Zuckerberg says News Feed will focus on what friends share, de-emphasize content from publishers and brands as it moves to favor interactions over passive posts
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook introduced sweeping changes to the kinds of posts, videos and photos that its more than two billion members …
Intel releases breakdown of performance slowdown on Windows 10 after Spectre and Meltdown patches: ~6% for 8th-gen CPUs, ~7% for 7th-gen, ~8% for 6th-gen
Mariella Moon / Engadget :
Intel says some data center customers using Broadwell and Haswell processors are reporting more system reboots after applying patch for Meltdown and Spectre
(Reuters) - Intel Corp on Thursday said that recently issued patches for flaws in its chips could cause computers using its older Broadwell …
AMD says it is making firmware updates available for Ryzen and EPYC processors this week to fix Spectre flaws, updating older processors “over the coming weeks”
Zero risk, but not zero impact — AMD's initial response to the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws made it clear “there is a near zero risk to AMD processors.”
Steve Jurvetson, who left DFJ in Nov., held event described as a “sex party” in new book Brotopia; Elon Musk, who attended, calls excerpt “salacious nonsense”
EARLIER THIS MONTH, a Vanity Fair report revealed sordid tales of Silicon Valley sex parties.
Sources: Dropbox has confidentially filed for an IPO, with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan leading the listing; Dropbox was valued at $10B in 2014
File-sharing company valued privately at $10 billion — Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan are said to lead potential listing
House votes 256 to 164 to extend Section 702 FISA warrantless surveillance program for six years with minimal changes; bill now proceeds to the Senate
Why It's a Good Thing That Dropbox Is Going Public Charlie Savage / New York Times : Surveillance and Privacy Debate Reaches Pivotal Moment in Congress Louise Matsakis / Wired : Congress Renews Warran...
IDC: PC shipments in Q4 2017 grew by 0.7% YoY to 70.6M units but declined by 0.2% to 259.5M units in full year 2017; HP and Apple saw 8.3% and 7.3% growth in Q4
Research firm IDC said PC market most stable since 2011, led by HP. — The PC market is beginning to show some signs of stabling …
Facebook's News Feed changes are good for media industry in the long term; journalism engineered to be picked by an algorithm is not journalism, it's marketing
Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the New York Times that the social network will revamp its news feed to emphasize …
Ex-Google engineer claims senior Google execs pressured him to stop discussing pro-diversity initiatives on company forums, which motivated him to quit
A memo written by a former Google engineer claims that the company's human resources department and a senior vice president pressured …
TiVo unveils plans to add smart home integration, says Alexa, Google Assistant, and IFTTT support will begin rolling out to DVRs over the next few months
LAS VEGAS—If you own a TiVo, you'll soon be able to control it through your Amazon Echo or Google Home.
Google updates Duo, lets users call some Android contacts who don't have the app installed; provides prompt to install at end of call
Google recently began rolling out a slightly updated look to the contact list on the Duo video calling app. Alongside this fun rearrangement of pixels …
Sources: Google to vet videos in the Google Preferred ad program with human moderators and AI, after concerns from marketers over videos including Logan Paul's
Google is planning a new push to vet top-tier YouTube videos that it bundles for major advertisers, people familiar with the plan said.
Facebook shares fall 4% after it announces big changes to the News Feed
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC :
Skype partners with Open Whisper Systems, which makes Signal, to begin testing of end-to-end encrypted “Private Conversations”
James Vincent / The Verge :
Sources: Peter Thiel joins other bidders in making an offer in bankruptcy court for Gawker's remaining assets, including domains and 200K+ articles
Jessica DiNapoli / Reuters :
Sources: IBM to reassign up to 30% of the ~103,000 staff in its Global Technology Services wing this year, resulting in job cuts through attrition of ~10,100
Paul Kunert / The Register :
Expert: new US tax law loophole could give Apple, Microsoft, others a significant one-off tax break on foreign capital as their fiscal years begin before Jan. 1
Lynnley Browning / Bloomberg :
Profile of Roku and its founder Anthony Wood, looking at the company's early days, how Roku plans to compete with its rivals, and more
Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood doesn't fit the image of your typical tech mogul. In person, he comes across as quiet and introverted. Tweets: @bgurley , @adamnash , @jank0 , and @jank0 Tweets: Bil...
Jerusalem-based crowdfunding platform OurCrowd launches Cognitiv Ventures, a $100M fund for early-stage AI, deep learning, and robotics firms
Gwen Ackerman / Bloomberg :
First Alert, maker of safety products like fire and smoke alarms, buys WiFi system maker Luma; Luma has raised $22M in VC funding from Accel, Amazon, others
First Alert, a subsidiary of Newell Brands, has quietly acquired Luma, a home WiFi system maker that had raised $22 million …
Sensor Tower data shows 83% of App Store reviews are critical of Snapchat's redesign in countries where the redesign is widely available
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Online legal directory Avvo says it has been acquired by Internet Brands, which owns WebMD and others; Avvo was reportedly valued at $650M in 2015
EU plans to spend €1B by 2020 on supercomputing, aims for an exascale system based on EU tech by 2022; uncertainty over Brexit may result in UK missing out
Unbabel, which combines human and machine translation for 70+ languages, raises $23M Series B from Microsoft Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Samsung, others
How Uber, Lyft, and other ride hail drivers use online forums to compare notes, share info, push back at employers, and help each other navigate the gig economy
Alex Rosenblat / Fast Company : Tweets: @jonathanstray and @jonbecker . Thanks: @annelisemcgough Tweets: @jonathanstray : Algorithmic accountability journalism may not involve analysis of the algorit...
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