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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Police confirm four shot at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, three hospitalized, one dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound, suspected shooter was a woman — San Bruno received multiple 911 calls from headquarters, report says — Police have responded to multiple 911 calls at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, CA.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Twitter account of YouTube product manager Vadim Lavrusik was hacked and shared fake news during YouTube HQ shooting; Twitter deleted hoax tweets from account — As Twitter users searched for news about today's shooting at YouTube headquarters, hackers were actively compromising a verified employee account to spread misinformation.
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Tweets: @twittersafety, @jack, @jack, @lavrusik, @anthonyquintano, @twittersafety, @twittersafety, and @sdkstl
| NBC News: |
Officials identify the San Bruno shooter as Nasim Najafi Aghdam, 39, and police say the attack appeared to be a domestic dispute unrelated to terrorism — A woman opened fire at YouTube's California headquarters Tuesday afternoon before turning the gun on herself, authorities said.
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| New York Times: |
Apple hires John Giannandrea, formerly Google's chief of search and AI, to run Apple's machine learning and AI strategy, reporting to Tim Cook — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple has hired Google's chief of search and artificial intelligence, John Giannandrea, a major coup in its bid to catch …
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| Alex Stamos / Facebook: |
Facebook deletes 70 FB accounts, 138 FB Pages, and 65 Instagram accounts run by Russia's Internet Research Agency this morning, shares samples of IRA content — This morning we removed 70 Facebook and 65 Instagram accounts — as well as 138 Facebook Pages — that were controlled by the Russia-based Internet Research Agency (IRA).
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Overview of gaming laptops using Intel 6-core CPUs, including Samsung Notebook Odyssey Z, Acer Nitro 5, Gigabyte AERO 15/15x, Asus ROG Zephyrus M, Asus ROG G703 — Gaming laptops are getting faster and thinner — Intel unveiled its first Core i9 chip for laptops earlier today …
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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Spotify closes at $149.60 on its first day, down ~10% from opening but still far above private market price of ~$132, giving the company a market cap of ~$26.5B — Spotify is done with its long-awaited “direct listing” experiment. The music streaming company went public without the IPO.| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
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| Reuters: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is not planning to extend its compliance with Europe's GDPR law to users globally — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law …
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Tweets: @jason_kint, @jason_kint, and @martinsfp
| Facebook: |
Facebook is rolling out an “About this article” button in the US, showing where an article's been shared, the publisher's Wikipedia entry, and related stories — By Taylor Hughes, Software Engineer; Jeff Smith, Product Designer; and Alex Leavitt, UX Researcher
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| Ry Crozier / iTnews: |
Australian regulator AUSTRAC approves first two digital currency exchanges, Independent Reserve and CoinSpot, as compliant with new regulations — Seen to legitimise fledgling industry. — Australian digital currency exchanges Independent Reserve and CoinSpot are the first to confirm compliance … | Forbes: |
36 female VCs launch All Raise, an initiative to increase funding for women from 15% to 25% in 5 years and double the percentage in partner roles in 10 years — AILEEN LEE STARED at the email in her drafts folder for nearly a month, unsure what to do. The summer of 2017 had been brutal for venture capital.
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All Raise, All Raise, Silicon Valley Business …, and TechCrunch
Facebook: Jess Lee. Tweets: @bizcarson, @lum, @karanortman, @karanortman, @jesskah, @karanortman, @dfjjosh, @eva_ho, @alexia, @msquinn, and @jodij
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Internal Facebook white paper says Trump campaign spent $44M on FB ads while Clinton team spent $28M from June-November 2016; Trump team ran 5.9M ad versions — The president's ad campaign was 'more complex than Clinton's' — Trump focused on new donors; Clinton on ensuring broad appeal| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft acquired enterprise report rendering tech from Forerunner Software; Forerunner says it will support customers through Oct. 2020 — Microsoft has bought Forerunner Software's Mobilizer and Report Viewer products with the intent of improving its client-side report rendering capabilities.
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SQL Server Reporting …, eWeek, MSPoweruser, and On MSFT
| Frank Bajak / Associated Press: |
In letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, DHS acknowledges existence in Washington DC of unauthorized “stingray” devices, used to track cell phones, intercept SMS messages — For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existence in Washington of what appear …
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Gizmodo, The Register, Ars Technica, ZDNet, CNET, Axios, Engadget, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @r0wdy_, @kylegriffin1, @dnvolz, @matthew_d_green, and @cfarivar
| Thuy Ong / The Verge: |
Snapchat introduces group video chat for up to 16 people, group audio chat for up to 32 people, and “Mentions” in Stories that allow users to tag friends — You can video chat with up to 16 friends or 32 with just voice — Snapchat is introducing several new features this week …
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Snap Inc., Ad Age, Motherboard, Recode, Business Insider, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @neumannky
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
500 Startups to sell equity in its parent company Mothership to Abu Dhabi Financial Group, which will oversee operations alongside co-founder Christine Tsai — It's the VC firm's most meaningful governance change since its CEO resigned from the role last year.
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| BBC: |
Eurocontrol says a failure of its air traffic management software, the second in 20 years, is now fixed, but could delay ~15,000 flights in Europe — The organisation responsible for co-ordinating European air traffic says it has fixed an earlier fault which led to widespread flight delays.
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Tweets: @eurocontrol, @hughstephens, @eurocontrol, @eurocontrol, @eurocontrol, @eurocontrol, and @eurocontrol
| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
BlackBerry sues Snap for allegedly infringing on six messaging patents, two of which are also in the suit it filed against Facebook last month — BlackBerry is suing Snap Inc. for patent infringement. — Does that sound familiar? Well, you may be thinking of that time last month …
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