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Jeff Bezos' security chief says his investigation concluded with high confidence that Saudi Arabia “had access to Bezos' phone, and gained private information” — The National Enquirer's lawyer tried to get me to say there was no hacking. — For 40 years, I've advised …
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| Mark Zuckerberg / Washington Post: |
Mark Zuckerberg calls for global regulations in four areas: policing harmful content, election integrity, a GDPR-like privacy framework, and data portability — Mark Zuckerberg is founder and chief executive of Facebook. — Technology is a major part of our lives, and companies such as Facebook have immense responsibilities.| TechCrunch: |
Zuckerberg's op-ed on regulations rings somewhat hollow because Facebook can already make plenty of improvements in the areas mentioned without government help — It's been a busy day for Facebook exec op-eds. Earlier this morning, Sheryl Sandberg broke the site's silence around the Christchurch massacre … | Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook is exploring restrictions on who can go Live depending on factors such as prior Community Standard violations after Christchurch — Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg outlined three steps that the company is taking
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
How Instagram became the default way some connect with new friends: it's more casual than LinkedIn, while offering more info and less risk than phone numbers — The app has become the default way to connect with new friends, dates, or business contacts. — When Chris Rackliffe …
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| Alison Griswold / Quartz: |
Rakuten's stake in Lyft is now worth $2.46B, GM's $1.46B, Fidelity's $1.45B, a16z's $1.18B, Alphabet's $924M, Logan Green's $655M, and John Zimmer's $452M — Lyft might not be making any money, but its investors and executives certainly are. — Shares of Lyft Inc. gained 8.7% on their first-ever …
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| Anna Hensel / Digiday: |
A look at Pinterest's efforts to position itself as the platform at the top of the purchasing funnel, challenges with the “buy button”, ads, and visual search — Pinterest's imminent IPO raises new questions about how big of a role the platform will play in the future of social commerce.| Alex W. Palmer / Wired: |
A behind-the-scenes account of how a member of TripAdvisor's anti-fraud team helped the FCC track down a Florida man accused of making 96M+ illegal robocalls — BRAD YOUNG, A lawyer at TripAdvisor, arrived at the company's offices in Needham, Massachusetts, on October 12, 2015 …
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb says around $13M in the EOS cryptocurrency has been stolen in a hack it suspects was an insider job — South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has had around $13 million in the EOS cryptocurrency stolen in a hack it suspects was an insider job.
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| Dan Bilefsky / New York Times: |
A profile of AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, a co-recipient of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, who says he supports regulating AI, including a ban on “killer robots” — MONTREAL — Yoshua Bengio is worried that innovations in artificial intelligence that he helped pioneer could lead to a dark future …
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| Kana Inagaki / Financial Times: |
Line names founder Shin Jungho as co-CEO to drive the Asian chat app's expansion from ads into payments, banking, and other fintech businesses — Mark Zuckerberg recently outlined a strategy that would see the future of Facebook in private messaging. Shin Jungho, the reclusive founder … | Will Oremus / Slate: |
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