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As Twitter experiments with some metrics to improve the health of conversations, privacy issues have delayed partnerships with the outside researchers (Kurt Wagner/Recode)

Kurt Wagner / Recode: As Twitter experiments with some metrics to improve the health of conversations, privacy issues have delayed partnerships with the outside researchers  —  Twitter wants to limit snark and get “healthy.”  So far, it’s gone nowhere.  —  There are few things the internet loves more than a vicious Twitter dunk. As Twitter

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Alfonso Ribeiro withdraws his lawsuit against Epic Games over dance-move emotes in Fortnite after US Copyright Office refused "Carlton Dance" copyright claim (Jordan Crucchiola/Vulture)

Jordan Crucchiola / Vulture: Alfonso Ribeiro withdraws his lawsuit against Epic Games over dance-move emotes in Fortnite after US Copyright Office refused “Carlton Dance” copyright claim  —  Epic Games will get a short respite from its dance-based legal battles.  The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actor Alfonso … Alfonso Ribeiro withdraws his lawsuit against Epic Games

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Dutch data protection agency says that blanket "cookie walls" that require visitors to accept all the cookies before accessing a site, violate GDPR (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Dutch data protection agency says that blanket “cookie walls” that require visitors to accept all the cookies before accessing a site, violate GDPR  —  Cookie walls that demand a website visitor agrees to their internet browsing being tracked for ad-targeting as the “price” … Dutch data protection agency says that blanket

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Google is rolling out Continued Conversations, Assistant's feature to avoid saying "Hey Google" repeatedly in a conversation, to smart displays in the US (Joe Maring/Android Central)

Joe Maring / Android Central: Google is rolling out Continued Conversations, Assistant’s feature to avoid saying “Hey Google” repeatedly in a conversation, to smart displays in the US  —  Smart Displays, like the Google Home Hub and Lenovo Smart Display, are great.  They’re helpful smart home gadgets … Google is rolling out Continued Conversations, Assistant's

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An overview of Amazon's media strategies, which include partnering with channels, expanding sports rights, and connecting content to products it sells (Alex Sherman/CNBC)

Alex Sherman / CNBC: An overview of Amazon’s media strategies, which include partnering with channels, expanding sports rights, and connecting content to products it sells  —  – Jeff Bezos gives the Amazon Studios team a massive budget to win “Lord of the Rings” and even sends Echo speakers to the Tolkien estate. An overview of

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Revolut launches auto-exchange for cryptocurrency – and I can’t find a reason to hate it

Online challenger bank, Revolut, has just introduced a new feature which makes it easier to protect yourself from volatile cryptocurrencies. Earlier this week, Revolut launched what it is simply calling its “auto-exchange” feature, which will allow users to automatically exchange two currency pairs – fiat and cryptocurrency – when the pair hits a specific exchange

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Report: in 2018, 889K+ users were attacked with banking Trojans, up ~16% YoY, while Android banking malware attacked ~1.8M users, up 300%+ YoY (Kaspersky Lab/Securelist)

Kaspersky Lab / Securelist: Report: in 2018, 889K+ users were attacked with banking Trojans, up ~16% YoY, while Android banking malware attacked ~1.8M users, up 300%+ YoY  —  Introduction and Key Findings  —  The world of finance has been a great source of income cybercriminals across the world due to an obvious reason – money.

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Car Alarm Hacks 3 Million Vehicles

Pen testing isn’t about evaluating inks. It is short for penetration testing — someone ensuring a system’s security by trying to break in or otherwise attack it. A company called Pen Test Partners made the news last week by announcing that high-end car alarm systems made by several vendors have a critical security flaw that

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