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Senate report: Instagram dwarfs all social networks, including Facebook, in Russia's IRA posts and engagements, yet FB 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 … | Washington Post: |
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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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French economy minister says the country will introduce its own digital tax, dubbed the “GAFA tax”, on large internet and technology companies on January 1 — In early December, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said France would give the EU until March to come up with a deal on taxing US internet giants.
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Facebook says its Clear History feature, which was announced at F8 2018, is taking longer than expected and should be ready for testing by spring 2019 — “It's taking longer than we initially had thought.” — Back in May, at the height of Facebook's Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal … | Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
In a major real-estate expansion in New York City, Google says it will invest $1B+ in a new 1.7M square foot campus in Hudson Square in Manhattan — Search giant joins Amazon, Apple in growing outside the West Coast; addition of 7,000 jobs a ‘conservative estimate’
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Profile of Stanford computer scientist Donald Knuth, author of The Art of Computer Programming, a bible of its field with more than one million copies in print — Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.”
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Sources: T-Mobile has won approval from CFIUS for its planned takeover of Sprint; deal still needs FCC and DOJ approval — Combination of wireless rivals still needs approval from U.S. antitrust officials — T-Mobile US Inc. TMUS -1.28% won approval from U.S. national-security officials … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
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.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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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North, an Ontario-based company that makes the $999 Focals AR glasses, acquires the IP and tech behind Intel's canceled Vaunt AR glasses — The Focals AR glasses should ship ‘very shortly’ — North, the company behind the Focals AR glasses, has acquired the “technology portfolio” …
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Babylon Health has claimed its AI bot is as good at diagnosing as human doctors, but sources say the AI's development was rushed and effectiveness exaggerated — ate one Friday evening in December 2017, a group of worried Babylon Health doctors sat down for a meeting with Ali Parsa … Thanks:@bizcarson
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