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Ex-CSO Alex Stamos says no one at Facebook ever told him not to examine Russian interference, but company's comms strategy of minimization and denial was wrong — Alex Stamos is a Hoover fellow and adjunct professor at Stanford University. He previously served as the chief security officer at Facebook until August.
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Silicon Valley's alliance with Democrats, already strained by issues like fake news and Cambridge Analytica, is at a breaking point after NYT's Facebook exposé — The alliance between Democrats and Silicon Valley has buckled and bent this year amid revelations that platforms like Facebook …
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| Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
YouTube quietly began showing ad-supported free feature-length movies in October, giving users access to around 100 titles including “The Terminator” — Streaming on a small screen near you: blockbuster fare like ‘Rocky’ and ‘Terminator’ — Last month, YouTube quietly began …
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| Tony Peng / Synced: |
Jia Li, R&D head of Google Cloud AI who also co-led Google's China AI Center in Beijing, has left the company to work full-time at Stanford University's AIMI — Head of R&D of Google Cloud AI Jia Li has left her position with the company. Li informed Synced in a text message yesterday … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Report: Facebook notified some Instagram users that a now-fixed bug in its data download tool sent their passwords in plaintext in a URL that the users received — According to The Information, Instagram has suffered a serious security leak of its own that could've exposed user's passwords.
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eMarketer forecast: Walmart to overtake Apple as No. 3 US online retailer by the end of 2018, after capturing 4% of all online retail spending, up 39.4% YoY — Big-box retailer has one of the fastest-growing online businesses — Heading into the fiercely competitive holiday shopping season …
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Crypto startup Amun says it has been given the green light to list the first crypto Exchange Traded Product on Switzerland's SIX Swiss Exchange — The world's first crypto Exchange Traded Product (ETP) is to start trading next week on Europe's fourth biggest exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, with a market capitalization of $1.6 trillion.| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft is now selling Amazon's Echo smart speakers from its retail and online stores — In yet another not-so-subtle indication that it is pushing Cortana aside for Amazon's digital personal assistant, Microsoft is now selling Echo smart speakers from its retail and online stores.| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
SEC settles with Paragon Coin and CarrierEQ, which agree to start filing audited financial reports and refund investors of 2017 ICOs who want their money back — Agreements require startups to comply with investor-protection rules — WASHINGTON—Two startups that raised money …
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| Brad Sams / Thurrott.com: |
Sources: Microsoft to release a disc-less Xbox in 2019 that will cost $200 or less, will let users trade in discs for digital game downloads — In the wake of the news that Sony will not be attending E3 next year, Microsoft's hardware plans for 2019 will likely be a huge win for the brand and for gamers.
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Alphabet's Verily says it's pausing its glucose-sensing contact lens project because, after four years of study, lenses didn't gauge blood sugar levels reliably — - In a show of transparency, Verily posted a blog post on Friday explaining why it is hitting the pause button on its glucose-sensing contact lens.| Mike Fleming / Deadline: |
Mythical Games has raised $16M Series A to build out its blockchain-based player-owned economies starting on a EOS blockchain — Next generation game technology studio Mythical Games has secured $16 Million in its Series-A round. The company builds IPs and a digital ecosystem around player-owned economies …
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