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Washington becomes first state to enact its own net neutrality protections as its bill is signed into law; 25+ states have introduced net neutrality bills — Internet providers will be required to treat all lawful content the same in Washington state under a landmark net neutrality law that just became official.
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MoviePass CEO says its app tracks user locations before and after movies, which is not information currently disclosed in the company's privacy policy — Everyone knew the MoviePass deal is too good to be true — and as is so often the case these days, it turns out you're not the customer, you're the product.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Netflix update lets parents set custom PINs for individual movies or shows and displays maturity level ratings when hitting play — Netflix today announced that it is updating its parental controls to create more detailed protection for young viewers. The service is also adding clearer maturity level rating labels to its content.| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Bumble updates policy to ban firearm images and will use ~5K moderators to remove gun-related content, won't censor images appearing in users' Instagram feeds — A few swipes into the popular dating app Bumble, and the diversity of interests is obvious: Users post photos of themselves swinging …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Pro LTE review: seamless connectivity, light and portable design, and satisfactory battery life, but has an outdated processor — The cellular-connected laptop for consumers has arrived — For the past week or so, I've been using a computer to work from a train, at a park, and in a coffee shop.| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Analysis finds WordPress powers 30% of the top 10M websites, nearly 10x the market share of its nearest competitor Joomla, which has a 3.1% share — Open source dominates the content management system market — The web-watchers at W3Techs have just noted a milestone: WordPress now accounts for 30 per cent of the world's web sites.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: used car site Vroom, which had raised ~$320M, lays off 25%-50% staff and halts Dallas and Indiana operations — Vroom, an on-demand car buying and selling startup that has raised over $300 million in venture funding, has hit a bump in the road. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Some VCs say travels outside the Bay Area, including to Midwest, have helped them see downsides of Silicon Valley, as SF faces high levels of outward migration — “Oh my god, this is so cute!” — Robin Li, an investor with the San Francisco venture capital firm GGV Capital …
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Reddit on Russian propaganda: hundreds of accounts removed, few Russian ads were seen and are now disallowed, @TEN_GOP tweets amplified by “thousands” on Reddit — Reddit didn't find any Russian ads about the 2016 election, but there was plenty of non-ad content being shared.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's search app for iOS adds an extension for iMessage in US, a Safari share sheet option to see related content suggestions, and iPad drag and drop support — Google Search is now available within iMessage. In an effort to more deeply integrate Google's search engine on iOS devices … | Jason Rowley / TechCrunch: |
Crunchbase Report: since January 2017, blockchain related startups worldwide have raised ~$4.5B via ICOs, almost 3.5x the ~$1.3B raised in traditional VC rounds — Recently, we found that, for 2018, the amount of money being raised by blockchain and blockchain-adjacent companies via traditional VC rounds … | Alex Nichols / The Outline: |
A look at the tweets of those making money from private accounts with Premo: John Schindler appears to earn $17K/month and Eric Garland $3K/month — I know, because I read them. — Facebook and Twitter have both pledged never to charge users a monthly fee for their basic services … | Salvador Rodriguez / Reuters: |
Microsoft says it will offer a new on-premises Azure service to government clients in mid-2018, a combined offering of Azure Stack and Azure Government — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp on Monday said it will soon make it possible for government clients to run its cloud technology …
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