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Video of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee — Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies before Senate Commerce Committee https://www.c-span.org/video/? 515042-...
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| Keith Zubrow / CBS News: |
60 Minutes publishes the eight SEC complaints filed by Frances Haugen against Facebook, covering 2020 election, Jan. 6 riots, teen mental health, and more — For the first time, read the whistleblower's complaints to the SEC that led to 60 Minutes' report on Facebook.
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VICE, New York Times, and Financial Times
Tweets: @post_market, @dlberes, @histoftech, @juliacarriew, and @jason_kint
| Reuters: |
Frances Haugen's prepared Senate testimony: Facebook putting profits over safety has resulted in a system that amplifies division, extremism, and polarization — Former Facebook (FB.O) employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen will urge the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to regulate the social media giant …
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| Scott Pelley / CBS News: |
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Tweets: @60minutes, @franceshaugen_, @guyro, @yaeleisenstat, @katestarbird, and @jrubinblogger
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Facebook's services and work tools return online after suffering a global outage for over six hours — Update: 5:55 p.m. ET: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are slowly but surely coming back up after more than 6 hours of being down. Your mileage may vary for now …
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| Santosh Janardhan / Facebook Engineering: |
Facebook says configuration changes on its backbone routers disrupted network traffic between its data centers, causing an outage across its platforms — To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today's outage across our platforms.
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| Celso Martinho / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare says prior to Facebook's outage, Facebook issued several BGP updates, causing DNS resolution errors that knocked Facebook off the web — “Facebook can't be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. — Today at 15:51 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled …
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Julia Evans, Wired, HotHardware.com News, BBC, Malwarebytes Labs, Cointelegraph, ComputerWeekly.com, and howardlindzon.com
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Tweets: @mikeisaac, @fb_engineering, @mikeisaac, and @mistressmatisse
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Review of the now-released Windows 11: improved modern UI and sounds, but many promised features like Android apps are missing and new taskbar is a step back — Microsoft's new OS is a work in progress — Microsoft wants Windows 11 to feel familiar. While the company has attempted drastic changes …
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Xbox Wire, Windows Blog, Microsoft Docs, Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, PC Gamer, Washington Post, GameSpot, HotHardware.com News, Computerworld, AnandTech, CRN, Tom's Guide, and Gizmodo. Tweets: @satyanadella
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Pro 8 review: new modern look, 120Hz display, and improved stylus, but it is expensive, accessories aren't included, and ports are limited — This is the best Surface Pro we've seen in years — I've been waiting for the Surface Pro 8. — Microsoft has been selling …
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Windows Central, TechCrunch, techadvisor.com, Tom's Hardware, Ars Technica, XDA Developers, XDA Developers, AnandTech, Tom's Guide, CRN, PCMag, PCWorld, Engadget, Thurrott, CNBC, and Brad Sams
Tweets: @dcseifert and @chriswelch
| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Filing: Circle, which backs the USDC stablecoin, received a subpoena in July from the SEC for documents on “our holdings, customer programs, and operations” — Circle Financial is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange (SEC), the payments company disclosed Monday.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Europol announces the arrest of two alleged ransomware gang members in Ukraine, with help from US and French authorities, as some think they may belong to REvil — Two members of a ransomware gang were arrested in Ukraine following a joint international law enforcement operation.
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Europol. More:
YouTube and HackRead
Tweets: @europol, @gossithedog, @christopherjm, and @gossithedog
| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Review of Apple's A15 shows big efficiency gains and adequate speed improvements, which range from 2.5% to 37% over A14 depending on the type of workload — A few weeks ago, we've seen Apple announce their newest iPhone 13 series devices, a set of phones being powered by the newest Apple A15 SoC.
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iMore, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, phonearena.com, and MacRumors
Tweets: @catfish_man and @t3mporarybl1p
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google announces the Pixel 6 virtual launch event will be on October 19 at 10am PT — The Pixel Fall Launch is on — Google traditionally holds an October hardware event to reveal its new Pixel phones. This year, it already announced them — here's the Pixel 5A and the Pixel 6.
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9to5Google, HotHardware.com News, MobileSyrup, XDA Developers, CNET, and Thurrott. Tweets: @ronamadeo
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat rolls out a new “Run for Office” in-app tool to encourage young adults to run for local office, including a portal with 75K+ curated upcoming elections — Snapchat is rolling out a new ‘Run for Office’ in-app tool to encourage young adults to run for local office.
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Snap Newsroom. More:
CNET, PCMag, Engadget, Gizmodo, NBC News, and The Verge
Tweets: @pkedrosky, @emergeamerica, and @voterunlead
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Leaked court doc shows US investigators secretly used a “keyword warrant” to order Google to provide data on anyone searching a victim's name and personal info — The U.S. government is secretly ordering Google to provide data on anyone typing in certain search terms, an accidentally unsealed court document shows.
Tweets: @granick, @iblametom, and @iblametom
| Rachel Phua / DealStreetAsia: |
Orca Security, which provides tools for protecting cloud-based assets, extends Series C to $550M led by Temasek at a $1.8B valuation, up from $1.2B in March — Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings has led a $550 million extended Series C round for Los Angeles-based Orca Security …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, CRN, and CTech
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Sky Mavis, developer of NFT game Axie Infinity, raises ~$150M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, sources say at a nearly $3B valuation — Sky Mavis, the developer of the popular crypto-based online game Axie Infinity, is raising approximately $150 million in Series B funding …
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CoinDesk, The Lunacian, Andreessen Horowitz, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, Forkast, DealStreetAsia, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @axieinfinity, @wfederman, @jihoz_axie, @anildelphi, and @ldrogen
| Josh Ye / South China Morning Post: |
China's top court ruled in September that a consumer's antitrust suit against Apple can proceed to Shanghai court, a move that some say may bring more lawsuits — Supreme People's Court in China ruled that a lawsuit filed by a Chinese consumer against Apple's China entity on antitrust grounds …
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AppleInsider, Patently Apple, and 9to5Mac
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram ditches the IGTV brand and combines IGTV's long-form videos and Instagram Feed videos into a new Instagram Video format; Reels is unaffected — Instagram head Adam Mosseri recently said was “no longer a photo-sharing app,” noting the company was prioritizing a shift … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Insurance infrastructure startup Sure raises $100M Series C at a $550M valuation to help companies launch insurance products with its APIs — Sure, an insurance infrastructure startup, announced today that it has closed on $100 million in Series C funding at a $550 million valuation.
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Crowdfund Insider
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
D-Wave says it aims to build a gate-model quantum computer, but will keep investing and developing the quantum annealing tech that it has pursued for 20+ years — For more than 20 years, D-Wave has been synonymous with quantum annealing. Its early bet on this technology allowed it to become … | Rachel Pannett / Washington Post: |
Singapore's parliament passes a law that will compel ISPs and social media platforms to share user data, block content, and more, drawing criticism from experts — Singapore's parliament has passed a law aimed at countering foreign interference that is potentially so powerful rights groups … | Ax Sharma / Sonatype Blog: |
Apache pushes a fix for an actively exploited flaw affecting a specific version of its web server; currently over 112K servers are vulnerable — Yesterday, I reported that Apache Airflow servers that belonged to dozens of popular tech firms had not been patched.
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BleepingComputer, The Record, and The Hacker News
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