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LinkedIn is forcing some users to use #hashtags to post updates
2018-04-06

Welcome to the latest class on awful UX design straight from Silicon Valley. It appears that LinkedIn is running a minor test on its platform that requires users to use hashtags in order to post updates from their personal accounts. The change was noticed by a small group of baffled users on Twitter: So, LinkedIn...

Facebook reported in 7 countries for breaking European privacy law
2018-04-06

According to Norwegian tech site NRKbeta, Facebook has been reported to data protection authorities for breaking European privacy law in Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece. After the revelation of the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal, the social media giant has admitted that as...

Russia is seeking to block secure messaging app Telegram
2018-04-06

The country’s state communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, has filed a lawsuit to block the app in the country because Telegram has refused to hand over the encryption keys that would allow Russian authorities to read messages sent using the service, reports Reuters. Telegram, which is based in Dubai, is wildly...

Sheryl Sandberg: Users would have to pay to opt out of Facebook ads
2018-04-06

In an interview with Today airing Friday morning, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg insisted that Facebook does not sell or give away user information, but made clear that Facebook’s entire model is based on being able to share user data with advertisers. If Facebook users don’t like its ad-based model, the...

Tiger Woods’s Nike Comeback, The North Face Moves Mountains: Top 5 Ads Of The Week
2018-04-06

Kids ask for privacy online, Yeti goes fishing in Greenland, and the World Wildlife Fund pulls a depressing trick on Instagram. The prestigious 2018 Masters golf tournament, which heads into its final rounds this weekend, is also a major sports marketing opportunity. One new ad weeks in the making is Nike’s...

Now Indonesian police are investigating Facebook
2018-04-06

Indonesia is the latest to join the growing list of countries investigating Facebook over the improper sharing of user data. Indonesia’s communications minister asked the chief of the National Police to launch an investigation into Facebook after the company on Thursday revealed that more than a million...

Facebook deleted messages sent by Mark Zuckerberg from recipients’ inboxes
2018-04-06

Facebook doesn’t allow users to delete or retract messages they’ve sent to someone by Facebook Messenger–that is unless you are the company’s CEO or a top exec. The company has deleted some messages sent by Zuckerberg to other Facebook users via Messenger or Facebook’s chat tools...

Facebook admits it deleted messages Mark Zuckerberg sent, for ‘corporate security’
2018-04-06

TechCrunch reports that Facebook wiped messages that CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent to former employees, as well as people outside the company, from those recipients’ inboxes. The company cited ‘corporate security’ as its reasoning for the move, but it’s never publicly disclosed that it cleared Zuckerberg’s...

Facebook hits the brakes on creepy project to access your patient data from hospitals
2018-04-06

Facebook has been in recent talks with several high profile US hospitals in an attempt to glean anonymized patient data for a now-defunct project. The company aimed to collect obscured personal details — including illness and prescription info — in an attempt to match it with user data it collected by the social...

Facebook paused a research project that asked hospitals to hand over patient data
2018-04-05

Facebook has been working on a secret project that asked hospitals to share anonymized patient data, according to a report from CNBC. The endeavor was run by Building 8, the branch of Facebook involved with long-term experimental projects. The idea behind the venture, according to sources who spoke with CNBC, was to...

Can Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust? It’s A Long Shot, But Here’s Where To Start
2018-04-05

With Congressional testimony looming, Facebook’s embattled CEO is mostly sticking to the same old talking points. It’ll take a lot more to turn things around. This story reflects the views of this author, but not necessarily the editorial position of Fast Company.Read Full Story

Virgin Galactic is one giant leap closer to launching rich people into space
2018-04-05

Virgin Galactic has conducted the first rocket-powered flight test of Unity, its new SpaceShipTwo. A crew of two piloted Unity as it took off from Mojave Air and Space Port, boosted by the jet-powered mothership Eve. Virgin Galactic CEO Richard Branson said in a tweet that the flight reached Mach 1.6,...

London’s mayor has a plan to fight fake news that doesn’t involve killing social media
2018-04-05

During SXSW last month, the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, sat down with Fast Company to explain how his city is expanding its footprint in the tech industry and where the line is for government regulation that doesn’t impede innovation. This was, of course, before news of British political data firm Cambridge...

Cryptokitties had a glitch that allowed for unlimited automatic likes
2018-04-05

There existed a glitch that allowed users to make an absurd amount of money in Cryptokitties that no one has been aware of, or so this guy is claiming. Robert Durst, a ‘full stack engineer with a slight blockchain obsession’, described his experience of ‘hacking’ Cryptokitties on hackernoon. Durst exploited...

Twitter says it removed 274,000 terrorist-related accounts in the second half of 2017
2018-04-05

Twitter today gave an update to its transparency report, providing a peek into the work it’s been doing to combat extremist and other toxic content. One statistic that stands out: The company suspended over 1.2 million accounts for terrorist-related content in the last five years–including 274,460 that...

TNW’s Big Spam: Are you as dumb as your apps?
2018-04-05

Almost there… Top trending tech news: 😮 FB confirmed it spies on our Messenger conversations (TNW)😬 … and confessed the Cambridge Analytica breach could have affected 87 million users (TNW) ☠ Russia says ‘nyet’ to free exchange of cryptocurrencies (Hard Fork) What we’re talking about:...

IOTA is going through a very messy public break-up with a former member
2018-04-05

Fledgling blockchain developer IOTA Foundation has found itself entangled in yet another controversy. In a Twitter post from earlier today, co-founder David Sønstebø accused former employee Per Lind of exploiting the brand for personal gains. He further claimed that Lind has never held a position in the foundation...

Is deleting your Facebook account really going to solve anything?
2018-04-05

We’re in the middle of a full-fledged Facebook panic. A couple of weeks ago, it was revealed that the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica used data improperly taken from Facebook by a third-party app to influence voters in the 2016 Presidential election. Compounded in part by the revelation of Cambridge...

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2018-04-05

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Got questions for the first ever VR porn star? Ela Darling is joining us on TNW Answers
2018-04-05

What are the most exciting VR projects in porn right now? How has the #metoo movement affected the adult film industry? Is there a way technology could bring more gender equality? What is it about VR that has made it catch on so quickly in the industry? What new problems could you see it posing for adult film...

IBM Would Like To Remind You Its Technology Can Change The World
2018-04-05

Chief marketing officer Michelle Peluso explains her goals for the company’s new brand campaign, “Let’s Put Smart to Work.” For a long time, everything was all about the data. We’d all be amazed at new technology’s ability to collect and distribute data. But if...

“I Unfortunately Have The Equivalent Of 5 PhDs In Twitter Harassment”
2018-04-05

Brianna Wu has borne the brunt of online abuse like few others. She says Twitter has made progress in fighting it—but there’s more work left to be done. Well before most people had given much thought to the problem of harassment on social networks, Brianna Wu became an expert on it, in the worst possible...

Australia is investigating Facebook for privacy violations
2018-04-05

Australia’s privacy commissioner has announced that the country is investigating if Facebook breached its privacy laws after the company confirmed that data from 300,000 Australian Facebook users may have been used without their permission, reports Bloomberg. The investigation comes after Facebook revised the...

Sears and Delta are the latest to suffer customer data breach
2018-04-05

It seems like we’re hearing about these data breaches on almost a daily basis now. Sears Holding and Delta Airlines have announced that some of their customers’ information may have been exposed in a cybersecurity breach at [24]7.ai, a software service provider that the companies use for online support...

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