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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is trying a new approach to limit the distribution of deepfakes, argues that the definition is too broad and needs to be scoped — Mark Zuckerberg signaled today that Facebook might be taking a different approach to so-called deepfakes, synthetic videos created through …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg says weak US response to 2016 Russian election interference sent a signal to the world, and similar activity has increased from Iran and others — KEY POINTS — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the U.S.'s weak response to 2016 Russian election interference has inspired …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon launches Counter, its package pickup service, in the US, starting with 100 Rite Aid stores; it will expand to 1,500 locations by the end of the year — Amazon is teaming up with national drugstore Rite Aid as part of a new package pickup service that further expands the tech giant's logistics network.
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| Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
YouTube gives users a “don't recommend channel” option and a way to pick topics of interest for videos showing in Up Next or homepage, now on iOS and Android — No matter how advanced algorithms get, none will understand your YouTube viewing preferences better than you.
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| Bloomberg: |
Author credits on research papers reveal that several Huawei employees have collaborated on research projects with Chinese armed forces personnel — - Huawei says research was not authorized by the company — Employees collaborated on AI and communications with military
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| Karl Bode / VICE: |
Researchers demonstrate how the US Wireless Emergency Alert system, which uses LTE networks, can be easily spoofed with “pirate” cell towers to cause mass panic — With a pirate cell tower, it's easy to send fake emergency alerts warning of a terrorist attack, nuclear bomb, or other disaster.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC gives Verizon permission to lock cell phones to its network for 60 days after activation, despite open-access rules applying to Verizon's 700MHz spectrum — Verizon, seeking to deter theft, gets FCC waiver to lock phones for 60 days. — Verizon yesterday received the government's permission …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
EU expert panel recommends that EU should ban AI-based social credit scoring and limit mass surveillance — New recommendations have also been criticized as lacking enforceability — A group of policy experts assembled by the EU has recommended that it ban the use of AI for mass surveillance and mass …
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| Zoe Schiffer / INSIDER: |
Report: ecommerce startup Brandless has hired John Rittenhouse as CEO after Tina Sharkey resigned in March amid tensions with SoftBank, which has a 40% stake — - In March, Tina Sharkey stepped down as CEO of Brandless, the direct-to-consumer retailer of “unbranded” household items.
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| Polina Marinova / Fortune: |
A profile of Jeff Jordan, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, who became a VC in his fifties and invested early in Airbnb, Instacart, and Pinterest — How Jeff Jordan is applying what he learned during his time at Disney, eBay, and OpenTable to help founders at Airbnb, Pinterest, and Instacart.
Tweets: @polina_marinova, @katiebaynes, @manuelabarcenas, @karanortman, @mikeslagh, @chrisfralic, @felixsalmon, @mrp, and @cquarles
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Twitch launches beta of Subscriber Streams, which will let Twitch streamers who are Twitch Affiliates or Twitch Partners offer subscriber-only streams — A potentially useful tool for big events — Twitch is giving its well-behaved streamers a chance to offer a new …
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Google, UChicago, and its medical center sued in a lawsuit accusing the hospital of sharing hundreds of thousands of identifiable patient records with Google — SAN FRANCISCO — When the University of Chicago Medical Center announced a partnership to share patient data with Google in 2017 …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
ARM confirms that its lead CPU and system architect, Mike Filippo, has joined Apple; Filippo's LinkedIn says he began work in May out of Austin, Texas — Multiple reports have indicated that Apple plans to transition to its own ARM-based processors in Macs starting as early as 2020 …
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Tweets: @elkmovie, @seldo, @hkitago, and @benbajarin
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Less than a week after ransomware victim Riviera City paid ~$600K, another Florida town, Lake City, votes to pay ~$500K in BTC to ransomware hackers — Lake City officials give in and agree to pay nearly $500,000 to ransomware gang. — Less than a week after a first Florida city agreed …
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| Biz Carson / Forbes: |
Corporate travel booking startup TripActions raises $250M Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $4B valuation, four times its previous November valuation — TripActions got off the ground by gamifying corporate travel and rewarding customers who chose cheaper hotel rooms with cash for personal travel or Amazon gift cards.Sponsor Posts
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