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Sources: Apple plans to integrate recently acquired magazine app Texture into Apple News and debut its own premium news subscription service next year — Company integrating Texture purchase into Apple News offering — About 20 Texture staff were cut soon after Apple acquisition
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| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
Microsoft, Facebook, 30+ firms pledge to not help states mount cyberattacks against “innocent civilians and enterprises”; Google, Apple, Amazon decline to join — WASHINGTON — More than 30 high-tech companies, led by Microsoft and Facebook, plan to announce a set of principles …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
After Telegram moved some of its infrastructure to AWS and Google cloud, Russia banned 1.8M Amazon and Google IP addresses, impacting many other online services — Roskomnadzor, Russia's telecommunications watchdog, banned today over 1.8 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and Google's cloud infrastructure.
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Intel unveils two Threat Detection Technology features: letting software scan system memory for malware using integrated GPUs and advanced telemetry tools — The company is also using its processors' performance monitoring to detect malicious code. — Since the news of the Metldown … | Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Ex-Cambridge Analytica employee tells UK Parliament that Kogan/GSR's Facebook datasets/questionnaires were not the only ones CA used, cites two other FB quizzes — Far more than 87 million people may have had their Facebook data harvested by Cambridge Analytica, according to evidence from former employee Brittany Kaiser.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Based on ARPU, Facebook might have to charge $11-$14 for monthly subscriptions to offset ad revenue, but it would empower users with choice and a sense of value — Would it make us love or hate ads? — Would being asked to pay Facebook to remove ads make you appreciate their value or resent them even more?
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Huawei, which has sought to increase US business, dials back political outreach, laying off some staff including the face of its lobbying efforts in DC — SHENZHEN, China — In a grand hotel ballroom on Tuesday, Huawei executives laid out a soaring vision for the future.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases updated DIY AI Vision and Voice Kits for $89.99 and $49.99, with a Raspberry Pi Zero and a companion app for Android, available at Target — Launched last year, Google's AIY Projects are simple hardware kits for building AI-powered devices like an Assistant speaker and a camera with image recognition capabilities.
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Surveillance firm Terrogence, a US government vendor, has been building a massive facial recognition database from photos on Facebook, YouTube, and other sites — When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica revelations … | Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook partners with Mumbai-based Boom on a pilot fact checking project of English-language content in Indian state of Karnataka, ahead of state elections — Facebook is finally going to start fact-checking news on its platform in India, its largest market with more than 240 million users.| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Pornhub says it now accepts user payments, such as for buying Premium subscriptions, in Verge cryptocurrency — So you can be extra incognito — Pornhub has started accepting cryptocurrency as a payment option, the company announced today. The site now accepts Verge cryptocurrency …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Twilio makes its SIM-based Programmable Wireless service for IoT developers generally available — For a communications platform like Twilio, getting into wireless always seemed like a logical next move and a year ago, the company did just that with the beta launch of its SIM-based Programmable Wireless service for IoT.
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ProgrammableWeb.com and ZDNet
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Snap releases seven new templates and Giphy integration for its Lens Studio, and now lets creators build their own face filters for the first time — Snap releases seven new templates for Lens Studio, plus Giphy integration — Snap is expanding its developer platform to let creators build face filters …
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Investors, bankers, and analysts say they expect a wave of IPOs from some of the most highly valued and recognizable start-ups over the next 18 to 24 months — SAN FRANCISCO — Jason Pressman spent Thursday morning cheering from the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange as shares … | Kim Hart / Axios: |
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn says she's leaving after 8+ years at the agency, a day after FTC's Terrell McSweeny, also an Obama nominee, announced retirement — Long-time Democratic FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn announced Tuesday that she will be leaving after more than eight years at the agency.
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Federal Trade Commission. Tweets: @mattblaze, @senmarkey, @mcandrew, @mclyburnfcc, and @tmcsweenyftc
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Harbor raises $28M from a16z, Founders Fund, others, to help businesses legally issue cryptocurrency tokens tied to ownership of real-world assets like fine art — Harbor helps businesses legally issue cryptocurrency tokens that represent ownership of real-world assets like real estate, fine art, company equity, and investment funds.
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Axios, PE Hub Blog, and CoinDesk
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Tempo Automation raises $20M Series B, led by P72 Ventures, to fund its new electronics manufacturing factory in San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood — Manufacturing printed circuit boards in San Francisco sounds crazy given the high cost of labor and real estate, but Tempo Automation has raised $20 million to do just that.
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Silicon Valley Business …, VentureBeat, and Tempo
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 launches with new features that make it easier to securely embrace Kubernetes and other container orchestration tools — The second edition of Docker's enterprise product adds more security and management features for seamless and safe Kubernetes adoption.
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VentureBeat, GeekWire, GeekWire, and The Register
| Jeff Engel / Xconomy: |
Boston-based marketing chatbot firm Drift raises $60M Series C led by Sequoia Capital — David Cancel and Elias Torres built their last startup, a marketing automation company called Performable, with just $3 million from venture capitalists. — They raised that funding round in late 2009 …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and Business Wire
| Lawrence Hurley / Reuters: |
US Supreme Court rules that Microsoft email privacy dispute with the DOJ is moot, following the passage of the Cloud Act — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) privacy fight with the Justice Department over whether prosecutors … | BBC: |
FBI, DHS, and UK's National Cyber Security Centre issue joint alert warning of a Russian-led global campaign to attack and infiltrate internet infrastructure — State-sponsored Russian hackers are actively seeking to hijack essential internet hardware, US and UK intelligence agencies say.| Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg: |
US-based Kraken, one of the longest-operating cryptocurrency exchanges, is ending its services in Japan by end of June, citing rising costs of doing business — Kraken, one of the longest-operating cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, will end its trading services for Japanese residents.
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Bitsonline, NewsBTC, Bitcoinist.com, and Reuters
| Natalia Drozdiak / Wall Street Journal: |
European Commission proposes rule to let national law enforcement request access to suspects' data, such as email or photos, stored on EU and US firms' servers — Under EU proposal, tech firms would have to respond to data requests within 10 days, or in urgent cases, six hours| Sarah Skidmore Sell / Associated Press: |
The Internal Revenue Service's payment site has been down for much of the day, preventing many Americans from filing taxes electronically — Just in time for tax day: the IRS website to make payments is down. — The IRS did not have an immediate explanation for the failure.
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irs.gov, Washington Post, Fedscoop, Quartz, and CNBC
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