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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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Tweets: @ftc, @rsingel, @kifleswing, and @aneternalenigma
| 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.| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Sources: Zuckerberg remains open to some ideas about how to control political ads, including limiting the ability of candidates to microtarget users — Banning microtargeting has the support of Ellen Weintraub, chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission, which regulates how money is raised and spent in elections.
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| Yaël Eisenstat / Washington Post: |
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Facebook says ~100 app developers might have had improper access to Groups member data even after the company announced restrictions to Groups API last year — At least 11 accessed data in the last two months — Facebook says that even after it locked down its Groups system last year …
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Facebook Developers, Mashable, Washington Post, CNET, Axios, NBC News, Los Angeles Times, PYMNTS.com, Adweek, and Reclaim The Net
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| 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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CNBC, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, KnowTechie, and Zero Hedge
Tweets: @thestalwart, @alex, @joshconstine, @bdkoepke, and @jacobcanfield
| 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.
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New York Times, The Hill, Business Insider, and MediaNama
| 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.
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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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Tweets: @campuscodi, @k_sec, and @jeffstone500
| Washington Post: |
Apple and TikTok drew criticism from lawmakers, especially Sen. Josh Hawley, for skipping a congressional hearing meant to explore tech industry's ties to China — Apple and TikTok took a lashing Tuesday for skipping a congressional hearing meant to explore the tech industry and its ties to China …
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Wired, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, The Verge, NBC News, Business Insider, and Kansas City Star. Tweets: @wired
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Broadcom completes acquisition of Symantec's enterprise business for $10.7B and Symantec rebrands as NortonLifeLock after transferring Symantec name to Broadcom — Symantec Corp. is no longer Symantec, as the company changed its name following the completion today of Broadcom Inc.'s acquisition …
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Tweets: @campuscodi, @swiftonsecurity, @quinnypig, @gossithedog, and @tomwarren
| 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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Mi Blog, Engadget, Android Authority, Digital Trends, Mashable, Cult of Mac, Droid Life, Macworld, and 9to5Google
| 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
| New York Times: |
A warrant granted in Florida this July let a detective override GEDmatch's privacy rules to search a database of 1.2M users; experts say 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: @kashhill, @kashhill, @michaelroston, @privacyproject, @xoamelia, @ericajoy, @richfelker, and @tsdower
| 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, CNBC, and Engadget
Tweets: @cnet, @meganwollerton, @markgurman, and @cnet
| Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age: |
YouTube announces “Shopping” ads, a scrollable catalog of static images, which will appear on the home feed and in search results — Puma among first brands to utilize new ad format — YouTube is introducing “Shopping” ads in time for the holiday season.| 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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Tweets: @amianet, @msftresearch, @imbrandonbrown, @lindydonna, @markrussinovich, @matvelloso, and @umerazad
| 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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iPhone in Canada Blog, BleepingComputer, Tom's Hardware, AskWoody, and BetaNews
| Kiley Roache / Bloomberg: |
Freedom House report concludes global internet freedom declined for the ninth year in 2019; surveillance and disinformation have increased, including in the US — - Freedom House says AI opens up new ways for mass surveillance — U.S. score drops amid increased monitoring of social media| Ayanti Bera / Reuters: |
Match reports Q3 revenue of $541.5M, up 22% YoY, says it added 437K average Tinder subscribers for a total of 5.7M, forecasts disappointing Q4; stock down ~15% — (Reuters) - Tinder-owner Match Group Inc (MTCH.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday …
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Match Group, Financial Times, TheStreet, Wall Street Journal, Barron's Online, MarketWatch, and CNBC
| Dylan Martin / CRN: |
USPS to adopt Nvidia's AI tech via Nvidia GPU-accelerated servers from HPE to process package data 10x faster with higher accuracy, operational by spring 2020 — 'They believe that by using GPUs from Nvidia, by using software we have enabled over the last 10 years, and [by using] …
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NVIDIA Newsroom, ZDNet, HotHardware, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, and TechSpot. Thanks:@dylanljmartin
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