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Facebook removes 652 Pages, groups, and accounts on Facebook and Instagram after a FireEye tip led it to investigate inauthentic behavior out of Iran and Russia — Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts for coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.
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Twitter says it has suspended 284 accounts for engaging in coordinated manipulation and that many of the accounts appeared to originate from Iran — Working with our industry peers today, we have suspended 284 accounts from Twitter for engaging in coordinated manipulation. Based on our existing analysis, it appears many of these accounts originated from Iran.
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Research that looked at every anti-refugee attack in Germany over two years shows more attacks on refugees happened where Facebook use was higher than average — ALTENA, Germany — When you ask locals why Dirk Denkhaus, a young firefighter trainee who had been considered neither dangerous nor political …
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Facebook assigns a trustworthiness score to each of its users, tracking things like whether an article a user flags as false turns out, after review, to be true — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to one.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Slack raises $427M Series H led by Dragoneer Investment Group and General Atlantic at a valuation of over $7.1B — Slack, the workplace communications platform, has taken off like a rocket since launching in 2013 and now has more than 8 million daily active users and 70,000 teams paying to use it.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Netflix is testing bypassing iTunes payment method in 33 countries, redirecting users to the mobile web version to log payment details directly with Netflix — Netflix is one of the highest-grossing apps on the iOS App Store, but it looks like the video streaming giant is contemplating …
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Tweets: @gartenberg, @quinta, @benbajarin, and @ow
| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook says it plans to remove over 5,000 ad targeting options by this fall in an effort to prevent discriminatory advertising — Facebook is planning to remove more than 5,000 ad targeting options in an effort to prevent discriminatory advertising. — The bulk of the 5,000 targeting options …
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Facebook, USA Today, Slate, AdExchanger, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Quartz, and The Verge
Tweets: @kantrowitz, @buzzfeednews, and @alexismadrigal
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Fit on iOS and Android is redesigned with “move minutes” and “heart points” to encourage cardiac exercise, new health-tracking rings, and activity goals — You'll collect ‘Heart Points’ instead of counting steps — Today, Google is rolling out a complete redesign …
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Engadget, MacRumors, Android Police, KnowTechie, Greenbot, CNBC, Android and Me, TalkAndroid.com, Droid Life, BGR, XDA Developers, Android Authority, Pocketables, Android Central, iPhone Hacks, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, CNET, Gizmodo, BreakingNews.ie, Thurrott.com, MSPoweruser, and CNET. Thanks:@suryatamada
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Microsoft says hackers linked to the Russian military intelligence agency formerly known as the GRU targeted conservative US think tanks that challenge Moscow — BOSTON — The Russian military intelligence unit that sought to influence the 2016 election appears to have a new target …
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Tweets: @microsoft and @wiczipedia
| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
Y Combinator says it's accepting all 15,000+ applicants to its Startup School program after a glitch sent acceptance emails to those who had been rejected — - Y Combinator emailed tech founders this week saying they had been accepted into Startup School, its free online course for entrepreneurs.
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Y Combinator, VentureBeat, and The Next Web
Tweets: @jlowin, @bryce, @cherylaclements, @ajs, @startupschool, @greigcranfield, @kifleswing, @manfrin, and @sama
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Cloud-based file transfer company WeTransfer acquires FiftyThree, which makes the popular Paper app, including its entire patent portfolio and executive team — File-sharing company WeTransfer has acquired the Paper and Paste creative apps from FiftyThree.
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The Verge, WeTransfer press releases, 9to5Mac, MacStories, The Mac Observer, The Loop, Tech.eu, and iLounge
Tweets: @wetransfer, @laurengoode, and @ow
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A look at Facebook's voice ambitions: from developing a speech recognition feature for Facebook and Messenger apps called Aloha to patents for a speaker device — Code reveals unlaunched speech recognition feature — Facebook has been a bit slow to adopt the voice computing revolution.
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The Next Web, Engadget, BGR, The Verge, and Voicebot
Tweets: @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Tinder begins rolling out a new college-only service called Tinder U to iOS devices at four-year, accredited, not-for-profit schools in the US — Tinder officially announced today that it's launching a service called Tinder U, a version of Tinder that's only available to college students.| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: |
In an interview, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says Twitter should be built around following topics and interests, thinks an impartial product can exist — Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey doesn't have all the answers. For one, he's not sure whether you should delete your old tweets.| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Benchmark plans to keep its next fund, expected early next year, about the same size as its previous ones, eschewing trend in VC to raise larger funds — Early bets on Uber, WeWork and Snap have delivered unrivaled returns in one fund, but the venture-capital firm resists getting bigger
Tweets: @rolfewinkler and @austenallred
| Patricia Hernandez / The Verge: |
Google launches experimental feature for Assistant users in the US that shares stories from Solutions Journalism Network when asked “tell me something good” — Good news, literally — Trying to keep up with the news might be aspirational, but these days, it can also be depressing.
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The Keyword, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Android Authority, CNET, Digital Trends, SlashGear, 9to5Google, Neowin, Android and Me, BetaNews, VentureBeat, Android Police, MSPoweruser, Pocketables, and Thurrott.com
Tweets: @googlenewsinit and @joecardillo
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
HTC announces Vive Wireless Adapter, coming Sept. 24 for $300, allowing wireless usage of Vive and Vive Pro, though the Pro needs a $60 compatibility add-on — HTC's long-awaited Vive Wireless Adapter is almost ready to purchase, the company announced today, as the cutting-edge collaboration between …
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VIVE Blog, Engadget, The Verge, IGN, The Next Web, KnowTechie, PC Gamer, Digital Trends, TechSpot, iMore, Gamasutra, CNET, Inquirer, TechCrunch, Windows Central, and Road to VR
Tweets: @dannerdcubed and @htcvive
| CoinDesk: |
Tencent Holdings and SoftBank Group both dispute reports of their involvement in the pre-IPO investment round of Chinese cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain — Tencent Holdings and SoftBank Group are both disputing their involvement in a widely reported pre-IPO investment round for Chinese cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Costco finishes rolling out contactless payments in US except at its gas stations, letting customers use Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay at 750 stores — Apple Pay is now accepted at all Costco warehouses in the United States, at in-store checkouts, according to the wholesale retailer.
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CNET, TechCrunch, Nextgov, Engadget, O'Grady's PowerPage, Cult of Mac, iLounge, and AppleInsider. Tweets: @cheddar
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Braavo, a startup that provides financing to mobile app developers and gets paid back with a fixed percentage of future earnings, raises $6M Series A — Braavo, a startup that provides financing to mobile app developers, is announcing that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Semmle, which helps proactively spot problems in code, raises $21M Series B led by Accel Partners, bringing total investment to $31M — Semmle, a startup that originally spun out of research at Oxford, announced a $21 million Series B investment today led by Accel Partners.
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SiliconANGLE, eWeek, SecurityWeek, darkREADING, and PE Hub Blog
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
22 states ask US appeals court to reinstate net neutrality rules, and firms including Etsy and Vimeo filed a separate legal challenge to overturn the FCC ruling — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of 22 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia late Monday asked a U.S. appeals court …
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Tweets: @newyorkstateag and @mozilla
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