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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
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Documents and emails show Cambridge Analytica's plans, now on hold, to debut its own token via ICO to help people store and sell their online personal data — SAN FRANCISCO — The embattled voter-profiling firm Cambridge Analytica quietly sought to develop its own virtual currency … | 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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TechCrunch, The Next Web, Politico, UK Parliament, Digital Trends, Engadget, and The Verge
| 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, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, AppleInsider, The Register, New York Times, ZDNet, CNBC, SlashGear, NPR, CNET, CNBC, Nextgov, Quartz, Gizmodo, Fedscoop, Fortune, and GeekWire
Tweets: @brycecovert and @jasonlk
| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
NY AG launches inquiry into cryptocurrency exchanges, sends letter to 13, including Coinbase and Kraken, seeking information on their operations and more — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched an investigation into bitcoin exchanges today, his office announced.
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New York State Attorney …, CNET, Engadget, Axios, Bloomberg, Business Insider, MIT Technology Review, Bitsonline, CoinDesk, Bitcoin Magazine, and Motherboard
Tweets: @agschneiderman, @coindesk, @coindesk, @thestalwart, and @russellbrandom
| Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central: |
Microsoft adds support for FIDO2 passwordless authentication to Windows Hello, following last week's announcement of Yubico's FIDO2 USB Security Key — If you're looking to ditch your passwords for something a little more secure, it's been a good week. After the debut of the new WebAuthn standard …
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Windows Blog, Engadget, Thurrott.com, Ars Technica, Yubico, Business Wire, Microsoft Secure, On MSFT, Neowin, and MSPoweruser
| 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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BGR, Reuters, ZDNet, The Moscow Times, The Verge, DSLreports, Gizmodo, Meduza.io, Cult of Mac, The Guardian, Bloomberg, PiunikaWeb, TechSpot, 9to5Google, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Associated Press, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Ubergizmo, MacDailyNews, Inquirer, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, Crime Russia, and The Register
Tweets: @snowden, @vladsavov, @duckduckgo, @snowden, @kasparov63, @yashalevine, @catvshumanity, @jamesiry, @ow, and @ariurotl. Thanks:@campuscodi
| 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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New York Magazine, eWeek, Microsoft on the Issues, Cybersecurity Tech Accord, Engadget, BetaNews, CNNMoney, Cyberscoop, Digital Trends, The Verge, Reuters, CNBC, WRAL TechWire, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, ZDNet, MIT Technology Review, GeekWire, PR Newswire, Bloomberg, MSPoweruser, and Inquirer
Tweets: @microsoft, @rsaconference, @dnvolz, @dangillmor, @rondeibert, @brokep, @e_kaspersky, @bradsmi, @marcorubio, and @chuckrobbins
| 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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Engadget, CNET, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, The Verge, Federal Trade Commission, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @zittrain, @mikeofcc, @profwrightgmu, @mattblaze, @senmarkey, @mcandrew, @mclyburnfcc, and @tmcsweenyftc
| 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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Intel Newsroom, ExtremeTech, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, On MSFT, The Hacker News, The Tech Report, BleepingComputer.com, BetaNews, PCWorld, The Verge, The Register, Inquirer, Engadget, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, and bit-tech.net
Tweets: @patrickmoorhead and @tomwarren
| Davey Alba / BuzzFeed: |
Sources describe turmoil at Kickstarter under founder and CEO Perry Chen, who retook the top job in March, as ~50 of 120 staff have left, including 7 top execs — Since founder Perry Chen took back the reins at Kickstarter, the company has landed in a period of turmoil set in motion …
Tweets: @nattgarun, @maxtemkin, @andyorin, @buzzfeednews, @daveyalba, @katienotopoulos, @daveyalba, and @daveyalba
| 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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Digital Trends, The Next Web, CoinDesk, vergecurrency, Wired, Bitcoinist.com, CoinDesk, NewsBTC, Mashable, Forbes, and TechSpot
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Kaspersky Lab report: attacks spotted in Japan that hijack DNS settings of routers to reroute traffic to domains that could then infect some Android smartphones — Malware authors have hijacked DNS settings on vulnerable routers to redirect users to sites hosting Android malware.
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Securelist, SecurityWeek, and The Hacker News
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
IBM reports Q1 revenue of $19.1B, up 5% YoY, vs $18.84B estimated, its second consecutive quarter of increasing revenue after a five-year draught — IBM stock fell more than 5 percent after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for the first quarter on Tuesday.
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IBM, The Register, ZDNet, and Business Insider
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon adds International Shopping feature to its mobile apps, letting users easily shop for products when abroad with support for 5 languages and 25 currencies — Displaying in five new languages and 25 local currencies, with pricing, shipping, import duty estimates, and customs clearance
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Business Wire, Engadget, BetaNews, and Lifehacker
| 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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Digital Trends, BetaNews, SecurityWeek, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mercury News, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, The Register, CNNMoney, AppAdvice.com, 9to5Mac, BGR, The Guardian, Social Media Today, The Next Web, Fortune, CNET, The Daily Caller, MediaNama, USA Today, Mashable, Hacker Noon, and CNBC
Tweets: @jbenton, @seldo, and @dseetharaman
| 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.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon quietly launches an Android browser for emerging markets in India, touting it as “fast, lite and private” — Amazon has quietly launched an Android web browser app for emerging markets, where access to mobile data and high-speed connectivity is more limited.
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The Verge and The Digital Reader
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Google announces that Dialogflow Enterprise Edition, a tool to build chatbots using tech from its API.AI acquisition in 2016, is generally available — Building conversational interfaces is a hot new area for developers. Chatbots can be a way to reduce friction in websites and apps …
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Google Cloud Platform Blog, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, and 9to5Google
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Facebook deleted almost 120 cybercrime private discussion groups, with ~300K members, that ranged from spam to ID theft, hours after tip from Brian Krebs — Hours after being alerted by KrebsOnSecurity, Facebook last week deleted almost 120 private discussion groups totaling more than 300,000 members … | 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 …
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Mashable, The Register, and American Civil Liberties Union
Tweets: @briansolis, @b_fung, @forbes, and @eff
| 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
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