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
an internet-native mass shooting, conceived and produced entirely within the irony-soaked discourse of modern extremism,” @kevinroose writes about the terrorist attack in New Zealand. http://www.nytim...
Facebook says it has removed 1.5M videos globally, of which over 1.2M were blocked at upload, in the first 24 hours after the Christchurch attack
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it removed 1.5 million videos globally of the New Zealand mosque attack in the first 24 hours after the attack.
Apple's Heart Study, announced with Stanford in Nov. 2017, finds ~0.5% of 400K+ participants using Apple Watch up to Series 3 received irregular pulse alerts
Only 0.5 percent of participants received the notifications — Apple and the Stanford University School of Medicine each issued …
Reddit bans r/watchpeopledie and r/gore after users shared links to videos of the Christchurch shooting to the subreddits
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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...
Microsoft starts testing Windows Defender Application Guard extensions, which open untrusted web pages in a virtual container, for Chrome and Firefox
Microsoft has developed and started testing Windows Defender Application Guard extensions for both Chrome and Firefox to better protect enterprise PCs.
Spotify says “every monopolist will suggest they have done nothing wrong”, that Apple's response is not new, and is entirely in line with Spotify's expectations
In Friday's early hours, Spotify and Apple traded potshots in their ongoing battle over the App Store.
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 …
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 …
Sources: Facebook board member Marc Andreessen attended a meeting with Christopher Wylie about Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook data, in the summer of 2016
Allegations come as US prosecutors investigate claims of cover-up — Facebook is facing explosive new questions …
Arlington County Board voted 5-0 in favor of an estimated $51M financial package for Amazon's HQ2, which includes a cash grant of $23M to be paid over 15 years
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's planned second headquarters in northern Virginia cleared a key test on Saturday …
Facebook board member Marc Andreessen denies Guardian's report about Cambridge Analytica meeting in 2016, says he never met Wylie in his life
- Andreessen Horowitz investor and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen has denied claims he met the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Chris Wylie in 2016.
A point-by-point analysis of Apple's eloquent PR doublespeak response to Spotify's antitrust complaint
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McAfee research: 100+ unique exploits are using the recently disclosed code-execution vulnerability in WinRAR, a file compression app, to infect Windows users
Thanks to No Auto-Updates Tweets: McAfee Labs / @mcafee_labs : Check Point Research discovered a 19 year old code execution vulnerability in the popular WinRAR compression tool. Although a patch has b...
Leaked specs for Huawei P30 Pro reveal a 6.47-inch display, in-display fingerprint sensor, Kirin 980 octa-core chipset, and a triple-camera system with 10x zoom
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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...
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, Inc. is offering shares of its common stock. Rosalie Chan / Business Insider : Unicorn startup PagerDuty files to go public Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : PagerDuty files for I...
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
The Method Behind Our Matching Jack Morse / Mashable : Tinder just made it harder to know why you're seeing awful profiles Tweets: Steve Kovach / @stevekovach : This explains everything about my Tinde...
Voice-enabled tech has given rise to voice analysis research that provides insight into human behaviors, but raises concerns about privacy and accuracy
It's one of a crop of companies looking for the personal insights contained in our speech. In recent years, researchers and startups … Tweets: @jjvincent and @chengela Tweets: James Vincent / @jjvinc...
Profile of DeepMind, which reached a pre-acquisition arrangement that would prevent Google from unilaterally taking control of its IP, according to a source
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A look at the online video market in India, valued at $700M+, where 245M watch YouTube on their phones each month and 300+ content creators have 1M+ subscribers
Snigdha Poonam / Financial Times : Tweets: @ivan_brussels , @lizziepaton , and @b50 See also Mediagazer Tweets: Ivan Maljkovic / @ivan_brussels : “For many young Indians, YouTube itself is synonymous...
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