Sources: Twitter is weighing a way to let users flag tweets with misleading, false, or harmful info, moving slowly due to concerns users could game the system
Twitter is exploring adding a feature that would let users flag tweets that contain misleading, false or harmful information …
Germany passes law allowing fines of up to $57M for social media companies if they do not delete illegal, racist, or slanderous content within 24 hours
BERLIN — Social media companies operating in Germany face fines of as much as $57 million if they do not delete illegal …
AMD's new Ryzen PRO CPUs designed for corporate desktops come with standard Ryzen features plus a 3-year warranty, additional management and security features
AMD wants to go after Intel vPro while avoiding Intel's excessive product segmentation. — AMD today launched Ryzen Pro (styled …
Dubai Police plan to deploy self-driving miniature vehicles that will use biometrics to scan crowds and identify criminals and suspects
Self-driving mini police vehicles will use biometrics to scan crowds and identify criminals, or suspects — Dubai: Months after Dubai unveiled …
Facebook says its solar-powered Aquila drone completed its second test flight successfully, flying for 1 hour and 46 minutes before landing perfectly
Just after dawn on May 22, Facebook reached another exciting and important milestone for the Aquila program — completing the successful second full-scale test flight of the aircraft.
McMansion Hell architecture criticism blog returns and Zillow drops its complaint against the EFF-supported blogger after backlash over fair use of images
The architecture criticism blog McMansion Hell is back up and running days after a threatening cease-and-desist letter from Zillow Group scared …
JASK emerges from stealth with $12M Series A, led by Dell Technologies Capital, for its automated threat detection service
JASK is emerging from stealth today with $12 million in the bank and a machine learning technology that automates network monitoring and management for overtaxed security teams.
macOS High Sierra public beta is now available, with improvements to Photos, Notes, Safari, and Mail, plus major under-the-hood enhancements like APFS
Mark Spoonauer / Laptop Mag :
Facebook begins global rollout of “Find Wi-Fi” feature for its mobile apps, which displays nearby WiFi hotspots that businesses shared from their Facebook pages
Today we're beginning to roll out Find Wi-Fi everywhere in the world on iPhone and Android.
Google hires ex-Intel VP Danielle Brown as VP of Diversity, says 20% of tech employees are now women, 1% are black, 39% are Asian, 53% are white
Eileen Naughton / Google :
Korea's Kakao spins out Kakao Mobility unit which includes ride-hailing service, raises $437M from TPG for the new business
Korea's Kakao, the country's top mobile messenger company with some 50 million monthly users, has continued to diversify its business with a move to spin …
Make.tv, a cloud-based video management firm, raises $8.5M led by Voyager, with Microsoft Ventures, Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital, and Arnold Ventures
Microsoft Ventures, Vulcan Capital, and Arnold Ventures are joining initial investor Voyager Capital in pumping $8.5 million into Make.tv …
Xcalar, which wants to use big data to provide business insights, announces $16M Series A led by Khosla Ventures; firm has partnerships with Microsoft, Google
The round will fuel the company as it takes on Palantir in big data for business analytics.
Swift Navigation, maker of high-accuracy GPS hardware for autonomous vehicles, announces $34M round, bringing total raised to $47.6M
Swift Navigation, which provides global navigation satellite solutions (GNSS), announced today funding of $34 million, in a round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
Internet has ushered in an age of “distributed truth”, widely spreading little known knowledge that used to be confined offline, such as Caldbeck's behavior
The summer before I entered Stanford … Tweets: Daniel Tunkelang / @dtunkelang : “What we've seen recently in Silicon Valley is power of written word to create common knowledge in the community.” http:...
GPU database provider Kinetica raises $50M Series A led by Canvas Ventures and Meritech Capital Partners
Barb Darrow / Fortune :
How iPhone jailbreaking has evolved over the years, from a widespread phenomenon to an individual pursuit, as Apple and hackers played a game of cat and mouse
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard :
Sources: cybersecurity firm Zscaler to hire banks for potential IPO later this year at a valuation of about $2B
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