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Sources: Facebook board member Marc Andreessen attended a meeting with Christopher Wylie about Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook data, in the summer of 2016 — Allegations come as US prosecutors investigate claims of cover-up — Facebook is facing explosive new questions … | Sherisse Pham / CNN: |
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter struggle to halt the spread of the horrific New Zealand shooting video; one of the shooters livestreamed the attack on Facebook — Hong Kong (CNN Business)Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are struggling to halt the spread of horrific footage that appears to show …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Christchurch, announced on 8chan, streamed on Facebook, and shared endlessly on YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit, feels like the first internet-native mass shooting — Before entering a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, the site of one of the deadliest mass murders in the country's history …
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| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Spotify says “every monopolist will suggest they have done nothing wrong”, that Apple's response is not new, and is entirely in line with Spotify's expectations — In Friday's early hours, Spotify and Apple traded potshots in their ongoing battle over the App Store.
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| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
Valve says it will now investigate Steam review bombing campaigns and hide reviews it identifies as “off-topic” — But there are still problems with this approach — Valve says it's taking a new approach to user reviews on its gaming marketplace Steam, after attempting … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Zeus, a platform that lets people rent out their homes as long-term corporate housing, says it has raised a total of $24M via seed, Series A, and debt financing — Stealing Airbnb's corporate housing market — Cookie-cutter corporate housing turns people into worker drones.
Tweets: @garrytan
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
McAfee research: 100+ unique exploits are using the recently disclosed code-execution vulnerability in WinRAR, a file compression app, to infect Windows users — As expected, the recent WinRAR vulnerability is now being abused en-masse by multiple threat actors.
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
SimilarWeb data shows visits to Tumblr have fallen nearly 30%, from 521M in Dec. to 370M in Feb., since permanently banning adult content from the site in Dec. — Tumblr has lost 30 percent of web traffic since December — Since Tumblr announced its porn ban in December …
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| Nandita Bose / Reuters: |
Arlington County Board voted 5-0 in favor of an estimated $51M financial package for Amazon's HQ2, which includes a cash grant of $23M to be paid over 15 years — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's planned second headquarters in northern Virginia cleared a key test on Saturday …
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| Snigdha Poonam / Financial Times: |
A look at the online video market in India, valued at $700M+, where 245M watch YouTube on their phones each month and 300+ content creators have 1M+ subscribers — For eight minutes last month, the Swedish video blogger PewDiePie was no longer king of the internet.
Tweets: @ivan_brussels, @b50, and @lizziepaton
| Angela Chen / The Verge: |
Voice-enabled tech has given rise to voice analysis research that provides insight into human behaviors, but raises concerns about privacy and accuracy — It's one of a crop of companies looking for the personal insights contained in our speech. In recent years, researchers and startups … | Hal Hodson / 1843: |
Profile of DeepMind, which reached a pre-acquisition arrangement that would prevent Google from unilaterally taking control of its IP, according to a source — Demis Hassabis founded a company to build the world's most powerful AI. Then Google bought him out. Hal Hodson asks who is in charge
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