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Sources: Zuckerberg's personal intervention to reduce the severity of Alex Jones' ban in 2019 slowed down Facebook's efforts to deal with dangerous content — In April 2019, Facebook was preparing to ban one of the internet's most notorious spreaders of misinformation and hate, Infowars founder Alex Jones.
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| Bloomberg: |
Clubhouse says it has added security safeguards and banned a user after some Clubhouse audio and metadata was found on a third-party website — - The app's creators had been warned user data was vulnerable — An unidentified user streamed audio chats to their own website
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Gartner: in Q4 2020, Apple sold 80M new iPhones globally, overtaking Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor, increasing its market share by ~15% — Apple overtook Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2020, a feat not achieved by Apple since 2016 …
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Sources: Toast, a cloud-based restaurant management software provider, is planning an IPO that could value it at ~$20B; in Feb. 2020 it was valued at $4.9B — Toast taps Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase to underwrite a possible listing later this year — Toast Inc. is planning … | Ben Smith / New York Times: |
Russian investigative journalism is flourishing alongside “probiv”, the buying of data on phone calls, cell location, or air travel off Telegram or the dark web — A new wave of news outlets has used conventional, and unconventional, methods to pierce the veil of Putin's power.| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Youyang Gu, a 27-year-old data scientist whose ML model most accurately predicted COVID-19 death totals, which the CDC put on its forecasting website — Spring 2020 brought with it the arrival of the celebrity statistical model. As the public tried to gauge how big a deal …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers discover macOS malware dubbed “Silver Sparrow” on at least 30K Macs, which includes a native M1 version and leverages the Installer JavaScript API — With no payload, analysts are struggling to learn what this mature malware does. — A previously undetected piece …
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| Reuters: |
China finalizes rules on banks' internet loan businesses, affecting Alibaba and others, setting new capital requirements, must be complied with by July 17, 2022 — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's bank regulator on Saturday tightened requirements on the internet loan business of commercial banks …
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| Basil Kronfli / WIRED UK: |
A look at Xiaomi, known to copy others and skimp on traditional R&D, as it successfully undercuts rivals on everything from smartphones to pens and backpacks — Xiaomi has been launching low-cost, occasionally half-baked tech for years. Now it's time everyone took it seriously
Tweets: @basil_knows and @neiltwitz
| David Uberti / Wall Street Journal: |
Accellion's file transfer software hack, which affected Jones Day, also impacted New Zealand's central bank, 1M unemployment benefits applicants in WA, and more — Like the SolarWinds breach, the incident highlights supply-chain vulnerabilities — The hack of software provider Accellion USA LLC …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Seattle-based Highspot, which makes software for training and managing sales employees, raises $200M led by Tiger Global at a $2.3B valuation — New investments from Tiger, Bain value the sales software maker at $2.3 billion — Salesforce.com Inc.-backed Seattle startup Highspot …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Twitter recently explored buying Indian social media startup ShareChat for $1.1B and had committed to an $900M additional investment — Twitter recently held talks to acquire Indian social media startup ShareChat as the company explored ways to expand its presence …
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