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Facebook will now ban anyone who violates its “most serious policies” from using Facebook Live for a set period of time, starting with their first offense — San Francisco (CNN Business)Two months after the mass shooting at a mosque in New Zealand was live-streamed by the accused gunman …
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| Washington Post: |
White House won't sign Christchurch Call to Action, an effort by governments and social media companies to fight online extremism, citing free speech concerns — The White House will not sign an international call to combat online extremism brokered between French and New Zealand officials …
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Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Google, and Amazon sign on to the Christchurch Call to Action, commit to a 9-point plan to stop spread of terrorist content online — Today, Facebook's Vice President for Global Affairs and Communications Nick Clegg joined G7 government and industry leaders …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Several security researchers say iOS security controls have made it very hard to determine whether an iPhone has been compromised without jailbreaking it first — A recent vulnerability in WhatsApp shows that there's little defenders can do to detect and analyze iPhone hacks.
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| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: |
Behind Twitter's plan to fix the problems like disinformation, harassment, and outrage through its new prototype app twttr — In March, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone tweeted a screenshot of an iPhone homescreen along with a message: “Notice our new prototype? ...
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| Washington Post: |
Trump issues order blocking US companies from doing business with information and communications technology companies owned or controlled by a foreign adversary — Amid a deepening trade war with China, President Trump on Wednesday declared a “national emergency” to protect U.S. communications networks …
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Report details Apple's “long and painful divorce” with Intel, says Apple's custom 5G modems may not arrive until 2025 — The Information is out today with a detailed report on the falling out between Intel and Apple over the last few years that led to settling with Qualcomm …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Ajit Pai proposes a new rule that would allow carriers to block robocalls by default and lets customers block calls from numbers not on their contacts list — ‘The American people are fed up with illegal robocalls’ — On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission announced a new measure … | ProPublica: |
Sources: two US data recovery firms touting hi-tech solutions for unlocking data after ransomware attacks instead just paid the ransom and charged victims extra — Firms That Promised High-Tech Ransomware Solutions Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers — As ransomware attacks crippled businesses …
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| Google AI Blog: |
Google details Translatotron, its project to directly translate speech from one language into speech in another without intermediate text — Speech-to-speech translation systems have been developed over the past several decades with the goal of helping people who speak different languages to communicate with each other.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says a bug in its Titan Security Keys' Bluetooth pairing protocols is exploitable by hackers in close physical proximity, provides free replacement keys — Google today disclosed a security bug in its Bluetooth Titan Security Key that could allow an attacker in close physical proximity …
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft releases its SPTAG algorithm, used to answer questions on Bing, as MIT-licensed open source on Github — Search engines today are more than just the dumb keyword matchers they used to be. You can ask a question—say, “How tall is the tower in Paris?”—and they'll tell …
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| Paul Ford / Wired: |
Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry — We have graduated, along with oil, real estate, insurance, and finance, to the big T. Trillions of dollars. Trillions! Get to that number any way you like: Sum up the market cap of the major tech companies, or just take Apple's valuation on a good day.
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| Owen Bowcott / The Guardian: |
UK Supreme Court finds in favor of civil rights organizations and rules that GCHQ's powers to hack into internet services should be subject to judicial review — Supreme court says GCHQ's hacking powers should be subject to judicial review — Government security decisions will in future … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
SanDisk introduces the first 1TB microSD card, for $450 — Have you been salivating at the thought of stuffing a 1TB microSD card into your phone? You can finally act on that impulse. SanDisk has made the record-setting Extreme card available both through its own store and (when it's in stock) …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance says it is back online and has resumed trading activity, after being hacked for $40M+ in bitcoin — Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has resumed trading activity. Users can now cancel open orders, deposit crypto assets into their Binance account, and of course buy and sell cryptocurrencies.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Because of US law, Google keeps advertisers from naming sanctioned countries as targets or exclusions in campaigns, leading to ads being served in those places — AS DIRECTOR OF paid search at Greenlane Marketing, a web marketing firm based in Eagleville, Pennsylvania …
Tweets: @issielapowsky and @jason_kint
| Thomas Franck / CNBC: |
In an SEC filing, Berkshire Hathaway reveals it owned 483,300 Amazon shares at the end of the quarter ended March 31, currently worth $904M — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway on Wednesday revealed in a government filing the size of its stake in e-commerce giant Amazon.| Matthew Leising / Bloomberg: |
Chainalysis research estimates that about 376 users, known as “whales”, control a third of all Ether, compared to 448 people who own 20% of all Bitcoin — - New study says so-called whales don't move Ether prices much — Bitcoin price found to be good indicator of where Ether trades
Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Big data startup Tealium raises $55M Series F, bringing the total raised to $160M, says it is close to profitability and expects revenues of $100M this year — The average enterprise today uses about 90 different software packages, with between 30-40 of them touching customers directly or indirectly.
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| The Keyword: |
Rivet, a free app from Google's workshop for experimental projects, helps kids learn to read with speech processing, AI, and a library of 2,000+ free books — Reading is one of the most important skills students will learn in their lives. After the third grade, students who have mastered reading use …
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| Sam Ouimet / CoinDesk: |
Brian Armstrong says Coinbase Custody, which launched about a year ago, has $1B in assets under management, with 70 institutions using the service — Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced the exchange's custody product, Coinbase Custody, already has $1 billion in assets under management (AUM) in just 12 months after launch.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Indian online grocery delivery service Grofers raises $200M+ led by SoftBank Vision Fund at a valuation of almost $1B — Masayoshi Son isn't losing his appetite for backing money-losing startups. — Son's SoftBank Vision Fund is leading an investment round of more than $200 million in Grofers … | Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
Canadian court orders three VCs including Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya to pay $15.69M over conspiracy to exchange Xtreme Labs shares at a discount — Former Extreme Venture Partners (EVP) founding partners Sundeep Madra and Amar Varma, as well as Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya … Thanks:@tron
| Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company: |
American Express is acquiring restaurant reservation platform Resy, which says it is used by 4,000 restaurants in 154 US cities and 10 countries — Though Anthony Bourdain championed the idea that reservations aren't necessary, at most popular restaurants, you still need them.
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