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US intelligence director says Iran was behind threatening emails to FL Democratic voters demanding they vote for Trump; voter info was likely publicly available — Iranian intelligence was responsible for a recent campaign of emails sent to intimidate Florida voters, the FBI announced Wednesday night …
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| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
US says Russia-linked group targeted IT systems used by state and local officials, but there was no evidence “integrity of elections data has been compromised” — It's no secret that the hacking group often referred to as Energetic Bear or TEMP.Isotope — linked by multiple security firms …
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New York Times, New York Times, and us-cert.cisa.gov
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it will start charging for WhatsApp for Business and add hosting services for businesses' online assets and shopping features — Facebook has been making a big play to be a go-to partner for small and medium businesses that use the internet to interface with the wider world …
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WhatsApp Blog, PYMNTS.com, Social Media Today, Engadget, Bloomberg, About Facebook, Neowin, and Wall Street Journal
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Activists around the world are building facial recognition tools to identify police officers using off-the-shelf image recognition software — “We're now approaching the technological threshold where the little guys can do it to the big guys,” one researcher said.
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Input. Tweets: @kashhill, @nytimes, @kashhill, @merbroussard, @shiraovide, @evan_greer, and @aclu
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Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg confirm Quibi is shutting down: “Our failure was not for lack of trying; we've considered and exhausted every option” — We started with the idea to create the next generation of storytelling and because of you, we were able to create and deliver …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Huawei debuts €1,199 Mate 40 Pro and €1,399 Pro Plus, with 5nm Kirin 9000 chip, 6.76" display, 50 MP main camera, 50W wireless charging, available Nov. 13 in UK — Plus a new flagship Kirin 9000 processor — Huawei has announced the Mate 40 Pro and Pro Plus … | Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Hands-on with Huawei's new Mate 40 Pro: incredible cameras and powerful processors, but the app selection is atrocious and makes the handset hard to recommend — You know the score by now. Huawei currently makes Android phones that can't run Android apps, or at least the ones that I, and most people, want to use.| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple says it is expanding its COVID-safe “Express” retail stores, with a counter protected by plexiglass at the front of a store, ahead of the holiday season — (Reuters) - Apple Inc AAPL.O is expanding a new physical store format as it tries to get iPhone 12 models into customers' hands …
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| Mother Jones: |
Former Facebook employees describe tests of News Feed algorithm changes and their impact on left- and right-leaning news sites, with tweaks to favor the right — For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
How Phantom Secure, which started as a privacy-focused phone company in Canada, became a network for the Sinaloa Cartel before being shut down by the FBI — Vince Ramos wanted Phantom Secure to be the Uber of privacy-focused, luxury-branded phones—flood the market with devices, and sort out the law later.
Tweets: @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @laurenshiplett, @learmonth, @josephfcox, @bigblackjacobin, @derektmead, @josephfcox, @timmarchman, @jason_koebler, and @narcomania. Thanks:@laurenshiplett
| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Facebook's Oversight Board says it is now accepting cases for review, both from users who have exhausted the company's appeals process and from Facebook itself — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's Oversight Board, which can overrule the company's decisions on whether pieces of content should have been removed …
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| Manuel Vonau / Android Police: |
Google adds price insights for comparisons with typical prices and deal alerts to Google Shopping — Last month, Google Shopping added features to make local shopping easier with new information on availability and curbside pickup options. In light of the upcoming holiday season …
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The Keyword, CNET, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, MakeUseOf, Engadget, Retail Dive, and Search Engine Land. Tweets: @richontech
| Huib Modderkolk / de Volkskrant: |
A Dutch security researcher says he logged into Trump's Twitter account, which didn't have 2FA, using the password “maga2020!”; the account has now been secured — Last week a Dutch security researcher succeeded in logging into the Twitter account of the American President Donald Trump.
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Vrij Nederland, TechCrunch, The Guardian, Forbes, Threatpost, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, The Verge, The Independent, Graham Cluley, TechRadar, HackRead, Input, Newser, Mashable, Variety, The Daily Dot, KnowTechie, Neowin, and Slashdot
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| Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk: |
The Central Bank of the Bahamas has officially launched Sand Dollar, its national digital currency, the first of its kind in the world to be fully deployed — The Central Bank of the Bahamas has officially launched its national digital currency. — The first of its kind in the world … | Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Facebook launches Dating in Europe, after an Irish regulator forced a delay of its planned February debut, and claims it made 1.5B matches across 20 countries — - Facebook has expanded its “Facebook Dating” service to Europe. — Facebook claims that the platform has generated 1.5 …
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TechCrunch, About Facebook, Gizmodo, Tech.eu, About Facebook, CNN, The Verge, Engadget, Silicon Republic, MakeUseOf, Reuters, and Neowin
| Ryan Hoover / Product Hunt: |
Product Hunt announces founder of Mino Games and angel investor Josh Buckley as its new CEO — Today we're introducing the new CEO of Product Hunt. But first, the backstory... The last seven years have been the most challenging and rewarding of my life and career.
Tweets: @rrhoover, @joshbuckley, @micah, @joshelman, @thekenyeung, @bramk, and @martinsfp
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Palantir is helping the US government track the manufacture, distribution, and administration of COVID-19 vaccines — Data-mining company is developing a tool that health authorities plan to use to monitor the manufacture of coronavirus vaccines and determine where they should go
Tweets: @anthony, @jonathanrockoff, and @benpershing
| Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times: |
WHO grants Wikipedia free use of its published data, allowing it to be reposted widely in almost 200 languages and starting with COVID-19 information — The health agency will license much of its material to the online encyclopedia, allowing the information to be reposted widely into almost 200 languages.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Lili, which offers bank accounts and associated products designed for freelancers, raises $15M Series A, a few months after raising $10M in seed funding — It's only been a few months since Lili announced its $10 million seed round, and it's already raised more funding — namely, a $15 million Series A.| Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
PayPal will let users buy and sell cryptocurrency using its online wallets in the coming weeks and shop at merchants on its network starting in early 2021 — LONDON (Reuters) - PayPal Holdings Inc joined the cryptocurrency market on Wednesday, allowing customers to buy … | Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
DANCE, an invite-only e-bike subscription service in Berlin from the founders of SoundCloud, raises €15M Series A led by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures — Less than three months since launching its pilot program, SoundCloud's e-bike subscription spin-off DANCE has secured €15 million in Series A funding.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Over 430,000 viewers tuned in simultaneously to watch Rep. Ocasio-Cortez play Among Us on Twitch, the third highest ever for an individual Twitch stream — More than 430,000 people tuned in simultaneously to Twitch on Tuesday night to watch Rep. Alexia Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) play a hit video game as part of an effort to promote voting.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Applied Intuition raises $125M Series C for its autonomous vehicle testing software, sources say at a valuation of $1.25B — Covering venture capital, software and startups — As Tesla, Waymo and others jockey for positioning in the race to make self-driving vehicles mainstream … Sponsor Posts
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