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Jay Z returns to Spotify

Z is back! | SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images Today is the birthday of Shawn Corey Carter. To celebrate his 50h, the artist better known as Jay Z has returned his entire music catalog to Spotify where he’s sure to cash in on this gift to subscribers. Jay Z owns the rival music streaming service

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Researchers achieve new cryptography milestones, including factoring the largest RSA key size ever, largely thanks to improved algorithms, not better hardware (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers achieve new cryptography milestones, including factoring the largest RSA key size ever, largely thanks to improved algorithms, not better hardware  —  795-bit factoring and discrete logarithms achieved using more efficient algorithms.  —  34 with 24 posters participating Researchers achieve new cryptography milestones, including factoring the largest RSA key size

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YouTube claims users spend 70% less time on "borderline" content, like conspiracies, since it tweaked recommendations in January but fails to offer more details (Greg Bensinger/Washington Post)

Greg Bensinger / Washington Post: YouTube claims users spend 70% less time on “borderline” content, like conspiracies, since it tweaked recommendations in January but fails to offer more details  —  Video giant says users spent 70 percent less time watching videos pushing miracle cures. YouTube claims users spend 70% less time on "borderline" content, like

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Mozilla removes four Firefox extensions made by Avast and AVG after reports that they were harvesting user data and browsing histories (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Mozilla removes four Firefox extensions made by Avast and AVG after reports that they were harvesting user data and browsing histories  —  The four extensions, two from Avast and two from AVG, are still available on the Chrome Web Store.  —  Mozilla removed today four Firefox extensions … Mozilla removes four

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Mozilla removes four Firefox extensions made by Avast and AVG after reports that they were harvesting user data and browsing histories (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

{$inline_image} Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Mozilla removes four Firefox extensions made by Avast and AVG after reports that they were harvesting user data and browsing histories  —  The four extensions, two from Avast and two from AVG, are still available on the Chrome Web Store.  —  Mozilla removed today four Firefox extensions … Mozilla removes

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Firefox 71 arrives with Picture-in-Picture support on Windows for all video sites, Enhanced Tracking Protection and Lockwise password manager improvements, more (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Firefox 71 arrives with Picture-in-Picture support on Windows for all video sites, Enhanced Tracking Protection and Lockwise password manager improvements, more  —  Mozilla today launched Firefox 71 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS.  Firefox 71 includes Lockwise password manager improvements … Firefox 71 arrives with Picture-in-Picture support on Windows for

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OneConnect, a tech-as-a-service platform for financial SMBs, launches US IPO of up to $504M in a down round, after raising $650M last year from SoftBank and SBI (Julia Fioretti/Bloomberg)

{$inline_image} Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg: OneConnect, a tech-as-a-service platform for financial SMBs, launches US IPO of up to $504M in a down round, after raising $650M last year from SoftBank and SBI  —  Masayoshi Son, head of Japanese conglomerate Softbank, is facing another valuation cut in one of his investments. OneConnect, a tech-as-a-service platform for

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