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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
After The Intercept's inquiry, Facebook deletes “white genocide conspiracy theory” as a pre-defined ad targeting category with an estimated 168K users — Apparently fueled by anti-Semitism and the bogus narrative that outside forces are scheming to exterminate the white race …
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Gizmodo and CBS Pittsburgh
Tweets: @samfbiddle, @kevinroose, @shannoncoulter, @zeerakahmed, @yoda, @mollyjongfast, @anandwrites, @slpng_giants, @robbie_wallis1, and @jason_kint
| Andrei Zakharov / BBC: |
Hackers publish private messages from 81K Facebook accounts and claim to have details from up to 120M accounts for sale; FB blames 3rd-party browser extensions — Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users' accounts.
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Wired, CNET, Business Insider, Softpedia News, BleepingComputer, Threatpost, Kaspersky Lab official blog, Mashable, TechSpot, Gizmodo, The Verge, Digital Trends, SlashGear, KnowTechie, Telegraph, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @iblametom, @gossithedog, @rustybrick, @leoniegsmith, @yoda, @basche42, @saradannerdukic, @marcelweiss, and @nightafternight
| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
In a wide-ranging interview, Elon Musk discusses his tweeting habits, Tesla's past year, its Navigate on Autopilot feature, full autonomous driving, and more — Musk talks about his “excruciating” 2018, fighting with journalists on Twitter, why Tesla won't build an electric scooter and much more.
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SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Verge, Vox, Electrek, CBS San Francisco, The Daily Caller, TheStreet, GeekWire, USA Today, CNBC, Telegraph, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @jack, @thesheetztweetz, @negarmortazavi, @binarybits, @ezraklein, @jeff_foust, @sarthakgh, @hein_the_sayer, and @ryanfelton
| BuzzFeed News: |
Twitter apologizes after “Kill all Jews” appeared as a trending topic in many New Yorkers' local trending sections following the vandalism of Brooklyn synagogue — On Friday morning, Twitter featured the trending topic “Kill all Jews” in its New York local trend feed.| Yahoo News: |
Sources: in 2011, Iranians used Google search to identify a string of websites the CIA used to communicate with its agents, compromising the CIA's wider network — In 2013, hundreds of CIA officers — many working nonstop for weeks — scrambled to contain a disaster of global proportions …
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The Register, Axios, and Ars Technica
Tweets: @weinbergersa, @malwarejake, @yashalevine, @zackwhittaker, @hatr, @trevortimm, and @jennamc_laugh
| Christopher Bing / Reuters: |
Twitter has removed some bot accounts, sources say more than 10,000, that posed as Democrats and posted tweets discouraging people from voting in the midterms — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twitter deleted more than 10,000 automated accounts posting messages that discouraged people from voting …
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CNET, Washington Post, The Hill, Slate, Cyberscoop, Mashable, and Axios
Tweets: @cnetnews, @peteskomoroch, @nickpacilio, and @bcappelbaum
| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Profile of cryptocurrency millionaire Jeffrey Berns who says he has spent $300M to build an experimental community based on blockchain in Nevada — A man spent millions on an enormous plot of land near Reno. Now he wants to build a community based on the blockchain technology introduced by Bitcoin.
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PR Newswire, Bitsonline, socalTECH.com, YouTube, and ETHNews
Tweets: @nathanielpopper, @0xabad1dea, @excellion, @el_hdh, @maguirekevin, @nzben, @anondran, @levie, and @lsukernik
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Spotify makes an early version of its Apple Watch app available to a limited number of users via Apple's TestFlight beta testing program — Spotify is officially coming to Apple Watch, as the streaming music service today delighted users with an early beta version of the watchOS app through TestFlight.
