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February 4, 2020, 12:45 PM

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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Some users' Google Photos videos in Takeout backups were exported to strangers between November 21-25, 2019; those affected were notified by email  —  With Google Takeout, you can download your data from Google apps as a backup or for use with another service.
HuffPost:
Sources: Shadow, a company affiliated with Democratic digital nonprofit ACRONYM, built Iowa caucus app used by workers that caused delays in reporting results  —  Shadow, a Democratic digital firm, created the app that was supposed to deliver quicker caucus results.
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Twitter says it has suspended “a large network of fake accounts” and many others for abusing an API feature that let them match phone numbers to usernames  —  Twitter announced today that over the holidays it identified and shut down “a large network of fake accounts,” …
Nick Statt / The Verge:
Alphabet breaks out revenue numbers for YouTube ads for the first time: $4.7B in Q4 revenue and $15.15B in fiscal 2019, up from $11.16B YoY  —  We've never before known how much money YouTube generates  —  YouTube generated nearly $5 billion in ad revenue in the last three months …
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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service launches from beta with Steam, Epic Games Store, Battle.net, and Uplay support, rivaling Google Stadia at $5/month  —  The BYOG cloud gaming service with Steam, Epic, Battle.net, and Uplay support  —  For the past eight years …
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Facebook debuts more controls for parents in Messenger Kids like the ability to view recent chat history, a log of chat images, remote device logout, and more  —  We launched Messenger Kids in 2017 after meeting with thousands of parents, parenting organizations, child safety advocates …
Robert Armstrong / Financial Times:
Mastercard CEO details why the company pulled out of Libra, says he had concerns about how Libra went from an “altruistic idea” to Calibra, a proprietary wallet  —  - Money laundering questons on Facebook's digital currency  — Banga does not understand how Libra makes money
Michael Santoli / CNBC:
Tesla's stock, up ~15% today, has more than tripled in under 4 months, from $255 on Oct. 23 to ~$900; 12K+ Robinhood users bought TSLA for the first time Monday  —  Jim Cramer: Tesla is a tech company and must be valued as one  — Yes, there's an entrenched short base that's getting torched …
Paul Mozur / New York Times:
Amid virus outbreak, authorities in China are using its vast surveillance network to identify potential carriers, ostracizing even those without the symptoms  —  The authorities hunt for people from Wuhan, the center of the outbreak, encouraging citizens to inform on others.
Davey Alba / New York Times:
Alphabet-owned Jigsaw is testing Assembler, a tool to identify doctored photographs, even ones created with the help of AI, with over a dozen news organizations  —  The company, owned by Google's parent, introduced a free tool it calls Assembler to sort out real images from fake ones.
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
HPE acquires zero-trust authentication startup Scytale, which was founded by the creators of open source projects SPIFFE and SPIRE and had raised $8M to date  —  Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today said that it has acquired Scytale Inc., a startup that develops so-called zero-trust security software …
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat:
Labelbox raises $25M Series B, led by a16z, to grow its data-labeling platform for AI model training  —  Labelbox today announced the close of a $25 million Series B funding round to grow its data-labeling platform made to suppy customers with labeled data necessary to train AI systems.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Freight marketplace Emerge raises $20M Series A, led by NewRoad Capital Partners, at a $100M+ valuation and says it has processed $1B+ in freight  —  Trucking is currently the most popular mode of transporting freight in the US, accounting for around $12.5 billion of the $17 billion freight market …
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