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Overview of the Senate hearing on foreign influence in social media, which heard testimony from Sheryl Sandberg and Jack Dorsey — Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter's Jack Dorsey told lawmakers on Wednesday that they are better prepared to combat foreign interference on their platforms …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
DoJ says AG Jeff Sessions will meet with state AGs to discuss a “growing concern” that social media giants are “hurting competition” and stifling free speech — The Justice Department has confirmed that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has expressed a “growing concern” …
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| Bloomberg: |
Google's decision not to appear before the Senate was an unforced error, drawing criticism and robbing it of a chance to defend itself — - Senators blast search giant for executive absence at hearing — Some people at the company said to regret Pichai's no-show| Washington Post: |
A look at the philosophies and styles of Sheryl Sandberg, a veteran of Capitol Hill, and Jack Dorsey, a relative newcomer — SAN FRANCISCO — The Silicon Valley leaders who testified before Congress for the first time on Wednesday came to Washington with personal styles that could not be more different.
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| New York Times: |
In opening statements for congressional testimonies, Sandberg says Facebook was slow to spot election interference, Dorsey emphasizes trust and transparency — WASHINGTON — For months, Facebook, Twitter and Google have grappled with criticism over the misuse of their services by foreign operatives …
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| Andrew Perrin / Pew Research Center: |
Survey of US adults: 42% took a break from Facebook for several weeks or more, 26% deleted app from their phone, 54% adjusted privacy settings in past 12 months — Significant shares of Facebook users have taken steps in the past year to reframe their relationship with the social media platform.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Snap launches new styles of Spectacles 2 with polarized lenses that look more like traditional sunglasses, available today for $199 — And they've got polarized lenses — If the main hangup that's kept you from purchasing Snap's Spectacles has been their design, two new models that the company …
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| Diptendu Lahiri / Reuters: |
Report: Goldman Sachs is ditching plans to open a cryptocurrency trading desk for the foreseeable future as the regulatory framework remains unclear — (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) is ditching plans to open a desk for trading cryptocurrencies in the foreseeable future …
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| Bloomberg: |
Uber announces new safety features for drivers and riders, such as checking in on idle cars and anonymous pick up addresses, rolling out in the coming months — - Ride-hailing service has seen all sorts of catastrophes — Questions have lingered over how thoroughly drivers are vetted
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Vimeo is pivoting away from being a video viewing destination, instead focusing on selling software tools to its community of millions of social creators — Vimeo, the 14-year-old video service that started as a platform for indie filmmakers, is changing its business to focus on selling software tools …
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MacRumors, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, and ClickZ
| Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: |
Facebook countersues BlackBerry, accusing it of infringing on Facebook's voice messaging technology and other patented processes — Facebook Inc. is suing BlackBerry Ltd. for patent infringement, escalating the legal battle between the two companies over protected technology.
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| Randall Lane / Forbes: |
Interview with Jeff Bezos on Amazon's strategy for growth, its advertising business, intentions in healthcare, and working “two or three years into the future” — I edit Forbes Magazine, and post on business, philanthropy—and food!
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Bernie Sanders debuts the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act, aiming to tax big firms based on government-provided welfare to staff — Bernie Sanders introduced a bill today that culminates weeks of feuding between the Vermont senator and Amazon …
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| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
A rogue version of file-hosting platform MEGA's Chrome extension was found to steal user passwords and private keys to cryptocurrency wallets — A rogue version of file-hosting platform MEGA's Chrome extension has triggered a major security alert from the company.
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ZDNet, MEGA, Inquirer, The Hacker News, Graham Cluley, Naked Security, BleepingComputer, Neowin, DataBreaches.net, The Next Web, and NewsBTC. Tweets: @serhack_
| John Carreyrou / Wall Street Journal: |
Theranos says it will formally dissolve, in an email to shareholders, and says it will seek to pay unsecured creditors its remaining cash in coming months — Firm, tarred by scandal, will pay creditors its remaining cash — Theranos Inc., the blood-testing company accused …
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Tweets: @scott_tobias, @robglaser, @gorskon, @jason, @swiftonsecurity, @mariosundar, @ddiamond, @wolfejosh, @harrymccracken, and @yashar
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Data search and analytics startup Elastic files for an IPO on NYSE, says it had revenue of $56.6M, up 79% YoY, in the latest quarter on a $18.6M loss — - The company said it doesn't have a partnership with Amazon, which has its own Elasticsearch service. — Elastic, a software developer … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Microsoft is making its redesigned Outlook app publicly available on the web and for Windows users in the Targeted program, after first being unveiled last fall — Microsoft first unveiled a redesign of its Outlook email app last fall, and now that visual overhaul for the software is available publicly starting today.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google is considering big changes to how URLs are displayed in Chrome so that web identity can be better understandable, plans to share ideas by next spring — GOOGLE'S CHROME BROWSER turns 10 today, and in its short life it has introduced a lot of radical changes to the web.
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Engadget, Android Authority, Domain Name Wire, Ars Technica, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @swiftonsecurity, @jarroddicker, @__apf__, and @bfrancis
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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Tweets: @__apf__, @backlon, @tomwarren, @dcseifert, and @wired
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
BitTorrent brings uTorrent Web, its web-based client that can play audio and video files before they are downloaded, out of beta — BitTorrent today launched a new BitTorrent client: uTorrent Web. Not to be confused with uTorrent (stylized as µTorrent), and despite what its name might suggest …
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The Official BitTorrent Blog, TorrentFreak, and BetaNews
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
CBS announces it will stream Super Bowl LIII on its sports website, its app for connected TV devices, and mobile apps without requiring a sign-in — CBS is determined to make the most of the NFL's loosened streaming rules. The broadcaster has revealed its streaming plans for Super Bowl LIII … | Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon says it is ordering 20,000 Mercedes-Benz vans to expand its Amazon-branded delivery fleet run by third-parties — Fleet operators will own the vehicles as part of a plan to have small businesses carry packages — Amazon.com Inc . AMZN -1.45% on Wednesday said it is ordering 20 …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Social live streaming startup Caffeine raises $100M led by 21st Century Fox, debuts a new joint venture, Caffeine Studios, to produce esports content and more — Social live streaming startup Caffeine continues to add to its war chest with a massive new round of funding led by 21st Century Fox … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google unveils Dataset Search, a search engine that will cover datasets from environmental and social sciences, government, and ProPublica-style news orgs — Dataset Search could be a scientist's best friend — Google's goal has always been to organize the world's information, and its first target was the commercial web.
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