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Adam D'Angelo / The Quora Blog:
Quora says it discovered a data breach on Nov. 30 affecting about 100M users, exposing names, email addresses, hashed passwords, and other non-public content  —  We recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party.
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Sources: Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge as the default browser on Windows 10  —  Microsoft is throwing in the towel with Edge and is building a new web browser for Windows 10, this time powered by Chromium.  —  Microsoft's Edge web browser …
James Somers / New Yorker:
Profile of Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, the only Google Senior Fellows, who joined the company in 1999 and have pair-programmed some of its key infrastructure  —  Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company—and the Internet.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google to expand eSIM support for Pixel 3 to Sprint and carriers in Germany, the UK, and India in the coming months  —  With eSIM technology, users no longer have to manage the tiny-sized card thanks to all the necessary information becoming digitized.  Google today announced expanded eSIM support …
Nick Statt / The Verge:
DuckDuckGo study finds that Google personalizes search results even when logged out or using the private browsing incognito mode  —  A study, albeit from competitor DuckDuckGo, finds that Google search results can vary significantly  —  The amount of personalization inherent in any one of Google's …
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
Inside Google's Area 120, the company's in-house startup incubator founded in 2016 that has since greenlighted about 50 projects by Google employees  —  Google's “20% time“-the long-standing perk that invites employees to carve off a fifth of their working hours to devote to personal projects …
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
AOL owner Oath agrees to a ~$5M settlement over charges its ad exchange placed targeted ads on websites directed to kids, violating a federal privacy law  —  Oath, the owner of AOL and Yahoo, has agreed to pay about $5 million to settle charges from the New York attorney general …
Brad Sams / Petri:
Sources: Microsoft is working on Windows Lite, a super lightweight, instant on, always connected OS that runs only PWAs and UWP apps, to challenge Chrome OS  —  For more than a year, we have been hearing about Windows Core OS and how it is a modern version of Windows.
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat:
2018 State of European Tech report: funding reached a record $23B, all-male founders get 93% of capital, and almost 50% women suffer discrimination in workplace  —  The 2018 State of European Tech report, now in its fourth year, was released today.  Assembled by investment firm Atomico …
Thenmozhi Soundararajan / New York Times:
After Jack Dorsey's trip to India and encounter with the harassment Dalits face on Twitter, it's time to include minorities in talks of platform accountability  —  Dalits and other Indian gender, religious, tribal and ethnic minorities are regularly harassed on Twitter by right-wing troll armies.
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Review of $349 Nokia 7.1: has a sharp and colorful screen, snappy performance, and fast software updates due to Android One, making for a great value smartphone  —  But what's on the inside matters, too  —  What matters more: how a phone looks or how it performs?

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix is working on revised terms for its WBD acquisition and has discussed making its offer all cash for the studios and streaming businesses

Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
Source and memos: Politico is laying off 3% of staff, plans buyout offers for Magazine staffers, and more, and plans a subscription service for investment pros

Scott Nover / Washington Post:
A bipartisan bill agrees to provide $653M to USAGM, down from $867M in 2025, but over Trump's $153M request, as part of a package needing Congressional approval

More News

Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Google removes two apps from China's Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech from Google Play after internal investigation found they executed ad fraud via click injection
Thomas Wilde / GeekWire:
Valve, which used to take a 30% cut of all revenue on Steam, says it will now take a 25% cut for games with $10M-$50M in sales and just 20% for games with $50M+

Earlier Picks

Ryan Smith / AnandTech:
Nvidia announces a new $2,499 GPU called Titan RTX with 576 tensor cores, 24GB of GDDR6 memory, and the new Turing architecture, shipping later this month
Shannon Liao / The Verge:
Tumblr says it will permanently ban adult content from its platform beginning December 17
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Microsoft launches Al-powered real-time captions and subtitles for Skype and says PowerPoint will also get them in early 2019
Shara Tibken / CNET:
Samsung and Verizon will partner to release a 5G smartphone using Qualcomm processors in the first half of 2019, plan to show a concept device this week
Ian Sample / The Guardian:
DeepMind's latest AI program AlphaFold wins international competition with its algorithm predicting 3D shapes of proteins, beating 97 entrants
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