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Facebook plans to roll out tool to show users if they liked or followed a Russia-linked account on Facebook or Instagram but not if they saw Russia-linked ads — So far, Google and Twitter have not detailed their plans. — Facebook is trying to alert some U.S. users that they fell victim …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
YouTube details steps it's taking in ongoing effort to clamp down on videos that exploit children, will ramp up removal of offensive material, halt monetization — Across YouTube, an unsettling trend has emerged: Accounts are publishing disturbing and exploitative videos aimed … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Ajit Pai's proposal to kill net neutrality argues the FCC should not have tried to stop Comcast from blocking BitTorrent in 2008 — This is what happens when you're honest about killing net neutrality — FCC Chairman Ajit Pai released his proposal to kill net neutrality today …
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| John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable: |
As the FCC seeks to kill net neutrality, Comcast, Charter, and cable trade group NCTA vow not to block, throttle, or interfere with lawful sites or activities — Look to calm critics suggesting FCC Title II rollback would lead to such conduct — ISPs were renewing their pledges not to block …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
PC vendors scramble to issue patches after Intel announced firmware flaws allowing remote code execution affecting a wide range of chips and millions of devices — Millions of computers could be remotely hijacked through bug in firmware code. — Intel has issued a security alert …
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| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
UK government says it'll charge a 20% tax on companies' earnings that are held offshore from April 2019, a move widely seen to be aimed at tech companies — - The Treasury is cracking down on big tech firms like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple that shift UK profits offshore to minimise their tax bills.
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| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
Amazon's AWS updates its Rekognition service to detect and recognize text within images, perform real-time face searches, and more — Amazon Web Services announced a series of updates to its Recognition service, which provides machine learning-based computer vision capabilities to cloud customers.
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| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Source: Samsung plans to showcase Galaxy S9 and S9+ at CES in January; phones will have similar appearance to S8, same screen size, more RAM, second back camera — EXCLUSIVE: — Samsung is planning to show off its next-generation Galaxy S handsets a bit earlier than usual …
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Sources say Iconiq Capital, a $7B asset management firm linked to many Silicon Valley elites, plans to refocus on tech investments, including buyouts — Shift in strategy by Iconiq Capital raises the specter of possible conflicts with some of its clients — A secretive wealth manager …
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Scalyr raises $20M Series A led by Shasta Ventures to analyze infrastructure logs, claims users of its platform can search up to 1TB of log data per second — Analyzing infrastructure logs is at once among the most important and the most difficult parts of administrators' work.
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| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Makan Delrahim, the DoJ's antitrust chief, confirmed on Sept. 27, who is leading the lawsuit against AT&T over its proposed merger with Time Warner — Seven weeks into the job, he is at helm of Justice Department's biggest competition case since the late 1990s| Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News: |
Casa Systems, maker of cable, wireless, and optical network gear and software, files for $150M IPO on Nasdaq — Key maker of cable access and optical network gear and software has also been investing in wireless (Updated) — Casa Systems, a maker of cable modem termination system …
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