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Senate report: Instagram dwarfs all social networks in Russia's IRA posts and engagements, yet Facebook execs have not been upfront about this — - Document prepared for Senate Intelligence evaluates posts — Instagram tops Facebook in IRA posts and unique engagements
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NAACP returns a donation from Facebook and calls for a daylong boycott of it on Dec. 18 after Senate report detailed how FB was used to manipulate black voters — The NAACP has returned a donation from Facebook and called for a daylong boycott of the social network Tuesday following revelations …
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Sources: Google's plan for a censored search engine for China “effectively ended” after infighting, with a data analysis operation key to Dragonfly shuttering — Google has been forced to shut down a data analysis system it was using to develop a censored search engine for China …
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Coinbase is rolling out Coinbase Convert, which enables crypto-to-crypto trading for its retail customers via its website and mobile apps, in the coming days — Coinbase users can begin trading cryptocurrencies directly with other cryptocurrencies, the exchange startup said Monday.
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Former far right extremists recall how they were radicalized by YouTube as teenagers because of its algorithm that keeps surfacing extremist content — Former extremists say they were sucked in by propaganda as teenagers, thanks to an algorithm's dark side.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
DoD report finds unpatched flaws and a lack of data encryption, intrusion detection, and multifactor authentication mechanisms in US ballistic missile systems — DOD report finds no antivirus, no data encryption, no multifactor authentication. — No data encryption, no antivirus programs …
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Twitter fixes flaw in support form that leaked users' phone number country codes and other info, after noticing excessive queries from Chinese and Saudi IPs — Twitter accidentally exposed the ability to pull an account's phone number country code and whether the account had been locked by Twitter.
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Indian ride hailing service Ola invests $100M in scooter rental startup Vogo, which operates in Bangalore and Hyderabad — We're familiar with Uber cozying up to scooter startups — it has bought one and invested in another — but over in India, the U.S. firm's key rival is hatching …
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Google introduces a new G Suite feature in beta that will enable non-G Suite users to collaborate on files as visitors, using PINs — Soon, people without Google accounts will be able to view, comment, suggest edits to, and directly edit Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files.
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AR startup Blippar enters administration after an alleged dispute over funding, months after raising $37M — Blippar, an augmented reality start-up that once claimed to be one of the UK's few “unicorns”, has appointed administrators after an alleged dispute over funding.
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UK-based Graphcore, which makes machine learning chips, raises $200M from investors including Atomico, Sofina, BMW, and Microsoft, valuing the company at $1.5B — The UK-based chipmaker Graphcore has raised $200m in a new funding round from investors including Microsoft and BMW, valuing the company at $1.5bn.| Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
Oracle reports Q2 revenue of $9.56B, vs. $9.52B est., net profit of $2.3B, up 5% YoY, and cloud services revenue of $6.64B, up 3% YoY; stock up 5%+ after hours — Company has used its cash pile to raise stock buybacks — Oracle Corp. ORCL -1.87% reported flat revenue for its latest quarter …
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