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Facebook releases first content moderation report: 583M fake accounts closed in Q1 2018, action taken on almost 1.5B accounts and 2.5M instances of hate speech — Firm's first quarterly moderation report also shows scale of spam, hate speech and violence — Facebook took moderation action …
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @dancow, @kantrowitz, @eff, @chris_skinner, @facebook, @nitashatiku, @nitashatiku, @facebook, and @joshconstine
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter says it will use thousands of behavioral signals on accounts, not just content of individual tweets, when filtering search, replies, and recommendations — Act like a jerk, and Twitter will start limiting how often your tweets show up. — On Tuesday, Twitter announced a massive change …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Uber will no longer require arbitration for individual claims of sexual assault or harassment by riders, drivers, staff, but class action suits still disallowed — In a surprise move, Uber said on Tuesday it is changing its long-standing policy of mandatory arbitration to exempt employees …
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| Neer Varshney / The Next Web: |
HTC announces plans for Exodus, a “blockchain phone” with secure enclave and universal wallet for easier cryptocurrency trading and better DApp experience — HTC is developing a new Android phone that will be powered by blockchain technology. — The phone, named Exodus …
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The Verge, Digital Trends, Android Police, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, CoinDesk, CNET, Android Authority, Pocket-lint, PCMag, CCN, ZDNet, Droid Life, Android Central, and Android and Me
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| Eric Geller / Politico: |
White House eliminates cyber coordinator role, meant to harmonize the government's cybersecurity policies, after Rob Joyce's exit, to “streamline authority” — The Trump administration has eliminated the White House's top cyber policy role, jettisoning a key position created during …
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| Alistair Barr / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook says he urged President Trump to fix the DACA immigration issue in a recent White House meeting, and told him tariffs were the wrong approach to China — - Cook urged fixing DACA immigration issue in Trump meeting — Apple ups buybacks because stock is ‘good value,’ Cook says
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google finally adds support for ARCore on Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ — Augmented reality technology has gotten much more popular over the past couple of years, and with the arrival of ARCore, it's gotten a whole lot better on Android. Now, Samsung's latest flagships finally offer support.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp refreshes Groups to let admins more easily manage their Groups and users more quickly catch up on missed messages, to better take on Telegram — Facebook just installed its VP of Internet.org as the new head of WhatsApp after its CEO Jan Koum left the company.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Microsoft provides a peek at Surface Hub 2: 50.5-inch Teams-powered tablet with a 4K+ display that can rotate into a portrait mode, due in 2019 — Remember the Surface Hub? You probably don't. Unlike Microsoft's other PCs — the Surface Pro, Book, Laptop and Studio …
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Tweets: @surface, @backlon, @pierce, @tomwarren, @tapbot_paul, @marcoarment, @marcoarment, @tomwarren, and @panos_panay
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Amazon partners with Kaleido, a new startup out of blockchain incubator ConsenSys, to offer the first blockchain SaaS solution available on AWS Marketplace — - The tech giant's cloud computing arm is partnering with a start-up called Kaleido to make it easier for customers to put their services on blockchain.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
AT&T's DirecTV Now launches its cloud DVR, alongside a new tier with 100 hours of recording and 90 days of storage for $10/month more, adds more content, more — AT&T's over-the-top streaming service for cord cutters, DirecTV Now, is finally beginning to roll out its cloud DVR feature - a year and a half after its launch.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Youth Portal, a site to educate teens on how their data is being used and guidelines on how to post — There's probably an important gap in attention being paid at internet companies to young kids that are good targets for parental controls and older ones who are having …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tweetbot 3 for Mac arrives with a new look, a few new features like a combined Notifications view, and a tentative reprieve from Twitter's API deprecations — One of the more popular desktop clients for Twitter, Tweetbot, is today launching a completely rewritten version of its software, Tweetbot 3 for Mac.
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Mac App Store, The Verge, Six Colors, MacStories, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, and Android Central. Tweets: @alexeheath
| Shane Harris / Washington Post: |
Sources: US government identified a former CIA employee as a suspect in last year's Vault 7 leak of a large portion of the CIA's computer hacking arsenal — The U.S. government has identified a suspect in the leak last year of a large portion of the CIA's computer hacking arsenal …
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Gizmodo, AppleInsider, New York Times, The Register, Motherboard, CNET, and Cyberscoop
Tweets: @w7voa, @bubbaprog, @zackwhittaker, and @shaneharris
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon makes Sumerian, its browser-based tool to build AR, VR, and 3D apps with minimal coding, generally available — Last November, AWS announced a new product called Amazon Sumerian, a toolkit and platform for developers to build “mixed reality” apps — that is, using virtual reality …
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ZDNet, AWS News Blog, SiliconANGLE, Fidelity Labs, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Gamasutra, and VRFocus
| New York Times: |
Sources: DOJ and FBI are investigating Cambridge Analytica and “associated US persons”, seeking info from former employees and banks that handled its business — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department and the F.B.I. are investigating Cambridge Analytica, the now-defunct political data firm … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Responding to UK parliament's summons threat, Facebook says Zuckerberg “has no plans to meet with the committee or travel to the UK at the present time” — Facebook says that it won't send Mark Zuckerberg to the UK to appear before a Parliamentary committee that threatened …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Kaspersky Lab says it will relocate some core operations from Russia to Switzerland, after US and UK intelligence agencies expressed concern about interference — Russian antivirus-software company will set up a new data center in Zurich by late 2019 — Russian antivirus-software company …
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Business Wire, Kaspersky Lab official blog, Axios, TechCrunch, Security Affairs, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, VentureBeat, Axios, The Register, Inquirer, Reuters, CNET, BetaNews, and Fortune. Tweets: @e_kaspersky
| Adam White / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase debuts Coinbase Prime, a platform for institutional investors, Coinbase Custody, for cryptoasset safekeeping, and Coinbase Markets for better liquidity — The cryptocurrency market is maturing rapidly as more sophisticated institutional participants enter the space.
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Fortune, Business Insider, Recode, SludgeFeed, NewsBTC, Bloomberg, Financial Times, CNBC, Bitcoinist.com, The Next Web, CoinSpeaker, CoinDesk, Mashable, Bitsonline, TechCrunch, Axios, Fortune, and Bitsonline. Tweets: @aaronklein
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