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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
As POTUS, Biden will overturn Trump's immigration EOs, support net neutrality and may not prioritize Section 230 reform but his approach to antitrust is unclear — Joe Biden's election as the 46th president of the United States gives the tech industry a reason to breathe a brief sigh of relief …
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Facebook is showing a notification atop its apps that Joe Biden is the projected winner of the 2020 election; Twitter is showing a banner in its Explore tab — Facebook alerted millions of U.S. users that Joe Biden was the projected winner of the presidential election at the top of Facebook …
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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Let's Encrypt warns phones running Android 7.1 or older won't connect to many secure websites starting in 2021 as they will no longer trust its root certificate — It took a long time, but most of the web now uses HTTPS to securely transmit information, partially thanks to a push by Google.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
AI companies like Unanimous.ai and Expert.ai say they correctly predicted election results in battleground states while traditional polling again falls short — As traditional political polling methods appear to fall short again, some tech firms say that AI holds promise| Waqas / HackRead: |
Data breach leaks sensitive, private, and financial data of millions of customers from Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, and others who use Prestige Software — The list of online booking sites affected by the breach includes some of the top industry giants including Booking.com.
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Tweets: @mylaocoon, @hackread, @rprew, and @chrispcritters
| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers want to infuse common sense into AI by merging language models trained via unsupervised learning, like GPT-3, with labeled computer vision datasets — Researchers are teaching giant language models how to “see” to help them understand the world. — hide| Heather Kelly / Washington Post: |
Facebook starts putting some political and social groups on a 60 day probation and will closely monitor them, to slow the spread of disinfo about the election — A new system flags groups that violate community standards, and makes volunteer moderators approve all posts for two months
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
FBI warns that hackers are abusing misconfigured SonarQube applications to steal source code repositories from US government agencies and private businesses — FBI blames intrusions on improperly configured SonarQube source code management tools. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation … | Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal: |
As smart TVs become more popular, advertisers want the advantages of better targeting while avoiding the privacy mistakes made by the online ad industry — Marketers hope to avoid the mistakes made by the broader online ad industry — Advertisers entering the burgeoning medium of streaming TV …
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| Irina Ivanova / CBS News: |
CFPB issued a rule last week allowing debt collectors to send unlimited texts, emails, and social media messages to debtors, will require opt-out instructions — This time next year, the texts blowing up your phone may be coming not from political campaigns, but rather from debt collectors.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
In a survey, Spotify hints at plans for a subscription podcast service; the survey describes at least four plans, ranging from $3 to $8 per month — No music included — Spotify appears to be interested in launching a subscription podcast service that would offer access to original shows or exclusive episodes for a monthly fee.
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| Doris Yu / Tech in Asia: |
China-based e-signature services provider Esign raises $151M Series D, says it now has over 5.02M enterprise users and 270M individual users — Esign, an e-signature services provider in China, announced that it has raised over 1 billion yuan (US$151 million) in a series D round led … Sponsor Posts
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