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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / ICIJ:

Leaked Chinese government documents reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang using mass surveillance and predictive policing — A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps …

More: BBC and Financial Times

Tweets: @dabeard, @ryanfduffy, @amybwang, @bethanyallenebr, @dannyboycrump, and @icijorg

Chris Stokel-Walker / Increment:

A look at the team behind VLC, which started as a student-run project in 1996 that is now part of a nonprofit with a for-profit consultancy managed by ~10 staff — How a group of university students transformed a school project into a media-player mainstay. — Teams

Tweets: @davezatz and @incrementmag

Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:

White nationalist outlets including VDare and Red Ice TV still operate on Facebook despite its ban on white nationalism; Facebook says it is investigating — Guardian analysis finds VDare and Red Ice TV among several outlets that are still on the platform despite Facebook's promised ban

Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:

A former Facebook employee who was embedded with the 2016 Trump campaign details how he leveraged Facebook's ad-targeting tools and products to help them win — James Barnes is now focused on using digital-ad strategies to try to get Trump out of office — After the 2016 presidential election …

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @natesilver538, @noahshachtman, @keithboykin, @antoniogm, @adamsinger, @nickgillespie, @blakehounshell, @govhowarddean, @b52malmet, @jessekellydc, @jason_kint, @jonathanalter, @counternotions, @four4thefire, @slpng_giants, and @adamserwer

Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg:

Huawei sues for defamation in Paris after a researcher, broadcast journalist, and telco expert say on TV that it spies against the West and is state controlled — - Claim it's controlled by the Chinese state is false, it says — The company is seeking to sell 5G equipment in Europe

Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @alecolarizi, @dana_heide, and @mattwaxman1

Nick Heath / TechRepublic:

Interview with Stephen Wolfram about the future of Wolfram|Alpha, how programming needs to evolve, Wolfram Language as a “computational language”, and more — The brains behind Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language talks about how programming languages need to develop.

Tweets: @techrepublic and @techrepublic

Ava Kofman / ProPublica:

ProPublica claims to have found 57 unlabeled state-sponsored channels on YouTube; after presented with a list, YouTube labeled only 35 of them as such — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.

Tweets: @propublica and @moonalice

Nathaniel Rich / Vanity Fair:

Inside the collapse of Quadriga crypto exchange, as law enforcement, accountants, and Reddit sleuths try to figure out if it was a legit operation or a scam — When Canadian blockchain whiz Gerald Cotten died unexpectedly last year, hundreds of millions of dollars in investor funds vanished into the crypto ether.

More: The only cryptocurrency …. Tweets: @adamsinger, @reformedbroker, @andymukherjee70, @morganhousel, and @mpelletiercio

Li Tao / South China Morning Post:

Profile of China-based Wingtech, the world's largest ODM for smartphones, which has shipped 51M units in H1 2019 for clients like Samsung, Huawei, and Xiaomi — Shanghai-listed Wingtech is focused on producing low-cost smartphones The company plans to help brands introduce cheaper 5G handsets …

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Eden, a B2B workplace management platform that connects office managers with service providers in 25 markets including Berlin and London, raises $25M Series B — Eden, the workplace management platform that connects office managers with service providers, today announced the close of a $25 million Series B round led by Reshape.

Tweets: @sameerpatel

FinSMEs:

ColdQuanta, which uses ultracold atom tech, where atoms are cooled using lasers to manufacture components for quantum computing, raises $16.75M in seed funding — ColdQuanta, Inc., a Boulder, CO-based quantum atomics company, closed a $10M additional seed round equity financing.

Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics:

Red Hat's big sale, disappointing exits of Hadoop-based startups and Pivotal show how public clouds like AWS affect business models of open source-focused firms — TL;DR: If the cloud didn't eat Hadoop Inc., Pivotal and Red Hat, what explains their diminished prospects?

Tweets: @bassamtabbara, @marypcbuk, @trengriffin, @jim_dowling, and @charlesfitz

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Alex Ritman / Variety:

In Channel 4's 2025 Alternative Christmas Message, Jimmy Kimmel said “tyranny is booming” in the US and, on his ABC suspension, “We won, the president lost”

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:

As the BBC fights Trump's $10B lawsuit and ITV plans to combine its broadcasting business with Sky in 2026, a look at the slow death of the UK's TV channels

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Bari Weiss' 60 Minutes decision may have been a way to both signal that she's serious about shifting CBS' sensibility to the right and “improve” a story

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Samanth Subramanian / The Guardian:

As we shop more online and think less about how our purchases reach our homes, a look at how our home delivery habit is reshaping the physical world

Tweets: @frankpasquale, @kinsale42, @sajithpai, and @mishdalton

Michael Kwet / VICE:

Inside Vumacam's plans to build a network of AI-powered CCTV cameras across South Africa in areas where people of color are already disproportionately targeted

Tweets: @veauxdevillian, @tshegofatso_tm, @phat_controller, and @leahk28

Susan D'Agostino / Quanta Magazine:

Barbara Liskov, a Turing Award winner who invented some key principles of object-oriented programming, on what it takes a woman to get to the top of CS field

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Joseph Cox / VICE:

Sources: authorities have arrested an alleged member of The Chuckling Squad, the group that hacked Jack Dorsey's Twitter account in August

More: Engadget, Business Insider, Axios, and DataBreaches.net

Tweets: @josephfcox and @fizzily1

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns a lower-court order that required the suspect in a child-porn case to turn over the password to his computer

More: The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Kashmir Hill / New York Times:

A look at the Legal Aid Society of New York City's efforts to close the tech gap between public defenders and law enforcement with respect to digital forensics

Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @byrontau, @amelia_acker, @sushantsin, @kashhill, @geomblog, @nytimes, and @tmluongo

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Cory Weinberg / The Information:

Source: Airbnb lost about $100M in Q2 2019, compared to the profit of $10M it made a year ago

Tweets: @coryweinberg, @modestproposal1, @edbott, and @eliotwb

Alexandra Witze / Nature:

Experts say ITU's newly agreed 5G radio-frequency standards will interfere with weather satellite readings of water vapor, impacting weather forecasts worldwide

More: Digital Trends, Washington Post, Science, WebProNews, and The Verge

Tweets: @flor_enthus, @alexwitze, @alexwitze, @mikamckinnon, and @alexwitze

Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire:

Amazon filed its formal protest over JEDI on Friday, citing a Fox News segment and a Trump rally as evidence of improper political pressure from the White House

More: Washington Post, CNET, Mashable, Vox, SiliconANGLE, Axios, and Fortune

Tweets: @paulkrugman, @megawatts55, and @keithboykin. Thanks:@taylor_soper

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:

About 200 Googlers protest placing of two of their colleagues on administrative leave over the actions they took opposing some of Google management's decisions

More: Engadget, CNET, Vox, Fast Company, OneZero, Forbes, Gizmodo, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @josheidelson

Queenie Wong / CNET:

Facebook built a now discontinued internal app, report says between 2015 and 2016, that let employees identify colleagues and friends via facial recognition

Source: Business Insider. More: Engadget, MSPoweruser, VentureBeat, Mashable, and Seeking Alpha

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