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Engadget, The Verge, Macworld, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, TechSpot, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, KnowTechie, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, Trusted Reviews, and iLounge. Tweets: @dokun24
| Justin O'Beirne: |
A detailed look at Apple's new maps for iOS 12 covering San Francisco and the Bay Area with seemingly better road data than Google Maps but worse location data — HAS APPLE CLOSED THE GAP WITH GOOGLE'S MAP? — TAP OR CLICK ANY IMAGE TO ENLARGE — Perhaps the biggest surprise about Apple's new map is how small it is:
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The Verge, MacStories, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @alexhern, @rcheetham, and @codinghorror
| Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Samsung will share more details about its foldable screen phone and open Bixby to third-party developers at its developer conference next week — New features for Bixby are meant to challenge the dominance of Apple, Amazon and Alphabet in artificial intelligence
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Android Authority, CNET, Engadget, TechSpot, The Verge, TechCrunch, and Android Central
| David McCabe / Axios: |
Google says Susan Molinari, its Vice President of Public Policy for the Americas and head of its D.C. office, is leaving next year — Google's top U.S. public policy official is stepping down from the role, the company confirmed on Friday. — Why it matters: The departure … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Serverless search and analytics startup Rockset comes out of stealth, says it has raised $3M in seed funding and $18.5M Series A led by Sequoia and Greylock — Rockset, a startup that came out of stealth today, announced $21.5M in previous funding and the launch of its new data platform …
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Business Insider
| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Tencent unveils Spectacles-like Weishi smart glasses, available in China from November 11 and named after its own short video sharing app Weishi — Some were surprised to see Snap release a second version of its ‘face-camera’ Spectacles gadget, since the original version failed to convert hype into sales.
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The Verge
| IDC: |
IDC: 355.2M smartphones were shipped worldwide in Q3 2018, down 6% YoY from 377.8M; Samsung saw a decline of 13.4% and Huawei grew 32.9% — According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors shipped a total …
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Strategy Analytics, Engadget, Digital Trends, Inquirer, MacRumors, TechSpot, Fortune, 9to5Mac, The Verge, The Mac Observer, VentureBeat, and CNET. Tweets: @ryanreith
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Report: live-streaming TV services' viewing hours grew 212% YoY; connected TVs, such as those using devices like Roku or Apple TV, account for 56% of time spent — Live streaming TV services, like Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, Hulu with Live TV, and others, are gaining steam in the U.S …
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Mashable
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Flickr says it will end 1TB storage for free accounts and delete all but the most recent 1,000 photos or videos if users don't upgrade to Pro by February 2019 — Flickr was purchased in April by professional photo hosting service SmugMug, and today, the first major changes under the new ownership have been announced.
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Flickr Blog, Gizmodo, Creative Commons, ExtremeTech, Business Wire, Ars Technica, Flickr Blog, TechCrunch, KnowTechie, The Guardian, and Mashable
Tweets: @textfiles, @slavin_fpo, @shortformernie, @digiphile, @daniel_rubino, @waxpancake, @tomcoates, @dsilverman, @yoda, @donmacaskill, @olebegemann, and @nikhewitt
| Ryan Dezember / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Thasos, which leases trillions of anonymized GPS coordinates from ~1,000 smartphone apps and sells insights from the data to Wall Street traders — The phone in your pocket is dishing info on where you spend your time and, likely, money — When Tesla Inc. TSLA .62% Chief Executive Elon Musk …
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The Mac Observer and CityLab
Tweets: @charles_norton1, @avorobieff, @charlesforelle, and @mims
| BuzzFeed News: |
Google workers from Singapore, Japan, Israel, the UK, Ireland, India, and the US staged a walkout to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment — Groups of Google employees are staging walkouts at offices across the world in protest at how sexual misconduct allegations are handled by the company.
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Business Insider, Bloomberg, CNBC, GeekWire, and CNN
Tweets: @ciaraobrien, @googlewalkout, @cbsthismorning, @hadas_gold, @kennethn, @greta, @nymag, @timesupnow, @starfire2258, @starfire2258, @starfire2258, @starfire2258, @mollywood, @jasminesachar, @geekwire, @richardjnieva, @rmac18, @williamturton, @jodikantor, @stevekovach, @kateconger, @gizmodo, @tictoc, @mvvoice, @danprimack, @katiecanales1, @jmorse_, @jacobotarrio, @nwlc, @arsetechnica, @stevekovach, @rmac18, @gizmodo, @melaniehannah, @gizmodo, @justinebateman, @hunterwalk, @jonskeet, @ciaraobrien, @markdistef, @kevinroose, @spacekatgal, and @lauracatriona
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple warns holiday sales may miss Wall Street expectations; Cook says negative forecast due to exchange rates, supply uncertainty, weakness in emerging markets — (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Thursday said sales for the crucial holiday quarter could miss Wall Street expectations …
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Seeking Alpha, Business Insider, Fortune, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, Reuters, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @benbajarin, @reuterstech, @reuters, @benbajarin, and @jeffersongraham
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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