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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
As POTUS, Biden will overturn Trump's immigration EOs, support net neutrality and may not prioritize Section 230 reform but his approach to antitrust is unclear — Joe Biden's election as the 46th president of the United States gives the tech industry a reason to breathe a brief sigh of relief …
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Facebook is showing a notification atop its apps that Joe Biden is the projected winner of the 2020 election; Twitter is showing a banner in its Explore tab — Facebook alerted millions of U.S. users that Joe Biden was the projected winner of the presidential election at the top of Facebook …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
FBI warns that hackers are abusing misconfigured SonarQube applications to steal source code repositories from US government agencies and private businesses — FBI blames intrusions on improperly configured SonarQube source code management tools. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation … | Heather Kelly / Washington Post: |
Facebook starts putting some political and social groups on a 60 day probation and will closely monitor them, to slow the spread of disinfo about the election — A new system flags groups that violate community standards, and makes volunteer moderators approve all posts for two months
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| Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal: |
As smart TVs become more popular, advertisers want the advantages of better targeting while avoiding the privacy mistakes made by the online ad industry — Marketers hope to avoid the mistakes made by the broader online ad industry — Advertisers entering the burgeoning medium of streaming TV … | Wall Street Journal: |
AI companies like Unanimous.ai and Expert.ai say they correctly predicted election results in battleground states while traditional polling again falls short — As traditional political polling methods appear to fall short again, some tech firms say that AI holds promise| Waqas / HackRead: |
Data breach leaks sensitive, private, and financial data of millions of customers from Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, and others who use Prestige Software — The list of online booking sites affected by the breach includes some of the top industry giants including Booking.com.| Irina Ivanova / CBS News: |
CFPB issued a rule last week allowing debt collectors to send unlimited texts, emails, and social media messages to debtors, will require opt-out instructions — This time next year, the texts blowing up your phone may be coming not from political campaigns, but rather from debt collectors.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Twitter permanently bans Steve Bannon's @WarRoomPandemic and YouTube pulls episode of his show after he called for execution of FBI director Wray and Dr. Fauci — Former Presidential advisor and right-wing pundit Steve Bannon had his show suspended from Twitter and an episode removed …
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| Doris Yu / Tech in Asia: |
China-based e-signature services provider Esign raises $151M Series D, says it now has over 5.02M enterprise users and 270M individual users — Esign, an e-signature services provider in China, announced that it has raised over 1 billion yuan (US$151 million) in a series D round led … | Omer Benjakob / WIRED UK: |
A vicious culture war is taking place via edit wars on Wikipedia in India, exploiting and aggravating religious tensions in the context of COVID-19 — Edit-warring was already common as India descended into political polarisation. Then along came Covid-19
Tweets: @hkumar747, @conorjtobin, @wireduk, and @omerbenj
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Code in Google Photos app suggests Google will add new editing features and filters for Google One subscribers — The primary reason that you may decide to have a Google One subscription is to get extra storage for Google Drive and other apps, but the service has other benefits.
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