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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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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
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 at the moment of hitting play — Netflix today announced that it is updating its parental controls to create more detailed protection for young viewers.| 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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| 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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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Report: 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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| 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 … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
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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| 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.| 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 … | 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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Microsoft Enterprise, Microsoft Azure Cloud …, Azure Government Cloud, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, eWeek, CNBC, TechSpot, SlashGear, ZDNet, Network World, EnterpriseTech, The Register, and Seeking Alpha. Thanks:@sal19
| Alex Nichols / The Outline: |
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