Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter struggle to halt the spread of the horrific New Zealand shooting video; one of the shooters livestreamed the attack on Facebook
Hong Kong (CNN Business)Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are struggling to halt the spread of horrific footage that appears to show …
Christchurch, announced on 8chan, streamed on Facebook, and shared endlessly on YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit, feels like the first internet-native mass shooting
Before entering a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, the site of one of the deadliest mass murders in the country's history …
Apple responds to Spotify's complaint, says Spotify seeks to keep all the benefits of the App Store “without making any contributions to that marketplace”
and It's Failing to Make Its Case Jen Thorpe / Geek News Central : Apple Addressed Spotify's Claims Yoni Heisler / BGR : Apple fires back at Spotify and disputes claim that it's stifling innovation Mi...
Reddit bans r/watchpeopledie and r/gore after users shared links to videos of the Christchurch shooting to the subreddits
Reddit banned two contentious but popular groups that regularly featured human injury and death following the widespread sharing of videos of the New Zealand terrorist incident on Friday.
Documents, sources, and interviews with senior Facebook employees detail the process and the difficulty of moderating Facebook Live
used to stream the Christchurch attack—launched, the company realized it didn't have processes in place to handle the volume of bad material, like self-harm. Had to create tools for mods http://mother...
Valve says it will now investigate Steam review bombing campaigns and hide reviews it identifies as “off-topic”
But there are still problems with this approach — Valve says it's taking a new approach to user reviews on its gaming marketplace Steam, after attempting …
McAfee research: 100+ unique exploits are using the recently disclosed code-execution vulnerability in WinRAR, a file compression app, to infect Windows users
As expected, the recent WinRAR vulnerability is now being abused en-masse by multiple threat actors.
A point-by-point analysis of Apple's eloquent PR doublespeak response to Spotify's antitrust complaint
Apple remained silent for two entire days after Spotify accused it of unfair practices, apparently stunned by the sudden turn of events. Now, it's responded to Spotify's claims …
SimilarWeb data shows visits to Tumblr have fallen nearly 30%, from 521M in Dec. to 370M in Feb., since permanently banning adult content from the site in Dec.
Tumblr has lost 30 percent of web traffic since December — Since Tumblr announced its porn ban in December …
App performance monitoring startup PagerDuty files its S-1, says it had FY2018 revenue of $79.6M, up 41% YoY, and 10K+ customers, including GE, IBM, and Netflix
- PagerDuty had a $15.3 million net loss on sales of $31.2 million in the quarter that ended on Oct. 31.
Google adds Google Translate support to its Gboard keyboard app on iOS; the feature has been available on Android since 2017
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Jury finds that Apple has infringed on three Qualcomm patents and awards $31M to the wireless chip maker in a lawsuit that was filed in July 2017 in San Diego
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Beto O'Rourke acknowledges that, as a teenager, he was a member of Cult of the Dead Cow, one of the oldest US computer hacker groups
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Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles gets suspended jail term for falsifying financial data but is acquitted of bitcoin embezzlement
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Tinder says it no longer relies on a “desirability” score and that it now adjusts matches a user sees within 24 hours of someone acting on that user's profile
RIP to the mysterious Elo score — Tinder wants to set the record straight about how its platform ranks …
Profile of DeepMind, which reached a pre-acquisition arrangement that would prevent Google from unilaterally taking control of its IP, according to a source
Demis Hassabis founded a company to build the world's most powerful AI. Then Google bought him out. Hal Hodson asks who is in charge
Zeus, a platform that lets people rent out their homes as long-term corporate housing, says it has raised a total of $24M via seed, Series A, and debt financing
Stealing Airbnb's corporate housing market — Cookie-cutter corporate housing turns people into worker drones. Tweets: @garrytan Tweets: Garry / @garrytan : Zeus is the software eating the property m...
Leaked email: Amazon is seeking investors for a new program, AWS Pro-Rata, which matches private investors with venture funds to invest in specific startups
- Companies listed as opportunities include Boom, which manufactures supersonic jets, and Roman, a maker of men's health products.
Seattle-based Igneous raises $25M Series C for its unstructured data management-as-a-service platform, bringing the total raised to $70M
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Samsung Notebook 9 Pro review: sharp display and solid build quality, but it has a MacBook Pro-like shallow keyboard and its fingerprint scanner is inconsistent
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Twitter confirms it is testing a “Subscribe to conversation” feature allowing users to follow a thread without directly signaling interest via likes or replies
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Cinedigm, an entertainment content distributor and niche streaming channel operator, buys Future Today, which has 700+ OTT channels and 5.2M MAUs, for $60M
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Source: EU to announce an antitrust fine related to Google's AdSense next week that is expected to be much smaller than fines for Android and shopping search
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :
LaunchDarkly raises $44M Series C for its platform that lets its 700+ customers, including IBM and BMW, quickly launch, test, and tweak new product features
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