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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Reddit says a leak of official US-UK trade documents on its platform was part of a Russian political influence campaign, bans 61 accounts and one subreddit — Reddit bans 61 accounts and one subreddit for “misuse of the platform.” — Reddit said today that a leak of official US-UK trade documents …
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| Caroline Spivack / Curbed NY: |
Report: Amazon leases 335K square feet of office space in NYC without any tax incentives, less than a year after pulling out of its larger HQ2 campus deal — Amazon is renting new office space in the Hudson Yards neighborhood. Max Touhey — The e-commerce titan remains interested in the Big Apple
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Wall Street Journal, Axios, USA Today, Slate, New York Times, Business Insider, New York Post, The Guardian, Engadget, and CNN
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A look at the mixed legacy of Alphabet's organizational structure, which sometimes led to the duplication of efforts among Google and Alphabet's other companies — With Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepping back (again!), Google CEO Sundar Pichai is now in charge of Alphabet—and its dysfunction.
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Tweets: @caitlin__kelly, @yoda, @jason_kint, @stevenlevy, and @kabamur_taygeta
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Pichai's track record at Google over the past two years shows that Alphabet companies can be expected to either become more focused or get folded into Google — I've been thinking a lot about the Alphabet-Google (my colleague Kyle Wiggers prefers “Googlebet") news this week.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Report: Magic Leap sold ~6,000 headsets in six months after release, compared to a goal of 100,000 in the first year, and recently laid off dozens of employees — And Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly left its board — Magic Leap's sales numbers reportedly haven't matched CEO Rony …
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| Reuters: |
Ericsson admits it has bribed officials while selling telecom equipment in Asia, agrees to pay $1.1B in fines to US DOJ and SEC — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Swedish mobile telecoms company Ericsson has agreed to pay over $1 billion to resolve probes into corruption, including the bribing … | VICE: |
A look at the creation of a new kind of nonconsensual porn, which combines deepfakes with 3D avatars that can be manipulated to do whatever their creators want — A lineup of female celebrities stand in front of you. Their faces move, smile, and blink as you move around them.
Tweets: @mathewi and @zenalbatross
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Report: BMW discovered and monitored Vietnam-backed hackers who stayed active on its network since at least the spring of 2019; Hyundai was also targeted — The German automotive giant BMW discovered and monitored a group of hackers who infiltrated the company's networks and stayed active since at least the spring of 2019.| Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: |
Ogury, a Paris-based mobile ad network which also offers a GDPR and CCPA compliant consent management platform, raises $50M Series C — Mobile data company Ogury raised $50 million in Series C funding on Thursday with an eye on international expansion and consumer privacy-related R&D.
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Tech.eu, EU-Startups, and Business Insider
| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
In safety report, Uber says only 37% of the 464 rape cases during its US rides in 2017 and 2018 were reported to law enforcement — Buried inside Uber's inaugural safety report this week that detailed thousands of sexual assaults and more than 100 deaths was another staggering revelation … | Kate Conger / New York Times: |
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Tweets: @dkhos, @alexstamos, @nytmetro, @lisabloom, @mayawiley, @senblumenthal, @khanoisseur, @manan, @jstrauss, @jboyolee, @alexstamos, @alexstamos, @mikeisaac, @dealbook, @susanlitv, @wagatwe, @mcbyrne, @carmen50, @dmartosko, @rumpfshaker, @tomsteyer, @edbott, @tonywest, @calbucci, @uber_support, @briannawu, @laurenpeikoff, @bethanyshondark, @dhh, @johnpaczkowski, @noahshachtman, @davidsonjess22, @brianmrosenthal, @amy_siskind, @caseynewton, @appyg99, @geoffreyfowler, @gregbensinger, @s_m_i, and @annehelen
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Adobe is acquiring Oculus Medium, a virtual reality sculpting tool launched in 2015, from Facebook — New updates will be coming in 2020 — Adobe is acquiring Oculus Medium, a virtual reality sculpting tool originally revealed by the Facebook-owned VR company in 2015.
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TechCrunch, Oculus Blog, VentureBeat, Social Media Today, Road to VR, Silicon Valley Business …, VRFocus, Gamasutra, and UploadVR
Tweets: @oculusmedium, @marceloplima, @ericsnowden, @joshconstine, @sculptrvr, @sculptrvr, @hmltn, and @steveteeps
| Jacob Pramuk / CNBC: |
Bernie Sanders unveils a “High-Speed Internet for All” plan with $150B to build publicly owned broadband networks, wants to break up ISPs like Comcast and AT&T — - Bernie Sanders announces a plan to expand rural broadband internet access and break up giant internet service providers.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Profile of VSCO, a photo-sharing app with a reported valuation of $550M, which is trending towards 4M paying users in 2020, up from 2M in late 2018 — No likes, no comments, no follower count — VSCO sells a sense of belonging — Long before Instagram toyed with removing “likes,” VSCO …
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