A roundup of how technology companies and executives are reacting to President Trump's executive orders on immigration
“People across the company are freaking out.” — On Friday, President Trump signed an executive ordered temporarily halting the US refugee program for 120 days.
Twitter discloses two NSLs after lifting of FBI gag order; next hearing for its lawsuit against US government over disclosure of NSLs is February 14
Today, we're able to speak openly about two national security requests for the first time, specifically two national security letters (NSLs).
Sources: Snap to publicly file for IPO late next week, which likely means a March IPO
The social communications company's current valuation is $25 billion, said sources. — According to sources, Snap Inc. plans to publicly file for its much-anticipated initial public offering late nex...
Apple CEO Tim Cook making rounds in DC: dinner Thursday night with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, meeting Friday with Sen. Orrin Hatch
Apple CEO Tim Cook has apparently been sharpening his political skills. — Politico reported that Cook had dinner Thursday night …
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg breaks post-election silence to speak out against global gag rule on abortion
Sheryl Sandberg spoke out on Thursday against President Donald Trump's anti-abortion executive order. — The Facebook COO published a post on her Facebook page that chronicles …
Browser makers express frustration with invasive third-party antivirus software, which can make PCs less secure
Update your software and OS regularly instead, practice skeptical computing. — Former Firefox developer Robert O'Callahan, now a free agent and safe from the PR tentacles …
Book excerpt: how Uber and Airbnb, now worth a total of $99B, won customers, fought regulators, and figured out the sharing economy
In January 2009 the three founders of a little-known website called Airbedandbreakfast.com decided at the last minute to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama.
Hinge is testing a personal assistant service called Audrey to help you get more dates
Dating app Hinge recently pivoted from swiping to “stories,” in order to help people find real relationships. That focus on authenticity, however, seems to stand in contrast to a project the company ...
FBI posts redacted Gamergate investigation report; Brianna Wu, a target of Gamergate trolls, says report shows how little the FBI cared about the investigation
The FBI has posted a heavily redacted report of its threat investigations during the Gamergate controversy in 2014 and 2015.
LeakedSource, a site that sold access to a database of 3.1B+ compromised account passwords, taken offline after alleged police raid
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
KDE Slimbook is a 13-inch Linux laptop with Intel Core i5 or i7 CPU, up to 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD, running KDE Neon, priced from $780
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Twitter should roll out a tab highlighting the best tweets, similar to “While You Were Away”, and should have realized how awful the new “Explore” tab is
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Google has accelerated efforts to forge ties with Trump administration post-election but denies a change in strategy, saying it has long had GOP lobbyists
WASHINGTON — Few companies have been as intimately tied to the Democratic Party in recent years as Google.
Toshiba says it is looking to sell a minority stake in its memory chip business unit to offset an imminent multi-billion dollar writedown
Alibaba's Ant Financial buys US-based international money transfer service MoneyGram for $880M, an 11.5% premium to MoneyGram's Wednesday closing price
Bloomberg :
New audio and video technologies that can easily recreate any person's likeness will make fake stories harder to detect
What we saw in the 2016 election is nothing compared to what we need to prepare for in 2020. — Less than a month after Donald Trump was improbably elected … Tweets: @emilybell See also Mediagazer Tw...
Recent small moves by Google and Facebook, such as tweaking Trending topics, highlight how hard it is to limit misinformation online
SAN FRANCISCO — Google and Facebook have been taking steps to curb the number of false news articles propagated across their sites.
Tesla files suit against former Autopilot director, says he took proprietary information and tried to poach staff for his new self-driving car startup Aurora
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Russian media reports say two Russian intel officers, who worked in office linked to US election hacking, have been charged with treason for giving info to US
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PayPal CEO says company has been talking with Amazon about “how to use one another's assets to the mutual benefit of our customers”
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Microsoft's market value tops $500B for the first time since 2000, after its Q2 earnings beat analyst expectations
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Recode's Ina Fried joins Axios Media, founded by Politico alumni, as chief tech correspondent
I have accepted … Tweets: Walt Mossberg / @waltmossberg : Congrats and great good luck to Ina! http://twitter.com/... @microsoft : Current topic of discussion at the Microsoft newsroom water cooler: C...
The value of hyper-anonymous cryptocurrency Monero has risen 2,760% from 50¢ to $12 over the past year; the collective value of all Monero is close to $165M
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