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Facebook introduces new Privacy Shortcuts menu, simplified settings menu on mobile, and tools to find, download, and delete your Facebook data — Last week showed how much more work we need to do to enforce our policies and help people understand how Facebook works and the choices they have over their data.
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Documents reveal that a Palantir Technologies employee, in his personal capacity, suggested to Cambridge Analytica to use a mobile app to harvest Facebook data — As a start-up called Cambridge Analytica sought to harvest the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans in summer 2014 …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook will not unveil its smart speakers at F8 while it deals with data misuse scandal but still plans to launch speakers later this year — Social network had hoped to show off devices at F8 in May — Company still plans to launch products later this year
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| Jonathan Swan / Axios: |
Sources: Trump is “obsessed” with Amazon, with his antipathy surfacing when discussing tax policy or antitrust cases; he is not concerned about Facebook — Capitol Hill wants Facebook's blood, but President Trump isn't interested. Instead, the tech behemoth Trump wants to go after is Amazon …
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google starts blocking uncertified Android devices from using its core apps, will allow exceptions for custom ROMs — Google has always controlled which devices ship with its proprietary GApps—a package that includes such necessities as the Play Store and Google Play Services.| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Docker founder and CTO Solomon Hykes is leaving the company, citing need for new enterprise-focused CTO — Solomon Hykes, who as Docker founder and chief technical officer laid the groundwork for one of the most quickly adopted enterprise computing technologies ever developed, is leaving the company.
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Princeton University study finds 90% of affiliate marketing ads on YouTube and Pinterest are not disclosed, violating FTC guidelines — IF YOU SEARCH for the millennial makeup brand Glossier on YouTube, one of the first results likely to appear is from Olivia Jade, a fashion and beauty vlogger with over one million subscribers.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
The Alliance for Open Media, which counts Google, Apple, Amazon as members, releases new royalty free 4K UHD standard AV1 that uses 30-40% less network capacity — AV1 compression technology from companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Netflix is here. And it's blowing up the video industry's patent rules, too.
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| Theo Douglas / Government Technology News: |
AT&T's FirstNet and Verizon launch dedicated public safety networks for first responders, with private core services for members — The nation's two dedicated first responder networks are going live this week with private core services for members, representatives of both entities said.
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft launches open source tool for developers to create custom Linux distribution packages for Windows 10 — After starting with Ubuntu, Microsoft has added a number of Linux distributions to its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Linux runtime environment.
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Credit Karma is getting a $500M secondary investment from Silver Lake at a valuation of $4B, as it seeks to expand its product line — Credit Karma, which once started as a simple credit report system and is now looking to expand into a true financial assistant, announced today it is getting …
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| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
Latest Snapchat beta features a “Connected Apps” tab, hinting that Snap, like Facebook, will enable sharing of user data with third-party apps — As Facebook users are uninstalling apps they connected long ago via Facebook log-in, Snapchat may be pushing for its community to do the exact opposite.| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Equifax appoints former GE exec Mark Begor as CEO, replacing interim chief Barros Jr. who was installed after 2017's data breach and will join company's board — New leader replaces interim chief who took over after data breach — Equifax Inc. EFX 1.79% has appointed former General …
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Waze launches Waze Local, map-based ads for SMBs and franchises, and says it has 100M active users who spend 11 hours per month on average in the app — Previewed roughly a year ago, Waze is now introducing “Waze Local,” map-based ads aimed primarily (though not exclusively) at small businesses.
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| Aditi Shah / Reuters: |
Sources: Uber met Ola executives at least twice over the last 12 months and suggested a potential merger between the two companies — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Uber's decision to exit Southeast Asia, where it was bleeding money, should give the global ride-hailing giant more firepower to focus on India … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google adds support for 39 more languages to Maps — Google today announced that Google Maps is getting support for 39 additional languages. — The newly supported languages are Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will acquire GIF platform Tenor, which is integrated into a variety of keyboards and messaging apps like Facebook Messenger — Google will be acquiring Tenor, which powers a variety of GIF keyboards on phones and messengers like Facebook Messenger, the companies announced today.
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The Keyword, Tenor, Quartz, MacRumors, TechSpot, Yourstory.com, Ubergizmo, Firstpost, ZDNet, BetaNews, The Verge, Neowin, Search Engine Journal, SiliconANGLE, San Francisco Chronicle, Android Police, Digital Trends, SlashGear, ValueWalk, Droid Life, My Two Cents, Android Authority, CNBC, Forbes, VentureBeat, Thurrott.com, Bloomberg, 9to5Google, CNET, Mashable, Reuters, Android and Me, and Axios
| Chris Mellor / The Register: |
Pure Storage and Nvidia unveil AIRI, a four-petaflop platform using Nvidia's DGX-1 servers and Pure's FlashBlade storage system for large-scale AI initiatives — 0.5 PFLOPS FP32, 0.5 PB of effective flash storage — Pure Storage and Nvidia have produced a converged machine-learning system … Sponsor Posts
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