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Facebook and Twitter shut down a network of fake accounts using AI-generated faces to “masquerade” as Americans; Facebook links the network to Epoch Media Group — Researchers said the profiles, linked to the Epoch Media Group, used photos generated by artificial intelligence in a preview of an …
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US Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices citing a cybersecurity threat, will block devices with the app from the Navy Marine Corps Intranet — (Reuters) - Earlier this week the United States Navy banned the social media app TikTok from government-issued mobile devices …
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Sources: Walmart is considering new growth strategies like selling shopper data to advertisers and renting out edge computing capacity in retail “supercenters” — Walmart is betting on a future where its giant stores will quickly get groceries to your door … | The Verge: |
During T-Mobile-Sprint merger trial, the key arguments of both T-Mobile and merger-opposing AGs seemed to rest on whether Dish can create a viable competitor — For two weeks now, the future of the American mobile broadband industry has hinged on a small courtroom in lower Manhattan …
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Text messages show how the head of DOJ antitrust division Makan Delrahim steered the T-Mobile-Sprint deal and played a crucial role in getting Dish involved — Text messages indicate that Makan Delrahim, the head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, worked behind the scenes to help the companies pull off a deal.| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Sources detail FBI's IDLE program to help companies fight data theft by deploying decoy data to hide real data from hackers and insider threats — Newly surfaced doc outlines FBI's IDLE program—which teases thieves with “decoy data.” — The Federal Bureau of Investigations is in many ways … | Madeline Berg / Forbes: |
Forbes estimates that the highest paid YouTube star of 2019 is Ryan Kaji, an eight-year-old with 23M subscribers, who has earned $26M this year — Anastasia Radzinskaya is an unlikely media star. Born in southern Russia with cerebral palsy, her doctors feared she would never be able to speak.
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / Crunchbase News: |
Data shows 21 female founded or co-founded companies reached unicorn status in 2019, up from 15 in 2018 — Venture capitalist Jennifer Neundorfer gave me (quite possibly) the quote of the year when we spoke in October. When describing her firm, Jane VC, and its focus on female founders, she said:| BuzzFeed News: |
A look at the global trade in hacked links, where hackers compromise websites and charge to add links to sites to improve SEO — This August, Molly Stillman logged on to her lifestyle blog to update a few popular old posts, freshening them up so they would continue to attract traffic from Pinterest and search engines.
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Interviews with current and former staff, sellers, and suppliers on how Amazon dictates and unpredictably changes rules, punishes and threatens businesses — Twenty years ago, Amazon opened its storefront to anyone who wanted to sell something. Then it began demanding more out of them.
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| Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: |
China releases new rules for online content, requiring platforms and app operators to use AI-based moderation; the rules are set to come into effect in March — Government control over online content likely to tighten further following release of comprehensive regulations
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Profile of Cliff Stoll, whose memoir The Cuckoo's Egg, which traces the first known case of state-sponsored hacking, inspired a generation of cybersecurity pros — Thirty years ago, Cliff Stoll published The Cuckoo's Egg, a book about his cat-and-mouse game with a KGB-sponsored hacker.
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