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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Tom Cotton ask US intelligence officials to determine whether TikTok poses “national security risks” — Two senior members of Congress, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) …
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Tweets: @senschumer, @karlbode, @sarthakgh, @shiraovide, @sarahfrier, and @caseynewton
| 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 18%+ — 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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Tweets: @stevekovach, @twitterir, @tomgara, @stevekovach, @twitterir, @twitterir, @twitterir, @twitterir, @craigsilverman, and @carnage4life
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple TV app launches on Amazon Fire TV devices starting with the Fire TV Stick 4K and HD models, with support for other devices and models coming soon — Apple today released the Apple TV app for Amazon TV devices, starting with the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K and the older HD model.
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Amazon Fire TV Blog, The Verge, Digital Trends, Inquirer, Macworld, USA Today, Thurrott, TechCrunch, Engadget, CNET, iMore, GeekWire, AppleInsider, MacRumors, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @richdemuro, @mgsiegler, and @bzamayo
| 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: @parismartineau, @wired, @parismartineau, @egavactip, @yxphdghvdgg, @annisch, @carnage4life, @timcast, and @primalpoly
| Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz: |
As Google opens its first gaming studio in Montreal, head of Stadia Jade Raymond discusses its strategy, including building several first-party studios — As Google unveils new Montreal development studio, Stadia Games & Entertainment boss Jade Raymond discusses the platform strategy
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The Keyword, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Android Central, 9to5Google, Android Authority, SlashGear, Android Police, PC Games Insider, and VG247
Tweets: @nibellion, @gibiz, @gibiz, and @zhugeex
| 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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The Verge, bbc.co.uk, Yahoo Finance, Neowin, The Register, IT PRO, and BetaNews
Tweets: @arawnsley, @marietjeschaake, @nscrutables, and @zackwhittaker
| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Forty music festivals including SXSW, Coachella, and Bonnaroo promise they will not use facial recognition tech, following a musician- and activist-led campaign — Activists declare the first major victory against the spread of commercial facial recognition technology in the United States.| 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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| Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter: |
US-based Triller, a TikTok rival, raises $28M Series B led by Proxima, following an $11.5M Series A in 2018; company says it has 13M MAUs and 60M downloads — Triller, an AI-powered platform that enables creators to make music videos using licensed songs, has raised $28 million in Series B funding … | 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.
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Tweets: @caparsons, @lawfareblog, @qjurecic, @riana_crypto, @ch402, and @lawfareblog
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
AT&T says a weeks-long voicemail outage affecting some customers across the country is due to a software update, promises a patch but offers no timetable — It's telling a different story elsewhere — AT&T has been experiencing a weeks-long voicemail outage affecting some customers across the country.
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Android Central, iMore, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @tmorman, @antaryaami, @heatherkelly, and @kifleswing
| 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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Tom's Hardware, Engadget, WinBuzzer, Inquirer, BetaNews, OnMSFT.com, Softpedia News, Thurrott, The Register, SlashGear, and MSPoweruser
| 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 …
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Android Central, iDownloadBlog.com, SamMobile, Thurrott, MacRumors, The Overspill, and Digital Trends
| 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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Tweets: @bubbaprog, @kurtwagner8, @tonyromm, @andrewkimmel, @juddlegum, @benthompson, @tomselliott, @tonyromm, @aprilaser, @vladzamfir, @balajis, @vanitaguptacr, @hshaban, @marawilson, @ceciliakang, @jbouie, @joshconstine, @tonyromm, @owillis, @sheeraf, @rmac18, @thekenyeung, @lopezlinette, @sarahfrier, @kurtwagner8, @b_fung, @b_fung, @thekenyeung, @cwarzel, @cwarzel, @tonyromm, @joshconstine, @thekenyeung, @kellymakena, @teddyschleifer, @ddayen, @b_fung, @rmac18, @mikeisaac, @ashleyfeinberg, @kevinroose, @joshconstine, and @mikeisaac
| 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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Samsung Global Newsroom, Android Police, TechSpot, The Verge, XDA Developers, Thurrott, Inquirer, Firstpost Tech, SlashGear, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @samsung
| 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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Ars Technica and Business Insider
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Robotic process automation company UiPath says it is laying off between 300 and 400 employees, or about 11% of its workforce, months after being valued at $7B — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Investors looking for fresh signs the party is over for high-valued tech companies got … | 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,” … | Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
Switzerland-based Coople, an on-demand jobs platform connecting companies with job seekers, raises $32M Series C led by One Peak Partners — Coople, the largest European platform for on-demand hiring, has raised a $32 million Series C round led by One Peak Partners and the growth equity arm of Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking.
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FinSMEs, EU-Startups, PE Hub Blog, and PR Newswire
| 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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Tweets: @bdsams, @colinpenty, @dinabass, @daniel_rubino, @tomwarren, @jordannovet, @markhachman, @zhugeex, @zhugeex, @thurrott, @thurrott, and @thurrott
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