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Google says it has shut down 210 YouTube channels after it found they had been tied to misinformation about Hong Kong protesters — KEY POINTS — In a blog post Thursday, Google said it axed more than 200 YouTube channels due to misinformation around Hong Kong protests.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Chrome team proposes new privacy and anti-fingerprinting open standard to make it harder for marketers and advertisers to track users across the web — Google today announced a new long-term initiative that, if fully realized, will make it harder for online marketers and advertisers to track you across the web.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: News Corp is developing a news-aggregation service called Knewz, to address publisher concerns about Google and Facebook — Knewz.com will surface articles from hundreds of news sources, using software and human curation — News Corp is developing a news-aggregation service meant …
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| James Loke Hale / Tubefilter: |
Report: Facebook has pushed Instagram into doubling the number of ads since last year; Instagram is testing two back-to-back ads in Stories — Instagram is about to get even more ads. — Beginning this week, the platform is running a test with what it told AdWeek is a “small percentage” of users.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
VMWare to acquire cybersecurity company Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B — KEY POINTS — VMware is acquiring Carbon Black, a cybersecurity company that went public in 2018, the companies announce as part of VMware's quarterly earnings report.
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Overstock CEO Partick Byrne has resigned from the e-commerce company after his comments about being involved in a “Deep State” investigation of 2016 election — - Overstock CEO Partick Byrne has resigned from the e-commerce company after making controversial comments about his role in the “Deep State.”| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Bose announces the $349 Portable Home Speaker with WiFi and Bluetooth and support for Google Assistant, Alexa, AirPlay 2, and Spotify Connect — Preempting Sonos' leaked Move speaker announcement next week — Bose just announced a surprise product: the Portable Home Speaker …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
DoorDash announces a new tipping policy that will let drivers keep 100% of tips, rolling out next month, and pledges to bump up base pay across the board — The changes are arriving a month after DoorDash's CEO promised to address the issue — DoorDash today announced more concrete details …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
HP says its CEO Dion Weisler will step down and Enrique Lores, president of HP's imaging, printing, and solutions business, will become new CEO from November 1 — KEY POINTS — HP CEO Dion Weisler will step down from the company “due to a family health matter,” HP announced Thursday.
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| Alison Frankel / Reuters: |
Oracle board committee recommends court to proceed with the shareholder lawsuit against Larry Ellison and Safra Catz over the $9.3B NetSuite acquisition in 2016 — (Reuters) - Shareholder derivative suits exist because corporate directors can't always be trusted to put aside their own interests …
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Interviews with 36+ DOD and tech officials shed light on tech giants' fight for $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract using backdoor lobbying and an advisory board — Tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt have gotten unprecedented access to the Pentagon. And one whistleblower who raised flags has paid the price.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Photos can now search for text that appears in user images with its optical character recognition filter — Google Lens has a powerful optical character recognition (OCR) filter that can pull text from any image. Available in Google Photos, the backup service this month is adding the ability to search for text in images.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Sources: new data dump of 5.3M+ credit card accounts is linked to compromised gas pumps, coffee shops, and restaurants operated by Hy-Vee supermarket chain — On Tuesday of this week, one of the more popular underground stores peddling credit and debit card data stolen from hacked merchants announced … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon buys a 49% stake in Future Coupons, which, filings show, may be worth ~$104M, giving Amazon a 3.58% stake in India's No. 2 retail chain Future Retail — Amazon, which has invested more than $6 billion in India's growing internet market, just invested a little more as it moves to expand … | Washington Post: |
Palantir's revenue from US government contracts under Trump surpassed its total under Obama's second term, as sources describe staff debates about work with ICE — After Google dropped a defense contract over employee pressure, Palantir's leaders doubled down on controversial work with the U.S. government
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Girls Who Code study of 1,000 young women highlights the challenges faced when seeking internships, often an unpleasant experience in a male-dominated workplace — IN 2018, MEI'LANI Eyre, an 18-year-old computer science student at Cascadia College in Washington state, was in the middle … | Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, and seven other US carriers announce an agreement with 51 attorneys general to implement new tech to block robocalls — Twelve of the country's largest telephone companies on Thursday pledged to implement new technology to spot and block robocalls …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
As Microsoft moves Lynda.com users to LinkedIn Learning, libraries protest the requirement for patrons to create a LinkedIn profile, citing privacy concerns — As students and faculty return to school, many are discovering Lynda.com content is now only offered via LinkedIn Learning.
Tweets: @hiep_co
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Research covering two states, Missouri and Virginia, finds ~38% of rural homes and businesses that the FCC counts as having broadband access actually do not — The FCC likely counts millions of unserved homes as having broadband. — A new broadband mapping system is starting to show …
Tweets: @hypervisible and @gretabyrum
| Sameer Samat / The Keyword: |
Google stops using dessert-themed names for Android for better worldwide accessibility, names Android Q Android 10, and refreshes Android brand logo and color — Over the last decade, Android's open platform has created a thriving community of manufacturers and developers that reach a global audience with their devices and apps.
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