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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.
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BBC, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, Yonhap News Agency, Engadget, Financial Times, CNN, Neowin, BGR India, Yonhap News Agency, Yonhap News Agency, Nikkei Asia, Reuters, The Verge, CNET, The Korea Herald, and The Guardian
Tweets: @quicktake, @zhonggg, and @nytimes
| Susan D'Agostino / Quanta Magazine: |
Q&A with Vint Cerf, who has been working on building an internet for space, using disruption/delay-tolerant networking (DTN) protocol, an alternative to TCP/IP — Vinton Cerf helped create the internet 40 years ago, and he's still working to connect people around the world — and off it.| Alex Miller / Wired: |
Video games are helping veterans struggling with PTSD, anxiety, and depression and those adjusting to civilian life after deployment in combat zones — Veterans with PTSD, anxiety, and other mental health challenges often find solace in gaming. Research shows it's helpful—and could be used more broadly.| Michael Steinberger / New York Times: |
Profile of Palantir CEO Alex Karp and the controversies around Palantir's trustworthiness; Karp claims his progressivism offsets Thiel's relationship with Trump — The tech giant helps governments and law enforcement decipher vast amounts of data — to mysterious and, some say, dangerous ends.
Tweets: @chrisamccoy, @empo11on, @chrisamccoy, @warrenisdead, @traceyfutures, @aaschapiro, @keilypolitics, @aaschapiro, and @rmac18
| 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, @hypervisible, and @buzzfeednews
| Shen Lu / Rest of World: |
Weibo users describe how political discussions on the platform have become even more muted amid pervasive censorship, as some resort to using burner accounts — Thousands of Weibo accounts have been deleted as China's government cracks down on free speech.| 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| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
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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| 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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GitHub, MSPoweruser, Engadget, Reclaim The Net, TorrentFreak, and Fossbytes
Tweets: @eff, @xor, @robinsloan, @diakayyali, @jason_a_w, @evan_greer, @seldo, @mrkoot, @hameggsnsam, @beirutspring, @aral, @vitalikbuterin, @brokep, @brokep, @raistolo, @mmasnick, @scriptjunkie1, @nedwilliamson, @lcrwnews, @mattlech, @thomasfuchs, @dangillmor, @tha_rami, @film_girl, @vandrewattycpa, @mind_booster, @xor, @supersat, @kcimc, @lrvick, @campuscodi, @orcastraw, @dylanreeve, @corbindavenport, @anjalii_shrivas, and @job4_2
| David Nicklaus / St. Louis Post-Dispatch: |
FinLocker, whose software helps consumers expedite the mortgage approval process, raises $19.8M Series A and announces a commercial agreement with TransUnion — FinLocker, a Clayton-based financial technology company, has raised $19.8 million in venture capital and reached a commercial agreement with a major credit bureau.
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GlobeNewswire, HousingWire, and St. Louis Business Journal
| 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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Patreon Blog, The Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget, and Mashable
| 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.| 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
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