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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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Tweets: @cullend and @shiraovide
| 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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Engadget, Microsoft on the Issues, Gizmodo, BetaNews, GeekWire, New York Times, Reuters, MIT Technology Review, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Cybersecurity Tech Accord, WRAL TechWire, PR Newswire, MSPoweruser, and Inquirer
Tweets: @rsaconference, @dnvolz, @dangillmor, @rondeibert, @brokep, @e_kaspersky, @bradsmi, @marcorubio, and @chuckrobbins
| 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 …
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Tweets: @patrickmoorhead and @tomwarren
| 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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iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, AppAdvice.com, and Hacker Noon. Tweets: @seldo
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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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 … | 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.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Tokenized securities startup Harbor raises $28M led by Founders Fund with participation from a16z, following a $10M Series A in February — 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, CoinDesk, and PE Hub Blog
| 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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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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| 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 … | 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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CoinDesk, The Next Web, Wired, CoinDesk, vergecurrency, Forbes, and Mashable
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft announces the Azure Sphere stack for securing IoT devices, includes a Linux-based OS, custom silicon for microcontrollers, and matching cloud service — Microsoft is introducing new custom silicon, a Linux-based embedded OS and cloud service aimed at securing microcontroller-based devices.
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CSO, TechCrunch, The Official Microsoft Blog, MediaTek, Microsoft Azure Cloud …, GeekWire, Houston Chronicle, Fortune, On MSFT, BetaNews, BleepingComputer.com, The Hacker News, Inquirer, The Tao of Mac, Tim Anderson's IT Writing, Microsoft, SiliconANGLE, Windows Central, Ars Technica, CNET, Neowin, Associated Press, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Softpedia News, The Register, Petri, MSPoweruser, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, PCWorld, and Thurrott.com
Tweets: @lehtior2, @jasonfossen, @maryjofoley, @satyanadella, and @patrickmoorhead
| 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
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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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Bitcoinist.com, NewsBTC, and Reuters
| 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
| 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
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
TaskRabbit informs users that it is investigating a cybersecurity incident and that it has temporarily taken down its app and website — The handyman-for-hire app sent an email to users today recommending they change their passwords if they used the same ones for different websites.
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Wall Street Journal, Fortune, 9to5Mac, PYMNTS.com, BetaNews, Inquirer, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, CNNMoney, TechCrunch, BleepingComputer.com, Mashable, Axios, and NBC Bay Area
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Adobe says it has acquired voice app startup Sayspring; Sayspring CEO says it will do away with paid plans and the platform will become invite-only — Adobe today announced it has acquired Sayspring, a platform for building and prototyping voice apps like Alexa skills or Google Assistant actions.
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SiliconANGLE, Adobe Blog, Sayspring, Digital Trends, ZDNet, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, and Voicebot
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