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In email to advertisers, Facebook says it'll manually review ads that target users based on politics, religion, ethnicity, or social issues before they go live — Facebook is going to require ads that are targeted to people based on “politics, religion, ethnicity or social issues” …
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International Business Times, Engadget, Business Insider, and Recode
Tweets: @cwarzel and @carnage4life
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook CSO Alex Stamos, who is leading the company's Russia investigation, complains via tweetstorm about a misguided media backlash over “The Algorithm” — “I am seeing a ton of coverage of our recent issues driven by stereotypes of our employees and attacks against fantasy …
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Recode, Business Insider, The Hill, and USA Today
Tweets: @alexstamos, @mattocko, @propornot, @pkafka, @boztank, and @joshconstine. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Paul Lewis / The Guardian: |
Former Facebook, Google, Twitter employees on how they fear the unintended and negative consequences of the attention economy-driven tech they helped develop — Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster
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CNET, Wall Street Journal, ROUGH TYPE, and The Independent
Tweets: @somebadideas, @charlesarthur, @fmanjoo, and @caseynewton
| Mark Harris / Wired: |
Alphabet gets approval from FCC to fly 30 Project Loon balloons over Puerto Rico for 6 months, after Irma and Maria left 90% of the island without phone signal — LAST FRIDAY, ENGINEERS on Google parent Alphabet's internet-by-balloon Project Loon tweeted that they hoped to bring emergency connectivity …
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Digital Trends, The Verge, Fortune, CNET, Android Authority, Slate, 9to5Google, Engadget, Android Central, and Reuters
Tweets: @meharris, @trengriffin, @meharris, and @meharris
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
AOL is shutting down Instant Messenger (AIM) on December 15 after 20 years — The pioneering chat app that taught us to text is pulling the plug. On December 15th, AOL Instant Messenger will shut down after running since 1997. AIM dominated online chat in North America at the turn of the century.
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Tweets: @aim, @om, @yayitsrob, @harrymccracken, @theregister, @recode, @sacca, @mgsiegler, @alex_navarro, @danprimack, @fromedome, @joeylangone, @jandawson, @laurengoode, @evleaks, @m4tt, @llsethj, @levie, @rossrubin, and @joshconstine
| Louise Matsakis / Motherboard: |
As part of Time Warner merger, FCC forced AOL to open AIM social graph to competitors in 2001; government should impose similar requirements on Facebook today — One of the former most popular and influential instant messaging apps in the world, AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM, is shutting down on December 15, AOL announced on Friday.| Jason Yan / The Disqus Blog: |
Comment hosting service Disqus says hackers stole email addresses and other data for 17.5M users in a 2012 breach; stolen passwords were hashed and salted — Yesterday, on October 5th, we were alerted to a security breach that impacted a database from 2012.
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ZDNet, Engadget, International Business Times, HackRead, The Hacker News, BetaNews, WordPress Tavern, The Register, BleepingComputer.com, and Have I been pwned? …
Tweets: @troyhunt, @troyhunt, and @haveibeenpwned
| Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter: |
YouTube content head Susanne Daniels and CEO Susan Wojcicki on company's strategy for original programming to take on streaming video giants — With a veteran television exec, talent like Demi Lovato and Google's $86 billion in cash, the platform known for skateboarding videos …
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The Atlantic and GeekWire
| Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central: |
Cortana adds smart home integrations for Wink, Insteon, Nest, SmartThings, and Hue on Windows 10 for PC and mobile — If you've got a house full of smart home devices, Cortana just got a whole lot handier. — Microsoft has steadily been adding to the ways in which Cortana …
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Digital Trends, The Verge, Engadget, and On MSFT
| Bozorgmehr Sharafdin / Reuters: |
Despite sanctions, a growing number of Iranian tech startups are thriving due to government support, some foreign investment, and lack of foreign competition — LONDON (Reuters) - Low on cash but high on hope, Iran's technology entrepreneurs are learning to live with revived hostility … | Danny Sullivan: |
Search Engine Land founder Danny Sullivan is joining Google to serve as a public liaison for search — When I retired from search journalism in June, I had no idea what I would be doing next. I just knew I was ready for a break and something different from what I had been doing for so long.
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Search Engine Land and MediaPost
Tweets: @mattcutts, @dannysullivan, @mikeisaac, @anildash, @dannysullivan, @louisgray, and @dannysullivan
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
SEC filing shows Docker has raised more than $61M of a $75M funding round — Docker, a Silicon Valley software maker, has raised more than $61 million of a $75 million round, according to an SEC filing . In August, Bloomberg reported that the company was fundraising …
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Wall Street Journal and GeekWire
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