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Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous — Internal documents show a struggle with misinformation, hate speech and celebrations of violence in the country, the company's biggest market.
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| Ben Smith / New York Times: |
How Frances Haugen maximized the impact of her leaked Facebook documents, rolling them out to WSJ and then broadening the circle to a large group of outlets — In a time of mega-leaks, journalists' sources have become power players. Frances Haugen, the former Facebook executive …
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| Ben Hubbard / New York Times: |
Citizen Lab: the iPhone of Ben Hubbard, an American reporter for NYT, was hacked in 2020 and 2021, likely by Saudi Arabia using NSO's Pegasus; NSO denies claim — Invasive hacking software sold to countries to fight terrorism is easily abused. Researchers say my phone was hacked twice, probably by Saudi Arabia.
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Tesla rolls back its FSD beta from version 10.3, which improved many items like brake light and turn signal detection, to 10.2 after “seeing some issues” — Elon Musk didn't specify what issues the company found — Tesla's decision to test its “Full Self Driving” …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft reverses its decision to remove code editing feature Hot Reload in its upcoming .NET 6 SDK, after backlash from the open source community — .NET 6 will now include Hot Reload across multiple platforms — Microsoft is reversing a decision to remove a key feature …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
CISA warns of malware discovered in npm package UAParser.js, which has 6M-7M downloads weekly, that installs a password stealer and a crypto miner — A massively popular JavaScript library (npm package) was hacked today and modified with malicious code that downloaded and installed …
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| Julia Kollewe / The Guardian: |
Tesco, UK's largest supermarket chain, was hacked on Saturday, halting online grocery orders through Sunday; Tesco says its site and app are back up and running — Consumers unable to book or amend deliveries after ‘attempt made to interfere with systems’ — Tesco has been hit by hackers …
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| Michael Shields / Reuters: |
ProtonMail's parent company wins a Swiss court appeal confirming email services are not considered telcos and thus not subject to data retention requirements — Geneva-based Proton AG, the company behind ProtonMail and ProtonVPN, has won an appeal regarding its treatment under Swiss law … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian startup Clear, which helps individuals and businesses file tax returns and more, raises a $75M Series C from Kora Capital, Stripe, and others — Stripe has made its second investment in India, just days after disclosing the first. One of the world's most valuable startups …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based Groww, which lets users invest in mutual funds, gold, stocks, and more, raises a $251M Series E led by Iconiq Growth, tripling its valuation to $3B — Groww has tripled its valuation to $3 billion in just six months as the Indian fintech startup looks to broaden its offerings … | Lizzy Lawrence / Protocol: |
A look at productivity influencers who center their content around apps like Notion, Excel, and Asana, offering advice on how to stay organized — This is the creators' internet. The rest of us are just living in it. We're accustomed to the scores of comedy TikTokers …
Tweets: @trengriffin, @gavinsbaker, @jberrebi, @trengriffin, @protocol, @protocol, @augustbradley, and @meganmorrone
| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
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