YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube will add Wikipedia information to videos about popular conspiracy theories within weeks to provide alternate viewpoints
Pushing back on crazy theories — YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about popular conspiracy theories …
Facebook bans far-right anti-Islamic group Britain First and removes the group's pages and those of its leaders for repeatedly violating its community standards
Facebook has removed the pages of the anti-Islamic group Britain First and its leaders. — The social media company …
Google will ban all cryptocurrency-related advertising, including ICOs, wallets, and trading advice across all of its ad platforms, starting June 2018
- The company will no longer allow ads about cryptocurrency-related content, including initial coin offerings (ICOs), wallets, and trading advice across any of its ad platforms.
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ launched with 1.4GHz quad-core processor, dual-band WiFi, gigabit ethernet over USB 2.0, Bluetooth 4.2, and Power over Ethernet for $35
Despite selling over 14 million of its low-cost DIY computing boards, the Raspberry Pi Foundation adheres to a slow release cycle.
Broadcom abandons its $117B takeover bid for Qualcomm after President Donald Trump blocked the deal, citing security risks
Chipmaker Broadcom Ltd. has abandoned its $117 billion takeover bid for Qualcomm Inc., Bloomberg News reports. — The decision was made after U.S. President Donald Trump blocked …
Stack Overflow's annual survey of 100K+ developers: Rust, Kotlin, and Python most-loved languages, 73% more excited by AI than concerned about its dangers
Stack Overflow's annual survey shows Android developer language Kotlin has soared in popularity. — Video: Apps at risk …
French finance minister says France will take legal action against Apple and Google over “abusive commercial practices” taking advantage of French developers
Action follows investigation into application contracts — Finance minister says fines could be in ‘millions of euros’
CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube has started limiting the number of hours its part-time content moderators can view disturbing videos to four hours per day
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Former CIO of an Equifax unit, Jun Ying, charged with insider trading for allegedly profiting from confidential information about last year's data breach
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a former Equifax executive with insider trading, alleging that he profited from confidential information …
Qualcomm-Broadcom merger threatened US security more because it would have dulled Qualcomm's competitiveness beyond 5G than because Broadcom is a foreign firm
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YC-backed Nectome aims to preserve brains of terminally ill patients through a fatal embalming process for future digitalization; Sam Altman is on its wait list
Nectome will preserve your brain, but you have to be euthanized first. — The brain of an elderly woman …
Google removed 3.2B “bad ads” in 2017, up from 1.7B in 2016, and blocked 320K publishers, 90K sites, and 700K mobile apps for content policy violations
As the world's largest search engine and a digital advertising behemoth, Google has a lot to answer for when it comes …
Walmart to offer home delivery of groceries in 100 cities by year's end by partnering with delivery companies using contract workers, starting with Uber
Retailer to partner with delivery startups after Amazon, Kroger and others roll out similar services
Calendar 2 made $2K in three days by mining cryptocurrency; app was pulled for violating Mac App Store guidelines and is back after mining features were removed
Yesterday, we reported on a macOS app called Calendar 2 that seemingly added cryptocurrency mining as an alternative to paying for premium features.
Google Station, a public network of free WiFi hotspots in high-traffic locations, is launching in Mexico with 60+ hotspots and 100+ planned by year's end
Google's Station WiFi is no longer reserved for the eastern hemisphere. As of today, the public hotspots are available in over 60 …
WhatsApp commits to not sharing user data with Facebook until it complies with GDPR; UK's Information Commissioner's Office closes its investigation
Facebook, its popular messaging app WhatsApp, and the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) have reached a truce in their long-running investigation …
YouTube, growing rapidly in India, has done little to keep misleading videos from dominating its India-specific Trending feed; Google says it is working to fix
Manish Singh / CNBC : Tweets: @raju , @labnol , and @kevinroose Tweets: Raju Narisetti / @raju : This. And imagine how much more acute India's #fakenews problem would have been, if @Facebook had prev...
Apple announces WWDC 2018 will be held June 4-8 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, opens registration
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference San Jose, CA, June 4-8 Jason Cross / Macworld : WWDC 2018 will be held from June 4-8 in San Jose J. Jennings Moss / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Apple to ret...
