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Sources: ByteDance plans US IPO for new global TikTok business if Trump approves deal including Walmart and Oracle, which will take less than a 20% global stake — - President Donald Trump is expected to make a decision on TikTok's fate in the U.S. in the next 24-36 hours, sources told CNBC's David Faber.
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A look at the alliance of convenience between Facebook and Trump admin as sources say Zuckerberg told employees that Facebook is likely to fare better under GOP — In late 2019, during one of Mark Zuckerberg's many trips to Washington to defend Facebook in front of Congress … | Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
PS5 will launch on Nov. 12 in North America, Japan, Mexico, AU, and NZ for $500 for Blu-Ray version and $400 for Digital Edition and then elsewhere on Nov. 19 — Sony provided more details about the upcoming PlayStation 5. During a video event today, the company explained what you can expect in terms of a PS5 release date and price.
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Apple Watch Series 6 hands-on: an iterative update, always-on screen is very bright and is the best feature, but blood oxygen monitor gave a few failed readings — Also a very red smartwatch — I've had just under 24 hours with the new Apple Watch Series 6, which is just enough time to gather a handful of impressions.
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Facebook launches Facebook Business Suite, which lets SMBs manage their pages and profiles across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger from a single interface — Facebook on Thursday launched a new app named Facebook Business Suite that lets small businesses manage their pages and profiles across Facebook …
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A critique of The Social Dilemma documentary, which seems to exist only to stoke fear and outrage while promoting a distorted view of how social platforms work — The world is more complicated than filmmakers want to believe — I. A dilemma — On Sunday night, after being encouraged …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases Safari 14 as a standalone update for macOS Catalina and macOS Mojave, with customizable start page, new tab bar design, and more — macOS Big Sur didn't launch alongside iOS 14, iPadOS 14, tvOS 14, and watchOS 7 today, with the update coming later this fall …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on the impact of the pandemic on making VR mainstream, AR glasses, and why he doesn't want to “put an Apple Watch on your face” — How Facebook's CEO is thinking about the future of augmented reality, virtual reality, and more — Social networks contain multitudes.
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Mozilla's new browser extension RegretsReporter aims to crowdsource research into harmful YouTube recommendations — RegretsReporter will let users send in reports about recommended harmful videos — YouTube's recommendations algorithm can lead you down some very weird rabbit holes …
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Docs: Amazon generated ~$3.9B in revenue and $1.6B in profit for USPS during FY2019; USPS delivered 1.54B packages for Amazon, or 30% of Amazon's 2019 volume — Nearly 10,000 pages of emails, memos and other private documents offered new details about the agency's struggles and the pro-Trump figures to whom it turned for advice.| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook says it will limit the spread of private groups focused on health advice and those with ties to violence, and will archive groups without admins — - Facebook announced new policies that will limit the spread of private groups on its social network that focus on giving users health advice … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
German media: a patient died after ransomware attack forced a hospital to send them elsewhere; hackers backed down after police told them target was a hospital — A person in a life-threatening condition passed away after being forced to go to a more distant hospital due to a ransomware attack.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google updates Play Store rules banning stalkerware apps unless they include an “adequate notice or consent” and show a “persistent notification” — Ban is meaningless as Google leaves a giant loophole in the rules, allowing stalkerware devs to rebrand their apps as child trackers.
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DOJ charges five Chinese citizens with hacks targeting 100 companies and institutions in the US and elsewhere; two Malaysian businessmen were arrested — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged five Chinese citizens with hacks targeting more than 100 companies and institutions … | Matthew Choi / Politico: |
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