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Mark Zuckerberg posts a year-end overview on the issues that Facebook encountered in 2018 and its efforts to deal with them — For 2018, my personal challenge has been to focus on addressing some of the most important issues facing our community — whether that's preventing election interference …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Zuckerberg's tone-deaf year-end note reads like 1,000 words of patting himself on the back and shows little contrition or empathy for the harm Facebook caused — After the year Mark Zuckerberg's had, you'd think he'd struggle to appear so chipper. — “I'm proud of the progress we've made …
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| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
Netflix debuts its first choose-your-own-storyline movie, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, developed over 18 months using Twine, a game writing tool — BY NEARLY ANY measure, Netflix has had a ridiculous year. When all is said and done, the company will have spent upwards of $10 billion …
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| Kellen / Droid Life: |
Essential says it won't restock Essential Phone anymore, will still sell accessories and provide software updates and is focusing on its “next mobile product” — It wasn't the successful, industry-changing run we had all hoped for from the startup founded by Android creator Andy Rubin … | Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Netflix no longer allows new or returning users to pay for subscription through in-app purchase in its iOS app, requires them to sign up and pay via its website — Netflix is further distancing itself from Apple's iTunes tax bracket. Earlier this year, the streaming giant enabled iOS users …
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| Max Fisher / New York Times: |
Over 1,400 pages of leaked Facebook content rules for moderators reveal gaps, biases, and errors as Facebook tries to distill complex issues into yes/no rules — Under fire for stirring up distrust and violence, the social network has vowed to police its users. But leaked documents raise serious questions about its approach.
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Facebook responds to NYT report about its content moderation practices, says its policies are public and that it has about 15,000 content reviewers globally — Yesterday, The New York Times published an article about the the way we moderate content on Facebook.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
CenturyLink says all consumer services impacted by a ~32-hour outage that started on Thursday, including its 911 emergency services, have been restored — 911 emergency services in several states across the U.S. went down after a massive outage at a CenturyLink data center.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel on Snapchat's future, fighting with Facebook, Spectacles, and why he limits his kids' screen time — It only takes about 30 seconds of waiting in line at Nando's before somebody recognises Evan Spiegel. “You're not from Snapchat, are you?” a young man asks.
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| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
A bug Twitter downplayed in 2012 resurfaces as researchers hijack celebrity accounts to send tweets by using a UK mobile phone number tied to an account — Twitter is claiming to have resolved a bug that allowed a group of London-based security researchers to post unauthorized tweets … | Andrew Jeong / Wall Street Journal: |
South Korea says hackers stole data, including names and addresses, of 997 North Korean defectors; cybersecurity experts say likely culprit is North Korea — A likely culprit is North Korea, which attempts an estimated 1.5 million cyberattacks daily, or 17 every second
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| Shan Li / Wall Street Journal: |
JD.com to restructure JD Mall, the company's main revenue source, into three units after announcing $1B share buyback amid plunging stock price and CEO worries — JD Mall, the company's main revenue generator, will be restructured into three business departments
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