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Facebook clamps down on “engagement bait” posts and pages that urge people to like and share by demoting them in News Feed starting this week — Facebook has identified a new kind of spam: Engagement baiting. — Facebook is cracking down on a new type of clickbait …
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Facebook: Dwight Silverman. Tweets: @mattnavarra, @nsqe, @mmasnick, @mattnavarra, @alexhern, @craigsilverman, @hughstephens, and @raju
| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
Kaspersky Lab sues the Trump administration in US court, arguing it was deprived of due process rights when DHS banned its software from US government agencies — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Moscow-based anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab sued the Trump administration in U.S. federal court on Monday …
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| Chris Sonderby / Facebook: |
Facebook transparency report for H1 2017: account data requests up 21% globally YoY to ~79K; 57% of US requests included order banning FB from notifying users — Today we are releasing our Transparency Report, previously called the Government Requests Report, for the first half of 2017.
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Tweets: @matt_cagle, @cedricmanara, @agcrocker, and @kevinbankston
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Sources: at least three prominent investors have decided not to fund HQ Trivia after finding troubling conduct on part of the founders, particularly Colin Kroll — Former Vine co-founders Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll don't have a lot of fans from their time at Twitter.
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Business Insider, The Next Web, and New York Magazine
Tweets: @shiraovide, @triketora, @xander76, @sarahfrier, @runvc, @fmanjoo, @moorehn, @ajs, @johnwilson, @yoda, @jillianiles, @yoda, and @peterpham
| Thuy Ong / The Verge: |
Twitter starts enforcing new policies on violence and hateful conduct both on platform and off it, but changes don't apply to military or government entities — Policies now extend to hateful imagery and to conduct both on platform and off — Twitter says it will now begin enforcing …
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Tweets: @lawyerscomm, @adl_national, @willsommer, @lynseybarber, @tomwarren, @mathewi, and @mediagazer
| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Amazon Echo Spot review: appealing design, great for video calls, touchscreen enhances Alexa experience, but mediocre audio, screen is bad for video playback — When Amazon unveiled the Echo Show earlier this year, we questioned if we really needed an Echo with a touchscreen.
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VentureBeat, The Verge, TechCrunch, TalkAndroid.com, Android Authority, GeekWire, CNET, Android Police, Liliputing, SlashGear, CNBC, Gizmodo, SlashGear, TechCrunch, TIME, Tom's Guide, and USA Today. Tweets: @backlon
| Joe McDonald / Associated Press: |
Huawei says some of its phones to be sold by US carriers in 2018, starting with Mate 10; Consumer Business Group CEO says phones will be “competitively priced” — An executive of Huawei says the Chinese smartphone brand plans to start sales in the U.S. market through carriers next year …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Reddit updates its Android and iOS apps with support for real-time comments, chat, mod tools, and more — Reddit today is giving its mobile apps a major upgrade - the first since their launch last year, when the company decided to take back control over the official Reddit experience on mobile …
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Upvoted, MacRumors, TalkAndroid.com, The Verge, Marketing Land, Neowin, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Engadget. Tweets: @alexisohanian
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WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French data protection authority; WhatsApp has one month to comply or potentially face sanctions — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France's data privacy watchdog may fine messaging app WhatsApp if it does not comply with an order to bring …
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| Thomas P. Bossert / Wall Street Journal: |
In op-ed, Trump's homeland security adviser Thomas Bossert says North Korea was behind the WannaCry ransomware cyberattack in May — The massive cyberattack cost billions and put lives at risk. Pyongyang will be held accountable. — Cybersecurity isn't easy, but simple principles still apply.
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The Verge, Washington Post, Gizmodo, Fortune, Reuters, Axios, Washington Examiner, Fox News, and mirror
Tweets: @emptywheel, @ericgeller, and @emptywheel
| Jeremy Herron / Bloomberg: |
The stock of a small fintech company, Longfin, surged 2,400% in a week after acquiring Ziddu, a “blockchain-empowered global micro-lending solutions provider” — LongFin buys microlender that transacts only in digital coins — Latest small company to see gains based tied to bitcoin mania
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SiliconANGLE, Crunchbase News, CNBC, Business Insider, and Fortune
Tweets: @thestalwart, @corytv, and @timduy
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
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