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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Uber says Travis Kalanick, its former CEO, will step down from the company's board of directors effective Dec. 31; Kalanick has sold all of his stock in Uber  —  - Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick is leaving the board effective Dec. 31.  — Kalanick was ousted as CEO in 2017 but remained a director.
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Researcher says he was able to match 17M phone numbers to Twitter user accounts by exploiting a flaw in Twitter's Android app, before Twitter blocked his effort  —  A security researcher said he has matched 17 million phone numbers to Twitter user accounts by exploiting a flaw in Twitter's Android app.
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Many schools in the US, including Syracuse U., track students' phones to monitor class attendance, as some worry it desensitizes students to 24/7 surveillance  —  When Syracuse University freshmen walk into professor Jeff Rubin's Introduction to Information Technologies class …
Natalie Wexler / MIT Technology Review:
Educators and school administrators love digital devices that studies show mostly have a negative impact on learning, harming lower performing students the most  —  Educators love digital devices, but there's little evidence they help children—especially those who most need help.
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Chuck Peddle, a key designer of the $25 6502 microprocessor that powered the first big wave of personal computers, including the Apple II, has died at 82  —  His invention brought digital technology to a new breed of consumer devices and powered early Apple and Commodore computers.
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
Report: APT20, a Chinese government-linked hacking group, has bypassed key fob-enabled 2FA in recent attacks on government orgs and managed service providers  —  Chinese state-sponsored group APT20 has been busy hacking government entities and managed service providers.
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Randy Suess, co-creator of the first public dial-up bulletin board system, which was a forerunner of today's social media services, has died at 74  —  The messaging system that he and a friend created in 1978 was a forerunner of social media services like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
Sohee Kim / Bloomberg:
Samsung plans to rival chip foundry market leader TSMC, as it invests heavily in a chip miniaturization process called extreme ultraviolet lithography  —  - Custom chips are the future that Samsung wants to profit from  — Laying the foundation for expanding its semiconductor empire
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
SQLite flaws left Chrome open to remote code execution before being patched two weeks ago, were found by Tencent researchers a year after revealing similar bugs  —  Magellan 2.0 vulnerabilities were patched in Google Chrome 79.0.3945.79.  —  A new set of SQLite vulnerabilities can allow attackers …
ProPublica:
Sources show how Amazon repeatedly delayed or scrapped investments in common industry practices like onroad safety training, as it built out its driver network  —  As they prepared for last year's holiday rush, managers at Amazon unveiled a plan to make the company's sprawling delivery network the safest in the world.
Paddy Baker / CoinDesk:
Hedera Hashgraph, which has raised $100M+ in 2018 ICO, asks investors to wait longer for purchased tokens, to help stabilize their cratering price  —  Hedera Hashgraph, the company behind the blockchain-like Hedera network, is asking investors to wait longer for tokens they paid for, in order to stabilize their cratering price.
Bloomberg:
Sources: earlier this year, YouTube considered screening all videos for kids under 8 in YouTube Kids but dropped the idea to avoid looking like a media company  —  YouTube spent 2019 answering critics with some of the most drastic changes in its 15-year history.

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New York Times:
In a memo, 60 Minutes EP Bill Owens says he is resigning because he had lost his journalistic independence; the show is under pressure from Trump and Paramount

Dietrich Knauth / Reuters:
A US judge orders the Trump administration to “take all necessary steps” to reinstate employees and resume broadcasts of VOA and other government-funded radio

Luc Cohen / Reuters:
A federal jury finds The New York Times not liable in the retrial of Sarah Palin's defamation case over a 2017 editorial about gun control

More News

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Sources: building on tactics deployed during 2018 midterms, US Cyber Command is exploring additional strategies to counter Russian 2020 election interference
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
T-Mobile's 2015 internal report made public at its merger trial shows the company positioning itself for two mergers, first with Sprint and then a cable company
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Dish increases price of both Sling TV packages, Orange and Blue, by $5 to $30/month, gives all users 10 hours of cloud-based DVR storage and additional channels

Earlier Picks

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Twitter blocks animated PNGs, saying a bug had allowed them, and that they did not respect autoplay settings so could be used to harm people sensitive to motion
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Researchers: unpatched flaws in Citrix products leave 80,000+ businesses potentially vulnerable to unauthorized network access; Cisco shares steps to mitigate
New York Times:
Simply carrying a smartphone to a political rally could tie its owner to the event in commercial datasets, thanks to the realtime tracking tech in mundane apps
CNBC:
Mike Bloomberg created a tech company called Hawkfish that's helping his 2020 campaign and employs ex-Facebook CMO Gary Briggs and ex-Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Bytedance is considering setting up a global headquarters for TikTok outside of China, as part of its effort to shake off its Chinese image
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