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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
FTC says AT&T has agreed to pay $60M to settle the agency's 2014 lawsuit that alleged it lied to customers about “unlimited” data plans that it throttled — Unlimited should mean unlimited! — On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced that AT&T will pay $60 million to settle a case with the agency.
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| Washington Post: |
Overview of TikTok's evolving censorship approach: ex-US staff say Chinese bosses set rules on videos with heavy kissing, political topics, subversive content — Managers insist they are revamping policies to give American staff greater autonomy from Beijing.| Brandon Kochkodin / Bloomberg: |
Users on Reddit say they have discovered a flaw in Robinhood's system that lets them trade stocks with excess borrowed funds, essentially free money — A glitch in the Robinhood Markets Inc. system is allowing users to trade stocks with excess borrowed funds, giving them access to what amounts to free money.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google promises one more update coming in December for the original Google Pixel, which will then be past its three-year security update support window — Pour one out for Pixel — The Google Pixel and Pixel XL will get “one final software update” in December, the company confirms to The Verge.| Yaël Eisenstat / Washington Post: |
A former head of election integrity operations at Facebook says the company's business model and ad targeting tools make it hard for it to not harm democracy — The company can't avoid damaging democracy. — I joined Facebook in June 2018 as its “head of Global Elections Integrity Ops” … | Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Data brokers like Sift and Kustomer, which share consumers' est. lifetime value with companies, now share it with customers on request due to new privacy laws — Little-known companies are amassing your data — like food orders and Airbnb messages — and selling the analysis to clients.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Xiaomi unveils the CC9 Pro, featuring a 108MP camera with 5x optical zoom, 6.47" AMOLED display, 5,260mAh battery, and Android 9, available in China for ~$400 — The CC9 Pro has five rear cameras — Xiaomi has been teasing the idea for a few months now, and it's finally here: the CC9 Pro …
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| Jennifer Langston / Microsoft: |
Microsoft teams up with Warner Bros to store and retrieve the 1978 movie Superman on a piece of glass as a proof of concept test for Project Silica research — Microsoft and Warner Bros. have collaborated to successfully store and retrieve the entire 1978 iconic “Superman” …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Kaspersky identifies DarkUniverse, an APT that had been active from 2009 but went silent after a mention in Shadow Brokers' 2017 leak, and details 20 victims — The NSA had superior insight into foreign nation-state hacking operations than many cyber-security vendors.
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
Google, non-profit lowRISC, and others debut OpenTitan, a project for open sourced “root of trust” chip designs, aiming for more secure, auditable datacenters — As soon as the power turns on, hackers can gain an advantage. — The cloud runs the world.
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Tweets: @kennwhite, @pinboard, @howelloneill, @dcuthbert, and @jckichen
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla is working to fix a Firefox bug being actively exploited by scammers, which causes the browser to lock up after displaying a warning message — Fraudulent tech-support sites cause Firefox to freeze while displaying scary message. — Scammers are actively exploiting a bug in Firefox …
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BleepingComputer, Tom's Hardware, iPhone in Canada Blog, BetaNews, and AskWoody
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Civil rights leaders from 10 groups dined with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Nick Clegg to discuss Facebook's political ad rules and more — Activists are hopeful they're getting through to the Facebook chief.
Tweets: @smac0905 and @slpng_giants
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Facebook Portal TV review: big screen video chatting feels futuristic and, with Alexa built in, the device is compelling enough at $149 but unlikely to be a hit — Facebook's new Portal TV video chat device won't do much to take away share from Apple Inc., Roku Inc. or Amazon in the TV space.
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CNET, BuzzFeed News, Engadget, and CNBC
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Pro X review: beautiful design and good screen but expensive, slow for the price, has an unimpressive battery, and app compatibility issues — Better than expected isn't enough — The Surface Pro X is the computer Microsoft has tried to make for at least seven years.
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Tweets: @backlon, @reckless, @tomwarren, @chrisgrant, @rdrv3, @dcseifert, @tomwarren, @sinclairinator, and @codinghorror
| New York Times: |
A FL judge granted a warrant in July letting a detective override privacy rules of GEDmatch and search a database of 1.2M users; experts: it may set a precedent — Privacy experts say it could set a precedent, opening up all consumer DNA sites to law enforcement agencies across the country.
Tweets: @tsdower, @privacyproject, @michaelroston, @richfelker, @ericajoy, @kashhill, and @kashhill
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla urges Congress to reject ISPs' lobbying against encrypted DNS in Firefox and Chrome, says the campaign is using Google as boogeyman to spread confusion — ISPs lobby against DNS encryption, but Mozilla tells Congress not to trust them. — Mozilla is urging Congress to reject … | Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Study of ~10K startups: women represent 13% of founders but own 7% of founder equity; 31% of all equity owners are women, but hold 6% of total startup equity — Female entrepreneurs have less equity in their own companies than do male entrepreneurs, according to a new report from Carta.
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Tweets: @cartainc, @carnage4life, @marianosterlund, @mrp, @tablestakes, @femstreet, @fox, @cartainc, @janeventurecap, @cartainc, @ekp, and @axios
| NoCamels: |
Israel-based Riskified, an e-commerce fraud prevention platform, raises $165M Series E at a valuation of $1B+ led by General Atlantic — Israeli fraud prevention platform Riskified announced on Tuesday that it raised a Series E funding round of $165 million led by General Atlantic … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube debuts Super Stickers, which show up in chat, as a new way for creators to make money; since Super Chat's 2017 launch over 100,000 channels have used it — YouTube today is expanding the ways creators can make money with the global launch of a new feature, Super Stickers.
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