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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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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook says Cambridge Analytica may have collected information on as many as 87M people, mostly in US; original reports pegged the number closer to 50M — On Monday, April 9, you can find out if you were one of them. — Cambridge Analytica may have had data from more unwitting Facebook users than originally thought.
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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 by reports to be 50 million.
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| 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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| 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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| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces AWS Secrets Manager, which allows developers to programmatically insert credentials in applications without writing them into the source code — Amazon Web Services announced a new service today that could solve one of the biggest security headaches facing users of the cloud platform.
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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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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it will invest $5B in IoT over the next four years to boost research and the development of products, services, and new programs — Microsoft, the ‘intelligent cloud/intelligent edge’ company, plans to step up its work in IoT research, products and programs.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on touchless gesture control tech for iPhones and developing iPhone displays that curve inward gradually 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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| 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 by 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tinder says it 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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| 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.| 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 … | 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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: last year, Ripple offered Gemini $1M to list XRP and told Coinbase it would be willing to lend it more than $100M in XRP to start letting users trade — Startup asked Gemini, Coinbase if money would persuade them — XRP has surged on speculation it may list on big U.S. exchange
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