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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Twitter and the White House deny claims that a Dutch researcher logged in to Trump's Twitter account, as experts scrutinize screenshots — Researcher claims Trump's password was ‘maga2020!’ — A security researcher claims he hacked President Donald Trump's Twitter account earlier this month …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Quibi says it will shut down “on or about” December 1 and does not know if its original content will be made available elsewhere after it shuts down — Quibi, a day after announcing it will shut down less than seven months after launching, told customers Thursday that it expects …
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Quibi USA/Canada, AppleInsider, Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, Deadline, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, and Engadget. Tweets: @diet_hellboy
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: PayPal is exploring acquisitions of cryptocurrency companies, including holding talks with BitGo, which makes multi-signature cryptocurrency wallets — - Goldman-backed startup helps investors store Bitcoin securely — No deal is finalized and talks could still fall apart
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| Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
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| Mother Jones: |
Former Facebook employees describe tests of News Feed algorithm changes and their impact on left- and right-leaning news sites, with tweaks to favor the right — For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it will start charging for WhatsApp Business and add hosting services for businesses' online assets and shopping features — Facebook has been making a big play to be a go-to partner for small and medium businesses that use the internet to interface with the wider world …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q3 revenue of $18.3B, down 4% YoY, vs $18.24B est., and Data Center Group revenue of $5.9B, down 7% YoY; stock is down 10%+ after hours — - Intel beat estimates overall as work from home continued because of the coronavirus pandemic. — The company's data center unit derives revenue …
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Hands-on with Huawei's new Mate 40 Pro: incredible cameras and powerful processors, but the app selection is atrocious and makes the handset hard to recommend — You know the score by now. Huawei currently makes Android phones that can't run Android apps, or at least the ones that I, and most people, want to use.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
US says Russia-linked group targeted IT systems used by state and local officials, but there was no evidence “integrity of elections data has been compromised” — It's no secret that the hacking group often referred to as Energetic Bear or TEMP.Isotope — linked by multiple security firms …
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us-cert.cisa.gov, NPR, ZDNet, BleepingComputer, Politico, and New York Times
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
How Phantom Secure, which started as a privacy-focused phone company in Canada, became a network for the Sinaloa Cartel before being shut down by the FBI — Vince Ramos wanted Phantom Secure to be the Uber of privacy-focused, luxury-branded phones—flood the market with devices, and sort out the law later.
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Slashdot. Tweets: @josephfcox, @timmarchman, @jason_koebler, @josephfcox, @laurenshiplett, @learmonth, @chronic, @josephfcox, @narcomania, @bigblackjacobin, @josephfcox, @derektmead, and @josephfcox. Thanks:@laurenshiplett
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple says it is expanding its COVID-safe “Express” retail stores, with a counter protected by plexiglass at the front of a store, ahead of the holiday season — (Reuters) - Apple Inc AAPL.O is expanding a new physical store format as it tries to get iPhone 12 models into customers' hands …
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MacRumors, iMore, AppleInsider, PCMag, CNET, iMore, The Verge, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Facebook's Oversight Board says it is now accepting cases for review, both from users who have exhausted the company's appeals process and from Facebook itself — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's Oversight Board, which can overrule the company's decisions on whether pieces of content should have been removed …
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About Facebook, Oversight Board, CNET, The Verge, Protocol, PR Newswire, About Facebook, The Information, Engadget, VentureBeat, CNET, and Axios
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Enterprise software provider Tibco acquires data and analytics firm Information Builders to expand its analytics portfolio and customer base — Information Builders has data quality, prep and integration products that will support what Tibco calls its hyperconverged analytics strategy.| Manuel Vonau / Android Police: |
Google adds price insights for comparisons with typical prices and deal alerts to Google Shopping — Last month, Google Shopping added features to make local shopping easier with new information on availability and curbside pickup options. In light of the upcoming holiday season …
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The Keyword, CNET, 9to5Google, The Keyword, MakeUseOf, Engadget, XDA Developers, Retail Dive, and Search Engine Land
Tweets: @google, @richontech, and @glenngabe
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
TikTok will now specify which content policy a removed video violated, after testing the notification feature and seeing a 14% reduction in user appeals — You know what you did. Or do you? Until recently, TikTok wouldn't necessarily explain why it removed one of your videos from the platform.
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TikTok, Washington Post, and Social Media Today
Tweets: @sophiasgaler, @tiktokcreators, @megancgraham, and @mattnavarra
| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Activists around the world are building facial recognition tools to identify police officers using off-the-shelf image recognition software — “We're now approaching the technological threshold where the little guys can do it to the big guys,” one researcher said.
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Input. Tweets: @kashhill, @palafo, @hexadecim8, @nytimes, @evan_greer, @kashhill, @merbroussard, and @shiraovide
| Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk: |
The Central Bank of the Bahamas has officially launched Sand Dollar, its national digital currency, the first of its kind in the world to be fully deployed — The Central Bank of the Bahamas has officially launched its national digital currency. — The first of its kind in the world … | Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times: |
WHO grants Wikipedia free use of its published data, allowing it to be reposted widely in almost 200 languages and starting with COVID-19 information — The health agency will license much of its material to the online encyclopedia, allowing the information to be reposted widely into almost 200 languages.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft, IBM, Nvidia, and others released an open framework to help security analysts detect, counter, and remediate threats against machine learning systems — Microsoft, the nonprofit MITRE Corporation, and 11 organizations including IBM, Nvidia, Airbus, and Bosch today released …
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