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| Media Matters for America: |
Facebook says it has removed ads from Trump's 2020 campaign that featured Nazi iconography; the campaign ran 88 ads with the inverted red triangle symbol — Update (6/18/20, 1:15 p.m. EDT): Facebook has removed the ads in question following this post and public backlash.
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Facebook: Yann LeCun. Tweets: @jewishaction, @mmfa, @auschwitzmuseum, @parkermolloy, @sarahfrier, @alibreland, @cwarzel, @cwarzel, @thegrugq, @drvox, @marquardta, @sifill_ldf, @mollyjongfast, @drewjschwartz, @erinsaltman, @hshaban, @mathewi, @campuscodi, @kylegriffin1, @w7voa, @yamiche, @chelseaclinton, and @parkermolloy
| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
In a major U-turn, UK government abandons its own coronavirus-tracing app approach and shifts to the model based on Google and Apple's API — In a major U-turn, the UK is ditching the way its current coronavirus-tracing app works and shifting to a model based on technology provided by Apple and Google.
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| Financial Times: |
German payments group Wirecard says €1.9B cash is missing and that “spurious cash balances” might have been provided to its auditor by a third party — Shares of payments group crash as it says a third-party may have tried ‘to deceive’ its auditor
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| Seth Schiesel / New York Times: |
Sources: since February, Apple has rejected at least five versions of Facebook Gaming, citing rules that prohibit apps that primarily distribute casual games — Apple has repeatedly denied Facebook's new Gaming app from appearing in its App Store, citing its own rules.
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NBC News, Gizmodo, Tubefilter, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, and iMore
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's Area 120 launches Keen, an automated, machine learning-based, Pinterest-like app that lets users track their interests — A new project called Keen is launching today from Google's in-house incubator for new ideas, Area 120, to help users track their interests.
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Tweets: @marypcbuk, @mikeelgan, and @caseynewton
| Jeremy Roebuck / The Philadelphia Inquirer: |
Court filings show how the FBI used a Philadelphia protester's Etsy profile, LinkedIn, and other internet history to charge her with setting police cars ablaze — As demonstrators shouted, fires burned outside City Hall, and Philadelphia convulsed with outrage over the death of George Floyd …
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| The Markup: |
Investigation finds nearly 100 Amazon listings for products it bans, like drugs, weapons, and spy gear, some sold as “Amazon's Choice” and some by Amazon itself — The online giant bans products related to drugs, spying and weapons, but we found plenty for sale …
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Tweets: @jonkeegan, @anniegilbertson, @mutalenkonde, @juliaangwin, @asankin, @jonkeegan, @themarkup, @emilybell, @lkirchner, and @themarkup. Thanks:@thekenyeung
| James Hercher / AdExchanger: |
YouTube announces new shoppable “storefront” video ad unit, with clickable product images that link to the advertising brand's product — Google released a direct response ad format for YouTube on Thursday that will make YouTube ads more shoppable, and more closely integrated with a brand's Google Merchant Center account.| Aamir Siddiqui / XDA Developers: |
Samsung begins rollout of blood pressure monitoring feature for the Galaxy Watch Active 2 in South Korea — Samsung has yet to enable the long-anticipated ECG support on the Galaxy Watch Active 2, but the company continues to work towards making the Galaxy Watch Active 2 more useful.
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| New York Times: |
US withdraws from international digital tax negotiations with European countries, saying it'll retaliate if they move forward with new taxes on US tech firms — The breakdown in negotiations could prompt President Trump to retaliate against countries that impose taxes on American tech firms.
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Tweets: @drdsanghavi, @financialtimes, @ndegwapower, and @leopoldo_parada
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Following public condemnation from two Black employees, Pinterest CEO says that it plans to add a person of color to its board, evaluate compensation, and more — - CEO commits to non-White board member by end of year — Company will evaluate whether Black employees are underpaid| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Facebook files lawsuits in the US and Europe against developers it alleges scraped user data, as the company increasingly turns to lawsuits to stop data abuses — Facebook is suing a developer it alleges was behind a data scraping campaign that took personal information, including login credentials …
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Zoom backtracks on end-to-end encryption, saying it plans to offer E2EE to all tiers of users who verify phone numbers and will start testing it in July — - Company will require users of free service to verify identity — Video-conferencing app will test strongest encryption in July
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Tweets: @eff, @zoom_us, @josephfcox, @justinbrookman, and @evacide
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with House antitrust committee chair Rep. David Cicilline who says Apple is acting like a monopolist and a bully whose App Store fees are “highway robbery” — Apple is acting like a monopolist and a bully, according to the chairman of the House antitrust subcommittee.
Tweets: @reckless, @dhh, @drbarnard, @stroughtonsmith, @backlon, and @backlon
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Jake Kanter / Deadline: |
Amazon is planning to stream four Premier League games for free on Twitch in the UK, starting June 29 — EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is planning to stream live Premier League fixtures for free on Twitch in the UK as it aims to give fans the chance to interact with each other while games are being played.
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The Verge, CordCutters, CNBC, The Streamable, Engadget, and Neowin
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft says some app stores are creating a far higher barrier to fair competition than Microsoft did when found guilty of antitrust violations 20 years ago — Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith said it's time for antitrust regulators in the U.S. and Europe to discuss tactics … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Flipboard debuts Storyboards, letting publishers and verified users create roundups of articles, videos, tweets, and more, as part of its new Curator Pro tool — Flipboard is giving news publishers and other curators on the platform a new way to highlight content through a format called Storyboards.| Mathieu Rosemain / Reuters: |
France's top court rejects a draft law compelling social media companies to remove hateful content within 24 hours for interfering excessively in free speech — France's top court rejected most of a draft law that would have compelled social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter to remove …
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft discloses a new attack by Chimborazo, a group that is distributing a malicious Excel document on a site requiring CAPTCHA to evade automated detection — Requiring human interaction thwarts automated analysis used by good guys. — CAPTCHAs, those puzzles with muffled sounds …
Tweets: @reybango and @dez_blanchfield
| Kerry Flynn / CNN: |
Colin Kaepernick joins Medium's board and will write for Medium publications; Kaepernick Publishing will create stories for Medium about race and civil rights — New York (CNN Business)Colin Kaepernick is expanding his media ambitions. — The athlete-turned-civil-rights- activist … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stockwell, the AI-based vending machine formerly known as Bodega, which had raised at least $45M, will be shutting down July 1 — Stockwell AI entered the world with a bang but it is leaving with a whimper. Founded in 2017 by ex-Googlers, the AI vending machine startup formerly known …
Tweets: @iiiitsandrea, @mims, @marketingrags, @ron_miller, @saschasegan, @kevintkrueger, @zerobeta, @counternotions, @fleming77, and @deljohnsonvc
| The Independent: |
Russia announces it is lifting restrictions on the use of the Telegram after the messaging app “agrees to help with extremism investigations” — Russia has announced it is lifting restrictions on the use of the Telegram private messenger app. — The messenger has been officially blocked …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Facebook acquires Swedish mapping startup Mapillary, which is building a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery — Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world via a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook, according to the company's blog.Thanks:@sohear
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