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After criticism, PayPal says its policy update about a $2,500 penalty for “the sending, posting, or publication” of misinformation was “incorrect information” — PayPal Holdings Inc. said it has no intention of fining customers for spreading misinformation … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube announces “handles”, letting creators identify their channel using the @username format across channel pages, video descriptions, comments, and Shorts — YouTube is making it easier for creators to direct viewers to their channels. The company today announced “handles …
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| IDC: |
Global PC shipments fell 15% YoY to 74.3M units in Q3 2022; Lenovo, HP, and Dell declined YoY by 16.1%, 27.8%, and 21.2%, respectively, as Apple grew 40.2% YoY — Declines continued for the traditional PC market as global shipments totaled 74.3 million units during the third quarter of 2022 …
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Tweets: @benbajarin, @firstadopter, @c_barraud, @bryanbma, @brianroemmele, and @idc
| Zi Wang / Decrypt: |
Days after Celsius shared all its users' names and crypto transaction histories in a bankruptcy filing, a new website shows who allegedly lost the most money — Using data likely pulled from its bankruptcy filing, a new tool now shows exactly how much different users lost following Celsius' collapse.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Fortinet confirms a critical remote authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager is being exploited; a patch is available — Fortinet has confirmed today that a critical authentication bypass security vulnerability patched last week is being exploited in the wild.| Jahnavi Sen / The Wire: |
Source: Instagram removed 705 posts without oversight in India in September, after being flagged by Amit Malviya, the head of BJP's IT Cell, as part of XCheck — Seven posts by satirical account @cringearchivist were removed without any verification because the head of the BJP's …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel says a third party leaked its proprietary UEFI code and asks researchers to report any flaws; Alder Lake's BIOS source code was leaked to 4chan and GitHub — Hack's perpetrator and origins remain unknown. — We recently broke the news that Intel's Alder Lake BIOS source code …
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports Q3 revenue rose 48% YoY to ~$19.4B, vs. ~$19B estimated, as Micron, Kioxia, Samsung, and others report faltering demand for electronics products — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported higher-than-expected quarterly revenue, signaling the chip giant is benefiting …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: BeReal has passed 53M installs, its MAUs are up 2,254% since January 2022, and ~9% of its active Android installs opened the app every day in Q3 — Gen Z social media app BeReal encourages its users to take a photo every day — a format designed to create a daily habit.
Tweets: @yoda and @parkerortolani
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Endor Labs, which helps businesses select, secure, monitor, and maintain their open-source software dependencies at scale, emerges from stealth with a $25M seed — An increasing percentage of the code that companies use to develop software is open source. In a 2018 survey by Tidelift …
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SiliconANGLE, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Endor Labs, Database Trends …, DevOps.com, VentureBeat, CSO, and SecurityWeek. Tweets: @endorlabs
| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
A look at the history of online content moderation, which has become a top culture war issue since the 2016 US election and is the subject of many court cases — Online content moderation wasn't always a partisan issue. That began to change in 2016. — Early last year …
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Tech Policy Press. Tweets: @jeffjarvis, @andykroll, @davidoatkins, @vwpickard, @willoremus, @daphnehk, @daphnehk, @authorpmbarrett, @digiphile, @jeffhorwitz, @katieharbath, @katieharbath, @katieharbath, @producing2power, @andyparkerva, @_timobrien, @garrettgordon, @jeffhorwitz, @katieharbath, and @venkatananth
| Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: |
WhatsApp users in India say the service, which has ~550M users in the country, has become overrun by spam from brands, some using WhatsApp's business tools — Revenue pressures forced WhatsApp to turn to e-commerce, and now the company is contending with a plague of spammers. — • BENGALURU, INDIA
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