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| Daniel Lippman / Politico: |
Sources: Zuckerberg recently hosted off-the-record dinners with conservative figures like Tucker Carlson and Lindsey Graham to discuss free speech, partnerships — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hosting informal talks and small, off-the-record dinners with conservative journalists …
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| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Apple says its Tencent partnership to flag malicious sites for Safari users only applies to mainland China; hashes of URL prefixes and IP addresses are shared — Apple and China have a complicated relationship and situation that's exploded in the news over the last week. (Much more on that in a future column.)
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| Mohit Kumar / The Hacker News: |
A flaw in Sudo, which is installed on almost every Linux OS, could let users run commands as “root” even when they are restricted; patched version now available — Attention Linux Users! — A vulnerability has been discovered in Sudo—one of the most important, powerful …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is testing content filters for messages on Xbox Live to block toxicity, initially with four levels of text-based filtering; voice filters are planned — Microsoft is starting to test new content filters for its Xbox Live messaging system today in an effort to thwart toxicity on its platform.
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| Riley MacLeod / Kotaku: |
Fortnite has been down for over a day, as players speculate about what's next after having their maps sucked into a black hole, following the Season 10 event — After weeks of anticipation, Fortnite's big Season 10 event happened. Was the wait worth it? Yes.
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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Amazon turned off its Add-On program in recent months, making low-priced items, as little as $0.75, available to Prime customers with free one-day shipping — And what about the environment? — As Amazon has grown from an online bookstore into an everything store, it has tackled product category … | MacRumors: |
Kuo: “iPhone SE 2” will have 3GB RAM, 64GB and 128GB storage options, won't have 3D Touch, and will be priced from $399 — Apple is planning on releasing an iPhone SE 2 in the first quarter of 2020 and starting at a $399 price point, according to the latest research report from reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
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| Financial Times: |
US private equity group Thoma Bravo agrees to buy British cybersecurity company Sophos for £3.1B — US private equity group Thoma Bravo has agreed a $3.9bn deal to buy the cyber security company Sophos, removing another British technology stalwart from the public markets.
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Source: Paytm is close to raising $2B in funding from Ant Financial and SoftBank, at a valuation of $16B — - India's top fintech firm is angling for a $16 billion value — Paytm is raising funds to fight Facebook, Google and Walmart — Indian fintech giant Paytm is close …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts the preview of its Project xCloud game streaming service for Xbox users in the US, UK, and Korea, initially with four games for Android devices — Available in the US, UK, and Korea initially — Microsoft is officially launching its Project xCloud preview today for Xbox users in the US, UK, and Korea.| Reuters: |
Libra loses Booking Holdings' support, but continues with association draft laws at Geneva meeting, appoints members from a16z, Xapo, PayU, more to its board — LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Backers of Facebook Inc's (FB.O) Libra cryptocurrency project pledged to forge ahead after selecting … | Will Oremus / OneZero: |
Inside Pinterest's efforts to avoid rivals' algorithm-related issues as it rolls out Home Feed Tuner, which lets users edit their activity history and interests — Inside the company's powerful recommendations tool — and its efforts to avoid the scandals facing its rivals
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