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Sources: Facebook preps responses to possible post-election unrest, like slowing the spread of viral content, with tools it has used in countries like Myanmar — Tools include slowing the spread of certain posts and tweaking users' news feeds — Facebook Inc. teams have planned … | Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Paola Rosa-Aquino / New York Times: |
Right to repair gains ground with proposed regulations in US and EU that would force companies to share parts, tools, and info with consumers and repair shops — Both Republicans and Democrats are pursuing laws to make it easier for people to fix cellphones, cars, even hospital ventilators.| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
Lee Kun-hee, who was chairman and chief executive of Samsung Electronics from 1998 to 2008 and its chairman since 2010, has died at age 78 — Mr. Lee was convicted — and pardoned — twice for white-collar crimes, in a sign of the ills in South Korea's relationship with its business dynasties.
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| Lillian Rizzo / Wall Street Journal: |
Users working from home are running into internet usage limits as ISPs reinstate data caps they suspended at the beginning of the pandemic — As more people rely on their home broadband for work and school during the coronavirus pandemic, providers are reinstating data caps| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Airbnb's valuation rose 10.4% from the end of Q2 to Sept. 30, and its board has approved splitting its privately held shares ahead of its planned IPO — - The value of company's privately held shares climbs 10.4% — Airbnb seeks to raise as much as $3 billion in IPO this year
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| Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News: |
Zoom deleted events planned for Oct. 23 on alleged censorship by the company after Zoom canceled an SFSU talk in Sept.; Zoom says the events violated its TOS — Zoom shut down a series of events meant to discuss what organizers called “censorship” by the company.
Tweets: @evan_greer, @jamaldajani, @techwontsaveus, @gregghoush, @camerontw, @audreywatters, @buzzfeednews, and @hypervisible
| Michael Steinberger / New York Times: |
Profile of Palantir CEO Alex Karp and the controversies around Palantir's trustworthiness; Karp claims his progressivism offsets Thiel's relationship with Trump — The tech giant helps governments and law enforcement decipher vast amounts of data — to mysterious and, some say, dangerous ends.
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| Daniel Zuidijk / Bloomberg: |
Patreon says it will remove accounts that actively spread QAnon's beliefs and will warn those that spread some QAnon ideas but are not dedicated to such content — - Accounts tied to QAnon-dedicated creators to be removed — Followers of conspiracy theory complain of being censored
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| Susan D'Agostino / Quanta Magazine: |
Q&A with Vint Cerf, who has been working on building an internet for space, using disruption/delay-tolerant networking (DTN) protocol, an alternative to TCP/IP — Vinton Cerf helped create the internet 40 years ago, and he's still working to connect people around the world — and off it.
Tweets: @quantamagazine and @quantamagazine
| John D. Stoll / Wall Street Journal: |
Fitbit CEO James Park says its app reached 500,000 paid subscribers this year and talks about expectations for life under Google, competing with Apple, more — Fitbit CEO James Park discusses the company's new products and competition as it prepares to close its acquisition by Google| Alex Miller / Wired: |
Video games are helping veterans struggling with PTSD, anxiety, and depression and those adjusting to civilian life after deployment in combat zones — Veterans with PTSD, anxiety, and other mental health challenges often find solace in gaming. Research shows it's helpful—and could be used more broadly.
Tweets: @tedleonsis, @gavinsbaker, and @code4vets
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