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| Abby Vollmer / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub reinstates the youtube-dl project, raises its bar for DMCA takedown requests, and creates $1M legal defense fund to help open source devs fight takedowns — Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project …
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BleepingComputer, TorrentFreak, TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, Engadget, MacStories, Gizmodo, Better Programming, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Neowin, MSPoweruser, VICE, and XDA Developers
Tweets: @githubpolicy, @waxpancake, @thomasfuchs, @konklone, @konklone, @justin_ling, @xor, @film_girl, @artemr, @dhh, and @benthompson
| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Twitter names Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, veteran of Stripe, Google, and DARPA, to the new position of head of security — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social media giant Twitter TWTR.N Inc, under increased threat of regulation and plagued by serious security breaches …
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CyberScoop, The Hill, Decrypt, Adweek, Newser, and Dark Reading
Tweets: @dotmudge, @nudehaberdasher, @textfiles, @socialfresh, @jack, @alexstamos, and @gregghoush
| Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic: |
Barack Obama says today's online information ecosystem, which boosts conspiracy theories like QAnon, is “the single biggest threat to our democracy” — Barack Obama was describing to me the manner in which the Mongol emperor and war-crimes innovator Genghis Khan would besiege a town.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Investigation: US military buys granular movement data of people around the world from a wide array of apps for Muslim dating, prayer, Craigslist, weather, more — A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain …
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Business Insider and Input
| Financial Times: |
Max Schrems' campaign group noyb files complaints with German and Spanish regulators, claiming Apple breaks EU law by letting advertisers track users via IDFA — Austrian activist files complaints with German and Spanish data protection authorities — Apple is breaking EU law …
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Bloomberg, Reuters, noyb.eu, CNBC, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Associated Press, Engadget, The Economic Times, TechSpot, MSPoweruser, MacDailyNews, Apple World Today, Forbes, PYMNTS.com, coinspeaker.com, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Patently Apple, MacRumors, and SecurityWeek
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Airbnb releases public IPO filing, seeks Nasdaq listing under ticker ABNB, reports $219M in net income on revenues of $1.3B last quarter, down nearly 19% YoY — - Airbnb has released its prospectus to debut on public markets. — Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Internal Facebook data shows that labels on Trump's election misinformation posts only decreased shares by ~8%, and failed to slow their spread across the site — Internal data shows that labels on President Trump's posts decrease reshares by about 8%. They still account for some of the most engaging posts on the platform.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Podcasts now lets anyone create an embeddable web player for shows or individual episodes — Apple is making it easier to discover and listen to podcasts via the web. The company announced today an Apple Podcasts embed web player is now available, allowing anyone — including creators …
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Engadget, 9to5Mac, MacStories, MacRumors, Apple World Today, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iMore. Tweets: @brianmcc
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
A large number of mostly late 2013 and mid 2014 MacBook Pro users are reporting that upgrading to macOS Big Sur is bricking their computers — A large number of late 2013 and mid 2014 13-inch MacBook Pro owners are reporting that the macOS Big Sur update is bricking their machines.
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discussions.apple.com, AppleInsider, MacRumors Forums, Forbes, Game Rant, phonearena.com, The Verge, OnMSFT.com, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, KnowTechie, Trusted Reviews, Tom's Guide, Axios, Lifehacker, Cult of Mac, ZDNet, SecurityWeek, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, cloudpro.co.uk, Softpedia News, TechRadar, The Mac Observer, Michael Tsai, International Business Times, SlashGear, Engadget, Firstpost Tech, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, and Wccftech
Tweets: @ow and @davidalanmack
| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Zoom unveils At-Risk Meeting Notifier, a feature that scans the net for posted Zoom meeting links and alerts meeting organizers to potential Zoombombing attacks — The new “At-Risk Meeting Notifier” Zoom feature scans the internet and alerts conference organizers when a link to their Zoom meeting has been posted online.
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Zoom Blog, Engadget, and Dark Reading
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft expands third-party app integration support for Teams meetings and launches low-code tools like Power Apps for Teams and the Power Virtual Agents app — Microsoft today announced the general availability of Teams apps for meetings. For those who prefer a low-code approach …
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Microsoft 365 Blog, The Verge, Petri, OnMSFT.com, and Windows Central. Tweets: @microsoftteams
| David Kirton / Reuters: |
Huawei is selling its Honor smartphone unit to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers for an undisclosed sum; buyers are creating a new company for purchase — Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is selling its budget brand smartphone unit Honor to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers … | Gary Ng / iPhone in Canada Blog: |
Apple responds to privacy concerns over checking macOS apps' Developer ID certs over OCSP, ceases logging IP addresses, will launch encrypted protocol in 2021 — Following privacy concerns from Mac users after Apple's Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) server went down …
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The Verge, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, Engadget, Daring Fireball, 9to5Mac, SentinelOne, Cult of Mac, Six Colors, SlashGear, Gizmodo, CNET, Input, TechCrunch, MacDailyNews, and Mashable
Tweets: @lapcatsoftware, @reneritchie, @benjedwards, @cynicalsecurity, @herf, @neurovagrant, @filosottile, @dhh, @chronic, and @charlesdardaman. Thanks:@gary_ng
| BuzzFeed News: |
Sources: Facebook's 3rd-party content mods were never instructed to enforce its “call to arms policy” from 2019, meant to prevent real-world armed intimidation — “What we learned after Kenosha is that Facebook's call to arms policy didn't just fail. It was never designed to function properly in the first place."
Tweets: @rmac18, @muslimadvocates, @rmac18, @rmac18, @lam_barrett, @shayeganam, @morroweric, @scottlucas, @verambergen, @mat, @slpng_giants, and @buzzfeednews
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
WarnerMedia says HBO Max will be available on Amazon Fire devices from November 17 — The HBO Max app for Amazon's devices will be available Tuesday, Nov. 17. The launch will bring WarnerMedia's flagship direct-to-consumer product to Amazon's estimated 40 million-plus active Fire TV users …
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Tweets: @xpangler, @amazonfiretv, @loudmouthjulia, and @ed_hale
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Profile of Erdal Arıkan, an obscure Turkish academic whose groundbreaking work in information theory in 2005 helped Huawei dominate the 5G infrastructure market — How an obscure Turkish scientist's obscure theoretical breakthrough helped the Chinese tech giant gain control of the future.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
AliveCor, which makes heart-monitoring hardware and is developing algorithms to flag heart issues, raises $65M Series E led by Omron Healthcare — AliveCor, a startup developing algorithms that detect atrial fibrillation, bradycardia, tachycardia, and other health issues from heart rate readings, today raised $65 million in funding.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook now lets any page admin submit images and videos for rights protection, which helps creators monetize their content and may lead to more takedowns — The company opens its rights manager up to all page admins — More copyright takedown requests might be coming to Facebook and Instagram.
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Facebook, socialmediatoday.com, Tubefilter, and MakeUseOf
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
A look at new wearable gadgets that aim to detect and track COVID-19 and have been adopted by some sports leagues, factories, nursing homes, and colleges — Sports leagues, large employers and colleges are turning to devices that could usher in more invasive forms of surveillance.
Tweets: @stevecheney, @mdudas, @nythealth, and @nytimesbusiness
| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
A look at the debate over the kind of news Facebook users are reading, after Facebook released more data on top performing link posts in the US — What kind of news does the news feed feed when the news feed does feed news? — Since July, New York Times journalist Kevin Roose … Sponsor Posts
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