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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
A sophisticated global phishing campaign is targeting the companies involved in the cold chain necessary to the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine — As vaccines await US approval, a sophisticated global phishing campaign has tried to harvest credentials from companies involved in their distribution.
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Tweets: @jfslowik, @b_fung, @virginiahughes, @campuscodi, @nytimes, @muniramustaffa, and @leahmcelrath
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Timnit Gebru says she was fired as co-lead of Ethical AI at Google due to an email to colleagues; leaked email details her struggles as a Black leader at Google — “Stop writing your documents because it doesn't make a difference”: Timnit Gebru's final message to her peers
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @zoeschiffer, @daveyalba, @hshaban, @veenadubal, @josheidelson, @alexsjacquez, and @cat_zakrzewski. Thanks:@william_fitz
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Slack's struggles to succeed as a standalone company mirror the fortunes of other one-time innovators in enterprise productivity who struggled with distribution — And why the era of worker-centered work tools may be over — Slack's life as an underdog darling of Silicon Valley ended on November 2, 2016.
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Box Blog, The Information, Business Insider, New York Times, Protocol, 500ish, Forbes, and diginomica
Tweets: @binarybits, @levie, @box, @tomkrazit, @chrismessina, @mgsiegler, @mgsiegler, and @jaycuthrell
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google will let users with ARCore-compatible Android phones submit Street View imagery, starting in Toronto, NY, Austin, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Costa Rica — No special equipment required — Google Maps is getting a new update that lets you create Street View photos using just a phone.
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The Keyword, HotHardware.com News, Engadget, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, Android Police, TechSpot, SlashGear, Mashable, Neowin, MSPoweruser, and Fast Company. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
Stripe launches Treasury to let its customers offer checking accounts and other business-banking services; Shopify will offer the services from early next year — Shopify, a Stripe customer, will begin offering the service to its merchants early next year — Stripe Inc. is teaming …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Three Democratic lawmakers introduce a bill that would require stablecoin issuers to obtain a banking charter, approval from the Federal Reserve and FDIC, more — A new U.S. Congressional bill would require stablecoin issuers to secure bank charters and secure regulatory approval prior to circulating any stablecoins.
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| Washington Post: |
Leaked docs: Facebook to start policing anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White comments, reversing years of “race-blind” practices — The company is overhauling its algorithms that detect hate speech and deprioritizing hateful comments against Whites, men and Americans.
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Tweets: @craigsilverman, @sarafischer, @sullydish, @hannahgais, @benshapiro, @alexhern, and @iansherr
| Reuters: |
Source: a group of more than 40 US states, led by New York, plans to file an antitrust suit against Facebook next week — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of U.S. states led by New York is investigating Facebook Inc for possible antitrust violations and plans to file a lawsuit …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Azure Purview, a unified data governance service that automates the discovery, cataloging, mapping, and tracking of data, in public preview — As businesses gather, store and analyze an ever-increasing amount of data, tools for helping them discover, catalog …
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| Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
S&P Dow Jones Indices says it will launch cryptocurrency indices in 2021, using data from crypto company Lukka on more than 550 of the top traded coins — LONDON (Reuters) - S&P Dow Jones Indices, a division of financial data provider S&P Global Inc, said on Thursday …
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PR Newswire, CoinDesk, Cryptonews, Decrypt, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, and Modern Consensus. Thanks:@ai
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon introduces a feature that lets users text Alexa on iOS to ask for things instead of only using their voice, now available in public preview — Type with Alexa is available now as a ‘public preview’ — Amazon is testing a new feature for its iOS Alexa app: the ability to type out Alexa commands …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
PhonePe is partially spinning off, reducing Flipkart's stake from 100% to 87%, and raises $700M led by Walmart at a post-money valuation of $5.5B — PhonePe, the crown jewel in Flipkart's acquisition by Walmart, is “partially” spinning off, the financial services firm said on Thursday.
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Tweets: @sub8u, @tsuvik, @cnbctv18news, and @meghavishwanath
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Alphabet transitions its navigation system for its fleet of Loon high-altitude balloons to one controlled by AI, a first for commercial aerospace systems — The company's new AI flight control system outperforms its human-made one — Alphabet's Loon, the team responsible for beaming internet …
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Tweets: @stratoballoon, @sigfpe, @micokoch, @loon4all, and @emulenews
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
GitHub: JavaScript, Python, and Java remain most popular languages on GitHub in 2020, followed by TypeScript; open source project creation jumped up to 40% YoY — GitHub released its annual Octoverse report today to reveal trends found in one of the largest developer communities on the planet … | Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
SF-based Shop-Ware, which offers a cloud-based management software for independent repair shops, raises $15M Series A led by Insight Partners — Shop-Ware has been waiting for a year like 2020 since 2015. — The startup, which sells software to neighborhood automotive shops to digitize their operations …
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Interview with Qualcomm's Alex Katouzian on the launch of Snapdragon 888, working with mmWave and Sub-6 5G networks, Apple's M1, Windows on Snapdragon, and more — Within today's Qualcomm Tech Summit 2020, we've seen the announcement of the new Snapdragon 888 which we've detailed extensively in our dedicated coverage article.
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Qualcomm, SiliconANGLE, and ExtremeTech
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Pigment, which builds a dashboard in real-time through charts, simulations, and continuous modeling for business forecasting, raises $25.9M Series A — Realizing that modern, complex businesses can no longer be adequately managed using spreadsheet-style programs, the founders of Pigment decided there had to be a better solution.
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Forbes, Tech.eu, VentureBeat, FinSMEs, and EU-Startups
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A look at MANRS, a group of ~600 participants including Google, which aims to add safeguards to the Border Gateway Protocol, improving internet routing security — Efforts to secure the Border Gateway Protocol have picked up critical momentum, including a big assist from Google.
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MANRS. Tweets: @lilyhnewman, @campuscodi, @gadgetlab, @amatwyshyn, @k8em0, @kimzetter, @stevebellovin, @paul_ipv6, and @wired
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Facebook says it will start removing false claims about coronavirus vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts — - Facebook's policy has been to remove false claims about Covid-19 that it says could lead to “imminent physical harm.” — Now, Facebook said it will …
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New York Times, USA Today, The Independent, Bloomberg, BBC, The Verge, The Hill, The Guardian, Reuters, Neowin, Forbes, Engadget, and Business Insider
Tweets: @db, @mikeisaac, @mikebutcher, @oliverdarcy, @megancgraham, @ryan_browne_, @alexhern, and @xml_jim
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter says it is turning off threaded replies because they made conversations hard to read, and shuts down its prototype twttr app — It's also shutting down its experimental app, twttr — Twitter has been experimenting with threaded replies for some time as a way to potentially make replies easier to read and follow.
Tweets: @twittersupport, @twittercomms, and @twittersupport
| Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
Affirm to acquire Canada-based PayBright, which offers a buy-now, pay-later service for both e-commerce and in-store transactions, for around $340M CAD — PayBright, one of Canada's leading buy-now-pay-later providers, is set to be acquired by San Francisco-based Affirm.Thanks:@tron
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
ESET researchers detail Crutch malware, used by Russian APT Turla to steal sensitive docs from an EU foreign ministry and exfiltrate them via Dropbox accounts — Russian-backed hacking group Turla has used a previously undocumented malware toolset to deploy backdoors and steal sensitive documents …
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