Forbes, CNET, and Engadget. Tweets: @gimme2pm
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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Phandroid, The Verge, Pocketnow, Firstpost, Gizchina, Android Police, Engadget, Digital Trends, MSPoweruser, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, Android Authority, Android Beat, and XDA Developers. Tweets: @caro_milanesi
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Florida inmate sues the Florida Department of Corrections after he was told he has to repurchase $569 of music he bought after the FDOC changed music vendors — Prisoners who paid $1.70 per song lost access when the prison changed vendors. — Florida inmate William Demler says that since 2012 … | Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Sources: Amazon may be scaling down its expansion in Seattle, including subleasing offices it rented in a new skyscraper, and expanding in neighboring Bellevue — For years, Amazon has gobbled up office space in Seattle at a breakneck pace, creating a red-hot commercial real estate market in the city's urban core.
Tweets: @mnickelsburg
| Shira Ovide / Bloomberg: |
Academic paper argues that Facebook's potential abuses of monopoly power and violations of users' privacy are not separate but are two sides of the same coin — Once it became indispensable, it gained the power to reverse promises it had made not to gather certain data.
Tweets: @waltmossberg
| Bloomberg: |
A look at Chinese companies making surveillance-enabling tech, which count China's government as a major client or investor and have spawned 4+ billionaires — - Tiandy's Dai Lin is China's latest surveillance billionaire — Critics say the country's monitoring programs go too far
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| Wired: |
Social media companies should gain more in-house knowledge about mental health to realize the impact of recommendation algorithms on users with mental illness — IT'S TROUBLING ENOUGH that British teenager Molly Russell sought out images of suicide and self-harm online before she took her own life in 2017.
Tweets: @johndcook and @wired
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