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| Siva Vaidhyanathan / New York Times: |
Vetting political ads effectively and consistently at global scale is impossible; Congress should restrict ad targeting to the level of an electoral district — It's not about free speech. — Siva Vaidhyanathan is a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
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| Darla Mercado / CNBC: |
Brian Chesky says Airbnb will ban “party houses” after five people died in a shooting at a Halloween party in a California home rented through the service — - Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, tweeted on Saturday that the company would bar “party houses” and step up its efforts against unauthorized parties.
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| New York Times: |
Trump has integrated Twitter into the fabric of his administration, reshaping the presidency with ~12,000 tweets while in office, lately posting even more often — With a single tweet last fall, Mr. Trump sent his administration into a tailspin. “I must, in the strongest of terms …
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| Gaurav Shukla / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
Global smartphone shipments in Q3 grew 2% YoY according to Strategy Analytics, while Canalys estimates 1% increase, bucking a two-year downward trend — Samsung grabbed the top spot with over 78 million smartphone shipments in Q3 2019. — HIGHLIGHTS — Global smartphone shipments bucked … | Wall Street Journal: |
Evan Spiegel on Snap's turnaround, how Snapchat's controversial redesign, after few fixes, increased the time users spend on premium content, Facebook, more — As the company turns a corner, the CEO says Snapchat's controversial redesign is paying off — Last year, Snap Inc. Chief Executive …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Android bug impacting all Android 8 or later devices lets hackers plant malware via NFC beaming and circumvent the installation security prompt; patch available — All Android 8 (Oreo) or later devices are impacted. Google released a patch last month, in October 2019.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils a new logo for Edge Chromium, ahead of the release of the final version of the browser — The new icon is a wave surfing the web — Microsoft is refreshing the logo for its Chromium-based Edge browser. The software giant originally unveiled its Edge icon more than four years ago …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers spot the first successful attack using Windows BlueKeep vulnerability; the exploit is not a worm and installs cryptominers, instead of ransomware — After months of warnings, the first successful attack using Microsoft's BlueKeep vulnerability has arrived—but isn't nearly as bad as it could have been.
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| Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading — Jim Simons was a middle-aged mathematician in a strip mall who knew little about finance. He had to overcome his own doubts to turn Wall Street on its head.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Unprotected database for popular “camgirl” sites run by Spain-based VTS Media exposed months worth of user activity logs and chats, details about sex workers — A number of popular “camgirl” sites have exposed millions of sex workers and users after the company running the sites left the back-end database unprotected.| Financial Times: |
Emotion recognition systems, already installed in Xinjiang, have started rolling out across China even as experts say the tech does not work very well — Emotion recognition was the crime prevention buzz-phrase on everyone's lips this week at China's largest surveillance tech expo, held in the southern tech hub of Shenzhen.| David Nield / Gizmodo: |
A look at six apps that Google has released as part of its Digital Wellbeing initiative: Paper Phone, Post Box, Desert Island, Morph, We Flip, and Unlock Clock — We know that we're all spending too much time glued to our phones, rather than looking at the person we're talking to …
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