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Twitter has published data sets of millions of tweets, images, videos, and thousands of accounts linked to Russia and Iran meddling for analysis by researchers — - Data includes images and videos from thousands of accounts — Tech firms remain under fire from lawmakers in EU, U.S.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Andy Rubin's Essential confirms layoffs; sources say it's almost a third of its workforce, primarily from the startup's hardware and sales divisions — Essential Products Inc., the startup founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, has cut almost a third of its employees. — “This has been a difficult decision to make.
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| Financial Times: |
Softbank COO says “there is no certainty” that there will be another Vision Fund, as the firm is “anxiously looking” at fallout from Khashoggi's disappearance — SoftBank has voiced its doubts about the likelihood of a second $100bn Vision Fund for the first time …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
How a loophole in Facebook's political ad review system, letting verified buyers put anything in the “paid for by” field, has been weaponized in a Virginia race — A competitive race in Virginia's 10th Congressional District has an alarming new element: anonymous attack ads on Facebook.
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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Spotify announces a standalone app for Wear OS that lets users control and browse music, rolling out over the next week — Browse, play, and add songs to your library from Spotify's new on-wrist app. — Wear OS gains a popular new app today that many have been waiting for …
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| Kate Fazzini / CNBC: |
Apple rolls out an updated privacy website, first trialed in the EU in May, that lets customers search the information Apple has on them — - Apple's new privacy website launch fulfills a company promise of making it easier and faster for customers to find what personal information is kept by Apple.
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| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Advertisers allege in suit that Facebook didn't disclose key video metric error for over a year and that scale of miscalculation was far worse than understood — Facebook knew of problems with how it measured viewership of video ads for more than a year before it revealed them in 2016, according to a complaint filed by advertisers.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it will show whether a tweet was deleted by the user who posted it or because Twitter took an action, starting in the coming weeks — Twitter is making a change to how its tweet reporting procedures will work. Before, Twitter had experimented with both showing or hiding … | Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Kris Goldsmith, an Army veteran who catalogues questionable Facebook Pages, some with millions of followers and links to Russia and Iran — Kris Goldsmith has become the cybersleuth for the Vietnam Veterans of America, hunting fake Facebook pages that sow discord and often have roots overseas| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Helm launches a privacy-focused personal server, costing $499 with a $99/year subscription, that lets users host emails, calendars, and contacts — Here's the thing: for all the talk about her email server, Hillary Clinton did not get hacked. “I'll go on record with that,” says Giri Sreenivas, the founder of Helm.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Pixel USB-C earbuds review: sound great and are comfortable, compatible with most modern devices, and affordable at $30, but lack a good seal in the ear — Healing the wound left by the removal of the headphone jack — Unmentioned during Google's big hardware event this month … | Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
Following a cease-and-desist letter sent in early October, eBay sues Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching eBay sellers via eBay's internal messaging system — Lawsuit claims Amazon infiltrated and exploited eBay's internal member email system to recruit high-value sellers| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Interview with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on free speech, filter bubbles, the chronological feed, and more — ON MONDAY, AT Wired's 25th anniversary summit, I spoke with Jack Dorsey about some of the biggest questions he confronts running Twitter and Square. How has his position on free speech evolved?| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Twilio debuts Autopilot, to help developers deploy bots across text, message, and voice assistants, and Pay, an API to securely process payments over the phone — Twilio wants to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to contact call centers. During its annual Signal developer conference in San Francisco … | Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central: |
Microsoft begins testing a major redesign of the iOS and Android Cortana apps, with a focus on conversational experiences and more — Microsoft is gearing up to release a major update to Cortana on Android and iOS, and beta testers are getting the first shot at it.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sidestepping App Stores, Facebook Lite and Groups get Instant Games, which launch in browsers — HTML5 almost ruined Facebook when baking in the mobile web standard to speed up development slowed down the performance of the social network's main iOS and Android apps.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook tentatively finds hack affecting 30M users was perpetrated by spammers masquerading as a digital marketing company, not by a nation-state — Facebook Inc. FB .40% believes that the hackers who gained access to the private information of 30 million of its users were spammers looking …
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Anonymous Amazon employee says 450+ employees signed letter to Bezos and other execs asking them to stop selling Rekognition to police and kick Palantir off AWS — When a company puts new technologies into the world, it has a responsibility to think about the consequences.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Uber is considering taking minority stake investments to help finance its costly self-driving car unit amid pressure from investors ahead of its IPO — Uber is considering taking minority stake investments to help finance its costly self-driving car unit amid pressure from investors ahead …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
In EU, Google to start charging OEMs for Play Store and Google apps, offer separate licenses for Search and Chrome, let OEMs make devices with forked Android — Android will still be “free and open source” — Google is changing the way it licenses its suite of Android apps in Europe …
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| Eric Geller / Politico: |
A look at how the Democratic National Committee has beefed up cybersecurity since 2016, hiring staff from Silicon Valley, warning about phishing, and more — The DNC's chief technology officer has led a massive cybersecurity overhaul at the committee and its sister organizations.
Tweets: @ericgeller, @donie, @raffi, and @ericgeller
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