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Internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist shows how large amounts of inauthentic bot activity has boosted many countries' leaders and FB is slow to act — Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections …
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Activists say ethnic violence in Ethiopia in recent months has been supercharged by hate speech on Facebook; company says it has increased monitoring of content — Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. — Throughout his life, Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa sang about love …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle confirms it is part of a proposal submitted by ByteDance to the US Treasury to become TikTok's “trusted technology provider” — - Oracle and TikTok share an interest in marketing, but while Oracle pursues business from big companies, TikTok aims for a wide scale among consumers.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
In an open letter to CFIUS, Senator Josh Hawley says US should reject Oracle-ByteDance collaboration citing national security grounds, calls for a full sale — The deal is ‘completely unacceptable,’ Hawley says — Sen. Josh Hawley is publicly calling on the Treasury Department …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sony has cut PS5 production for this fiscal year by 4M units to ~11M, following production issues with its custom-designed SOC for the new console — - Low yields of company's custom-designed silicon a bottleneck — Sony facing aggressive pricing from Microsoft's Xbox team
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Facebook launches an information center to combat climate change misinformation and pledges to cut greenhouse gases from its global operations this year — It's also working to bring more reliable climate information to its users — Facebook today pledged to slash greenhouse gases …
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
After retrieving a submerged shipping-container-size data center from Scotland's Orkney Islands, deployed in 2018, Microsoft says the project was a success — Two years after deploying a shipping-container-size data center to the depths off Scotland's Orkney Islands, Microsoft has reeled it back in …
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| Cyrus Farivar / NBC News: |
As Big Fish Games announces $155M class action settlement in WA, 21 users describe how they were hooked on casino-style apps and lost significant sums of money — Shellz, 37, a nurse from Houston, spends at least two hours a day with her husband playing a casino-style smartphone game called Jackpot Magic.
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| Jay Rosen / The Verge: |
Q&A with ex-CSO of Facebook Alex Stamos on why big newsrooms should have threat modeling teams, how media is amplifying disinformation with its coverage, more — An interview with Facebook's ex-security chief — Editor's note: We're barreling toward the 2020 election with big unresolved problems …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Facebook paid $367.6M to buy a 400K square foot complex from REI in Bellevue, WA, expanding its 3M square feet office space footprint in Seattle — Facebook is yet again expanding in the Seattle region, its largest engineering hub outside of Silicon Valley.
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| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
School districts across US start dropping Acellus, an online learning service that claims to serve 6,000 schools, after reports of inappropriate content on it — Schools embraced an online learning program called Acellus because it promised convenience. Now, parents are cleaning up the mess.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: the 5.4" iPhone 12 will feature a narrower notch but none of the iPhone 12 models will have a 120hz display; iPad Air will feature Touch ID in side button — Ahead of tomorrow's Apple event, reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out with a new investor note highlighting his expectations for the remainder of 2020.
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| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Facebook Gaming says it will allow partnered streamers to play some copyrighted music in the background of their live streams — It's a big deal! — Today, Facebook Gaming is set to allow its partnered streamers to play copyrighted, popular music in the background of their live streams …
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