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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Lyft says riders will have the option to pay for and split fares using Venmo in the coming weeks — Lyft riders will soon have the option for paying and splitting fares using Venmo, the company said in a blog posting this morning. Venmo joins Lyft's other payment methods of PayPal, credit cards, debit cards, Lyft Cash and more.| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
Expensify's CEO emailed all users to encourage them to vote for Biden; says “anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy” — Expensify CEO David Barrett blasted all of his customers with a message to vote for Biden to “protect democracy.”
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| Cyrus Farivar / NBC News: |
As voters weigh Prop 22, a California appeals court upheld a lower court ruling ordering Uber and Lyft to stop classifying drivers as independent contractors — OAKLAND, Calif.—A California state appellate court on Thursday upheld a lower court's ruling that there was an “overwhelming likelihood” …
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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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| 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.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google announces a Fi subscription program where users can buy a Pixel 4a for $9/month for two years, costing a total of $216 instead of the $349 upfront price — That means you'll pay a total of $216 for the phone over a 24-month subscription — You can now buy the Pixel 4A from Google …
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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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: |
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| 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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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Huawei's growth slowed sharply due to US sanctions with Q3 revenue of $32.5B, up 3.7% YoY; revenue growth for 2020 so far is 9.9% compared to 24.4% in 2019 — - For the first nine months of the year, revenue totaled 671.3 billion yuan ($98.57 billion), up 9.9% from the 610.8 billion yuan reported in the same period last year.Sponsor Posts
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