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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Facebook says ~100 app developers might have had improper access to Groups member data even after the company announced restrictions to Groups API last year — At least 11 accessed data in the last two months — Facebook says that even after it locked down its Groups system last year …
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Facebook Developers, CNBC, Washington Post, Mashable, CNET, The Next Web, Firstpost Tech, Social Media Today, IT Management, Los Angeles Times, PYMNTS.com, Axios, Fossbytes, Adweek, and Reclaim The Net
Tweets: @jason_kint, @chrisbrogan, and @thekenyeung
| Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Xerox is considering making a cash-and-stock offer for HP, which has a market value of ~$27B and is more than three times the size of Xerox — Bid for HP would be at a premium to company's market value of $27 billion — Xerox Holdings Corp. has set its sights on a takeover … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
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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Tweets: @ftc, @rsingel, @kifleswing, and @aneternalenigma
| 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.| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
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| Yaël Eisenstat / Washington Post: |
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| Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank reports a loss of $6.5B, its first quarterly operating loss in 14 years, and a loss of $8.9B in the Vision Fund, including a charge of $4.6B for WeWork — SoftBank Group Corp. reported its first quarterly operating loss in 14 years after writing down the value of some of its marquee investments …
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Nikkei Asian Review, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @tculpan and @jrhennessy
| 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.| 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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Bitcoinist.com, CNBC, PYMNTS.com, Zero Hedge, KnowTechie, Yahoo Finance, and Business Insider
Tweets: @thestalwart, @alex, @joshconstine, @bdkoepke, and @jacobcanfield
| 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: @k_sec, @jeffstone500, and @campuscodi
| Aaron Wood / Cointelegraph: |
Stellar Development Foundation has burned 55B XLM tokens, worth ~$4.7B, shrinking the supply from 105B to 50B; XLM's price jumped as much as ~25% on news — The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced a new mandate today for its network's development, stating that it has burned over 55 billion Stellar Lumens (XLM) tokens.
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Tweets: @stellarorg and @scottmelker
| 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.
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The Overspill. Tweets: @kashhill, @costaggini, @kashhill, @midmagic, @michaelroston, @privacyproject, @xoamelia, @ericajoy, @richfelker, and @tsdower
| 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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BuzzFeed News, CNET, CNBC, and Engadget
Tweets: @katienotopoulos, @buzzfeednews, @cnet, @meganwollerton, @markgurman, and @cnet
| 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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Wired, AppleInsider, The Verge, Kansas City Star, NBC News, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, and Patently Apple. Tweets: @wired
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Broadcom completes acquisition of Symantec's enterprise business for $10.7B and Symantec rebrands as NortonLifeLock after transferring Symantec name to Broadcom — Symantec Corp. is no longer Symantec, as the company changed its name following the completion today of Broadcom Inc.'s acquisition …
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Business Wire, Barron's Online, and Yahoo Finance
Tweets: @campuscodi, @quinnypig, @gossithedog, @swiftonsecurity, and @tomwarren
| 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.
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TechNode, New York Times, Business Insider, The Hill, MediaNama, and Federal Computer Week
| 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
| Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age: |
YouTube announces “Shopping” ads, a scrollable catalog of static images, which will appear on the home feed and in search results — Puma among first brands to utilize new ad format — YouTube is introducing “Shopping” ads in time for the holiday season.| 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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Mi Blog, Engadget, Android Authority, Digital Trends, Mashable, Cult of Mac, Droid Life, Macworld, and 9to5Google
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
How Arweave, which has raised $5M led by a16z, uses blockchain to host sites and apps perpetually, hedging upfront user payments with declining storage costs — Andreessen Horowitz + USV invest — What if you could pay now to store something online permanently?
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FinSMEs, Multicoin Capital, Writing, and VentureBeat
| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Walmart and other companies are testing a monitoring device for workplace safety made by StrongArm in warehouses, raising concerns about workplace surveillance — Every morning when he goes to work in the freezer room of a warehouse in eastern Pennsylvania, Jack Westley throws on a hooded sweatshirt … | Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
CIRP: over the last 12 months, 35% of iPhone buyers in the US owned a smartwatch, compared to just 16% of Android buyers — New data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners indicates that 35 percent of iPhone buyers in the United States have a smartwatch, compared to just 16 percent of Android buyers.
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| Ayanti Bera / Reuters: |
Match reports Q3 revenue of $541.5M, up 22% YoY, says it added 437K average Tinder subscribers for a total of 5.7M, forecasts disappointing Q4; stock down ~15% — (Reuters) - Tinder-owner Match Group Inc (MTCH.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday …
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