Facebook Takes Down Main Page of Myanmar Military

Facebook deleted the main page of the Myanmar military under its standards prohibiting the incitement of violence, the company said, a day after two protesters were killed when police opened fire at a... https://ift.tt/3dAxFh2

Australia Won't Change Planned Content Laws Despite Facebook Block

Australia will not change proposed laws that would make Google and Facebook pay news outlets for content, a senior lawmaker said, despite vocal opposition from the Big Tech firms. https://ift.tt/37ANMHO

Clubhouse says it has added security safeguards and banned a user after some Clubhouse audio and metadata was found on a third-party website (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Clubhouse says it has added security safeguards and banned a user after some Clubhouse audio and metadata was found on a third-party website  —  - The app's creators had been warned user data was vulnerable  — An unidentified user streamed audio chats to their own website

Facing issues with Google Chrome? Here’s a way to fix it

If you think your Google Chrome is acting up then resetting is the first that you should be doing. Given the fact that this is the most popular web browser, it should not come as a surprise that a lot of people may be facing issues like unwanted ads or slow webpage loading speeds. https://ift.tt/3dDgawG

Why May 15 is an ‘important’ date for WhatsApp users

Ever since the turn of the year, WhatsApp has found itself in a quagmire. It all started when WhatsApp announced its new privacy policy which users had to accept or face their account being deleted. After a lot of hue and cry — and promotional blitzkrieg — WhatsApp postponed the date and explained to users that nothing’s going to change. https://ift.tt/3aG37cb

WhatsApp privacy: What happens to your account if you don't accept new policy

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Russian investigative journalism is flourishing alongside "probiv", the buying of data on phone calls, cell location, or air travel off Telegram or the dark web (Ben Smith/New York Times)

Ben Smith / New York Times:
Russian investigative journalism is flourishing alongside “probiv”, the buying of data on phone calls, cell location, or air travel off Telegram or the dark web  —  A new wave of news outlets has used conventional, and unconventional, methods to pierce the veil of Putin's power.

Sources: Toast, a cloud-based restaurant management software provider, is planning an IPO that could value it at ~$20B; in Feb. 2020 it was valued at $4.9B (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Toast, a cloud-based restaurant management software provider, is planning an IPO that could value it at ~$20B; in Feb. 2020 it was valued at $4.9B  —  Toast taps Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase to underwrite a possible listing later this year  —  Toast Inc. is planning …

Profile of Youyang Gu, a 27-year-old data scientist whose ML model most accurately predicted COVID-19 death totals which the CDC used on its forecasting website (Ashlee Vance/Bloomberg)

Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg:
Profile of Youyang Gu, a 27-year-old data scientist whose ML model most accurately predicted COVID-19 death totals which the CDC used on its forecasting website  —  Spring 2020 brought with it the arrival of the celebrity statistical model.  As the public tried to gauge how big a deal …

Accellion's file transfer software hack, which affected Jones Day, also impacted New Zealand's central bank, 1M unemployment benefits applicants in WA, and more (David Uberti/Wall Street Journal)

David Uberti / Wall Street Journal:
Accellion's file transfer software hack, which affected Jones Day, also impacted New Zealand's central bank, 1M unemployment benefits applicants in WA, and more  —  Like the SolarWinds breach, the incident highlights supply-chain vulnerabilities  —  The hack of software provider Accellion USA LLC …

Israel-based Earnix, which helps banks and insurers provide personalized real-time offers to clients, raises $75M at a $1B pre-money valuation (Shoshanna Solomon/The Times of Israel)

Shoshanna Solomon / The Times of Israel:
Israel-based Earnix, which helps banks and insurers provide personalized real-time offers to clients, raises $75M at a $1B pre-money valuation  —  Funds raised will help startup access new markets, finetune software that helps banks and insurers offer clients personalized pricing and products

Waze's ex-CEO says app "could have probably grown faster" without Google

But Waze usage is flat in some countries as Google Maps gets significant promotion, and Waze has lost money as it focuses on a little-used carpooling app and pursues an advertising business that barely registers within the Google empire, according to interviews with 11 former employees over the last year. https://ift.tt/3dACh70

Sources: Zuckerberg's personal intervention to reduce the severity of Alex Jones' ban in 2019 slowed down Facebook's efforts to deal with dangerous content (BuzzFeed News)

BuzzFeed News:
Sources: Zuckerberg's personal intervention to reduce the severity of Alex Jones' ban in 2019 slowed down Facebook's efforts to deal with dangerous content  —  In April 2019, Facebook was preparing to ban one of the internet's most notorious spreaders of misinformation and hate, Infowars founder Alex Jones.

Apple's new Platform Security user guide follows the industry trend of growing vertical hardware, software, and cloud integration to improve ecosystem security (Rich Mogull/TidBITS)

Rich Mogull / TidBITS:
Apple's new Platform Security user guide follows the industry trend of growing vertical hardware, software, and cloud integration to improve ecosystem security  —  Even as a security professional, it's easy to get lost within the digital covers of Apple's latest Platform Security user guide.

Brazil-based Descomplica, which offers online undergraduate courses and test prep for university and civil service entrance exams, raises ~$83M led by SoftBank (Reuters)

Reuters:
Brazil-based Descomplica, which offers online undergraduate courses and test prep for university and civil service entrance exams, raises ~$83M led by SoftBank  —  A group of investors led by Softbank Group has invested 450 million reais ($83 million) in Brazilian test-prep startup Descomplica …