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FTC says AT&T has agreed to pay $60M to settle the agency's 2014 lawsuit that alleged it lied to customers about “unlimited” data plans that it throttled — Unlimited should mean unlimited! — On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced that AT&T will pay $60 million to settle a case with the agency.
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| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Sources: Zuckerberg remains open to some ideas about how to control political ads, including limiting the ability of candidates to microtarget users — Banning microtargeting has the support of Ellen Weintraub, chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission, which regulates how money is raised and spent in elections.
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Civil rights leaders from 10 groups dined with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Nick Clegg to discuss Facebook's political ad rules and more — Activists are hopeful they're getting through to the Facebook chief.
Tweets: @slpng_giants and @smac0905
| Yaël Eisenstat / Washington Post: |
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New York Times, Business Insider, CNBC, and Tara McGowan
| Brandon Kochkodin / Bloomberg: |
Users on Reddit say they have discovered a flaw in Robinhood's system that lets them trade stocks with excess borrowed funds, essentially free money — A glitch in the Robinhood Markets Inc. system is allowing users to trade stocks with excess borrowed funds, giving them access to what amounts to free money.
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Yahoo Finance, CNBC, Zero Hedge, Business Insider, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @bdkoepke, @jacobcanfield, @thestalwart, @alex, and @joshconstine
| Washington Post: |
Overview of TikTok's evolving censorship approach: ex-US staff say Chinese bosses set rules on videos with heavy kissing, political topics, subversive content — Managers insist they are revamping policies to give American staff greater autonomy from Beijing.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google promises one more update coming in December for the original Google Pixel, which will then be past its three-year security update support window — Pour one out for Pixel — The Google Pixel and Pixel XL will get “one final software update” in December, the company confirms to The Verge.
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Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Digital Trends, XDA Developers, Android Police, Droid Life, Lifehacker, Ars Technica, Liliputing, and Thurrott. Tweets: @barbarakrasnoff
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Kaspersky identifies DarkUniverse, an APT that had been active from 2009 but went silent after a mention in Shadow Brokers' 2017 leak, and details 20 victims — The NSA had superior insight into foreign nation-state hacking operations than many cyber-security vendors.
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CyberScoop, Securelist, Ars Technica, and Security Affairs
Tweets: @jeffstone500, @campuscodi, and @k_sec
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Xiaomi unveils the CC9 Pro, featuring a 108MP camera with 5x optical zoom, 6.47" AMOLED display, 5,260mAh battery, and Android 9, available in China for ~$400 — The CC9 Pro has five rear cameras — Xiaomi has been teasing the idea for a few months now, and it's finally here: the CC9 Pro …
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
Google, non-profit lowRISC, and others debut OpenTitan, a project for open sourced “root of trust” chip designs, aiming for more secure, auditable datacenters — As soon as the power turns on, hackers can gain an advantage. — The cloud runs the world.
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ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @kennwhite, @pinboard, @howelloneill, @dcuthbert, and @jckichen
| Jennifer Langston / Microsoft: |
Microsoft teams up with Warner Bros to store and retrieve the 1978 movie Superman on a piece of glass as a proof of concept test for Project Silica research — Microsoft and Warner Bros. have collaborated to successfully store and retrieve the entire 1978 iconic “Superman” …
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Variety, The Verge, TechSpot, bit-tech.net, Pureinfotech, WinBuzzer, Geek.com, Windows Central, Redmond, GeekWire, Gizmodo, PCWorld, Windows Central, BGR, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @imbrandonbrown, @amianet, @msftresearch, @lindydonna, @markrussinovich, @matvelloso, and @umerazad
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Facebook Portal TV review: big screen video chatting feels futuristic and, with Alexa built in, the device is compelling enough at $149 but unlikely to be a hit — Facebook's new Portal TV video chat device won't do much to take away share from Apple Inc., Roku Inc. or Amazon in the TV space.
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CNET, BuzzFeed News, CNBC, and Engadget
Tweets: @cnet, @meganwollerton, @markgurman, and @cnet
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla is working to fix a Firefox bug being actively exploited by scammers, which causes the browser to lock up after displaying a warning message — Fraudulent tech-support sites cause Firefox to freeze while displaying scary message. — Scammers are actively exploiting a bug in Firefox …
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BleepingComputer, Tom's Hardware, iPhone in Canada Blog, BetaNews, and AskWoody
| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Data brokers like Sift and Kustomer, which share consumers' est. lifetime value with companies, now share it with customers on request due to new privacy laws — Little-known companies are amassing your data — like food orders and Airbnb messages — and selling the analysis to clients.
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Axios, The Verge, and Observer
Tweets: @kashhill, @craigmod, @meslackman, @jillruthcarlson, @carnage4life, @kashhill, @thatandromeda, @staradvertiser, @nytimes, @blm849, @dhh, @sub8u, @kimzetter, @nxthompson, and @privacyproject
| New York Times: |
A warrant granted in Florida this July let a detective override GEDmatch's privacy rules to search a database of 1.2M users; experts say it may set a precedent — Privacy experts say it could set a precedent, opening up all consumer DNA sites to law enforcement agencies across the country.
Tweets: @tsdower, @privacyproject, @kashhill, @michaelroston, @ericajoy, @richfelker, and @kashhill
| Washington Post: |
Apple and TikTok drew criticism from lawmakers, especially Sen. Josh Hawley, for skipping a congressional hearing meant to explore tech industry's ties to China — Apple and TikTok took a lashing Tuesday for skipping a congressional hearing meant to explore the tech industry and its ties to China …
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| Catherine Perloff / Forbes: |
Israel-based Papaya Global, a payroll platform to manage international workforces, with clients like Microsoft, Intel, and Robinhood, raises $45M Series A — When venture capital firm Insight Partners called Papaya Global cofounder and CEO Eynat Guez to learn more about her payroll startup … | NoCamels: |
Israel-based Riskified, an e-commerce fraud prevention platform, raises $165M Series E at a valuation of $1B+ led by General Atlantic — Israeli fraud prevention platform Riskified announced on Tuesday that it raised a Series E funding round of $165 million led by General Atlantic … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Pro X review: beautiful design and good screen but expensive, slow for the price, has an unimpressive battery, and app compatibility issues — Better than expected isn't enough — The Surface Pro X is the computer Microsoft has tried to make for at least seven years.
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New York Times, Digital Trends, CNET, CNBC, Gizmodo, WinBuzzer, LaptopMag, Thurrott, GeekWire, Windows Blog, OnMSFT.com, Tom's Guide, Windows Central, CNN, MSPoweruser, Engadget, AskWoody, Petri, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @backlon, @chrisgrant, @dcseifert, @sinclairinator, @codinghorror, @tomwarren, @reckless, @rdrv3, and @tomwarren
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube debuts Super Stickers, which show up in chat, as a new way for creators to make money; since Super Chat's 2017 launch over 100,000 channels have used it — YouTube today is expanding the ways creators can make money with the global launch of a new feature, Super Stickers.
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