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Facebook responds to Apple's defense of IDFA, saying Apple is using its “dominant market position to self-preference their own data collection” — Apple Inc. on Thursday slammed Facebook Inc. and other internet giants for their ad-targeting practices in response to a letter questioning …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple defends its delayed IDFA changes in iOS 14 and slams Facebook, saying “its intent is to collect as much data as possible” on its users — Last month, a coalition of eight civil and human rights organizations penned an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook regarding …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Roblox files S-1 for its IPO, reports losses of $206M on $589M in revenue, 31.1M DAU, and 22.2B engaged hours, up 122% YoY, for the first nine months of 2020 — Roblox, a Silicon Valley-based based social gaming platform for tweens and teens, on Thursday filed for a $1 billion initial public offering.
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Facebook's Q3 transparency report: 0.1%-0.11% of what users see violates hate speech rules; 95% of hate speech takedowns are proactive, up from 24% in 2017 — Lawmakers and moderators criticized its policies this week — Facebook says it is proactively detecting more hate speech using artificial intelligence.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it has completed a global rollout of RCS and will start testing end-to-end encryption in Android Messages — In mid-2019, Google decided to take over and speed up the launch of RCS. A little over 17 months later, Google announced today that it has completed a global rollout of RCS …
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| Heather Kelly / Washington Post: |
A look at Facebook Groups, used by two thirds of Facebook's MAUs and a company focus since 2017, which make leaving the platform especially difficult — Facebook invested heavily in the one feature it knew people couldn't leave behind: Their groups — Before the pandemic, Andrea Norrington barely checked Facebook.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Edge now has coupon and promo codes built in for online shopping — Edge also gets new PDF annotation and screenshot inking features — Microsoft is adding a new coupons feature to its Edge browser today. Coupons and promo codes will appear inside Edge as an alert when you're shopping online …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
FireEye acquires cybersecurity investigation company Respond Software for $186M, while announcing it received a $400M investment from Blackstone and ClearSky — The security sector is ever frothy and acquisitive. Just last week Palo Alto Networks grabbed Expanse for $800 million.
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| Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune: |
Apple announces Barbara Whye as its new head of inclusion and diversity starting in early 2021; Whye will arrive from a similar role at Intel — Apple has announced a new vice president of inclusion and diversity. Barbara Whye, who has made a name for herself as Intel's head of D&I, will join the iPhone-maker in early 2021.
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| James Pearson / Reuters: |
Source: Vietnam has threatened to shut down Facebook inside the country if it does not censor more “anti-state” posts on the platform — HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has threatened to shut down Facebook in the country if it does not bow to government pressure to censor … | Wall Street Journal: |
BuzzFeed has agreed to acquire Verizon Media's HuffPost in a stock deal, as part of a larger agreement to syndicate content on each others' platforms — New-media companies have been exploring mergers as they try to jumpstart growth — BuzzFeed Inc. has agreed to acquire Verizon Media's HuffPost …
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| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Report: election misinfo often evaded YouTube's efforts to stop it, as videos supporting false voter fraud claims were viewed 138M+ times during election week — YouTube videos endorsing the false idea that there was widespread election fraud were viewed more than 138 million times on the week of Nov. 3 … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Go SMS Pro, an Android messaging app with 100M+ installs, is exposing photos, videos, and other files sent privately by its users — Go SMS Pro, one of the most popular messaging apps for Android, is exposing photos, videos and other files sent privately by its users. Worse, the app maker has done nothing to fix the bug.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Zapata Computing, which operates a platform for writing quantum computing software, raises $38M Series B led by Comcast Ventures, Pitango and Prelude Ventures — Zapata Computing has raised $38 million for its quantum computing enterprise software platform.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service launches in beta on iOS as a web app, bypassing Apple's App Store and letting iOS users play Fortnite — Nvidia joins Microsoft in bypassing Apple's App Store — Nvidia is joining its fellow cloud gaming providers in choosing to bypass Apple's App Store …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Facebook's bug bounty program, now in its 10th year, paid out $1.98M in 2020 so far, on over 1,000 submissions — The vulnerability was found through the company's bug bounty program, now in its tenth year. — IT'S BEEN ALMOST a decade since Facebook started offering researchers cash rewards …
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google says Stadia is coming to iOS as a Safari PWA within “several weeks” — Apple's tough enforcement of its App Store policies has led to a sad lack of a playable version of Google Stadia on iOS. That is set to change very soon as public testing of a dedicated progressive web app …
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Tweets: @googlestadia, @zmknox, @iansherr, @nickstatt, @eric_seufert, and @starfire2258
| Zoë Bernard / The Information: |
Sources: tech jobs site Hired, which was once valued at $500M, is considering winding down its operations after its unsuccessful efforts of selling itself — Hired, a recruitment service for tech jobs, has started a process to sell assets, pay off creditors and wind down the company …
Tweets: @humairawins, @jessicalessin, and @zachtratar
| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Research renews concerns about gender bias in image recognition services offered by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon — A new paper renews concerns about bias in image recognition services offered by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. — MEN OFTEN JUDGE women by their appearance. Turns out, computers do too.
Tweets: @womenreadwomen, @jessicamalonso, @schemaly, and @amydiehl
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
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