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| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Three interrelated macro themes dominated this year in tech: the breakout of crypto, beginning of the end of white male dominance, and the backlash against tech — As has become my practice, I celebrate the end of a year and the start of a new one here at AVC with back to back posts focusing …
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AVC, The Network Garden, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @jrlevine, @ia, @pahlkadot, @broukhim, @cindygallop, @mdudas, @girardinl, @benedictevans, @semil, and @fredwilson
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Smart lock maker Otto, which unveiled its first product in August 2017, suspends operations — Otto showed the world its digital lock in August. Four months later, the company has suspended operations. Hardware is hard. It's a cliche for a reason. — The company made the decision …
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Hacker Noon, The Verge, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, SlashGear, TechSpot, and MSPoweruser
| BBC: |
Germany starts enforcing law under which social networks will face fines of up to €50M if they fail to remove hate speech, fake news, and illegal material — Germany is set to start enforcing a law that demands social media sites move quickly to remove hate speech, fake news and illegal material.| ProPublica: |
Study shows Facebook's hate speech rules are unevenly enforced, with the company agreeing its censors made mistakes on 22 of 49 posts submitted for explanation — We asked Facebook about its handling of 49 posts that might be deemed offensive. The company acknowledged that its content reviewers had made the wrong call on 22 of them.
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Gizmodo, ProPublica, Telegraph, Tech Times, and SlashGear
Tweets: @egavactip, @juliaangwin, @slpng_giants, @propublica, @propublica, @anildash, @sammy_roth, @hrlori, @fabiochiusi, @ericgoldman, @takingaction4us, and @tarletong
| Freedom to Tinker: |
How third-party scripts on websites exploit a flaw in browsers' built-in password managers to identify and track users — In this second installment of the No Boundaries series, we show how a long-known vulnerability in browsers' built-in password managers is abused by third-party scripts for tracking on more than a thousand sites.
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The Verge, The Hacker News, BGR, Technology Personalized, SlashGear, gHacks Technology News, SearchSecurity, and PC Magazine
Tweets: @profcarroll, @shaneoleary1, @jcstearns, @collabjonathan, @julianor, @tedonprivacy, @troyhunt, and @mediajustice
| Justin McCurry / The Guardian: |
YouTube star Logan Paul sparked outrage by posting a video of a dead body of an alleged suicide victim in a Japanese forest; the video was later removed — American YouTuber joked with friends on film after coming across the apparent suicide victim — The celebrity YouTuber Logan Paul …
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New York Magazine, TechCrunch, BGR, CNET, BBC, E! Online, Newser, Neowin, The Verge, Business Insider, Kotaku, Mashable, and USA Today
| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba's UC Browser, with 430M+ users worldwide, leads in emerging markets with low-end smartphones, with 51% of India's mobile browser market vs Chrome's 30% — Alibaba's UC Browser is dominating in emerging markets with lower-end smartphones — JAKARTA, Indonesia …
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Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @mdudas, @newley, @paulwbrassil, @jonrussell, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @shrinivassg, @jrichlive, and @wr3a
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Telegram, citing ToS, suspends public channel that incited violent anti-government protests in Iran; Telegram is a major platform with ~40M users in Iran — “There are lines one shouldn't cross,” says the CEO of the popular messaging app. — The executives of Telegram …
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TechCrunch, Fortune, The Hill, Axios, Twitter, and HackRead
Tweets: @durov, @durov, @durov, @negarmortazavi, @pressfreedom, @hadinili, @twittermoments, @snowden, @azarijahromi, @snowden, and @mosharrafzaidi
| Ben Kentish / The Independent: |
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Washington Post, Mashable, CNN, Reuters, BBC, Firstpost, and The Guardian
| Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times: |
Groups skeptical of climate change are gaming Google's largely automated ad systems to promote misleading claims that reject established climate science — Groups that reject established climate science can use the search engine's advertising business to their advantage …
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Facebook: Sabine Hossenfelder. Tweets: @themadstone, @fahrenthold, @carlbialik, @markgiblin782, @klasfeldreports, @andrewwrites, @kimmasters, @hirokotabuchi, and @dangillmor
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Stanford AI car-image project analyzed 50M Google Street View images and location data to find geographic trends in race, voting behavior, wealth, and more — What vehicle is most strongly associated with Republican voting districts? Extended-cab pickup trucks. For Democratic districts? Sedans.
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TechCrunch and Axios
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Apple makes $29 iPhone battery replacement price effective immediately, rather than in late January, but warns initial supplies of some batteries may be limited — Aiming to further stem controversy over how it handles aging iPhone batteries, Apple said Saturday that its lower replacement price … | Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Verge: |
Niche online communities and media grew in 2017, through Patreon, TinyLetter, “finstagrams”, and more as people looked for alternatives to Facebook and Twitter — Why tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017 — Americans got tired of big social media in 2017.| Kyle Samani / Forbes: |
Ripple may be a great blockchain-based tech for banks, but the valuation of its XRP token reflects the unlikely hope it becomes a global reserve cryptocurrency — In August, the hedge I cofounded, Multicoin Capital, published an analysis of XRP, the native token of the Ripple network.
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BBC and CoinSpeaker
Tweets: @twobitidiot, @twobitidiot, @cburniske, @whatbitcoindid, @jasonyanowitz, and @rongarvin99
| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
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Bloomberg, The Guardian, Digital Trends, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph.com News, Financial Times, Forbes, Mashable, The Merkle, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, and The Merkle
Tweets: @prestonjbyrne, @haydentiff, @haydentiff, @tonevays, @thestalwart, @aridavidpaul, @robelgal, @crypto_hokie, and @truthcoin
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