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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
White House launches tool to solicit information from people who had social media accounts suspended or banned and who suspect political bias behind the actions — 'If you suspect political bias caused such an action to be taken against you, share your story with President Trump'
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| Washington Post: |
White House won't sign Christchurch Call to Action, an effort by governments and social media companies to fight online extremism, citing free speech concerns — The White House will not sign an international call to combat online extremism brokered between French and New Zealand officials …
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The Interface, Ars Technica, The Verge, New York Times, Washington Post, Axios, CNBC, GeekWire, BBC, Tubefilter, Vox, and CNET
| Facebook: |
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Google, and Amazon sign on to the Christchurch Call to Action, commit to a 9-point plan to stop spread of terrorist content online — Today, Facebook's Vice President for Global Affairs and Communications Nick Clegg joined G7 government and industry leaders …
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| Washington Post: |
Trump issues order blocking US companies from doing business with information and communications technology companies owned or controlled by a foreign adversary — Amid a deepening trade war with China, President Trump on Wednesday declared a “national emergency” to protect U.S. communications networks …
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Report details Apple's “long and painful divorce” with Intel, says Apple's custom 5G modems may not arrive until 2025 — The Information is out today with a detailed report on the falling out between Intel and Apple over the last few years that led to settling with Qualcomm …
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| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: |
Behind Twitter's plan to fix problems like disinformation, harassment, and outrage through its new prototype app twttr — In March, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone tweeted a screenshot of an iPhone homescreen along with a message: “Notice our new prototype? ...
Tweets: @buzzfeedben, @caseynewton, @stevenrussell, @aryehcw, @kvox, @joshconstine, @bborrman, @sarahintampa, @sarahintampa, @mkruz, @taylorlorenz, @aaainsley, @mattnavarra, and @jack
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Ajit Pai proposes a new rule that would allow carriers to block robocalls by default and lets customers block calls from numbers not on their contacts list — ‘The American people are fed up with illegal robocalls’ — On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission announced a new measure … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says a bug in its Titan Security Keys' Bluetooth pairing protocols is exploitable by hackers in close physical proximity, provides free replacement keys — Google today disclosed a security bug in its Bluetooth Titan Security Key that could allow an attacker in close physical proximity …
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Google Online Security Blog, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, PCWorld, Android Central, Droid Life, The Register, XDA Developers, Lifehacker, Threatpost, SlashGear, BleepingComputer, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, TechSpot, CNET, ZDNet, Engadget, 9to5Google, Android Police, and CyberScoop
Tweets: @laparisa, @mjg59, @backlon, @jbeda, @stshank, @mrisher, @backlon, @stshank, @alexstamos, @dangoodin001, @tomwarren, and @sentdex
| The Information: |
Sources: Quibi, the upcoming mobile streaming service led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, is planning to raise up to $1B, following a $1B raise in August — Quibi, the mobile video streaming service headed by Hollywood and tech veterans Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman …
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The Verge. Tweets: @kantrowitz, @taylorlorenz, @profjeffjarviss, @ejzim, @caseynewton, @seldo, and @eringriffith
| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
In email to staff, Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan says management will not voluntarily recognize its employee union Kickstarter United, wants NLRB election instead — “I know this position is disappointing to some of you who were hoping the company would voice support for this effort," he wrote| New York Times: |
Sources describe Uber's IPO process and the setbacks that led Uber's $120B pre-IPO valuation floated by bankers to fall to its current market cap of $69B — Last September, Uber's top executives were pitched by some of Wall Street's biggest banks, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @m_delamerced, and @mikeisaac
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
User finds that Google was hiding three Google Pay privacy settings, like sharing creditworthiness, from its default view; Google says it was a bug it is fixing — Update 5/15/19 1:07 PM EST: Google has replied to our questions with the following statement:| Kaveh Waddell / Axios: |
Data from CB Insights shows Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon have collectively acquired more than 50 AI companies since 2010 — Big Tech has snapped up more than 50 AI companies since 2010, carving out another front in the nonstop war among the giants for AI talent, data and ideas.
