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| Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed: |
YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam had denounced the platform for age-restricting and demonetizing her videos; her father warned police she might visit YouTube HQ — The woman posted frequently on the video sharing platform about animal cruelty, vegan recipes, and said she believed YouTube was discriminating against her.
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Tweets: @gaberivera, @fraying, @wajahatali, @skynews, @passantino, @buzzfeednews, @clarajeffery, @tina_patel, and @demianbulwa
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Police say one woman, now dead from self-inflicted gunshot wound, shot three others at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, one of whom is in serious condition — 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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Tweets: @susanwojcicki, @google_comms, @lavrusik, @realdonaldtrump, @tim_cook, @sundarpichai, @paleofuture, @jeffbezos, @tdd, @satyanadella, @jack, @ronconway, @johnlegere, @peard33, @benioff, and @rmac18
| 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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CNET, Polygon, Los Angeles Times, Firstpost, BGR India, BuzzFeed, and Business Insider
Tweets: @jack, @twittersafety, @lavrusik, and @jack
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Mark Zuckerberg to testify before House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11, first of three potential hearings in Congress, about Facebook's data privacy — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will testify before a key House committee next week, the panel said Wednesday … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook debuts new feature in settings that makes it easy for users to bulk remove third-party apps and an option to delete posts from those apps — Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, users have flocked to their Facebook privacy settings to sever their connection to third-party apps …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on touchless gesture control and screens that curve inward gradually from top to bottom for future iPhones — Company seeks to differentiate design in crowded marketplace — IPhone X's OLED screen also expanding to additional models
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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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Tweets: @benedictevans, @nytimesbusiness, and @patrickmoorhead
| Urs Hölzle / The Keyword: |
Google announces that its total purchase of renewable energy exceeded the amount of electricity used by its global operations, including offices, data centers — A little over a year ago, we announced that we were on track to purchase enough renewable energy to match all the electricity we consumed over the next year.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tinder says its has begun testing Loops, two second looping videos that users can add to their profiles, on iOS in Canada and Sweden — Tinder is getting into video. On Wednesday, the popular dating app will begin testing its first video-based feature, Tinder Loops, with iOS users in Canada and Sweden.
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Tinder, International Business Times, VentureBeat, The Verge, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @typingpixels
| 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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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
1Password launches 1Password Business with compliance controls, automated provisioning, free 1Password Families memberships for each user, and more — Popular password and data manager 1Password is out today with an all new offering, 1Password Business. Launching today, developer AgileBits …
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| Fast Company: |
An in-depth look at how Twitter is scrambling to combat abuse on its platform, after initially being blinded to safety concerns by its zeal for free speech — For years, the company's zeal for free speech blinded it to safety concerns. Now it's scrambling to make up for lost time.Thanks:@mariedomingo
| Michael D. Francois / The Keyword: |
Google announces its investment in the Japan-Guam-Australia (JGA) Cable System to boost cloud performance between Australia and Southeast Asia — Earlier this year, we announced that we are expanding our global infrastructure with new regions and subsea cables, advancing our ability to connect …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Alexa's Routines can now play music, podcasts, or radio shows from a specific artist, playlist, album, or station or from supported streaming services — Alexa's routines are getting a musical upgrade. First launched last year, routines allow Alexa device owners to string together a series …
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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 … | Benedict Evans: |
As social sharing moves away from algorithmic newsfeeds, formats like Stories and one-to-one messaging are growing by addressing content overload — When I got married, my future wife and I were both quite sure that we would have a nice small, quiet wedding - none of these massive, extravagant parties with hundreds of people for us!
| Joe Uchill / Axios: |
Test finds outgoing White House emails are not in compliance with a DHS directive to implement the DMARC security protocol that verifies the sender — The security advocacy group Global Cyber Alliance tested the 26 email domains managed by the Executive Office of the President (EOP) …
Tweets: @kylegriffin1
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook confirms it scans the text and images people send each other on Messenger; the content gets blocked if it doesn't abide to the platform's rules — System is supposed to detect content that violates standards — Company on the defensive about how it handles private data| 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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Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @joshconstine, @mgsiegler, and @_darrencohen
| David J. Lynch / Washington Post: |
Trump administration targets ~$50B in Chinese electronics, aerospace, and machinery goods with tariffs amid a deepening US-China trade conflict — The Trump administration Tuesday unveiled a list of roughly $50 billion in Chinese electronics, aerospace and machinery products it plans to hit …
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Tweets: @realdonaldtrump and @emilyrauhala
| 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| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Amazon is bringing hands-free Alexa, which works when device is in use or plugged in, to the Fire 7 and the Fire HD 8; Fire 10 HD already had the feature — Amazon's Alexa is going hands-free on the company's affordable Android tablets, with a new voice mode added to the Fire 7 and Fire HD 8.
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TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo UK, Pocket-lint, and Liliputing
| 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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| 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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