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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 … | New York Times: |
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| 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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| 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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eMarketer forecast: Walmart to overtake Apple as No. 3 US online retailer by the end of 2018, after capturing 4.0% 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| Trustnodes: |
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.
| Erica X Eisen / Slate: |
How a website, Civil War Photo Sleuth, is helping historians and enthusiasts use facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs — Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs. — When Kurt Luther walked … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says HockeyApp, the beta-testing service for app developers it acquired in 2014, will fully transition to Visual Studio App Center on Nov. 16, 2019 — Microsoft has revealed that it is sunsetting HockeyApp, the beta-testing service for app developers, on November 16, 2019.| CNBC: |
Google says Diane Greene will step down as Google Cloud CEO in early 2019, will be replaced by Oracle's former president of product development Thomas Kurian — Diane Greene, who was hired three years ago to build Google's cloud-computing business, is being replaced in that job by former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian.
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