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| Kira Tebbe / OneZero : |
In 2019, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google were collectively granted ~27,000 H-1B visas, over 30% of total visas available to private companies — Five tech companies use nearly 30,000 H1-B visas, while over 50% of graduate STEM degrees are earned by international students
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| Delian Asparouhov / Operators & Delian's Ramblings: |
Despite its limitations, GPT-3, OpenAI's text-generating AI, excels at producing follow-on thoughts to input text, and could thus succeed as a “writing buddy” — OpenAI, an AI research foundation started by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and a few other leaders in ML …
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| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Disney has dramatically cut ad spending on Facebook and Instagram; Disney was Facebook's top US advertiser for H1 2020, per an estimate — Hundreds of advertisers have paused spending on the social network due to concerns about hate speech, divisive content
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Retail stores, which were closing due to declining foot traffic even before the pandemic, are now increasingly being turned into online fulfillment centers — As the demand for in-person shopping diminishes, landlords, startups and retailers are converting abandoned stores into online fulfillment centers
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| Shaun Nichols / The Register: |
Researchers say seven Hong Kong-based “no log” VPNs have left 1TB+ of user logs and personally identifiable info exposed on the internet — Maybe it was the old Lionel Hutz play: 'No-logging VPN? I meant, no! Logging VPN!' — BIO EMAIL TWITTER
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources say plans to remake GE as a software powerhouse were scuttled by employee confusion and delusions about what it would take to reposition the company — The industrial giant hoped to remake itself as a software powerhouse. Here's what went wrong. — In early 2014 …
Tweets: @xecretcode, @tgryta, and @hoofnagle
| Neil Shah / Counterpoint Research: |
Reliance Jio is laying a strong foundation to become a “Super Operator”, applying a WeChat-like “super-app” approach to its mobile telecom network in India — In the world's second largest mobile market, Reliance Jio, India's leading Communication Service Provider … | Toby Helm / The Guardian: |
Sources: UK told Huawei that geopolitics played a part in its 5G ban and gave the impression the decision could be revisited if Trump fails to win a second term — ‘Geopolitical’ factors were behind the move, the company was told, with hints that the decision could be reversed in future| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Profile of Child Rescue Coalition, whose tech is used in 96 countries including the US to help police triage child porn cases, as experts raise privacy concerns — BOCA RATON, Fla. — In December 2016, law enforcement agents seized computers and hard drives from the home of Tay Christopher Cooper … | FinSMEs: |
Zeotap, a SaaS startup that helps companies with customer intelligence, raises $42M Series C, bringing its total raised to over $60M according to Crunchbase — Zeotap, a global provider of a customer intelligence platform, raised $42m in Series C funding. — Backers included Neue Capital …
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Zeotap, YourStory.com, The Economic Times, The Tech Portal, Moneycontrol, and Entrackr
| Nikhil Basu Trivedi / next big thing: |
A look at the bifurcation of the VC industry between agglomerators, who invest at every stage and across every sector, and specialists, who focus on one — Welcome to issue #10 of next big thing. — On one side of the venture capital industry are the agglomerator firms.
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| Dave Furness / eSellerCafe: |
Amazon warns third party sellers it may separate Fulfillment by Amazon operations in UK from its EU network starting January 1 — Unsurprising for some but surely a shock for others today as Amazon has announced that due to Brexit on the 1st January 2021 the UK's FBA operations will be separated from the rest of Europe.| Twitter: |
Twitter provides an overview of what it knows about Wednesday's hack so far: how it happened, what the attackers accessed, how it reacted, and the next steps — As we've been informing via the @TwitterSupport account, on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, we detected a security incident at Twitter and took immediate action.
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Wall Street Journal, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Neowin, ZDNet, AppleInsider, Cointelegraph, The Block, SlashGear, Decrypt, Engadget, Android Central, Digital Trends, The Atlantic, The Irish Times, Mashable, BBC, Social Media Today, CNET, Bloomberg, Security Boulevard, Daring Fireball, Michael Tsai, Axios, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @twittersupport, @twittersupport, @normative, @pinboard, @nycsouthpaw, @bzamayo, @kateconger, @twittersupport, @ruskin147, @edzitron, @malwaretechblog, @oneunderscore__, @atrupar, @briankrebs, @djlavoie, @ourielohayon, @kayvz, @staska, @scottmstedman, @firstadopter, @rmac18, @kantrowitz, @benlower, @thehill, @bbcnews, @reuters, @variety, @eamonjavers, and @donie
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Decrypt, OneZero , MacDailyNews, Gizmodo, CryptoSlate, elliptic.co, Neowin, Slashdot, The Daily Hodl, Axios, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Engadget, Wired, CNN, Daring Fireball, Daily Mail, Mashable, The Verge, CoinSpice, CNET, Business Insider, and Silicon Florist
Tweets: @kateconger, @tomwarren, @elliptic, @uuallan, @6102bitcoin, @amitranjan, @starfire2258, @alex_roddie, @mrcheeze_, @ericajoy, @kahjahkins, @karaswisher, @kateconger, @iblametom, @kateconger, @chuckrossdc, @modestproposal1, @firstadopter, @ericgeller, @anthony, @somebadideas, @mikefarb1, @racheltobac, @karissabe, @davidclinchnews, @histoftech, @alexstamos, @yburyug, @tomrobin, @davidjoachim, @juliacarriew, @sanjaykalra, @dave1agar, @fbihop, @quantian1, @golovashkina, @ampressman, @sdkstl, @tomwarren, @haseeb, @scottmstedman, @jacobrubashkin, @brendandburns, @spyblog, @rdrv3, @kateconger, @martinsfp, @zackwhittaker, @tomgara, @scottmelker, @eamonjavers, @ericgeller, and @ericgeller
| Kari Soo Lindberg / Bloomberg: |
Trump campaign urges supporters to sign a petition to ban TikTok, saying TikTok has been caught “red handed by monitoring what is on your phone's Clipboard” — - Ads are targeting supporters in battleground election states — Teens on TikTok signed up to Trump rally with no plans to go
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