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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Twitter says a “conversation participants” compose screen tool is coming in 2020, letting users limit who can reply, and conversation threading will improve — Several features inspired by Twitter's beta app are coming — Speaking today at a CES event in Las Vegas …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Upcoming short-form video streaming service Quibi details new features including Turnstyle, which lets videos play well in both portrait and landscape modes — What the heck is Quibi? That's the question I've been asking myself over the past year, as the Jeffrey Katzenberg-founded streaming …
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| New York Times: |
TikTok says it has fixed major security vulnerabilities that could have let hackers manipulate content, gain access to private videos, and extract personal data — The vulnerabilities, which the app says it has fixed, could have let attackers manipulate content and extract personal data.
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| Washington Post: |
TikTok outlines more concrete global content moderation rules following criticism, including banning election misinformation and videos glorifying terrorism — TikTok on Wednesday released a set of new, more detailed rules about the videos it permits and prohibits, seeking to respond … | Apple: |
Apple says App Store customers spent $1.42B during holidays, up 16% YoY, and $386M on New Year's Day, up 20% YoY, touts 2019 as the biggest year for Services — Apple has marked the close of a historic 2019 for its Services offerings, a year that introduced Apple Arcade, Apple TV+ …
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| Will Oremus / OneZero: |
Facebook's deepfakes policy is a good move but remains deeply flawed, covering only certain videos created by AI and creating loopholes for misleading “satire” — It's better than nothing — but just barely — Monday, Facebook announced a new policy against “deepfake” videos.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla patches an actively exploited Firefox zero-day flaw that could allow attackers to take control of computers by accessing sensitive memory locations — Flaw allows attackers to access sensitive memory locations that are normally off-limits. — Mozilla has released a new version …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify announces new tools to target podcast ads in real time using user data for its exclusive podcasts — One step closer to becoming a podcast ad network — Spotify is going to start using its copious amounts of user data to run targeted ads inside its exclusive podcasts.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
In letter to senators, Ring says it has fired four employees over the last four years after it was notified about the employees' improper access to user videos — Amazon-owned home security camera company Ring has fired employees for improperly accessing Ring users' video data …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
AI startups are selling images of realistic computer-generated faces, letting clients like dating apps “increase diversity” in their ads without needing people — Artificial intelligence start-ups are selling images of computer-generated faces that look like the real thing …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Evolv, which builds unobtrusive AI-powered scanners that can detect people carrying firearms, raises $30M Series C from Jeb Bush's Finback, Bill Gates, others — Perhaps the worst thing about air travel is having to wade through congested airport security.
Tweets: @varma_ashwin97
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google's Project Zero is trialing a new policy under which all vulnerabilities will be publicly disclosed after 90 days, irrespective of when the bug is fixed — Project Zero is widely regarded for finding major vulnerabilities, but criticized by industry peers for their relatively fast disclosure times.
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