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Sources: Snap laid off about 24 people across 8 teams, mostly in the content unit that curates users' videos; some staff were asked to relocate to Los Angeles — Snapchat parent Snap Inc. laid off roughly two dozen people across 8 different teams on Thursday, people familiar with the matter told Cheddar.
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
US Senate votes 65 to 34 to reauthorize Section 702 FISA surveillance program through 2023; bill now goes to Trump to sign — The Senate has voted to reauthorize a controversial legal authority that enables vast government surveillance programs, including spying operations used by the NSA.
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A behind-the-scenes look at Travis Kalanick's fall at Uber: from Susan Fowler's blog post and Waymo's lawsuit to the fight with Benchmark Capital's Bill Gurley — Silicon Valley CEOs are supposed to be sacrosanct. So how did it all go wrong at Uber? — A year ago, before the investor lawsuits …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple redesigns App Store web interface to match design of iOS 11 App Store with larger images, focus on curation and reviews, and more — Apple today has rolled out a major redesign for the App Store web interface. The new redesign replaces the dated and clunky interface that previously housed the App Store on the web...
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Spotify partners with eight firms, including Buzzfeed, to launch Spotlight, an initiative offering news and political programming, as it vies for radio revenue — Eight companies will supply coverage of news, sports, culture — Studio head wants ‘content that can be seen and listened to’
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Tweets: @alexeheath, @mattmittenthal, @joshconstine, @tictoc, @jamesliamcook, and @kerrymflynn
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp officially launches its free Android app for businesses in the US, UK, Mexico, Italy, and Indonesia, rolling out globally in the coming weeks — WhatsApp today officially launched its new WhatsApp Business app in select markets, including Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, the U.K. and the U.S., ahead of its planned worldwide rollout.| Raphael Satter / Associated Press: |
Researchers find hundreds of gigabytes of files online outlining Lebanon-linked effort to gain passwords and eavesdrop via bogus websites and malicious apps — LONDON (AP) — A major hacking operation tied to Lebanon's main intelligence agency has been exposed after careless spies left hundreds …
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Tweets: @eff, @abirghattas, @empiricalerror, @yeh1a, @ap, and @sulomeanderson
| Leslie Hook / Financial Times: |
Uber's $8.8B deal with SoftBank closes; new board member Rajeev Misra says Uber should return focus to US, Europe, Latin America, Australia to become profitable — Uber's largest shareholder has called for the car-booking company to focus on recovering market share in the US and growing …
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Tweets: @gamoid, @financialtimes, @isv_damocles, and @mikeisaac
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says it will fix a flaw that crashes Messages app on iOS upon receipt of a malicious link in an update next week — A software update coming next week will fix an issue that allows a malicious link to freeze the Messages app on the iPhone and iPad, Apple confirmed to MacRumors this morning.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon narrows HQ2 search to 20 cities from 238 proposals, 19 in the US and Toronto in Canada, and says it expects to make a decision in 2018 — Amazon has selected 20 cities to move to the next phase in its HQ2 selection process, the latest twist in an unprecedented headquarters search that has turned into a national curiosity.
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Tweets: @nycmayor, @mayorbyronbrown, @ceciliakang, @harrymccracken, @masterdevwi, @geekwire, and @nbcnews. Thanks:@johnhcook
| Iain Thomson / The Register: |
Google software engineer Grzegorz Milka says in conference presentation that under 10% of active Gmail users have two-factor authentication enabled — Your daily dose of digital depression — Usenix Enigma It has been nearly seven years since Google introduced two-factor authentication …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
As smartphones drop the 3.5mm jack, the headphones market is becoming a fragmented mess; USB-C headphones remain pricey as implementation varies across OEMs — Into the uncertain wilderness of wireless and digital connections, we go — At CES this year, I saw the future of headphones, and it was messy.
Tweets: @backlon and @zio_excel
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Instagram updated with optional feature that displays when you were last active, visible by default to users who have talked with you via direct message — You can turn it off... for now — Instagram is continuing to build out its messaging section with a new feature that's already found …
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast: |
YouTube's change to Partner Program rules, favoring highly viewed channels, causes backlash among its community, with many smaller channels feeling penalized — On Tuesday YouTube rolled out a giant shift to the platform that alienated tens of thousands of creators and could forever transform what it means to be a YouTuber.
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Tweets: @taylorlorenz and @taylorlorenz
| Justin McCarthy / RTÉ: |
Ireland's Department of Finance says Apple will pay €13B in back taxes to an escrow account between April and September 2018, following EU court order — The Public Accounts Committee has been told the collection of €13bn from technology company Apple will begin in March and continue through to September.
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Reuters, Digital Trends, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @ron_miller
| Crispian Balmer / Reuters: |
Italy's antitrust agency opens probe into allegations that Apple and Samsung used software updates to slow phones and induce customers to buy newer models — ROME (Reuters) - Italy's antitrust body said on Thursday it had opened a probe into allegations that Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics …
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