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DOJ charges two ex-Twitter employees, arresting one, with spying for Saudi Arabia by snooping on kingdom critics; one allegedly accessed 6,000 accounts in 2015 — The Justice Department has charged two former Twitter employees with spying for Saudi Arabia in a case that raises concerns …
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Court filing demanding subpoenaed docs reveals California has been probing Facebook's disclosure of user data to Cambridge Analytica and others for 18 months — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California is investigating Facebook Inc's disclosure of user data to Cambridge Analytica and other partners …
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Source: Alphabet is probing execs, including Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, over inappropriate relationships, hiring an outside law firm — - The board of Google parent company Alphabet is conducting an investigation into sexual misconduct by executives, and has hired a law firm to assist.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google says it is open sourcing the phone-based VR software of Cardboard, less than a month after the company discontinued its Daydream View VR headset — Maybe the last nail in the coffin for phone-based VR — In October, Google officially discontinued its Daydream View VR headset …
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| Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google has been holding internal meetings on changing its political ad policy, and plans to share more information with employees soon — Discussions come after Twitter said it would bar most political ads amid spread of misinformation — Alphabet Inc. GOOG -.02% 's Google …
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
Inside Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center, where dozens of engineers and analysts track state-sponsored hacking groups, ~70 with names and many more without — From Russian Olympic cyberattacks to billion-dollar North Korean malware, how one tech giant monitors nation-sponsored hackers everywhere on earth.
Tweets: @howelloneill, @khabirm, and @techreview
| CoinDesk: |
Square says it processed $148M in Q3 bitcoin sales, up 244% YoY, for a profit of $2M, flat QoQ, and debuts new fee structure for Cash App bitcoin transactions — Square processed $148 million in bitcoin sales in the third quarter of 2019. — The payments company, founded … | Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
An investigation into I'm Shmacked, which exploited thousands of students by inducing them to provide viral videos of college parties to earn Instagram fame — The chief executive of I'm Shmacked promises students Instagram fame, then silences them with threats.
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @jimswiftdc, @katierosman, @taylorlorenz, and @nytimes
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
After the deaths of five people at a “party house”, Airbnb unveils new safety policies: verifying 100% of listings, a 24/7 “neighbor hotline”, and more — Airbnb CEO: We intend to verify 100% of listings — Airbnb is pushing out several new safety features in the wake …
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Tweets: @bchesky, @bchesky, @carolinemoss, @rojospinks, @mikeisaac, @sevensixfive, @rmac18, @bchesky, @katienotopoulos, @alexhern, and @ldrogen
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google debuts App Defense Alliance, a partnership with ESET, Lookout, Zimperium to catch Android malware early by streamlining and boosting data sharing efforts — The newly formed App Defense Alliance will try to solve a malware problem that has bedeviled the Play Store since inception.
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| The Correspondent: |
Skeptics say the effectiveness of online advertising is overhyped since ad marketers optimize ever more for people who would have bought anyway — Mel Karmazin, the president of Viacom, one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, walked into the Google offices in Mountain View, California.
Tweets: @ingridlunden, @woganmay, @radiomorgenland, @saminprint, @frolleinjune, and @wolfiechristl
| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Photoshop for iPad has met with a lackluster reception and a review rating of 2.3 out of 5 stars, prompting Adobe exec to defend this first version — Adobe Inc. debuted its most important mobile application ever this week when it finally released Photoshop for Apple Inc.'s iPad.| Alex Krivit / The Cloudflare Blog: |
An inside account of Cloudflare's defeat of Blackbird's lawsuit by publishing “prior art” that could help others, and attacking the patent troll business model — Remember 2016? Pokemon Go was all the rage, we lost Prince, and there were surprising election results in both the UK and US.
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| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
In a wide-ranging interview, Reed Hastings says Netflix's spending on content will grow and defends cutting an episode of Hasan Minhaj's show in Saudi Arabia — Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings tackled a wide array of issues surrounding the streaming giant during a packed 30-minute keynote session … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nightfall, which offers an AI-based platform to detect and prevent data leakage from cloud-based apps and services, comes out of stealth with $20.3M — Sensitive data leakage is one of the biggest negative side-effects of cloud-based apps and services. Today, a startup that has built …
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| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
HP Inc. confirms it received an acquisition proposal from Xerox on Tuesday — - Xerox has made a cash-and-stock offer for personal-computer and printer maker HP, CNBC confirmed on Wednesday. — The company's board discussed the possibility on Tuesday, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp begins rolling out an update that lets users block specific individuals from adding them to Groups — WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by Facebook, has faced a lot of controversy over the role that Groups plays on the platform — both for Groups' role in spreading spam …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google adds developer guides for Google Assistant to support smart bathtubs and faucets, such as those by Kohler and Delta — Piece by piece, the Google Assistant has been working its way into new parts of our homes. The latest additions to the Google Assistant's lineup are the bathtub and faucet.
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| Marcelo Rochabrun / Reuters: |
Uber says it will allow passengers and drivers to record audio of their trips in Brazil and Mexico, in response to rising safety concerns in the region — SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Uber (UBER.N) said on Wednesday that it will allow passengers and drivers to record audio of their trips in Brazil … | Bloomberg: |
Indian startup Rupeek Fintech goes to users' homes to pickup jewelry and heirlooms, enabling them to avoid the ignominy of being seen pawning family jewelry — When Vijay Mhatre needed cash to make up a shortfall for his son's engineering school tuition, he pledged his wife's necklace and bangles.
Tweets: @sanvai and @_ananddaniel
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