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Twitter will let users record and add up to 140 seconds of audio to tweets, rolling out to iOS users in the coming weeks — Twitter is where you go to talk about what's happening. Over the years, photos, videos, gifs, and extra characters have allowed you to add your own flair and personality to your conversations.
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Zoom backtracks on end-to-end encryption, saying it plans to offer E2EE to all tiers of users who verify phone numbers and will start testing it in July — - Company will require users of free service to verify identity — Video-conferencing app will test strongest encryption in July
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
No, Google didn't demonetize The Federalist and Zero Hedge, as NBC's misleading story claims, and it is not an example of anti-conservative bias — from the another-day-another-story dept — So, earlier today, NBC reported that Google had “banned” two well known websites from its ad platform, namely The Federalist and Zero Hedge.
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
eBay confirms that ex-CEO Devin Wenig is the person who allegedly ordered six eBay employees to initiate a cyberstalking campaign; Wenig is not being charged — Surveillance. Harassment. A live cockroach delivery. US attorneys have charged six former eBay workers in association with an outrageous cyberstalking campaign.
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| John Bolton / Wall Street Journal: |
Book excerpt by Trump's former national security adviser: Trump offered in 2019 to reverse Huawei's criminal prosecution if China agreed to a trade deal — The president pleaded with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for domestic political help, subordinated national-security issues …
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
DOJ proposes Congress adopt new legislation adding conditions to Section 230 protections, opening up Facebook, Google, Twitter, others to additional liability — The Justice Department is urging Congress to limit the legal protections enjoyed by online platforms, seeking to narrow the law … | Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
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| Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: |
Sundar Pichai says Google will increase its proportion of execs from underrepresented groups by 30% by 2025, contribute $175M+ for Black business owners, more — Not new to debates on race, Google seeks to address ‘systemic racism’ in society — Google announced a new hiring goal …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
T-Mobile says its massive outage on Monday was caused by failures of a leased third-party fiber circuit and its backup that resulted in an “IP traffic storm” — “We did not meet our own bar for excellence,” writes T-Mobile's CTO — If you've been wondering what could knock …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Amazon says AWS Shield mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack in mid-February, the largest ever; the previous record was a 1.7 Tbps DDoS attack from March 2018 — The previous record for the largest DDoS attack ever recorded was of 1.7 Tbps, recorded in March 2018.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
As the HEY debacle shows, the text of Apple's App Store policies is vague, and their arbitrary interpretation and enforcement makes things worse — Arbitrariness is a feature, not a bug — I started this morning all riled up and ready to write a newsletter about how Google is using …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase launches Rosetta, an open-source framework for blockchains that makes integrating with them and listing them on exchanges simpler and more reliable — Crypto exchange Coinbase is hoping to streamline how it adds new tokens to its platform. — The San Francisco-based exchange rolled … | Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
Documents from an ACLU lawsuit show Microsoft tried to sell facial recognition tech to the DEA in late 2017, six months before the company called for regulation — Last week, Microsoft said it would not sell its facial recognition to police departments. But new documents reveal it was pitching …
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Tweets: @rmac18, @zackwhittaker, @zackwhittaker, and @j0hnnyxm4s
| Bloomberg: |
Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com rises ~6% in its debut in Hong Kong after raising $3.9B — - JD's listing followed NetEase's coming-out party a week ago — Alibaba, JD and NetEase bode well for future Chinese debuts — JD.com Inc. soared about 6% in its Thursday debut in Hong Kong …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google announces Assistant improvements, an Actions Builder for developers, and that AMP articles will soon be supported on Google Assistant Smart Displays — AMP articles are also coming to Google Assistant Smart Displays — Google Assistant Smart Displays will be able … | China Money Network: |
China-based Miaoshou Doctor, which provides telehealth services and operates an online pharmaceuticals marketplace, raises ~$84M Series D — Chinese online healthcare services provider Miaoshou Doctor has recently raised RMB600 million (US$84.63 million) in a series D round of financing …
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| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Drishti, which develops AI-powered video analytics tech for improving manual assembly line efficiency, raises $25M Series B from Sozo Ventures, a16z, and others — Try to think of the top manufacturing startups today, and you might struggle to name one. While some companies leverage manufacturing … | Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
In a regulatory filing, Dish says it will acquire Boost from T-Mobile by July 1, allowing T-Mobile's acquisition of Sprint to move forward — Dish Network Corp. is set to acquire the Boost wireless business from T-Mobile US Inc., after the companies spent months hammering out the specifics of a deal reached last year.Sponsor Posts
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