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Kevin Systrom's statement on his and Mike Krieger's departure from Instagram says they plan to take time off “to explore our curiosity and creativity again” — Mike and I are grateful for the last eight years at Instagram and six years with the Facebook team.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Kevin Systrom had the CEO title, but Zuckerberg controlled Instagram's destiny, with unwavering focus on building a great business, not simply a great product — In the hours after The New York Times broke the story that Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger had resigned from Instagram …
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: in recent months, Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives had begun preparing for the possibility that the Instagram co-founders would leave — Conflicts included Facebook's tweaks seen as promoting the social network's growth at the expense of the photo-sharing app
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| David Faber / CNBC: |
Qualcomm expands its lawsuit against Apple, claiming Apple stole source code and chip secrets and gave them to Intel to improve the performance of iPhone chips — - Qualcomm hopes the court will amend its allegations to an existing lawsuit against Apple for breaching the so called master software agreement …
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| Bloomberg: |
Google publishes a proposed framework for privacy regulation, a 3-page document, and taps its privacy lawyer Keith Enright to become chief privacy officer — - Longtime lawyer Keith Enright to testify before Senate — Washington ramps up pressure on tech over privacy policies
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces that it is enabling keyboard and mouse support on the Xbox One, rolling out first to Xbox Insiders in the coming weeks — Game developers will have to enable the support — Microsoft is enabling keyboard and mouse support on the Xbox One.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter announces a new policy around dehumanizing language and says it will now ask everyone for feedback about its policy changes, starting today — Twitter says it's going to change the way it creates rules regarding the use of its service to also now include community feedback.
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| Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central: |
Microsoft says its Microsoft Whiteboard collaboration app is out now on iOS and available on the web in preview, two months after launching on Windows 10 — Two months after first launching on Windows 10, Microsoft's Whiteboard collaboration app is expanding its horizons to iOS and the web.
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| David Canellis / The Next Web: |
Monero devs disclose major bug in Monero wallets that would have let attackers maliciously “burn” XMR cryptocurrency; private fix was first pushed to exchanges — Monero developers have disclosed a major bug that could really have been nasty. Until now, attackers … | Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Google is reversing part of its ban on cryptocurrency-related ads, plans to allow ads from regulated crypto exchanges in the US and Japan starting in October — - Google is reversing part of its sweeping ban on cryptocurrency-related advertising and plans to allow regulated crypto exchanges to buy ads in the United States and Japan.| Washington Post: |
Inside the meeting of federal and state law enforcement that signals a willingness to probe tech giants; MS AG: “focus is going to be on antitrust and privacy” — A meeting of the country's top federal and state law enforcement officials on Tuesday could presage a series of sweeping …
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| Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast: |
Former NSA employee Nghia Hoang Pho sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for taking home classified files that were then allegedly stolen by Russian hackers — A mysterious hacker clan. A controversial Russian cybersecurity specialist. A top-secret developer with sticky fingers.
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| Rachel Kraus / Mashable: |
Snapchat partners with TurboVote to put links to register in users' profile pages and partners with some pubs on “swipe up” option, says 80% of US users are 18+ — Snapchat is the latest social network to roll out a voter registration initiative in the run up to the 2018 midterm elections.
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| Daniel Roberts / Yahoo! Finance: |
Coinbase announces a new process to more rapidly list digital assets compliant with local law and will now publicly announce new listings only at or near launch — announced on Tuesday a new policy for adding assets, and it constitutes a major change for America's biggest cryptocurrency brokerage.
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: |
Safari's Siri Suggested Websites feature found promoting conspiracy sites and misinformation; Apple says it removes any inappropriate suggestions when notified — Apple's Safari, one of the internet's most popular web browsers, has been surfacing debunked conspiracies, shock videos … | Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook removes 12+ US hyperpartisan pages with 30M+ fans, which mostly spammed them with links to Laura Ingraham's LifeZette and were run by fake accounts — Facebook has removed over a dozen American hyperpartisan liberal and conservative pages with more than 30 million combined fans … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says Alexa skill developers can now sell “consumables” such as hints or extra points for games, expanding Alexa's in-app purchase capabilities — Alexa skill developers will now be able to sell “consumables” within their voice apps, known as Alexa skills, Amazon announced this morning.| Reuters: |
Indian version of Tinder is trialing a new feature called “My Move”, which, like Bumble, gives women control over starting a conversation — (Reuters) - The Indian edition of dating app Tinder is trialing a new feature which gives women an additional level of scrutiny and security …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn launches Talent Insights, which provides business intelligence reports on companies, talent pools, skills, and more — LinkedIn may be best known as a place where people and organizations keep public pages of their professional profiles, using that as a starting point for networking … | Ada Hui / CoinDesk: |
Four early execs from Block.one, the Peter Thiel-backed crypto startup behind EOS that raised $4B in a year-long ICO, leave to start a new startup in stealth — Four early employees and two contractors have resigned from the Hong Kong cryptocurrency company Block.one to start up StrongBlock … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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