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Comparing Trump and Democratic 2020 presidential campaigns online: it is “like a supercar racing a little Volkswagen Bug”, with Democrats being the Volkswagen — On any given day, the Trump campaign is plastering ads all over Facebook, YouTube and the millions of sites served by Google … | Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
How TikTok is making inroads into US schools, as students create TikTok clubs to riff on the latest memes, and shoot videos on Newton's Laws for extra credit — Teens love the app, and now it's getting the stamp of approval with teacher-approved clubs. Did school just get ... fun?| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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| Owen S. Good / Polygon: |
Twitch is testing Watch Parties, a feature that allows streamers to screen Prime Video content that their viewers can watch along if they have Amazon Prime — This is fargin' awesome! — Twitch is now testing out a long-requested “watch parties” feature, which means that streamers …
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Engadget, WIN Esports, SlashGear, and Comic Book
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Y Combinator partners talk about its online Startup School program, which has enlisted 30K+ startups, as the institution tries to overcome its insular image — About 30,000 startups have enrolled in the accelerator's online program, as the iconic institution tries to overcome its insular image.
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Tweets: @matt_levine, @coyotespike, @cnet, @stephenpiment, @samuelgil, @ycombinator, and @richardjnieva. Thanks:@akwired
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers find malware operators are now using steganography techniques to hide malicious code in WAV audio files — Steganography malware trend moving from PNG and JPG to WAV files. — Two reports published in the last few months show that malware operators are experimenting with using WAV audio files to hide malicious code.
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| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear talks about company's approach to content moderation and changes announced at TwitchCon, including new tools for moderators, and more — At this year's TwitchCon in San Diego — a celebratory, over-the-top affair that brought in streamers and fans from all over the world …
Tweets: @carnage4life, @docdre, @luckiesharms, @harpersaraha, and @arcticpenguin
| Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost: |
eMarketer: Google will take 37.2%, or $48.05B, of all US digital ad spend this year, down from 38.2% in 2018, while Amazon will take 8.8%, up from 6.8% in 2018 — Google dominates the search ad market today, but eMarketer's latest forecast shows that within the next two years, Google's revenue share will fall and Amazon's will rise.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A behind-the-scenes account of a cyberattack that disrupted the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, which was tied to a specific unit of Russia's GRU — How digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big attack will be even harder to crack.
Tweets: @matonis, @securitybeard, @a_greenberg, @a_greenberg, @nxthompson, and @a_greenberg
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
ESET details a hacking campaign, active for the past 6 years, by the Russia-linked group the Dukes or Cozy Bear, which was thought to be dormant since DNC hack — Largely out of the spotlight since 2016, Cozy Bear hackers have been caught perpetrating a years-long campaign.
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BleepingComputer, ZDNet, MIT Technology Review, and Slashdot
Tweets: @nordvpn, @wired, @a_greenberg, @wired, @karolcummins, and @issaintl
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AT&T raises the price of its streaming service AT&T TV Now, with the basic Plus package up $15 to a $65/month; the move follows a similar increase in March — - TV Now service will rise to $80 a month for 65 channels — Phone giant is under pressure from activist to boost returns| Allie Weiss / Architectural Digest: |
Havenly, which connects interior designers with clients for $99 virtual full-room makeover sessions, raises $32M Series C, bringing its total raised to $57.8M — The interior design service's latest funding will support the launch of a private-label collection and more
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TechCrunch, Furniture Today, The Hustle, BusinessDen, PitchBook, and Business of Home
Tweets: @archdigest and @furnituretoday
| MIT Technology Review: |
A game made with a real world dataset of defendants shows the shortcomings of COMPAS, an AI-powered risk assessment tool used in the US criminal legal system — The US criminal legal system uses predictive algorithms to try to make the judicial process less biased. But there's a deeper problem.
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Tweets: @_karenhao, @gerrymcgovern, @techreview, @techreview, @marylgray, @ledataminer, @ainowinstitute, @varoonmathur, @jason_pontin, and @hiphination
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