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Twitter says users can now have verified status revoked, unveils new guidelines for verified accounts as it works on authentication and verification program — A risky new step in the fight to reduce harassment — Twitter will begin removing verification badges from users who violate its rules, the company said today.
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| Mark Harris / Wired: |
Interview with Anthony Levandowski on his AI-focused religion, Way of the Future, of which he's the Dean, which aims to find and worship “a Godhead based on AI” — Anthony Levandowski makes an unlikely prophet. Dressed Silicon Valley-casual in jeans and flanked by a PR rep rather …
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Gizmodo, New York Magazine, Mashable, TechCo, and Business Insider
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| Laura Shin / Forbes: |
Square Cash is testing cryptocurrency support by letting a small number of users buy and sell Bitcoin directly in the app — Some customers of Square's Cash app have gotten a surprise in the past week. — The app, which is used for payments between friends and is a competitor to Venmo … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google updates Assistant with developer support for Spanish, Italian, and other languages, ability to recognize implicit requests, more — Also, the Nexus Player is back — Google has announced a bunch of new updates coming to Assistant today that should make it possible for developers …
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Google updates its job search with estimated salary ranges, a better location filter, the ability to save individual jobs, and more — To help the millions of people who turn to Google to start their job search, we worked with leaders across the industry to introduce a new experience earlier this year.| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Kickstarter debuts Drip, a service that lets fans subscribe to their favorite creators, in limited beta; sources says 7 out of 8 top execs have left since July — When Kickstarter launched in 2009, there was nothing quite like it: a platform where creators could launch a project with a funding goal …
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The Kickstarter Blog, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, TechSpot, Tubefilter, SlashGear, Crowdfund Insider, TechCrunch, Mashable, RAIN News, Music Ally, and Nieman Lab
Tweets: @fredwilson, @ericajoy, @benpopper, @chillmage, and @eringriffith
| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
The provision in the Senate Tax Reform Bill that would have taxed stock options and RSUs upon vesting has been dropped — I just saw this on my twitter: … This means that the Senate has now made the tax reform bill a win for those who work in startups instead of a loss.
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| The Guardian: |
Edinburgh University study identifies 419 Russia-linked Twitter accounts that tweeted about Brexit, all from a list of 2,752 accounts Twitter supplied to US — Researchers find that accounts run from a St Petersburg troll farm tried to sow discord between Britons over the referendum| Ashley Rodriguez / Quartz: |
Netflix survey of 37K adults globally: 67% of customers watch on mobile devices in public, 26% watch at work, ~45% have caught others spying on their screens — We will watch it on a plane. And in the dark. And on a train. And in a car. And in a tree. Okay, maybe not that last one.| Stevan Dojcinovic / New York Times: |
Serbian journalist says Facebook testing split News Feed for Pages and friends was ill-conceived and served to stifle the fledging democracy's independent media — BELGRADE, Serbia — My country, Serbia, has become an unwilling laboratory for Facebook's experiments on user behavior …
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Global Voices Advocacy. Tweets: @lorenzofb, @kimmaicutler, @nytopinion, @alexhern, @alexhern, @dlberes, @counternotions, @profcarroll, @janelytv, and @alexhern
| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
Trump administration publishes inter-agency rules for disclosing or keeping secret cyber security flaws, with decisions to retain flaws being revisited annually — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration publicly released on Wednesday its rules for deciding whether …
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The White House, International Business Times, CNET, ZDNet, epic.org, Tom's Hardware, Nextgov, WeLiveSecurity, and TechSpot. Tweets: @robjoyce45. Thanks:@dnvolz
| Amanda Silver / Visual Studio Code: |
Microsoft says it is working on Visual Studio Live Share, letting developers collaborate on the same codebase without the need to synchronize code — We are excited to announce that we're working on “Visual Studio Live Share”, which enables developers using Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio Code to collaborate in real-time!
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