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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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| 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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| Wall Street Journal: |
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 … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp says users who haven't accepted its new privacy policy by May 15 can receive calls and notifications “for a short time”, but not read or send messages — WhatsApp said earlier this week that it will allow users to review its planned privacy update at “their own pace” …
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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
For many services, moderating content has become an existential crisis; some services are even establishing rules that pre-empt the need for costly moderation — Content moderation rules used to be a question of taste. Now, they can determine a service's prospects for survival.
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| Sheldon Chanel / The Guardian: |
Facebook's Australia ban is acute for people in places like Fiji, who rely on phone plans with cheap Facebook access as going to news websites costs more data — Media experts fear that communities reliant on the site for information will suffer significant impact
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BIG by Matt Stoller and The Guardian
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| Politico: |
EU, with <10% of global chip production, has had its industries hit hard by chip shortages and is seeking “strategic autonomy” via new fabs and alliances — Europe wants no part of a new Cold War and is seeking its own chip champions to avoid getting drawn in.Sponsor Posts
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