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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Leaked audio recordings and internal posts show Mark Zuckerberg's balancing act, as employees demand a harder line against Trump but users want the opposite — In 2020, Facebook would be roiled by a global pandemic, internal protests over racial injustice, a deeply polarizing election …
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| New York Times: |
Facebook removes accounts, groups, and Pages tied to China that posted about US politics; the network was followed by fewer than 3,000 US accounts — The social media campaign was small but targeted all sides of the debate. Officials said Beijing had not decided whether to wade more directly in the American presidential race.
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| Christopher Bing / Reuters: |
Sources: US election day exercises simulating attacks like hacks and disruption to voting show US officials will struggle to counter online misinformation — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. election day exercises simulating attacks ranging from hackers to anthrax to disrupt voting show state …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
DOJ, in a rare legislative proposal, asks Congress to adopt a law weakening Section 230, in an effort to hold Facebook, Google, and others liable for content — At issue is Section 230, which gives Facebook, Twitter and other social media legal protection for items their users post to the companies' websites
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Interview with Satya Nadella and Phil Spencer on buying more game companies, investing in Xbox Game Pass, and Microsoft's rejected TikTok bid — In an interview, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Xbox head Phil Spencer discuss further acquisitions, how to keep making hits and what happened with TikTok.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Nick Clegg denies Facebook could pull out of EU over data transfer ban, saying legal action is “to send a signal” that the ban could be a disaster for the EU — Facebook's head of global policy has denied the tech giant could close its service to Europeans if local regulators order … | Bloomberg: |
Shopify says two “rogue members” of its support teams stole customer data from over 100 merchants; the company is working with the FBI to investigate — - Emails, names, addresses, order details may have been exposed — E-commerce platform is working with FBI on investigation
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple's next 12.9-inch iPad Pro, coming at the end of 2020, will have Mini-LED displays — Following his report earlier this week indicating that Apple will be accelerating adoption of mini-LED displays in its iPad and Mac notebook lineups thanks to better than expected development …
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| Sarah Jeong / OneZero: |
Q&A with Casey Newton on leaving The Verge to start a newsletter on Substack called Platformer, after many years as The Verge's Silicon Valley editor — Sarah Jeong talks to Newton about the details of his deal, subscription journalism, and the magic of email
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| Kevin / kwokchain: |
An in-depth look at Mike Speiser's investment playbook at Sutter Hill Ventures; Speiser incubated Snowflake, of which he was a founding investor, as interim CEO — In Formula 1 racing, you can win a world championship as a driver with one team but then not even make the top 10 without that team's car and infrastructure.
Tweets: @modestproposal1, @pridesai, and @mgirdley
| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
How TikTok's UI, focused on just one auto-playing video at a time, generates clean user-driven data thanks to its “algorithm-friendly design” — In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work.
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| David French / Reuters: |
Robinhood raises $460M from a16z, Sequoia, DST Global, and others as a extension to its $200M Series G, at a $11.7B valuation — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Robinhood Markets Inc, the financial technology startup credited with helping popularize trading among millennials, has increased …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Leaked manual from Blackdot Solutions details how to create fake Facebook accounts to gather data, and how to avoid detection by Facebook — A leaked manual from Blackdot Solutions, a British company that offers social media monitoring services, included a step-by-step guide on how to create fake profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Tweets: @vice and @motherboard
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Adobe debuts Liquid Mode, an update for Acrobat Reader that uses AI to reformat PDFs for easier reading on smaller screens, coming first to mobile and Chrome OS — Adobe today announced an update for Acrobat Reader that leverages Sensei, the company's machine learning platform …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Overview of the state of bundles in 2020 across Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft — Manage your Stratechery subscription. — If the famous Jim Barksdale quote is to be believed — the one about there only being two ways to make money in business, bundling and unbundling … | Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Samsung is launching its ad-supported streaming service Samsung TV Plus, available on Samsung TVs since 2016, on some of its latest mobile phones — Samsung is doubling down on free, ad-supported streaming: After turning Samsung TV Plus into a massive success story on smart TVs …
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Samsung US Newsroom, MSPoweruser, SlashGear, FierceVideo, Android Headlines, Neowin, PhoneArena, Android Police, XDA Developers, CNET, Android Authority, and Droid Life
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify introduces Polls, an interactive tool for podcast hosts that lets listeners answer questions — Spotify today is introducing a new feature designed to make podcasts more interactive. The company says it's beginning to test “Polls,” a tool that will allow listeners to engage … | Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Attentive, which offers enterprise text marketing tools, raises $230M Series D led by Coatue at a $2.2B valuation, following a $110M Series C earlier in 2020 — With the pandemic causing e-commerce sales to skyrocket, 2020 has served as an unlikely year of hypergrowth for Attentive.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest launches Story Pins, which combine multiple pages of images, videos, voiceover, and overlaid text, in beta, and other tools for creators — Pinterest is announcing its spin on the increasingly popular stories format today — Story Pins, which combine multiple pages of images, videos, voiceover and overlaid text.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Carrd, Linktree, and Bio.fm have capitalized on link sharing limits in apps like Instagram, creating entire businesses around simple link sharing websites — The link-in-bio side hustles are moving to full-time — If you want to learn more about an influencer, there's one place you always know to look: that link in bio.
Tweets: @codepo8, @ashleyrcarman, and @ajlkn
| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Facebook confirms it will let US political campaigns run ads from November 4, potentially letting Trump place ads claiming victory before all votes are counted — Facebook banned political ads a week before the election, but it's the period after the election that it should be worried about.| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will use AI-powered moderation to automatically age-restrict certain content — AI moderation measures will be used to automatically age-restrict certain content — YouTube is rolling out more artificial intelligence-powered technology to catch more videos …
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Tweets: @sarafischer, @baltmatrix, @neil_neilzone, and @mattnavarra
| Joseph Keller / iMore: |
The Swift Project announces its language tools are now available for Windows 10 — Swift is taking flight on Windows. — What you need to know — Swift is seeing its initial release on Windows. — Developers can now download Swift toolchain images for Windows 10.| Financial Times: |
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter reach a deal with big advertisers for common standards on harmful content and to let external auditing of the system from H2 2021 — External audits and common standards satisfy companies that were boycotting social media — Facebook, YouTube and Twitter … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Morgan Beller, one of the founders of Facebook's Libra digital currency, has left the company to become a partner at VC firm NFX — - One of the co-founders of Facebook's libra digital currency and Novi payments wallet has left the company before the release of either technology.
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TechCrunch, CoinDesk, NFX, SiliconANGLE, The Block, Business Insider, and Crunchbase News. Tweets: @jaredhecht
| Peter Slattery / OneZero : |
How Spotify's UX decisions have encouraged the growth of adjective-laden generic artist names, enabling a kind of SEO spam for music — The platform is filled with search-optimized spammers, and there's no end in sight — Welcome to The Cheater's Guide to Spotify, a series about the schemes …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
ClassEDU, maker of a video-conferencing product for schools called Class for Zoom, raises $16M seed from Santi Subotovsky, a Zoom board member, and others — Zoom was never created to be a consumer product. Nonetheless, the video-conferencing company's accessibility made it the answer … | Janelle Lawrence / Bloomberg: |
Filing: four ex-eBay employees will plead guilty to cyberstalking critical bloggers; two senior executives who were allegedly involved deny wrongdoing — Four former eBay Inc. employees will admit to conspiracy to commit cyberstalking in an elaborate scheme to intimidate a blogger critical of the company.Sponsor Posts
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