Tweets: @lolitataub
| ProPublica: |
Sources: two US data recovery firms touting hi-tech solutions for unlocking data after ransomware attacks instead just paid the ransom and charged victims extra — Firms That Promised High-Tech Ransomware Solutions Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers — As ransomware attacks crippled businesses …
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CoinDesk and Dark Reading
Tweets: @anildash, @jeffstone500, @seldo, @robertfaturechi, @brianhonan, and @benkwest
| Heather Kelly / CNN: |
Facebook will now ban anyone who violates its “most serious policies” from using Facebook Live for a set period of time, starting with their first offense — San Francisco (CNN Business)Two months after the mass shooting at a mosque in New Zealand was live-streamed by the accused gunman …
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Facebook, Tubefilter, The Wrap, Variety, The Hill, MIT Technology Review, Gizmodo, Reuters, Firstpost Tech, TechSpot, and Inc42 Media
Tweets: @donie, @luca, and @heatherkelly
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
SanDisk introduces the first 1TB microSD card, for $450 — Have you been salivating at the thought of stuffing a 1TB microSD card into your phone? You can finally act on that impulse. SanDisk has made the record-setting Extreme card available both through its own store and (when it's in stock) …
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Tom's Guide, Android Police, TechRadar.com, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Digital Trends, The Verge, and ZDNet. Tweets: @tomgrissom
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft releases its SPTAG algorithm, used to answer questions on Bing, as MIT-licensed open source on GitHub — Search engines today are more than just the dumb keyword matchers they used to be. You can ask a question—say, “How tall is the tower in Paris?”—and they'll tell …
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The AI Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, OnMSFT.com, The Register, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @maxschleiffer and @harryshum
| Google AI Blog: |
Google details Translatotron, its project to directly translate speech from one language into speech in another without intermediate text — Speech-to-speech translation systems have been developed over the past several decades with the goal of helping people who speak different languages to communicate with each other.| Owen Bowcott / The Guardian: |
UK Supreme Court finds in favor of civil rights organizations and rules that GCHQ's powers to hack into internet services should be subject to judicial review — Supreme court says GCHQ's hacking powers should be subject to judicial review — Government security decisions will in future … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Valve releases Steam Link, its service for streaming desktop games to another device, on iOS and Apple TV, almost a year after its initial App Store rejection — Almost exactly a year after its initial rejection from the App Store, Valve today has officially released Steam Link on the App Store.
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Macworld, Engadget, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Verge, TechCrunch, GameSpot, Kotaku, and PC Gamer
Tweets: @kifleswing and @starfire2258
| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
How political parties in India are using cheap software to send up to 100,000 WhatsApp messages a day and get around the app's limit of five forwards per day — Munsif Vengattil, Aditya Kalra, Sankalp Phartiyal — NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - WhatsApp clones and software tools that cost …
Tweets: @reuters
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Karat, which uses engineers to interview, test, and evaluate other engineers for jobs with clients like Citrix, Roblox, and InVision, raises $28M Series B — A high demand for engineering talent in our digital world has driven companies that need to make these technical hires to cast their nets wider in the search for good people.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Several security researchers say iOS security controls have made it very hard to determine whether an iPhone has been compromised without jailbreaking it first — A recent vulnerability in WhatsApp shows that there's little defenders can do to detect and analyze iPhone hacks.
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Boing Boing, Business Insider, iAfrikan, iPhone in Canada Blog, Financial Times, and Firstpost Tech
Tweets: @ft, @lorenzofb, @andreabarisani, @dinodaizovi, @mcclure111, @jason_koebler, and @sehnaoui
| Thomas Franck / CNBC: |
In an SEC filing, Berkshire Hathaway reveals it owned 483,300 Amazon shares at the end of the quarter ended March 31, currently worth $904M — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway on Wednesday revealed in a government filing the size of its stake in e-commerce giant Amazon.Sponsor Posts
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