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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
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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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| 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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Twitter, iMore, The Verge, Neowin, Slate, Ubergizmo, Wired, BetaNews, Gizmodo, The Hill, Engadget, Mercury News, New York Magazine, Mashable, TechCrunch, TechSpot, and CNET
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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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| 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.| 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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| 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: @backlon, @pierce, @tomwarren, and @surface
| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Huawei launches Honor 10 with 5.84" 19:9 LCD 2280×1080 display, Kirin 970 and dedicated NPU, and 24MP + 16MP dual-camera, available in Europe from €399 — In a world filled with rectangular blocks with displays, it takes a large effort to differentiate.| 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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Tweets: @susanthesquark, @aaschapiro, @sarahljaffe, @noamscheiber, @nytimesbusiness, @mikeisaac, and @saraashleyo
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Beam Dental raises $22.5M led by KPCB to offer better dental insurance plans for users of its connected toothbrush who share brushing data with the app — Alex Frommeyer comes from a family of dentists. Now, he has a start-up that sells dental insurance, but with a twist.
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| 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.| 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 …
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Tweets: @nickconfessore, @wendysiegelman, @nickconfessore, and @safarishane
| 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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WhatsApp.com, CNET, Mashable, Reuters, Adweek, MSPoweruser, BetaNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, Digital Trends, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @joshconstine
| 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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| Dan Frommer / Recode: |
Circle raises another $110M in round led by Bitmain, pushing its valuation up to almost $3B, says it's launching USD Coin, a new product tied to US dollar value — The company is also launching a new “USD Coin” tied to the value of the U.S. dollar. — Circle, a cryptocurrency startup led …
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| 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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Facebook, Engadget, CNET, Adweek, Digital Trends, Mashable, The Verge, Gizmodo, Firstpost, Motherboard, and Fortune
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @mcwm, @mekosoff, @caseynewton, and @rrhoover
| 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, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Six Colors, iPhone Hacks, MacStories, Engadget, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @mgsiegler, @alexeheath, and @caseynewton
| 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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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Sources: on-demand scooter startup Lime is raising up to $500M following a $70M raise in February that brought its total funding to $130M+ — Lime, one of the startups filling sidewalks with electric scooters, is raising up to $500 million in new funding, possibly via a combination of equity and debt … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Namely, an HR software startup that has raised ~$170M, fired CEO Matt Straz due to actions “inconsistent with that which is expected of Namely leadership” — Forbes Staff Covering venture capital, software and startups — Namely — Namely founder Matt Straz has been fired by the startup amid an investigation.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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