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UK issues white paper with a plan for a new watchdog alongside guidelines that could hold senior tech execs liable for harmful content hosted on their platforms (BBC)

BBC: UK issues white paper with a plan for a new watchdog alongside guidelines that could hold senior tech execs liable for harmful content hosted on their platforms  —  Internet sites could be fined or blocked if they fail to tackle “online harms” such as terrorist propaganda and child abuse, under government plans. UK issues

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How Waze is working with Transport for London through its Connected Citizens program, which has 900 partners, to launch the city's new Ultra Low Emission Zone (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: How Waze is working with Transport for London through its Connected Citizens program, which has 900 partners, to launch the city’s new Ultra Low Emission Zone  —  As cities look for new ways to combat congestion and toxic fumes, technology is playing an increasingly big part in the problem-solving … How

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Researchers: Chinese HR-focused companies have leaked over 590M resumes, many with non-public personal details, via exposed databases in the last 3 months (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Researchers: Chinese HR-focused companies have leaked over 590M resumes, many with non-public personal details, via exposed databases in the last 3 months  —  Leaks have taken place in the first three months of the year, via either ElasticSearch or MongoDB databases. Researchers: Chinese HR-focused companies have leaked over 590M resumes, many

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VSCO sues photo editing app PicsArt alleging false advertising and violations of its ToS, claims PicsArt reverse engineered 19 filters from VSCO (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: VSCO sues photo editing app PicsArt alleging false advertising and violations of its ToS, claims PicsArt reverse engineered 19 filters from VSCO  —  Photo-editing app-maker VSCO has filed a lawsuit against competitor PicsArt.  —  The suit focuses on 19 PicsArt filters that were supposedly … VSCO sues photo editing app PicsArt

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With Snap Kit, Snap moves on from being a "Camera company" and becomes a camera platform, enabling developers to embed, not copy, its best features (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Josh Constine / TechCrunch: With Snap Kit, Snap moves on from being a “Camera company” and becomes a camera platform, enabling developers to embed, not copy, its best features  —  Evan Spiegel has finally found a way to fight back against Mark Zuckerberg’s army of clones.  For 2.5 years, Snapchat foolishly tried … With Snap

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Hands on with Android Q Beta 2: deep dive into an early version of Bubbles multitasking UI, a look at the changes to notifications and gesture navigation, more (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Hands on with Android Q Beta 2: deep dive into an early version of Bubbles multitasking UI, a look at the changes to notifications and gesture navigation, more  —  Android’s Bubbles feature can actually completely replace the notification panel.  —  Android Q Beta 2 is out! Hands on with Android

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How fraud-detection services like Sift and SecureAuth use thousands of signals and opaque algorithms to generate user trustworthiness scores (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How fraud-detection services like Sift and SecureAuth use thousands of signals and opaque algorithms to generate user trustworthiness scores  —  When you’re logging in to a Starbucks account, booking an Airbnb or making a reservation on OpenTable, loads of information about you is crunched instantly … How fraud-detection services

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