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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Tim Cook attacks the “data industrial complex” and calls for comprehensive US privacy laws in speech at conference on data protection and privacy in Brussels — Apple's CEO Tim Cook has joined the chorus of voices warning that data itself is being weaponized again people and societies …
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Google now lets users review and delete their recent search activity and provides easier access to privacy controls, on desktop today and mobile apps later — We're always working on making it easier for you to understand and control your data so you can make privacy choices that are right for you.
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Marketing Land, Digital Trends, ZDNet, Android Authority, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Cult of Mac, Nextgov, The Verge, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Search Engine Journal, CNBC, PCWorld, VentureBeat, Mashable, MSPoweruser, Android and Me, Thurrott.com, Droid Life, Lifehacker, Neowin, BetaNews, PhoneDog, KnowTechie, 9to5Google, TalkAndroid.com, BetaNews, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Police, and CNET
Tweets: @google and @mattbrittin
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
A look at two features Twitter is testing: “presence indicators”, which say what users are doing while they tweet, and “ice breakers” to start conversations — Executives say they want to enhance conversations on the platform — Twitter is testing new features designed …
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Digiday, 9to5Mac, Fast Company, CNET, Engadget, VentureBeat, Thurrott.com, KnowTechie, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @caseynewton, @paulfabretti, @caseynewton, @100zeroes, @backlon, @mgsiegler, and @ow
| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q1 revenue of $29.1B, up 19% YoY, net income of $8.8B, up 34% YoY; Azure revenue grew 76%, LinkedIn revenue grew 33%, Surface revenue grew 14% — Microsoft Cloud Strength Powers Record First Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — October 24, 2018 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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CNBC, Engadget, GeekWire, ZDNet, The Verge, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Official Microsoft Blog, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @microsoft, @ldignan, @daniel_rubino, @carnage4life, @patrickmoorhead, @microsoft, @microsoft, @microsoft, @microsoft, and @microsoft
| The Daily Beast: |
Amazon pitched its facial recognition surveillance tech to ICE and continued its dialogue with the US immigration agency in the midst of critical media coverage — Amazon employees are up in arms about possible collaborations with law enforcement. That hasn't stopped Amazon reps from pitching ICE on its face-scanning tech.
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Tweets: @jakelaperruque, @jakelaperruque, @jakelaperruque, @torproject, @jakelaperruque, @zeynep, @noahshachtman, @noahshachtman, and @mims
| The Verge: |
Leaked Google contract stipulates that Android device makers provide at least two years of security updates for phones and tablets that have 100K+ activations — Every month, a security team at Google releases a new set of patches for Android — and every month, carriers and manufacturers struggle …
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9to5Google, XDA Developers, Android and Me, and Android Beat
| Angelo Amante / Reuters: |
Italian anti-trust watchdog fines Apple and Samsung €5M over phone throttling complaints and Apple an additional €5M over lack of info on battery replacement — ROME (Reuters) - Italy's anti-trust watchdog said on Wednesday it was fining Apple Inc. (AAPL.O) and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd … | Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Two years after acquiring Drip, Kickstarter hands control of the platform to Andy Baio and XOXO co-founder Andy McMillan and provides new seed funding for it — Taylor Hatmaker @tayhatmaker / 7 hours — Two years ago, Kickstarter acquired Drip, an indie musician crowdfunding platform, on the eve of the service's untimely demise.
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XOXO Blog, The Kickstarter Blog, and The Verge
Tweets: @xoxo, @laura_hudson, @drip, @bluechoochoo, @waxpancake, and @waxpancake
| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Interviews with dozens of employees detail Rockstar Games' culture of “crunch”, after a studio co-founder's 100-hour weeks remark triggered industry discussion — In the final year of development on Red Dead Redemption 2, the upcoming Western game, the top directors decided …
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British GQ, Gamasutra, Gotta Be Mobile, PC Gamer, VG247, Polygon, GameSpot, IGN, and Windows Central
Tweets: @jaredr, @synaesthesiajp, @patrickklepek, @kotaku, @jfgnord, @rosanna20736, @amytdesign, @stubbystan, @lazaregvimradze, @newsmary, @jasonschreier, @gaohmee, and @tha_rami
| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Leaked internal survey of Snap's ~3,000-person workforce shows 40% don't plan to stay, up 11% since Q1 2018, as Snap stock has tumbled in recent months — Snapchat employees are looking to jump ship in growing numbers after a botched app redesign and drop in stock price soured many on the company's future …
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Business Insider. Tweets: @alexeheath, @alexeheath, @mindofyih, @benbajarin, @alexeheath, and @mdudas
| New York Times: |
The marked contrast between Amazon's and Sears' compensation plans shows the shift in recent years away from employees to shareholders — Half a century ago, a typical Sears salesman could walk out of the store at retirement with a nest egg worth well over a million in today's dollars, feathered with company stock.
