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Facebook asks NYU Ad Observatory, which analyzes political ad targeting using data collected from a browser extension, to cease the practice for violating TOS — In letter this month, Facebook says the project violates provisions in its terms of service that prohibit bulk data collection
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| Daniel Zuidijk / Bloomberg: |
Patreon says it will remove accounts that actively spread QAnon's beliefs and will warn those that spread some QAnon ideas but are not dedicated to such content — - Accounts tied to QAnon-dedicated creators to be removed — Followers of conspiracy theory complain of being censored
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
GitHub removes 18 projects related to YouTube download library youtube-dl after RIAA sent a letter saying it enabled infringement — Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more than 72k stars on GitHub and was used in many YouTube video ripping tools and services.
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| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
Lee Kun-hee, who was chairman and chief executive of Samsung Electronics from 1998 to 2008 and its chairman since 2010, has died at age 78 — Mr. Lee was convicted — and pardoned — twice for white-collar crimes, in a sign of the ills in South Korea's relationship with its business dynasties.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Big data analytics service Databricks is planning an IPO in H1, 2021; the company raised about $900M and was valued in 2019 at $6.2B — - Big data company is preparing IPO for first half of year — IPO plan comes on the heels of Snowflake's successful debut
Tweets: @katie_roof
| Tim Anderson / The Register: |
Survey of 17K developers in 159 countries: JavaScript is the most popular language with 12.4M active developers, followed by Python at 9M, and then Java at 8.2M — Plus: What puts off developers from adopting cloud? Price — A new developer survey has shown the popularity of C# … | John D. Stoll / Wall Street Journal: |
Fitbit CEO James Park says its app reached 500,000 paid subscribers this year and talks about expectations for life under Google, competing with Apple, more — Fitbit CEO James Park discusses the company's new products and competition as it prepares to close its acquisition by Google
Tweets: @fitbit
| Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News: |
Zoom deleted events planned for Oct. 23 on alleged censorship by the company after Zoom canceled an SFSU talk in Sept.; Zoom says the events violated its TOS — Zoom shut down a series of events meant to discuss what organizers called “censorship” by the company.
Tweets: @camerontw, @audreywatters, @buzzfeednews, and @hypervisible
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Zest AI raises $15M for its AI-powered tech that it claims can help financial institutions reduce bias in loan portfolios, bringing its total VC funding to $87M — Zest AI, a company developing AI-powered loan decisioning products, today closed a $15 million funding round led by Insight Partners.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google removes three Android apps for children, with 20M+ downloads between them, after a nonprofit watchdog raises concerns about their data practices — When it comes to apps, Android leads the pack with nearly 3 million apps in its official Google Play store.
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Android Police, Gizmodo, Engadget, International Digital …, MakeUseOf, and The Mac Observer
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
US Treasury imposes sanctions against Russian research institute for its role in developing the Triton malware — US imposes sanctions against Russia's Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics (CNIIHM). — The US Treasury Department announced sanctions today …
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| Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: |
Output, which develops software and virtual instruments for musicians, composers, producers, and sound designers, raises $45M Series A led by Summit Partners — Output, a tech company whose software has been used in songs by Drake, Coldplay, Justin Bieber and Rihanna and musical scores …
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