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| 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, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Axios, and USA Today
Tweets: @alexstamos, @alexstamos, @alexstamos, @propornot, @alexismadrigal, @mims, @alexstamos, @alexstamos, @alexstamos, @jason_kint, @boztank, @mattocko, @noupside, @pkafka, @joshconstine, @boztank, and @pinboard. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Axios: |
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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The Hill, International Business Times, Engadget, Business Insider, and Recode
Tweets: @cwarzel and @carnage4life
| 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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Wall Street Journal, CNET, ROUGH TYPE, and The Independent
Tweets: @craigmillr, @feross, @rrhoover, @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 cell service — 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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CNET, Digital Trends, The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, Slate, Fortune, Android Authority, 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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Digital Trends, BleepingComputer.com, AOL INSTANT MESSENGER, Engadget, O'Grady's PowerPage, BetaNews, International Business Times, The Mac Observer, Geek News Central, gHacks Technology News, Fone Arena, Gizmodo, Wired, 500ish Words, Two Buttons Deep, The Atlantic, Ars Technica, ExtremeTech, The Tech Report, The Register, The Daily Caller, Salon, The Verge, Redmond Pie, TechSpot, SFist, CNET, Washington Post, SiliconBeat, InvestorPlace, NPR, Fortune, Nextgov, Boing Boing, Liliputing, Breitbart, thecut, USA Today, iPhone Hacks, PCWorld, Vox, The Next Web, Quartz, New York Magazine, AppleInsider, Lifehacker, Neowin, CNNMoney, Motherboard, Slate, Consumerist, Mashable, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, iMore, 9to5Mac, POPSUGAR Living, iPhone in Canada Blog, Axios, MacDailyNews, The FADER, Recode, Newser, VentureBeat, Adweek, TMZ.com, Real Stories, Hollywood Reporter, WBAY-TV, KnowTechie, daytondailynews, CNBC, MacRumors, and The Hill
Tweets: @om, @aim, @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.| 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
| 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, Have I been pwned? …, and BleepingComputer.com
Tweets: @troyhunt, @troyhunt, and @haveibeenpwned
| Heather Timmons / Quartz: |
Sources: Facebook plans to sign up conservative US magazine The Weekly Standard as a fact-checking partner — In its newest attempt to stem the flood of fake news and conspiracy theories online, Facebook plans to sign up a conservative US magazine, the Weekly Standard, as a fact-checking partner …
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Engadget, Axios, Salon, and MediaNama
Tweets: @juddlegum, @rob_flaherty, @rob_flaherty, @jayrosen_nyu, @pierre, @parkermolloy, @jayrosen_nyu, @juddlegum, @brianstelter, and @heathat
| 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
| Jemima Kiss / The Guardian: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on his early life in India, the pace of technological change, Google's tax issues, taking down terrorist content, and diversity — From artificial intelligence to cheap smartphones, Google is on the frontline of technological development. But is it growing too big and moving too fast?| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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