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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
IoT device vendor Wyze says a server leak exposed data, including email addresses, camera user IDs, and WiFi SSIDs, of ~2.4M customers from Dec. 4 to Dec. 26 — Details for 2.4 million users were exposed online for 22 days. — Wyze, a company that sells smart devices like security cameras …
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| Sarah J. Jackson / New York Times: |
In 2010s, Twitter enabled young and marginalized people to be heard, held news organizations accountable, and pushed largely ignored issues into the mainstream — It's impossible to avoid news about how harmful social media can be. The Cambridge Analytica scandal. The ubiquitous Russian bots.
Tweets: @neil_chilson, @digiphile, @gregbradyto, @nytopinion, @mikeisaac, @profblackistone, @kateo, @andreas212nyc, @mikeisaac, @millie, @larakate, @mitpress, @stephenossola, @nytopinion, @brentnyt, @blackgirlinmain, @dantley, @salalbanesenyc, @rahaeli, @scottmonty, @jeffjarvis, @slpng_giants, @adamsinger, @nesrinemalik, @jimprosser, and @nesrinemalik
| Uri Berkovitz / Globes Online: |
In 2019, nine Israeli startups became unicorns, bringing the total unicorns in the country to 20, and 16 startups completed a financing round of $100M or more — Israel now has 20 unicorns, privately-held tech companies worth more than $1 billion. Only the US, China and UK have more unicorns.| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Analysis: 142 startups, including 78 from the US and 22 from China, became unicorns in 2019, down from 158 in 2018; unicorns raised $85.1B vs. $139B in 2018 — In 2019, unicorns were far from mythical and Crunchbase followed them every step of the way. This year (as of Dec. 25, 2019) … | Nicholas Vinocur / Politico: |
Since GDPR became law in May 2018, the only substantial privacy-related action against a major tech company happened in the US, where Facebook was fined $5B — The world's toughest privacy law proves toothless in the eyes of many critics. — More than 18 months after the European Union began implementing … | Yahoo News: |
Internal Pentagon memo warns service members against using consumer DNA testing kits from 23andMe and others, citing security risks — WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is advising members of the military not to use consumer DNA kits, saying the information collected by private companies could pose …
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Tweets: @ideatreesolns, @libbycopeland, @baldingsworld, @oknox, @livefree_76, @vickerysec, @byjacobward, and @karolien1231
| Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times: |
An overview of the CCPA, set to go into effect Jan. 1, and the confusion surrounding it due to its technical complexity and rushed timeline — A sweeping new law that aims to rewrite the rules of the internet in California is set to go into effect on Jan. 1.| Mark Ledwich: |
A new study finds that YouTube's late 2019 algorithm actively discourages users from watching radicalizing content, directing them to more mainstream videos — In 2018, Kevin Roose published a piece in the New York Times in which Caleb Cain, a liberal college dropout, described his experience …
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
How a difference between Chinese and English languages helped Baidu make an important advancement in natural language processing — Inspired by a difference between Chinese and English, it shows how AI research benefits from diversity. — MS Tech / Source: Unsplash
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| Shunsuke Tabeta / Nikkei Asian Review: |
China launches two more satellites for BeiDou, its GPS competitor, says it will be fully complete in June, with centimeters-level accuracy by the end of 2020 — 70% of Chinese smartphones now compatible with Beidou — BEIJING — China announced Friday that it is just months away … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat will launch Bitmoji TV, a personalized cartoon show featuring a user's avatar and their friends in regularly-scheduled adventures, starting in February — Snapchat's most popular yet under-exploited feature is finally getting the spotlight in 2020.
Tweets: @counternotions, @mattlynley, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| Constance Grady / Vox: |
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