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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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Twitter, Business Insider, TechCrunch, DFRLab, The Verge, MIT Technology Review, Engadget, ZDNet, Neowin, Nextgov, BuzzFeed News, Silicon Republic, Axios, Mashable, Washington Post, CNBC, and NBC Bay Area
Tweets: @policy, @benimmo, @apolyakova, @ia, @business, @jeffjarvis, @craigsilverman, @markdistef, @benimmo, @ridt, @kpoulsen, and @karlbode
| 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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9to5Google, Digital Trends, Android Police, Engadget, Android Authority, TechCrunch, The Verge, Droid Life, AndroidHeadlines.com, and SlashGear. Tweets: @markgurman
| 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 … | 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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Bloomberg, TechCrunch, The Verge, Mercury News, The Daily Caller, Fortune, getrevue.co, Newco Shift, CNET, Axios, Beyond Search, Fossbytes, Engadget, Boing Boing, and Business Insider
| Medium: |
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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The Verge, The Verge, getrevue.co, Business Insider, and GeekWire
Tweets: @techworkersco, @moiragweigel, and @evanselinger
| 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 … | Kate Fazzini / CNBC: |
Apple rolls out an updated privacy portal 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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MacRumors, MacRumors, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, CNET, Reuters, Business Insider, The Verge, Engadget, BetaNews, and VentureBeat
| 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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Ars Technica, Initialized Capital, Wired, GeekWire, and Mashable
| 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 …
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SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, ZDNet, and TechCrunch
| 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.
Tweets: @heatherkelly, @taber, @markfollman, @mikeisaac, @kevinroose, @kevinroose, and @kevinroose
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
YouTube says it has resolved widespread access issues that also affected YouTube TV and YouTube Music — Google's services are ubiquitous enough that it's pretty noteworthy when they go down. Tonight, it seems multiple services are suffering an outage, including YouTube …
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Business Insider, The Verge, downdetector.com, CBS News, CNET, TechCrunch, Tubefilter, Mashable, CNBC, Beyond Search, FierceVideo, The Hill, Pocketnow, Gizmodo, NullTX, Associated Press, BGR India, Mercury News, Trak.in, Android Authority, The Guardian, USA Today, Bloomberg, Slashdot, Digital Trends, Reuters, Variety, NBC Bay Area, Engadget, Android Police, BGR, Pocketables, South China Morning Post, TalkAndroid.com, Newser, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @teamyoutube, @teamyoutube, @susanwojcicki, @nick_craver, @krishashok, @asapscience, and @thatswattsup
| 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?| 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 … | Nick Paumgarten / New Yorker: |
Interview with Vitalik Buterin, Vlad Zamfir, Joseph Lubin, and others in the Ethereum community looking at the birth, current state, and future of blockchain — Inside the ongoing argument over whether Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the blockchain are transforming the world.
Tweets: @zackvoell, @amandagutterman, and @garrytan
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced a unified plan to deprecate the use of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in their web browsers in early 2020 — Almost everyone has now migrated to TLS 1.2, and a few have moved to TLS 1.3. — Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced …
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Windows Blog, WebKit, Mozilla Security Blog, Google Online Security Blog, BetaNews, The Hacker News, AppleInsider, The Register, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, TechCrunch, BleepingComputer, Engadget, Computerworld, On MSFT, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Neowin, MSPoweruser, SecurityWeek, iPhone Hacks, gHacks Technology News, Windows Latest, Softpedia News, and Inquirer. Tweets: @scott_helme
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung acquires Spanish network analytics company Zhilabs, which uses AI to monitor carriers' network performance and data traffic across myriad services — Samsung has announced that it has acquired Zhilabs, a Spanish network analytics company that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) …
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Samsung Global Newsroom, Tech.eu, Engadget, CNET, Neowin, TechCrunch, Yonhap News Agency, Reuters, and MediaNama. Tweets: @samsung
| Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
ARM and cybersecurity firm Cybereason, both backed by SoftBank, partner to help secure IoT home devices like connected lightbulbs and thermostats — SoftBank-backed Arm and Cybereason are teaming up to protect some of the cyberworld's most vulnerable targets| Heather Murphy / New York Times: |
Profile of GEDmatch, a genealogy website that has helped crack more than a dozen cold cases after it was used to uncover the identity of the Golden State Killer — Fifteen murder and sexual assault cases have been solved since April with a single genealogy website.
Tweets: @nytscience and @nytimes
| 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.| 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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Tweets: @reckless, @stevesi, @tomwarren, @nytimestech, @suka_hiroaki, @backlon, @reckless, @franciscof_1990, @alohabrowser, @dennisbednarz, @ow, and @reckless
| Cate Cadell / Reuters: |
Baidu joins the Partnership on AI, led by US companies like Apple and Google, becoming the first Chinese company to join an AI ethics group — BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese search engine Baidu Inc (BIDU.O) has become the first Chinese company to join an artificial intelligence (AI) …
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The Partnership on AI, Quartz, CNBC, The Verge, and Pandaily
Tweets: @partnershipai and @partnershipai
| 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: @raffi, @ericgeller, @donie, and @ericgeller
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