UK govt, Guardian, Sainsbury's, others pull ads from YouTube as Times of London investigation finds ads appearing with extremist videos; Google promises changes
Guardian newspaper also halts ads, citing ‘hate-filled videos’ — YouTube owner Google says it's ‘committed to doing better’
Apple pledges to build two additional research and development centers in China, spend at least $507M on research institutions in the country
Company intends to spend at least $500 million on such centers — Tim Cook's attending a forum in Beijing over the weekend
Google open-sources new JPEG encoder that reduces file sizes by around 35%, and is compatible with existing browsers, photo editing apps, and the JPEG standard
New algorithm is based on human psychovisual system. Images look better, too. — Google has developed and open-sourced …
Minnesota judge orders Google to divulge information on anybody who searched for variations of financial fraud victim's name
Order seeks data for “any/all user or subscriber information” related to the searches. — Police in a small suburban town of 50,000 people just outside Minneapolis …
FBI arrests person who allegedly tweeted seizure-inducing strobe at Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald
An arrest has been made three months after someone tweeted a seizure-inducing strobe at writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Kurt Eichenwald. The Dallas FBI confirmed the arrest to The Verge to...
As MuleSoft closes up 45%+ on its first day of trading, valued at about $3B+, CEO Greg Schott talks about IPO timing, potential acquisitions, more
MuleSoft, a San Francisco-based SaaS integration company, last night priced the year's first big enterprise software IPO, raising $221 million.
EU tells Facebook, Twitter, and Google to update their ToS and gives companies one month to propose measures to better protect consumers from scams
Navigating your way around the internet may seem intuitive if you've grown up with access to it most of your life — but for those who are just beginning …
Hackers at Pwn2Own competition exploit combination of bugs in Microsoft Edge, Windows 10, and VMware Workstation to escape virtual machine and compromise host
Hack worked by stitching together three separate exploits. — Contestants at this year's Pwn2Own hacking competition in Vancouver …
Chance the Rapper says Apple paid him $500K “plus a commercial” to exclusively stream his album Coloring Book on Apple Music for two weeks
Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider :
Sources: Nintendo to double planned production of Switch consoles from the initial 8M to 16M in the fiscal year starting April 1
Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal :
Sources: China's central bank is circulating draft guidelines that would require Bitcoin exchanges to verify clients' identity, adhere to banking regulations
Recent central-bank scrutiny has led exchanges to impose trading fees — BEIJING—China's central bank is moving to regulate …
Sources: WikiLeaks asks tech firms to agree to conditions before receiving details of CIA zero-days
Last week, WikiLeaks promised it would share the technical details and code of the hacking tools that the CIA has allegedly developed against Google, Apple, Microsoft and other tech companies.
Amazon debuts “Outfit Compare” feature in iOS app, helping Prime members decide between outfits after they upload two photos of themselves in different outfits
Amazon has been steadily pushing its way into fashion over the past several years, with investments in its own private labels …
Wireless communications lobby group CTIA says web browsing and app usage history isn't “sensitive information” in filing against FCC's broadband privacy rules
ISP lobby groups make case against the FCC's broadband privacy rules. — ISPs that want the federal government …
YouTube to discontinue video annotations editor May 2, encourages creators to use mobile-friendly End Screens and Cards features instead
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Internal docs: Uber's 43 self-driving cars drove 20,365 miles last week with human intervention every 0.8 miles and “critical interventions” every 200 miles
Johana Bhuiyan / Recode :
Microsoft says newest processors, including Intel's Kaby Lake and AMD's Ryzen, will require latest Windows version for support
Peter Bright / Ars Technica :
Judge approves $27 million driver settlement in Lyft lawsuit
Heather Somerville / Reuters :
Gmail now lets desktop users stream video attachments rather than downloading them
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge :
Hands-on: TAG Heuer Connected Modular 45 smartwatch can swap smart and mechanical watch heads; touchscreen head has an Intel chip, 4GB RAM, Android Wear 2.0
Matt Burgess / WIRED UK :
Sensor Tower: iMessage App Store has 5K apps six months after launch, with games topping category list at 25.9%, but dev interest is waning
Buffer — One of the new additions to iOS 10 … Parmy Olson / Forbes : People Aren't Building Apps For Apple's iMessage Like They Used To Christopher Baugh / iPhone in Canada Blog : iMessage App Store...
WhatsApp will soon bring back the text Status feature it lost when introducing a Snapchat Stories clone
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Snapdragon processors rebranded as “Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile Platform”; lower-end Snapdragon 200 series SoCs will now just be “Qualcomm Mobile Platform”
Ryan Smith / AnandTech :
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