Twitter sues the Trump administration after Customs and Border Protection tries to compel the social network to reveal the identity behind @alt_USCIS account
So remember how President Donald Trump (a.k.a. @realDonaldTrump) loves Twitter and credits it with helping him win the election?
Google adds fact checking information to search results and Google News worldwide
Last October, Google launched support to highlight fact-checking articles within Google News in the US and the UK. Now those articles will get special presentation as part of general Google searches ...
YouTube says it will only allow channels with 10K lifetime views to monetize videos, to help make sure revenue flows only to those who play by the rules
The rule change is meant to weed out bad actors — Five years ago, YouTube opened their partner program to everyone.
Sources: FCC Chairman tells trade groups of plans to update net neutrality rules created under Obama, wants to keep basic principles but move enforcement to FTC
The chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is moving quickly to replace the Obama administration's landmark net neutrality rules …
Samsung forecasts $8.8B Q1 profit, an almost 50% jump YoY, expects sales of $44.2B, which won't include Galaxy S8 sales which hit market April 21
The South Korean giant's latest quarterly likely benefited from its business supplying chips, displays and other components.
Project Zero finds serious Broadcom WiFi chipset flaw that allows hacking of many Android devices; Google releasing patch this month; iOS was patched in 10.3.1
Broadcom chips allow rogue Wi-Fi signals to execute code of attacker's choosing. — A broad array of Android phones are vulnerable …
Walt Mossberg is retiring in June, shortly after the 2017 Code Conference, ending a 47-year career at publications including the WSJ, Recode, and The Verge
Thanks for reading, watching, listening — It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist.
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says he's selling up to 30% of his Twitter shares so he can continue to invest in other causes and companies
A note for Twitter shareholders and employees — If you're not a Twitter shareholder or employee (or reporter who covers such things) …
Google's testing Federated Learning, a new approach to machine learning that keeps user data as well as model training on users' devices, with Gboard on Android
Posted by Brendan McMahan and Daniel Ramage, Research Scientists — Standard machine learning approaches require centralizing …
Google says it has reduced fake Google Maps listings by 70% since June 2015 by improving business verification methods and using machine learning to fight spam
Google announced that they have heard about all the Google Maps spam issues over the years and have taken several steps to reduce the fake results in Google Maps.
Microsoft reveals Project Scorpio specs: 8-core 2.3GHz CPU, custom GPU comprised of 40 units, 12GB GDDR5 RAM, 1TB hard drive, and 4K UHD Blu-ray drive
Jason Schreier / Kotaku :
More powerful Galaxy S8+ with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage for about $1,020 may be available in South Korea and China, according to new listing on website
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge :
McAfee Report: Mac malware instances grew 744% in 2016 to 450K+, mostly from adware bundling, and IoT devices were used for the first time with Dyn
here's what to watch out for Juli Clover / MacRumors : Malware Attacks on Macs Up 744% in 2016, Mostly Due to Adware Christopher Baugh / iPhone in Canada Blog : Mac Malware Attacks Explode 744% in 201...
Sources: Chinese personalized news recommendation app Toutiao raises $1B Series D led by Sequoia and CCB International at over a $12B valuation
Sequoia Capital and CCB International, an investment unit of China Construction Bank Co., have led a series D investment of around US$1 billion …
Chinese court orders Samsung to pay Huawei $11.6M for patent infringement; the verdict is first on several lawsuits from Huawei against Samsung
Sijia Jiang / Reuters :
Uber expands its open source data visualization tool beyond mapping to other visual datasets, including network traffic
You may not be aware, but Uber offers an open source version of the data visualization framework it uses internally, called deck.gl. The tool was made available …
Okta shares open up 35%+ on first day of trading after raising $187M in its IPO
Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC :
Facebook Messenger opens its M assistant to all US users, easing the process of sending money in chats, sharing locations, making plans, starting a poll
if you're a beta tester Nicole Lee / Engadget : Facebook's AI assistant is ready to hang out in Messenger Stephanie Condon / ZDNet : Facebook rolls out limited version of M, Messenger's AI assistant, ...
Sources: Lyft raises $500M at a $6.9B valuation, a 50% increase over its January 2016 valuation
Leslie Hook / Financial Times :
Showtime makes its entire library available for offline viewing on mobile devices
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Alphabet says Fiber president Dennish Kish and VP of Access division Milo Medin are leaving the division but remaining at the company
Please read responsibly. Do not consume Login … Abner Li / 9to5Google : Alphabet reassigns two veteran Access executives as slim down of division continues
Crunchbase raises $18M led by Mayfield, debuts Enterprise business intelligence service, and plans to add complementary data from third parties
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Bill Gates-backed satellite antenna company Kymeta discloses $73.5M round in SEC filing, its largest round to date as total funding approaches $200M
Taylor Soper / GeekWire : Thanks: @johnhcook
Facebook's head of video Fidji Simo says one in five videos shared are Live videos, with Live broadcasting daily watch time growing 4x in the past year
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Facebook begins testing a Groups tab on some Pages, making it easier to find official groups
Richard Nieva / CNET : Thanks: @rochellegarner
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