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Facebook to survey users to measure trust in publications, data will affect News Feed rankings; news will make up 4% of News Feed posts, down from 5% — Tech giant will rely on user surveys of trustworthiness to try to preserve objectivity — Facebook Inc. FB .33% plans to start ranking news sources …
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Twitter to email 670K+ US users who interacted with tweets from Russia's Internet Research Agency, found 50K+ Russia-linked bots tweeting election content — When we appeared before the United States Congress last fall, Twitter publicly committed to regularly updating both congressional committees …
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Sources: Twitter COO Anthony Noto, who has led Twitter's push into live video, is in talks to become SoFi's new CEO, following Mike Cagney's departure — SoFi has been looking for a permanent CEO since Mike Cagney resigned in September — Anthony Noto, a top Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.58% executive … | Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Instagram tests new text-only Stories format called “Type” and Story screenshot alerts — Instagram's Stories are one of the most popular ways to share content on social media, but sometimes images and videos just aren't as effective as plain old text.
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
How Hawaii's emergency alert software design, which looks similar to one by FEMA-approved company AlertSense, could have led to false ballistic missile alarm — The disastrous false alarm issued by Hawaii over the weekend has raised concerns about what safeguards the state had in place.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Slack launches in beta on Linux as a Snap, an application package that's available across a range of Linux distributions, including Ubuntu — Slack's ambition to become the default, go-to place for employees chat to each other and link into hundreds of other applications to get work done …
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| Virginia Heffernan / Wired: |
A look at the Change My View subreddit, where people share opinions for commenters to challenge in civil debate — I HAD A view, and my view was this: Serial sexual abusers should submit to castration. Castration, I believed, would sideline the abuser's compulsions and thus keep the world safe from him (or her lol).
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
OnePlus says up to 40K customers affected in credit card breach between Nov. 2017 and mid-Jan. 2018, offers one year of free credit monitoring to those affected — After learning that fraudulent charges were appearing on its customers' credit cards, smartphone maker OnePlus disabled support …
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| Martin Matishak / Politico: |
President Trump signs the bill to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, extending warrantless surveillance program through 2023 — The law tweaks the sweeping warrantless programs that intercept digital traffic of foreign targets while hoovering up the personal information of an unknown number of Americans.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Schneider Electric researchers share more details about “Triton” malware, which exploited a firmware flaw in company's Triconex Tricon industrial safety systems — A RECENT DIGITAL attack on the control systems of an industrial plant has renewed concerns about the threat hacking poses to critical infrastructure.
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
The rise of cryptocurrency mining has created a global shortage of high-end graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD, driving up prices for retail gamers/buyers — “Cryptocurrency can't crash soon enough,” one gamer fumes. — The market for high-end graphics cards used to work like the market for almost any other piece of computer gear.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Apple has hired a team of at least 18 people from a startup called Silicon Valley Data Science, including two of its co-founders — Apple has made a quiet but interesting move in its longer-term strategy around courting more business from enterprises. The company has hired the tech team … Sponsor Posts
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