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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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| 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 … | Andrew Galbraith / Reuters: |
China approves the release of 80 video games, none of which are from Tencent, a week after lifting a nine-month freeze on approvals — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China on Saturday approved the release of 80 online video games after a freeze on such approvals for most of the year.
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| 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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| Julia Reda: |
European Commission to start offering bug bounties on 14 Free Software projects like Notepad++ and VLC that the EU institutions rely on — It's been a while since I last wrote about the Free and Open Source Software Audit project, FOSSA, so let me start with a quick recap that you can safely skip …
| 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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Tweets: @film_girl, @db, @benbajarin, @samsabri, and @devinkofsky
| Meher Ahmad / The Verge: |
Profiles of Arab women influencers, like the recently murdered Tara Fares, who are pushing boundaries in conservative societies while facing death threats — Middle Eastern women like Tara Fares hustle for followers and brands like any other influencers — but they risk being killed for it
Tweets: @erlichnatalie
| Al Jazeera: |
Bangladesh orders mobile operators to shut down high-speed mobile internet services to “prevent rumours and propaganda” ahead of national elections on Sunday — The country's telecom regulator say it ordered mobile operators to shut down 3G, 4G services until December 30 midnight.| Facebook: |
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.| Max Fisher / New York Times: |
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| 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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Tweets: @jchengwsj and @alastairgale
| 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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Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, The Drum, Benzinga, MarketWatch, and TechNode
Tweets: @wsj and @chinarealtime
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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Cloudflare:
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Zoho:
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
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