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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nokia to sell its digital health division to Eric Carreel, cofounder of Withings, which Nokia acquired for €170M in 2016; deal expected to close late Q2 2018 — Nokia's unsuccessful foray into digital health hardware and services looks like it is finally coming to an end.
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| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
Signal says Amazon has warned the company to stop using the anti-censorship domain-fronting technique if it wants to continue using AWS — Telegram has been putting up an impressive fight against the governments of Russia and Iran in high-profile efforts to censor the messaging service over the last few weeks.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook announces dating feature for its app that will recommend matches and let users create a separate dating profile, with testing to begin later this year — The world's largest social network is adding dating app features — Facebook is adding a dating layer to its main mobile app …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook to bring outside advisors for a civil rights audit of its impact on minority groups and to investigate claims it's biased against conservative voices — To address allegations of bias, Facebook is bringing in two outside advisors — one to conduct a legal audit of its impact … | Ben Smith / BuzzFeed: |
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| Giovanni Buttarelli / European Data Protection …: |
Ahead of GDPR, EU data watchdog says internet platforms that collect user data are like “sweatshops” exploiting users in exchange for so called “free” services — The digital information ecosystem farms people for their attention, ideas and data in exchange for so called ‘free’ services.
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Researchers say critical infrastructure software had security flaws that could have let hackers shut down factories, power plants, and water systems remotely — Security flaws would have let potential hackers shut down power plants, water systems and solar power facilities remotely, researchers say.
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
BMW, GM, Ford, Renault, and others form a coalition, the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI), to apply blockchain tech in the automotive sector — Four of the world's largest carmakers have joined tech providers and startups to form the biggest-ever consortium focused on applying blockchain tech in the automotive sector.
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| Nicholas Schmidle / New Yorker: |
Behind the debate on whether the CFAA should be amended to allow private companies and citizens that are victims of cybercrimes to “hack back” — American companies that fall victim to data breaches want to retaliate against the culprits. But can they do so without breaking the law?
Tweets: @hatr, @ericgeller, and @malwaretechblog
| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Facebook confirms it has fired one of its security engineers who allegedly used privileged access to stalk women online — After a member of the information security community provided evidence to Facebook's chief information security officer, the company has terminated a security engineer …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google is launching .app domains, the first top-level domains secured with built-in HTTPS, to its Early Access Program on May 7 and to all on May 8 — Over three years after Google paid $25 million to gain the exclusive rights to the “.app” top-level domain, the company …
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| Apple: |
Apple Q2: revenue of $61.1B, up 16% YoY, as iPhone sales rise 3% YoY to 52.3M, iPad sales rise 2% YoY to 9.1M, Mac sales fall 3% YoY to 4.08M; stock up 3%+ — Revenue Grows 16 Percent and EPS Grows 30 Percent to New March Quarter Records — New $100 Billion Share Repurchase Authorization Announced, Dividend Raised by 16 Percent
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Facebook will bring its AR camera platform to Instagram, letting creators use AR Studio to design face filters, world effects, and more — AR camera effects are coming to Instagram in a closed beta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced at Facebook's F8 conference today.
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| Thuy Ong / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg announces new Instagram features, including a redesigned Explore page and video chat
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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Overcast 4.2 released with enhanced privacy that encourages anonymous accounts at login and removes automatic loading of remote ad-tracking images by default — Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas: — Anonymous sync by default — Overcast has offered anonymous sync accounts since 2014.
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Pixel Envy, mjtsai.com, The Sweet Setup, and The Brooks Review
| Paul Farrell / BuzzFeed: |
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia lost the personal financial histories of 12M customers from 2004 to 2014 and chose not to reveal the breach to customers — They might have fallen off the back of a truck... BuzzFeed Senior Reporter, Australia — The Commonwealth Bank lost … | Wall Street Journal: |
The Pentagon is moving to halt the sales of Huawei and ZTE phones in retail outlets on US military bases around the world, citing potential security threats — Move intensifies a squeeze the Trump administration has put on the two Chinese tech firms — The Pentagon is moving to halt …
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| Erin Griffith / Wired: |
Pandora study finds that too many ads can push users to subscribe, but not enough to compensate for lost ad revenue from those listening less due to more ads — AT BEST, ADVERTISING is something people tolerate while consuming media. At worst, it's a turnoff.| Manish Singh / The Outline: |
Facebook has quietly ended its Free Basics program in more than six nations and territories in recent months including Myanmar and Latin American markets — Facebook enabled ethnic-cleansing-related hate speech in Myanmar; many died and thousands fled. Rather than take responsibility, it's turning away.
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Tweets: @julieowono, @caseyjohnston, @michellemanafy, @r0h1n, @outline, and @oneunderscore__
| Snap Inc.: |
Snap reports Q1 net loss of $386M, as average revenue per user rose 34% YoY to $1.21 but was down 21% QoQ — VENICE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2018.
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