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Zuckerberg's WSJ op-ed and rumored push to unify messaging infrastructure across Facebook's apps may be signs of company's increased concern about regulation — It sure feels like regulation is coming for Facebook. — The threat of government regulation has been looming over Facebook …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
How satellite data startups like Orbital Insight and SpaceKnow track businesses, illegal mining, oil tankers, and more for clients like hedge funds and banks — SAN FRANCISCO — In October, the Chinese province of Guangdong — the manufacturing center on the southern coast that drives 12 percent …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Japan to let government employees hack into consumers' IoT devices with insecure passwords to identify vulnerabilities and prevent abuse during 2020 Olympics — Japanese government wants to secure IoT devices before Tokyo 2020 Olympics and avoid Olympic Destroyer and VPNFilter-like attacks.
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| Scott Shane / New York Times: |
Distributed Denial of Secrets, a WikiLeaks-like online repository launched last month by transparency advocates, publishes 175 GB of leaked Russian documents — A group of transparency advocates on Friday posted a mammoth collection of hacked and leaked documents from inside Russia …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
How the success of Netflix's Bird Box film, watched by ~58% of its user base in its first month, drives Netflix's virtuous cycle as an aggregator — Bird Box, the Netflix original film, started streaming on December 21 while I was on vacation.1 That perhaps explains why the majority … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
Pictures of what appear to be the two models of Samsung's Galaxy S10 leak, showing “Infinity-O” display, very thin bezels, USB-C port, and a headphone jack — Well, the leaks start coming and they don't stop coming — There's less than a month to go before Samsung unveils …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Illinois Supreme Court rules that companies can be sued for collecting biometric data without opt-in consent, even if no tangible injury was demonstrated — Privacy advocates won a crucial court victory on Friday, as the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed a case that would have pared …
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| Bradley Olson / Wall Street Journal: |
Home-energy management may become the next battleground for Google and Amazon, using devices like smart speakers and thermostats to track consumers' energy use — Tech companies look to expand their reach, reap consumer data as smart-home ecosystem expands
Tweets: @adamfeldman and @wsj
| Brookings: |
Report: small US cities, rural communities, and Rust Belt states most at risk of automated job replacement; men, younger workers, and minorities most vulnerable — Senior Research Analyst - Metropolitan Policy Program — Senior Research Assistant - Metropolitan Policy Program
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
| South China Morning Post: |
After a nine month freeze, Chinese regulators finally approve several game titles from Tencent and NetEase — - The State Administration of Press and Publications has now approved a total of 352 new game titles since March last year — Tencent Holdings and NetEase, which run China's … | Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Profile of David Carroll, whose two-year fight to reclaim his data from Cambridge Analytica has brought to light large questions around data privacy — David Carroll has been locked in a legal war to force the infamous company to turn over its files on him. He's won a battle, but the struggle continues.
Tweets: @wired, @nxthompson, @wired, and @nitya
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
tZERO, Overstock.com's security token trading platform which raised $134M in an ICO last August, went live on Thursday — Overstock.com's much-anticipated security token trading platform, tZERO, officially began trading Thursday afternoon. — The company announced in a press release … | Cate Cadell / Reuters: |
Inside Alibaba's futuristic 290-room FlyZoo hotel where it showcases its prowess in AI and incubates tech it wants to sell to the hospitality industry — HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Gliding silently through Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's futuristic “FlyZoo” hotel, black disc-shaped robots … Sponsor Posts
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