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Internal docs show Facebook gave ~150 companies access to more user data than disclosed; some could read private DMs; Facebook says it didn't violate FTC decree — Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people's data than it has disclosed.
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Facebook says it shared data with integration partners only when users signed in with their Facebook accounts, to access features on other platforms, devices — Today, we're facing questions about whether Facebook gave large tech companies access to people's information and, if so, why we did this.
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| Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo: |
Even with location tracking turned off, Facebook uses IP addresses, check-ins, and cities on profiles to approximate user locations for ads and other services — Aleksandra Korolova has turned off Facebook's access to her location in every way that she can.
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Google repeatedly pushes the web in a proprietary direction to improve its services on Chrome making Microsoft's adoption of Chromium a loss for the open web — Analysis: Microsoft adopting Chromium puts the Web in a perilous place. — With Microsoft's decision to end development …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft announces Windows Sandbox, a desktop environment for running apps in isolation, for users running Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise build 18301 and later — Microsoft's coming ‘Windows Sandbox’ feature is a lightweight virtual machine that allow users to run potentially suspicious software in isolation.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
NASA reveals data breach of employee information including Social Security numbers in October; scope of breach and number of impacted employees still unclear — Hack took place in October 2018. Agency still doesn't know the number of impacted employees. — The US National Aeronautics …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Nvidia researchers show how far AI image generation has advanced in recent years in creating realistic and customizable faces — Those people on the right aren't real; they're the product of machine learning — Developments in artificial intelligence move at a startling pace — so much so that it's often difficult to keep track.| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Hackers steal personal data including credit card information of ~300K people across 46 cities, using a vulnerability in government payment software Click2Gov — Paying parking tickets or municipal water taxes is never fun—and it's even worse when hackers have compromised your town's payment system.| Mallory Locklear / Engadget: |
Facebook posts a six-month update on its civil rights audit: 2018 changes included voting encouragement and banning voting disinformation — In May, Facebook agreed to conduct a civil rights audit, and now the company has released an update of its progress.
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Match fires Tinder comms VP Rosette Pambakian, others; emails show Pambakian blames lawsuit, CEO says Pambakian's refusal to talk without lawyer led to firing — The Verge obtained an email exchange between her and Match's CEO — Multiple Tinder employees who sued the dating app's parent company … | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Blythe Masters, CEO of blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings and a former JPMorgan executive, will step down as CEO but remain on its board — Blythe Masters left her job as a high-flying JPMorgan Chase executive in 2014, and soon after became CEO of Digital Asset, a blockchain startup that caters to banks and startups.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Blockstream expands its satellite service, which lets users transfer bitcoin through leased satellites, to Asia Pacific and adds support for lightning payments — Bitcoin users' ability to send transactions through outer space has just been given a boost. — Blockchain technology firm …
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| Yuan Yang / Financial Times: |
In leaked memo, Chinese bike sharing startup Ofo's founder says it is facing immense cash flow pressure and has considered applying for bankruptcy — Ofo, the Alibaba-backed bike-sharing service, has “immense” cash flow problems and has considered applying for bankruptcy, according to the company's founder.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Anthony Levandowski launches self-driving truck startup Pronto.ai, which plans to ship level 2 automated driving systems in 2019 starting at $4,999 — Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer and serial entrepreneur who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo …
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| Emily Dreyfuss / Wired: |
Amnesty International calls Twitter a “toxic place for women” in a study of 288,000 tweets aimed at 778 female journalists and politicians from the US and UK — FOR MANY WOMEN, especially journalists, politicians, and other public figures, Twitter is something to endure.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Zwift, which turns indoor cycling workouts into multiplayer games, raises $120M Series B led by Highland Europe — Fitness and gaming have been two of the most popular categories of apps for years, and now a startup founded out of London that has combined the two in a unique way has picked … | Guru Gowrappan / Verizon: |
On January 8, Oath, which was created from Verizon's acquisitions of Yahoo and AOL, will be rebranded as Verizon Media Group — Verizon Media Group will replace the Oath brand, representing our strong alignment as a core pillar of Verizon's business. — I'm excited today to share …
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| Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg: |
Public blockchain network Waves Platform raises $120M led by financial services firm Dolfin as it rolls out its Vostok system aimed at companies and governments — - Russian engineer Ivanov aims to compete with IBM's Hyperledger — Large firms mistrust security of open blockchains: Ivanov
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