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Snap announces Spotlight, a vertically scrollable TikTok-like feed inside Snapchat, and will pay $1M every day to users who create the top Snaps through 2020 — After taking on TikTok with music-powered features last month, Snapchat this morning is officially launching a dedicated place within …
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Internal reports detail how Amazon tracks labor, environmental movements in EU; Amazon confirms hiring union-busting Pinkerton agency to spy on warehouse staff — Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon's Global Security Operations Center reveal the company's reliance on Pinkerton operatives … | Sue Dremann / Palo Alto Online: |
Apple's head of global security Thomas Moyer indicted for trying to bribe Santa Clara sheriff's office with 200 iPads in return for concealed firearm permits — Defendants include Sheriff Laurie Smith's second-in-command — Four people, including top brass in the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office …
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Researchers find actively-exploited backdoors in low-cost Jetstream and Wavlink routers sold at Walmart, Amazon, and eBay — In a collaboration between CyberNews Sr. Information Security Researcher , Mantas Sasnauskas and researchers James Clee and Roni Carta, suspicious backdoors …
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Uber and Lyft awarded a federal contract by the GSA, estimated to be worth up to $810M over five years, to offer ride-sharing services to public agency workers — (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc have been awarded a federal contract worth up to $810 million to offer … | New York Times: |
A look at Sugon, a Chinese company at the heart of the country's surveillance efforts, and how it uses Intel and Nvidia chips to analyze video feeds at scale — Intel and Nvidia chips power a supercomputing center that tracks people in a place where government suppresses minorities …
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Sources: Facebook's charm offensive to repair ties with Biden's administration includes News Feed vaccine promotion and relying on Nick Clegg to mend relations — Social media giant to roll out vaccine promotion and give higher profile to Nick Clegg — Facebook is plotting a charm offensive …
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Amazon says it is rolling out fitness-tracking features to its Echo Buds, letting users track the duration of a workout, estimated calories burned, and more — - Amazon announced on Monday that it's rolling out fitness-tracking features to its Echo Buds headphones.
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| Renée DiResta / The Atlantic: |
Trump's clear election loss has splintered the right-wing online info ecosystem, forcing outlets, platforms, and commentators to choose reality or Trump — When Fox News called Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden shortly after the polls closed there on Election Night, right-wing social media erupted in fury.| New York Times: |
As bots plague everything from Tinder to Twitter, a look at how generative adversarial networks create images and videos of fake people, sold on many websites — There are now businesses that sell fake people. On the website Generated.Photos, you can buy a “unique, worry-free” fake person for $2.99, or 1,000 people for $1,000.
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| Laura Forman / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: Facebook and Instagram ads appear to be reaching a saturation point after the number of ads served rose by a quarterly average of ~30% YoY since Q3'15 — Spending big money to make big money in the ad business may no longer be on the table inside Facebook's network| Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal: |
CoStar, which provides commercial real estate information and analytics, says it will buy Homesnap, an app that improves real estate agent workflows, for $250M — Purchase would mark the company's first significant step into residential data — CoStar Group, Inc., one of the world's largest providers …
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