Tweets: @byrosenberg, @kyweise, @byrosenberg, @nytimesbusiness, @sapna, @tiffkhsu, and @tomgara
| Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
Sources describe problems at GM's Cruise self-driving car unit, which has had delays, issues with software, and more, after landing $5B in investments — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - It's one of the biggest bets going in the world of cars. — Since May, General Motors Co …
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ReadWrite, Engadget, and TechSpot
Tweets: @binarybits, @marcscribner, @binarybits, and @ryanfelton
| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Facebook says its AI tools helped moderators remove 8.7M user-posted images of child nudity during the last quarter — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Wednesday that company moderators during the last quarter removed 8.7 million user images of child nudity with the help … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Oculus begins rolling out new features, including a system-wide option for reporting abuse and the ability to cast the screen to a phone, currently in beta — Oculus is rolling out new features, including a system-wide option for reporting abuse. The update is available on the Oculus …
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Oculus Blog, Gizmodo, Engadget, UploadVR, and Road to VR
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Researchers: Germany-based spyware firm Wolf Intelligence left 20GB of data on an unprotected server and a public Google Drive folder, including customer info — The Germany-based spyware startup Wolf Intelligence exposed its own data, including surveillance target's information … | Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Japan's finance regulator grants legal status to cryptocurrency exchange association as a self-regulatory industry body — The Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan's finance regulator, has formally approved a cryptocurrency exchange association as a self-regulatory industry body.
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Reuters, CCN, NewsBTC, Bitcoin Magazine, The Next Web, ETHNews, Ethereum World News, Trustnodes, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoGlobe, CoinSpeaker, and Cointelegraph. Tweets: @coindesk
| Business Insider: |
Leap Motion loses VP of design and global creative director Keiichi Matsuda; sources say the company has moved out of its SF office to cut costs — - Leap Motion, a company that specializes in developing VR and AR software and hardware, has lost its VP of design, Keiichi Matsuda.| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Facebook rolls out music-related features: expanding Lip Sync Live, adding music stickers to Stories, and songs to a new music section on user profiles — Facebook is rolling out more music features today, bringing more ways to integrate its licensing partnership with all three major labels into Stories …
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Facebook, TechCrunch, Axios, BuzzFeed News, MSPoweruser, Variety, and Mashable
| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Snap says it hired Jeremi Gorman, most recently Amazon's head of ads sales, as its chief business officer and Jared Grusd as its chief strategy officer — - Jeremi Gorman will become chief business officer, and was previously head of advertising sales for Amazon.
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Business Insider, GeekWire, Recode, Reuters, Variety, Bloomberg, and Axios
Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @jyarow, and @sarahfrier
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Google says that, thanks to its 50M+ Local Guides, more than 40M places on Maps now have accessibility information — Navigating the physical world is one of the most challenging problems for the more than one billion people who have disabilities. It is also a hard technical problem to solve.| New York Times: |
Google plans to reach five million schoolchildren with a digital citizenship education program, but critics say it should be disqualified from doing so — The tech giant is positioning itself in schools as a trusted authority on digital citizenship at a moment when the company's data-handling practices are under growing scrutiny.
Tweets: @samueljscott, @lam_barrett, @aprilaser, @nytimes, @fightextremism, and @nytimestech
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
FireEye says it has linked Triton malware that inadvertently shut down a Saudi petrochemical plant in 2017 to a Russian government-owned research institute — Cybersecurity firm FireEye points the finger at the Russian government and a government-linked facility for creating a destructive malware.
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FireEye, The Hacker News, Ars Technica, Telegraph, SiliconANGLE, The Register, ZDNet, Wired, Cyberscoop, and Dark Reading. Tweets: @zackwhittaker
| Shan Li / Wall Street Journal: |
The Chinese freeze on approving new games since March, which is expected to stretch into next year, is estimated to have cost game companies ~$1.4B in revenue — The halt, in place since March, is said to have cost companies such as Tencent and NetEase roughly $1.4 billion in lost revenue| Wired: |
Conflicting goals, mutual suspicion, and a view that AI and other advanced tech are a winner-take-all game are pushing the tech sectors of US and China apart — IN THE SPRING of 2016, an artificial intelligence system called AlphaGo defeated a world champion Go player in a match at the Four Seasons hotel in Seoul.Sponsor Posts
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