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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is better prepared to fight election interference, catalogs the steps the company has taken to prevent a repeat of 2016 — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg began the year by promising to make Facebook safer from election interference around the world.
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| Antonia Woodford / Facebook: |
Facebook expands fact-checking efforts to photos and videos, targeting those that are manipulated, out of context, or presented with false audio or text — We know that people want to see accurate information on Facebook, so for the last two years, we've made fighting misinformation a priority.
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CNET, Engadget, Washington Post, Axios, CNBC, Digital Trends, Adweek, Neowin, TechSpot, TechCrunch, and Facebook
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The iPhone XR is neatly segmented primarily by virtue of being close enough to the best to be a force in the market for years to come — Apple released a new flagship iPhone yesterday, the iPhone XS. This isn't exactly ground-breaking news: it is exactly what the company has done for eleven years now …
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Tweets: @stratechery, @itsnicolenguyen, @nycjim, and @hgrd
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources describe Larry Page as more withdrawn than ever, with his immersion in tech solutions of tomorrow distracting him from the problems Google faces today — Larry Page was a no-show. The co-founder and de facto leader of Google is famous for his wild bets on airborne taxis and space elevators …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces $2B Bezos Day One Fund, which will create a network of nonprofit preschools and fund charities that help homeless families — A year after asking for suggestions on philanthropy, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is unveiling his first projects.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart's Jet.com relaunches its website to focus on products and services localized to cities, starting with NYC, and launches three-hour grocery delivery — Jet.com, the e-commerce site Walmart acquired in 2016 for $3 billion, is relaunching itself today with an upgraded look and assortment … | Ainsley Harris / Fast Company: |
Profile of Arlan Hamilton, founder of Backstage Capital, which is focused on underrepresented founders and is launching a $36M fund for black women founders — Backstage in the greenroom of the podcast festival where she's scheduled to appear, Arlan Hamilton is quietly singing the lyrics to Janet Jackson's “Control.”
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Crain's Detroit Business. Tweets: @arlanwashere, @nakisnakis, @levie, @adammarx13, @nakisnakis, and @ainsleyoc
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Breitbart's leaked Google all-hands video, while innocuous, is another example of employee dissatisfaction on public display, following James Damore and others — What the leak of a video says about this moment at Alphabet — It's an unhappy time at Google.| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
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Tweets: @parscale, @johnpaczkowski, @donaldjtrumpjr, @willoremus, @robaeprice, @rokhanna, @marshallk, @cwarzel, @rmac18, @anildash, and @cwarzel
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
European Court of Human Rights rules that some aspects of a former UK mass surveillance regime, including bulk data collection, violated human rights law — In another blow to the UK government's record on bulk data handling for intelligence purposes the European Court of Human Rights …
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Tweets: @snowden, @glynmoody, and @wikileaks
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it acquired Lobe, a San Francisco-based startup that lets users build machine learning models using a visual interface with no coding required — Microsoft today announced it has acquired Lobe, creator of a platform for building custom deep learning models using a visual interface …
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The Official Microsoft Blog, GeekWire, ZDNet, CNBC, Windows Central, TechCrunch, and On MSFT
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
For Curated Our Stories, Snapchat enlists 20 news partners, including CNN, Cosmopolitan, and NBC, to aggregate user-generated content in the Discover section — Snapchat is letting more than 20 news partners create curated “stories” with user-generated content from its platform as part …
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Digiday, Engadget, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, Deadline, Variety, The Verge, Recode, Adweek, and Ad Age
Tweets: @moneyries, @yoda, and @joshconstine
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Four major US carriers detail “Project Verify” for letting web sites authenticate users via data unique to a customer's phone and mobile subscriber account — The four major U.S. wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords …
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The Verge, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, AT&T, Engadget, FierceWireless, AndroidHeadlines.com, and Droid Life
Tweets: @backlon, @lorenzofb, and @wolfiechristl
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: two years before it was hacked, Equifax told the FBI of suspicions that company data including code and HR files may have been stolen by Chinese spies — The credit-reporting company went to the FBI with its suspicions—then the investigation stalled
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antfin.com, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, and Finextra Research Headlines
Tweets: @kate_okeeffe, @kuriko_c, @marcorubio, @wsj, and @gerryshih
| Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Olaf Carlson-Wee, who turned $14K into $150M by betting on cryptocurrency, and his fund Polychain Capital, which earned investors 2,303% last year — Now running the world's largest crypto hedge fund, the 29-year-old says he is undeterred by recent losses
Tweets: @mims, @whalepanda, @sqeeqee, @wsj, @gzuckerman, and @coindesk
| New York Times: |
A look at how game apps track kids' data as a lawsuit accuses Google and Twitter ad businesses, and a popular app maker, of violating children's privacy law — A lawsuit by New Mexico's attorney general accuses a popular app maker, as well as online ad businesses run by Google and Twitter, of violating children's privacy law.
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GamesIndustry.biz, MediaPost, and Law360
Tweets: @jenvalentino, @mrdylancollins, @jason_kint, @nickconfessore, @profcarroll, @manjusrii, @jugander, and @leoniehaimson
| Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
Uber says it will spend $150M over five years to boost its Toronto-based engineering hub and expand self-driving car operations — Uber Technologies Inc is spending millions of dollars in Toronto to open an engineering hub and expand its self-driving car operations, the strongest indication yet …
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SiliconANGLE, BetaKit, TechCrunch, and Canadian Press
| Olivia Beavers / The Hill: |
Russian hacker Peter Levashov, who was arrested by Spanish authorities last year, pleads guilty in a US District Court for his involvement in the Kelihos botnet — A renowned Russian hacker on Wednesday pleaded guilty in a U.S. District Court for his involvement in the Kelihos botnet …
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U.S. Department of Justice, Ars Technica, Engadget, ZDNet, The Hacker News, and Dark Reading
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Beijing-based blockchain game platform Cocos-BCX, founded by leaders of the Cocos2d-x open source development platform, raises $40M from Binance Labs and others — Beijing-based Cocos-BCX has raised $40 million for its blockchain game development platform.| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Josh Garza, CEO of Bitcoin mining firm GAW Miners, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to a wire fraud charge in July 2017 — Josh Garza, the CEO of the now-defunct cryptocurrency mining company GAW Miners, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to a wire fraud charge.| Thomas Escritt / Reuters: |
Survey of 503 executives by German IT sector association Bitkom shows ~66% of manufacturers have been hit by cyberattacks, costing €43B — BERLIN (Reuters) - Two thirds of Germany's manufacturers have been hit by cyber-crime attacks, costing industry in Europe's largest economy some 43 billion euros … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia announces the Tesla T4 for faster AI inference in data centers, says it offers up to 12x the performance of previous-gen within the same power envelope — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage at GTC Japan to announce the company's latest advancements in AI, which includes the new Tesla T4 GPU.
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NVIDIA Newsroom, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Tech Report, and Engadget. Tweets: @marchamilton
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Adobe beats with Q3 revenues of $2.29B vs. $2.25B est., up 24% YoY, subscription revenues up 25% YoY, and net income of $666.3M, up 59% YoY — The Photoshop maker reported third quarter revenue of $2.29 billion, up 24 percent from the same period last year.Sponsor Posts
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