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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
DoorDash confirms a data breach on May 4 affecting 4.9M customers, workers, and merchants, with last-four digits of payment cards, driver's license info stolen  —  DoorDash has confirmed a data breach.  —  The food delivery company said in a blog post Thursday that 4.9 million customers …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple plans to give its movies traditional theatrical release runs before releasing them on Apple TV+ in the interest of brand-building and prestige  —  Maker of iPhone would keep movies in cinemas for weeks before release on streaming TV  —  Apple Inc. is looking to make a splash …
Nick Statt / The Verge:
AltStore is an alternative iOS App Store that works without a jailbreak, using a developer feature for sideloading test apps, and has its own Nintendo emulator  —  And anyone can download it, no jailbreak required  —  Riley Testut, an iOS app developer who has for years worked …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook to run a limited test hiding the public display of numbers of Likes, Reactions, and video views, first in Australia, starting tomorrow  —  If their post has lots of Likes, you feel jealous.  If your post doesn't get enough Likes, you feel embarassed.
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
Researchers: new Nodersok malware, which installs Node.js to turn PCs into proxies, has infected thousands of machines, mostly in the US and EU over past month  —  New Nodersok malware installs Node.js to turn systems into proxies, perform click-fraud.  —  Thousands of Windows computers across …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Tesla starts rolling out Software Version 10.0, featuring Smart Summon, a karaoke library, Spotify, Netflix, YouTube integration, and more  —  Plus a lot of improvements to other car features  —  Tesla has announced that version 10 of its in-car software has begun rolling out to Model S, Model X, and Model 3 owners.
Alex Kotch / Sludge:
Report: since May 2018, ~38 entities identified as “hate groups” by the SPLC have paid Facebook ~$1.6M to run sponsored ads, despite its anti-hate speech policy  —  Despite a company policy banning hate speech, the social media giant has taken in nearly $1.6 million from hate groups since mid-2018.
Major Nelson / Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Microsoft and Google announce Google Assistant support in English for the Xbox One in beta, with the ability to launch games, take screenshots, and more  —  On Team Xbox, we put customer choice at the forefront of our decision making and regularly use community feedback to help guide the experiences we deliver to gamers.
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Uber overhauls its app to become “the OS for everyday life”, merging ride-hailing and food delivery, boosting alternate modes of travel, and new safety features  —  The company unveiled the new app at a splashy, Apple-like event in San Francisco
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Logitech agrees to acquire Streamlabs, which makes the popular live streaming app Streamlabs OBS, for $89M cash; Streamlabs is used by 15M+ streamers  —  The hardware maker gets game live streaming software  —  Logitech has agreed to acquire Streamlabs, which makes the popular live streaming …
Bloomberg:
Peloton closes down 11% on its first day of trading, after raising $1.16B at a valuation of ~$8.1B  —  - Fitness startup opened at $27 after pricing shares at $29  — Disintegration of WeWork's IPO plans has rattled investors  —  Peloton Interactive Inc. fell as much nearly 15% Thursday …
The MIT Press Reader:
Total digital privacy is impossible, but obfuscation, the intentional shrouding of identity with useless information, can be a compromise  —  Those who know about us have power over us.  Obfuscation may be our best digital weapon.  —  Consider a day in the life of a fairly ordinary person …

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Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times:
Mike Shatzkin, a publishing consultant who was among the first in the industry to shake publishers into confronting the digital disruption, died on Nov. 7 at 77

Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

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Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Twitch updates its design, tied to an advertising campaign meant to emphasize that it is an all-purpose live-streaming platform, not just for gamers
New York Times:
Report: number of countries using political disinformation campaigns more than doubled to 70 since 2017; Facebook remains #1 social network for disinformation
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft challenges a secrecy order preventing it from telling an enterprise customer that the US government issued a warrant for data belonging to it
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat:
Amazon announces a new line of Alexa-enabled wearables equipped with mics and speakers, including the $180 Echo Frames eye glasses and $130 Echo Loop ring
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