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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
After The Intercept's inquiry, Facebook deletes “white genocide conspiracy theory” as a pre-defined ad targeting category with an estimated 168K users — Apparently fueled by anti-Semitism and the bogus narrative that outside forces are scheming to exterminate the white race …
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| Christopher Bing / Reuters: |
Twitter has removed some bot accounts, sources say more than 10,000, that posed as Democrats and posted tweets discouraging people from voting in the midterms — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twitter deleted more than 10,000 automated accounts posting messages that discouraged people from voting …
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CNET, Slate, Mashable, The Hill, and Cyberscoop
Tweets: @cnetnews, @bcappelbaum, @nickpacilio, and @peteskomoroch
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
How Facebook and Twitter fight online voter suppression for the midterms with algorithm changes and partnerships with organizations that report disinformation — Facebook and Twitter aren't just trying to drive people to the polls — they're racing to fight back bad actors who seek to deter their users from voting.| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
In a wide-ranging interview, Elon Musk discusses his tweeting habits, Tesla's past year, its Navigate on Autopilot feature, full autonomous driving, and more — Musk talks about his “excruciating” 2018, fighting with journalists on Twitter, why Tesla won't build an electric scooter and much more.
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TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, CNBC, The Verge, CBS San Francisco, GeekWire, iPhone in Canada Blog, USA Today, Vox, The Daily Caller, Electrek, Cult of Mac, Telegraph, and TheStreet
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| Google Walkout For Real Change: |
Google walkout organizers say 20,000+ participated and that Sundar Pichai will meet with his leadership team on Monday to review a plan to address their demands — For Immediate Release: — Google employees and contractors participate in global “walkout for real change”
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| Ryan Dezember / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Thasos, which leases trillions of anonymized GPS coordinates from ~1,000 smartphone apps and sells insights from the data to Wall Street traders — The phone in your pocket is dishing info on where you spend your time and, likely, money — When Tesla Inc. TSLA .62% Chief Executive Elon Musk …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Twitter apologizes after “Kill all Jews” appeared as a trending topic in many New Yorkers' local trending sections following the vandalism of Brooklyn synagogue — On Friday morning, Twitter featured the trending topic “Kill all Jews” in its New York local trend feed.| Andrei Zakharov / BBC: |
Hackers publish private messages from 81K Facebook accounts and claim to have details from up to 120M accounts for sale; FB blames 3rd-party browser extensions — Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users' accounts.
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Tweets: @iblametom, @yoda, @basche42, @saradannerdukic, @marcelweiss, @nightafternight, @rustybrick, @leoniegsmith, and @gossithedog
| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Profile of cryptocurrency millionaire Jeffrey Berns who says he has spent $300M to build an experimental community based on blockchain in Nevada — A man spent millions on an enormous plot of land near Reno. Now he wants to build a community based on the blockchain technology introduced by Bitcoin.
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PR Newswire, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoGlobe, Bitsonline, socalTECH.com, YouTube, and ETHNews
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| Yahoo News: |
Sources: in 2011, Iranians used Google search to identify a string of websites the CIA used to communicate with its agents, compromising the CIA's wider network — In 2013, hundreds of CIA officers — many working nonstop for weeks — scrambled to contain a disaster of global proportions …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Spotify makes an early version of its Apple Watch app available to a limited number of users via Apple's TestFlight beta testing program — Spotify is officially coming to Apple Watch, as the streaming music service today delighted users with an early beta version of the watchOS app through TestFlight.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Toronto-based Setter, whose platform lets homeowners chat with home maintenance experts and get a quote, raises $10M Series A co-led by Sequoia and NFX — You probably don't know how much it should cost to get your home's windows washed, yard landscaped, or countertops replaced. But Setter does.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: ByteDance's short video app TikTok's monthly US App Store installs in October were higher than those of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube — Beijing-based ByteDance's 2017 acquisition of tween and teen-focused social app Musical.ly is paying off.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Freedom House moves the US down a spot in its global internet freedom rankings citing net neutrality repeal, surveillance law renewal, disinformation, and more — If you need a safe haven on the internet, where the pipes are open and the freedoms are plentiful — you might want to move to Estonia or Iceland.
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The Verge, The Verge, MIT Technology Review, Slate, and Reuters
| Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire: |
US Department of Commerce to lift price freeze on .com domains from December 2020 after extending contract with Verisign to run the internet registry until 2024 — Verisign is the big winner as consumers face higher bills for .com domain names. — The U.S. Department of Commerce's National …
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The Register, MarketWatch, Verisign Blog, Broadcasting & Cable, and WTOP
Tweets: @ddayen and @wolfiechristl
| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
View, a startup that makes smart windows with internet-connected frames that can regulate the tinting of the glass, raises $1.1B from SoftBank's Vision Fund — Despite the recent assassination of a journalist by Saudi Arabian agents and an ensuing global controversy, Masayoshi Son …
Tweets: @business and @markmilian
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Serverless search and analytics startup Rockset comes out of stealth, says it has raised $3M in seed funding and $18.5M Series A led by Sequoia and Greylock — Rockset, a startup that came out of stealth today, announced $21.5M in previous funding and the launch of its new data platform …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Flickr says it will end 1TB storage for free accounts and delete all but the most recent 1,000 photos or videos if users don't upgrade to Pro by February 2019 — Flickr was purchased in April by professional photo hosting service SmugMug, and today, the first major changes under the new ownership have been announced.
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Gizmodo, Creative Commons, Flickr Blog, ExtremeTech, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, KnowTechie, Business Wire, Flickr Blog, Mashable, iMore, VentureBeat, Engadget, Digital Trends, CNET, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, and Digital Photography Review
Tweets: @slavin_fpo, @shortformernie, @textfiles, @digiphile, @daniel_rubino, @waxpancake, @tomcoates, @dsilverman, @yoda, @donmacaskill, @olebegemann, and @nikhewitt
| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
A look at how deepfakes, with recent software advances that easily create AI-generated fake audio and video, could be misused to undermine elections — PLENTY OF PEOPLE are following the final days of the midterm election campaigns. Yale law researcher Rebecca Crootof has a special interest—a small wager.
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber details new safety measures for its autonomous vehicle program in report, says it's applying to resume testing of vehicles in autonomous mode in Pittsburgh — Ride-hailing giant said it would improve its software and training and keep two test drivers in every vehicle| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
TraceMe, NFL star Russell Wilson's celebrity app, has laid off staff, closed LA office, pivoted to a sports prediction game; TraceMe to shutter in coming weeks — One year after attempting to take on social media giants with its own content platform focused on celebrities, TraceMe is pivoting.Thanks:@toddbishop
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