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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook now says Cambridge Analytica may have collected information on as many as 87M people, mostly in US; original reports pegged the number closer to 50M — You can find out on Monday, April 9, if you were one of them. — Cambridge Analytica may have had data from more unwitting Facebook users than originally thought.
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| Mike Schroepfer / Facebook: |
Facebook limits data available from Pages API, Events API, Groups API, and Facebook Login, will now need to approve every app that uses them — Two weeks ago we promised to take a hard look at the information apps can use when you connect them to Facebook as well as other data practices.
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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Facebook disables searching for users via email or phone number due to “malicious actors”, says most people could have had their public profile scraped this way — - The number of users whose information was improperly shared with research firm Cambridge Analytica was previously estimated to be 50 million.| 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 …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram shuts down part of its API platform that was scheduled for deprecation on July 31, killing APIs for follower lists, commenting on public content, more — Facebook is entering a tough transition period where it won't take chances around data privacy in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica fiasco … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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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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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
| New York Times: |
Letter circulating within Google, signed by 3,100+ employees, protests the company's involvement in a Pentagon program that uses AI to interpret video imagery — WASHINGTON — Thousands of Google employees, including dozens of senior engineers, have signed a letter protesting the company's involvement …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple developing tech that lets iPhone users perform tasks by moving fingers close screen without tapping it and screens that curve from top to bottom — Company seeks to differentiate design in crowded marketplace — IPhone X's OLED screen also expanding to additional models
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Tweets: @markgurman, @atbwebb, and @atbwebb
| 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
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| 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.| 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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| Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg: |
Sources: at a private dinner with Trump last night, Oracle CEO criticized the bidding process for a big Pentagon cloud-computing deal as being rigged for Amazon — Competing for multi-billion Pentagon cloud-computing deal — President said to tell Catz at dinner he expects fair bidding
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| Lucian Armasu / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel revises roadmap for Spectre patches, now does not plan to patch some older chips including Yorkfield (2007), Bloomfield (2008), Intel Atom “SoFIA” (2015) — Updated, 4/4/2018, 7:00am PT: Added Intel's statement. — Intel hinted in a previous microcode update guidance … | 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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Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET, Liliputing, Pocket-lint, and Gizmodo UK
| 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.| Joe Uchill / Axios: |
Test finds 18/26 domains managed by Executive Office aren't 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 … | 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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| Nicholas Diakopoulos / Columbia Journalism Review: |
The age of trends is over, as social signals like retweets and likes are too easily manipulated by bots, and journalists must learn to identify bots' influence — Bots are everywhere. A report by The New York Times recently outed about 3.5 million of them on Twitter.| 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 …
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AUSTRAC, Bankless Times, and Coingeek
| 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!
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GoFundMe acquires YouCaring as charitable crowdfunding continues to consolidate — GoFundMe, the startup that focuses on crowdfunding for charitable causes, has made another acquisition to scale up its platform: It has acquired YouCaring, a smaller rival, creating a combined community …
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