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| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
Inside the cutthroat world of Amazon's Marketplace, where sellers live in fear of getting suspended and use Amazon's rules against each other — “These schemes really require the mind of someone whose depravity knows no bounds.”
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| Slack: |
Slack apologizes, says it has restored access to most of the accounts it has mistakenly blocked while trying to comply with US trade sanctions — Two days ago, we updated our system for applying location information to comply with U.S. trade embargoes and economic sanctions regulations.
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| Owen Williams / Charged: |
As social media becomes ever more toxic, Fortnite has become the new social network and a place to hangout where you go to talk to friends — I've played a lot of Fortnite this year, and I was struggling to understand why I liked the game so much. It's fun to play, but usually I get bored …
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
A timeline of Facebook's scandals in 2018 lists 31 entries, showing the company faced a major problem, on average, every 12 days this year — Mark Zuckerberg began the year promising that he would fix Facebook. He didn't, and 2018 has only presented more problems.
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Wired, The Guardian, CNN, Vox, Boing Boing, and Electronic Frontier Foundation
Tweets: @profgalloway, @daveyalba, @stephaniemlee, @ilvestoomas, @mat, @rmac18, and @rmac18
| KNSD-TV: |
The San Diego Unified School District says a phishing attack exposed personal info of 500K+ students and staff, including full names, addresses, and SSNs — Student records from 2008 up to the present are impacted, district officials told NBC 7 — 500K Student Records Compromised in SDUSD Data Breach
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| Rani Molla / Recode: |
More than half of top 50 shows on Netflix, by one measure, are owned by others like Disney, NBCU, and WarnerMedia, which are planning rival streaming services — Fortunately for the streaming giant, its own shows are popular too. — Many of Netflix's most popular shows are owned by companies that plan to compete with Netflix.| Washington Post: |
Facebook suspends five accounts, including one belonging to the head of research firm New Knowledge, for spreading disinformation during Alabama Senate race — Facebook has suspended Jonathon Morgan, the chief executive of a top social-media research firm, after reports that he and others engaged …
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Tweets: @corybe, @edbott, @cwarzel, @chrizap, and @mattbinder
| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Facebook has forfeited trust to the point that people see nefarious motives in any misstep, as some overblown reactions to Spotify and Netflix integrations show — Facebook may or may not have lost its handle on our data. But it has definitely lost its handle on the public narrative—and the benefit of the doubt.
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New York Times, Lifehacker, Columbia Journalism Review, Digital Trends, Techonomy, Techdirt, Washington Post, BestVPN.com, Motherboard, The Parallax, Infosecurity.US, and The Guardian
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| MIT Technology Review: |
How Shenzhen-based companies are branching out from making just hardware to making sophisticated products that combine hardware with software and AI — Shenzhen flooded the world with cheap gadgets. Can it now become what Silicon Valley never did—a global hub of innovation, entrepreneurship, and manufacturing?
Tweets: @tanayj and @yangyang_cheng
| Steven Loeb / VatorNews: |
ACV Auctions, a Buffalo-based online platform for used car dealers to view, bid, and purchase cars wholesale, raises a $93M Series D led by Bain and Bessemer — ACV Auctions will use the funding to continue to expand to new markets across the country — Financial trends and news by Steven Loeb| Naomi Nix / Bloomberg: |
Inside the bitter fight over a $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract, which Amazon seems set to win: a 33-page anti-Amazon dossier and shady social media campaign — A salacious dossier, a mystery client with an alias, dueling allegations of sexual misconduct.
Tweets: @paulaedwyer, @profschooner, @profschooner, and @nsnix87
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
A review of websites of the global top 100 companies by market value finds only 5% have listed a CISO or a CSO in their executive leadership pages — Virtually all companies like to say they take their customers' privacy and security seriously, make it a top priority, blah blah.
Tweets: @briankrebs and @harshilshah1910
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