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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
At a hearing on Libra, Mark Zuckerberg was grilled by House lawmakers from both parties on the proposed cryptocurrency, privacy, diversity, and misinformation — The social media giant's chief executive took an early lashing Wednesday over the company's policies to spot and prevent the spread disinformation.
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q1 revenue of $33.1B, up 14% YoY, as net income rises 21% YoY to $10.7B; Intelligent Cloud revenue rose 27% YoY to $10.8B, driven by Azure — REDMOND, Wash. — October 23, 2019 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended September 30 …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| BBC: |
BBC News launches dark web mirror of its international site, accessible via Tor, as it seeks to thwart censorship from states such as China, Iran, and Vietnam — The BBC has made its international news website available via Tor, in a bid to thwart censorship attempts.
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Google employees accuse the company of making an internal tool to monitor attempts to organize meetings; Google says it's only to prevent calendar spam — - Company says it's an effort to curb calendar, meeting spam — Allegation underscores tensions between employees, leadership
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| Alexi McCammond / Axios: |
Memo from a departing chief of White House security lays out how an ongoing reorg under the Trump administration has left its networks more vulnerable to attack — An internal memo on cybersecurity, obtained by Axios, warns that “the White House is posturing itself to be electronically compromised once again.”
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Tweets: @thepacketrat, @chey_cobb, @thenamecast, @peterwsinger, @campuscodi, @alexi, @ellenspivak, @rich_outlaw, @jenlucpiquant, and @wylienewmark
| Reuters: |
Samsung rolls out a patch for Galaxy S10 and Note10 to fix the fingerprint sensor flaw that caused 3D patterns in screen protectors to be read as fingerprints — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) has updated software to fix problems with fingerprint recognition features … | Jim Baker / Lawfare: |
Former FBI general counsel explains why US law enforcement needs to embrace encryption to protect the country against existential cybersecurity threats — I. Embrace Reality and Deal With It — From 2012 to 2014, I worked for Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund located in Connecticut.
Tweets: @caparsons, @lawfareblog, @qjurecic, @riana_crypto, @ch402, and @lawfareblog
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Samsung unveils Exynos 990, its new flagship SoC that's 20% faster overall and 2x faster on AI-specific tasks, and a new 5G modem, both made with a 7nm process — If you buy next year's flagship Samsung Galaxy phone, it might come with a performance boost from a new processor the Korean electronics giant announced Wednesday.
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| iFixit News: |
Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 (15") teardown: seems pretty repairable with an easily accessible SSD, but there's one big drawback: its battery is firmly glued down — Teardown of the Surface Laptop 3 reveals a shocking turnaround in repairability on what used to be our least-favorite laptop design.
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| Sarah Lacy / Pando: |
Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr sell Pando, seven years after launching it, to ad-tech company BuySellAds, which bought Digg in 2018 — If there is a single moment when it seemed like my journalism career suddenly caught fire, it was the 2006 Business Week cover story I wrote about the rise of Web 2.0 companies.
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Business Insider. Tweets: @strngwys, @mcarney, @mathewi, @yaelwrites, @johnjcook, @ajdomanico, @dceiver, @film_girl, @edzitron, @lkherman, @moneyries, @sarahcuda, @profjeffjarviss, @simonowens, @granteb, and @martinsfp
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Google claims “quantum supremacy” after its Sycamore processor completed a calculation in 3 min 20 sec that would take 10K+ years on today's supercomputers — SAN FRANCISCO — Google said on Wednesday that it had achieved a long-sought breakthrough called “quantum supremacy,” … | Paris Martineau / Wired: |
New report says the proliferation of right-wing content on YouTube is driven by both supply and demand rather than the platform's recommendation algorithm — In a new report, Penn State political scientists say that it's not the recommendation engine, but the communities that form around right-wing content.
Tweets: @wired, @parismartineau, @yxphdghvdgg, @annisch, @parismartineau, @timcast, and @primalpoly
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter misses Q3 estimates with revenue of $823.7M, up 9% YoY vs. $874M expected; 145M monetizable DAUs, up 17% YoY; stock down ~20% in pre-market trading — Twitter today reported its earnings for the quarter that ended September 30, and the numbers delivered a big surprise, falling on both sales and earnings per share.
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Facebook to unveil news tab at an event Friday with News Corp's Robert Thomson; sources: direct payments to 200 publishers will go up to millions of dollars — Facebook plans to launch a “News” tab on Friday that will offer stories from hundreds of news organizations, some of which will be paid fees … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Truebill, which makes an app for managing personal finances, raises $15M Series B, says the app currently has 500K active users — Personal finance startup Truebill announced today that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding. — The new funding was led by Eldridge Industries …
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American Banker, WDVM 25, Montgomery Community Media, Tearsheet, and Crunchbase News
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Amazon has acquired Health Navigator, which provides online symptom checking and triage tools to companies that are looking to route patients to the right place — - Amazon has acquired Health Navigator, a start-up founded by emergency medicine doctor David Thompson, the company confirmed to CNBC.
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