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| Sheryl Sandberg: |
Sheryl Sandberg says allegations that she and Zuckerberg hid info about Russian interference is untrue, claims she didn't know Facebook hired Definers — I want to address some of the claims that have been made in the last 24 hours. — On a number of issues - including spotting …
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| Facebook: |
Facebook responds to the NYT exposé, lists “number of inaccuracies” in the story, and denies it knew about Russian activity as early as spring of 2016 — Yesterday The New York Times published an article about the past two years at Facebook. There are a number of inaccuracies in the story, including:
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| Alistair Barr / Bloomberg: |
Facebook's board says it pushed Zuckerberg and Sandberg to respond to Russian interference faster and calls NYT report “grossly unfair” — Facebook Inc.'s board defended how Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg have handled mounting problems faced …
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| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
Facebook to demote borderline content in News Feed by default, publish minutes of policy meetings, and let users appeal content decisions to an independent body — My focus in 2018 has been addressing the most important issues facing Facebook. As the year wraps up, I'm writing a series …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Facebook's second content moderation report: from April to September, 1.5B fake accounts were closed and 23.3M instances of violent content were removed — Facebook's latest transparency report shows a big jump in spam and violent content takedowns, some advances in proactively identifying hate speech …
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| Brian Crecente / Variety: |
Sony says it will not attend next year's E3, the annual video game trade show, the first time in E3's 24-year history that Sony will not be there — Sony Interactive Entertainment, currently riding high on record sales of its PlayStation 4 gaming console, won't be hosting its annual press conference …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Voxox left database unsecured exposing a near real-time stream of millions of SMS texts including password reset links and 2FA codes from Google, Yahoo, others — A security lapse has exposed a massive database containing tens of millions of text messages, including password reset links … | Mike Minotti / VentureBeat: |
Sony says it has sold 86.1M units of PlayStation 4 since the console debuted 5 years ago, 777.9M copies of software were sold on the platform — Sony revealed today that the PlayStation 4 has sold over 86.1 million systems. The info came in a blog post celebrating the console's fifth anniversary.
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PlayStation.Blog, Thurrott.com, Polygon, BGR, VG247, GamesIndustry.biz, Gamasutra, IGN, GameSpot, IGN, and Digital Trends. Tweets: @nickstatt
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple adds third-party workflow extensions to Final Cut Pro X for the first time, with support from Frame.io, Shutterstock, and CatDV at launch — Apple has released a major update to its video editing software professionals with Final Cut Pro X version 10.4.4.| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
FCC gives SpaceX permission to deploy over 7,000 Starlink internet satellites, as part of a full network of 12,000 — Federal regulators are allowing entrepreneur Elon Musk to use an expanded range of wireless airwaves for his plan to deliver cheap, high-speed Internet access — from space.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram adds new shopping features: redesigned business profiles, shop items from video posts, and save items to a shopping collection — Instagram is continuing to build out its shopping features today with the announcement of three new product updates.
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Instagram, Digital Trends, Firstpost, Mashable, Android Police, Marketing Land, Digital Commerce 360, Tubefilter, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, and CNET. Tweets: @ron_miller
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Canalys: 19.7M smart speakers were sold globally in Q3, up 137% from 8.3M in Q3 2017; US and China now account for 70% of the global market — Market momentum for smart speakers shows no sign of slowing — quite the opposite, in fact. A new report published by research firm Canalys shows … | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Citrix says it acquired Sapho, which makes micro-apps for team collaboration apps like Slack, for $200M in an all cash deal; Sapho has raised $27.9M — Citrix Systems today announced it acquired Sapho in an all-cash $200 million deal, a Citrix spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Profile of Manik Gupta, Uber's newly promoted chief product officer, who grew up in India and spent time working for HP and launching Google Maps in India — From delivery boy to Dara's right-hand man — Manik Gupta got his first taste of solving logistics nightmares when, fresh out of college …
Tweets: @joshconstine
| Kyodo News+: |
Japan's new cybersecurity strategy chief, in charge of anti-hacking preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, says he has never used a computer in his life — The Japanese government's cybersecurity strategy chief has drawn criticism after admitting he has not once used a computer …
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Tweets: @nolympicsla and @doomassistme
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Salesforce makes undisclosed “strategic investment” in Docker, companies will cross-sell MuleSoft and Docker Enterprise … Salesforce Ventures has invested an undisclosed amount of money in container pioneer Docker as part of an extension of a previous funding round, and the two companies plan … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Raspberry Pi Foundation announces $25 Pi 3 Model A+, with a quad-core 1.4GHz CPU but less RAM and USB ports than the $35 Model B+ — The $25 Pi 3 Model A+ — The Raspberry Pi Foundation's goal is to make computing as cheap and accessible as possible, so today, it's introducing …
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