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March 23, 2018, 8:30 AM

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The Daily Beast:
Source: US investigators identify Guccifer 2.0 as a GRU officer, attributed via hacker's login to US social media service without a VPN from a Moscow IP address  —  Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee …
Ina Fried / Axios:
Craigslist pulls all personal ads after passage of sex-trafficking bill FOSTA, says any tool or service can be misused and that it can't take such risk  —  Online classified site Craigslist has pulled its entire personal ad section after Congress passed a new sex-trafficking bill that puts more liability on Web sites.
CNBC:
Dropbox priced IPO at $21/share, above already increased range of $18-$20, raising $756M and giving company a valuation of $8.2B+  —  Dropbox priced its IPO above expectations at $21 per share on Thursday night, setting the stage for the software company's stock to hit the public market on Friday.
Gabe Madway / Instagram:
Instagram says it's making changes to ensure that newer posts are more likely to appear first and is testing a button to let users choose when to refresh  —  Today we're introducing changes to give you more control over your feed and ensure the posts you see are timely.
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple says it will fix a privacy bug that let Siri read out hidden third-party lock screen notifications in a future update  —  Apple has confirmed it will fix a privacy issue in which Siri can read aloud hidden lock screen notifications from many apps on iPhones.
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Google rolls out the ability to send payments using Assistant through Google Pay to iOS and Android users in the US  —  But only via Google Pay  —  Google is rolling out the ability to send peer-to-peer payments with Google Assistant.  Starting today (only in the US) …
Bloomberg:
Experts analyzing video of Uber's autonomous car accident say car's sensors should have detected the pedestrian and a human driver could have responded quicker  —  Self-driving sensors should have detected victim, experts say  —  Footage at odds with early crash descriptions by police chief
Adam Behsudi / Politico:
Trump announces plans to levy tariffs on ~$60B of Chinese-made goods; source says list of targeted products, coming within 15 days, will mostly focus on tech  —  President Donald Trump will escalate economic tensions with China by unveiling on Thursday extensive new trade restrictions …
Kara Swisher / Recode:
In interview, Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook has made mistakes in building its platform, the fixes will not be easy and will cost “many millions of dollars”  —  In a wide-ranging interview, the Facebook CEO admitted that the social networking giant may have made mistakes in opening up its network so much a decade ago.
Tony Romm / Washington Post:

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