Experts reveal 13 alleged flaws in AMD Ryzen and EPYC chips, just 24 hours after showing AMD, that allow malware to be installed on secure portions of the chips
And Face Their Own Backlash Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware : Report Claims AMD Ryzen, EPYC CPUs Contain 13 Security Flaws (Updated) Viceroy Research : AMD - The Obituary — Viceroy analyze CTS Labs' re...
Let's Encrypt releases service securing HTTP connections via free “wildcard” certificates and the ACME v2 protocol to automate certificate request verification
Code Issues 3 Pull requests Projects Wiki Insights Richard Chirgwin / The Register : Let's Encrypt updates certificate automation, adds splats Tweets: John Feminella / @jxxf : Awesome news: @letsencry...
Twitch announces Free Games With Prime, offering select PC games each month free to download for users of Twitch Prime, a service included with Amazon Prime
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Sources: Trump admin looking to impose tariffs on $60B of Chinese goods; tariffs would target tech products and telecoms but would not be limited to those
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Google is rolling out voice-triggered Google Assistant routines for smart home devices including six predefined ones like “I'm home”, after announcing it in Oct
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IMF head Christine Lagarde outlines plan to regulate cryptocurrencies by using technology such as distributed ledger tech, biometrics, AI, and cryptography
ICANN's proposal to comply with EU's GDPR by restricting access to Whois information via an accreditation program faces criticism from privacy advocates, EFF
IF YOU HEAD over to a Whois service and search for wired.com, you'll see that this site is registered to our publisher Conde Nast at One World Trade Center in New York City. Tweets: @eff Tweets: @eff ...
Firefox 59 arrives with faster page load times, better private browsing, and option to block sites from asking to send notifications or access device's location
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Florida passes bill that requires anonymized data about individual defendants in state's criminal justice system to be stored in a publicly accessible database
THERE'S NO SUCH thing as the US criminal justice system. There are, instead, thousands of counties across the country …
Binance announces it's developing a new blockchain called Binance Chain, which it hopes will facilitate the creation of a new decentralized exchange
In the world of blockchain, we have always believed … Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Binance launches new blockchain and offers bounty for information on hackers Adam James / Bitcoinist.com : Big Thing...
How conservative activists from Project Veritas use hoax job recruitment and seduction to catfish tech giants like Twitter; experts question legality
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Fitbit launches its second mainstream smartwatch, Versa, for $200, and the first fitness wearable for kids, Ace, for $100; both available for preorder today
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Warby Parker raises $75M round led by T. Rowe Price, sources say at a valuation of $1.75B
Jason Del Rey / Recode : Tweets: @delrey Tweets: Jason Del Rey / @delrey : Warby's reasoning for not going public yet? It wants to continue to invest in some new initiatives that may not pay immediat...
Court filings: women at Microsoft working in US-based technical jobs filed 238 internal complaints of gender discrimination or sexual harassment from 2010-2016
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Fashion chain Zara, owned by the world's largest clothing retailer Inditex, will introduce augmented reality displays in 120 stores worldwide starting April 18
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Amazon retains top spot in annual Harris reputation poll of corporate brands, Apple drops from 5th to 29th, Google drops from 8th to 28th
Airspace Systems raises $20M Series A led by Singtel Innov8 for its technology to take down drones with other drones
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Cloudflare launches Cloudflare Workers, an edge computing service for developers using its network, charging devs $0.50 for every 1M tasks used by their apps
EU panel calls for voluntary code of conduct for platforms to fight disinformation, but consumer group says panel ignored a core cause: ad-based business models
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For vetting Instagram influencers, marketing agencies are increasingly using services from firms that have developed tech to identify fake followers or bots
Salesforce debuts Essentials, simplified versions of its Sales and Service Cloud products aimed at small orgs, will retire SalesforceIQ and Desk.com
Amazon is shutting down Vendor Express, which launched three years ago as a shortcut for wholesalers to sell inventory, according to an email sent to merchants
After January reports that military locations were leaked by Strava, the fitness service will tweak the activity map and restrict access to registered users
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