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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Reddit says a leak of official US-UK trade documents on its platform was part of a Russian political influence campaign, bans 61 accounts and one subreddit — Reddit bans 61 accounts and one subreddit for “misuse of the platform.” — Reddit said today that a leak of official US-UK trade documents …
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| Caroline Spivack / Curbed NY: |
Report: Amazon leases 335K square feet of office space in NYC without any tax incentives, less than a year after pulling out of its larger HQ2 campus deal — Amazon is renting new office space in the Hudson Yards neighborhood. Max Touhey — The e-commerce titan remains interested in the Big Apple
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Report: Magic Leap sold ~6,000 headsets in six months after release, compared to a goal of 100,000 in the first year, and recently laid off dozens of employees — And Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly left its board — Magic Leap's sales numbers reportedly haven't matched CEO Rony …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A look at the mixed legacy of Alphabet's organizational structure, which sometimes led to the duplication of efforts among Google and Alphabet's other companies — With Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepping back (again!), Google CEO Sundar Pichai is now in charge of Alphabet—and its dysfunction.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Pichai's track record at Google over the past two years shows that Alphabet companies can be expected to either become more focused or get folded into Google — I've been thinking a lot about the Alphabet-Google (my colleague Kyle Wiggers prefers “Googlebet") news this week.| Reuters: |
Ericsson admits it has bribed officials while selling telecom equipment in Asia, agrees to pay $1.1B in fines to US DOJ and SEC — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Swedish mobile telecoms company Ericsson has agreed to pay over $1 billion to resolve probes into corruption, including the bribing … | VICE: |
A look at the creation of a new kind of nonconsensual porn, which combines deepfakes with 3D avatars that can be manipulated to do whatever their creators want — A lineup of female celebrities stand in front of you. Their faces move, smile, and blink as you move around them.
Tweets: @mathewi and @zenalbatross
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Report: BMW discovered and monitored Vietnam-backed hackers who stayed active on its network since at least the spring of 2019; Hyundai was also targeted — The German automotive giant BMW discovered and monitored a group of hackers who infiltrated the company's networks and stayed active since at least the spring of 2019.| Jacob Pramuk / CNBC: |
Bernie Sanders unveils a “High-Speed Internet for All” plan with $150B to build publicly owned broadband networks, wants to break up ISPs like Comcast and AT&T — - Bernie Sanders announces a plan to expand rural broadband internet access and break up giant internet service providers.| Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: |
Ogury, a Paris-based mobile ad network which also offers a GDPR and CCPA compliant consent management platform, raises $50M Series C — Mobile data company Ogury raised $50 million in Series C funding on Thursday with an eye on international expansion and consumer privacy-related R&D.
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Smartsheet:
Smartsheet's CEO: Our Software Market Is Still in Its Early Stages — During a talk with TheStreet, Mark Mader argues his firm's work execution platform still has a lot of headroom to displace manual business processes.
Smartsheet's CEO: Our Software Market Is Still in Its Early Stages — During a talk with TheStreet, Mark Mader argues his firm's work execution platform still has a lot of headroom to displace manual business processes.Sponsor Post
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Adobe is acquiring Oculus Medium, a virtual reality sculpting tool launched in 2015, from Facebook — New updates will be coming in 2020 — Adobe is acquiring Oculus Medium, a virtual reality sculpting tool originally revealed by the Facebook-owned VR company in 2015.
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TechCrunch, Oculus Blog, VentureBeat, Social Media Today, Road to VR, Silicon Valley Business …, VRFocus, UploadVR, and Gamasutra
Tweets: @oculusmedium, @marceloplima, @ericsnowden, @joshconstine, @sculptrvr, @sculptrvr, @hmltn, and @steveteeps
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Profile of VSCO, a photo-sharing app with a reported valuation of $550M, which is trending towards 4M paying users in 2020, up from 2M in late 2018 — No likes, no comments, no follower count — VSCO sells a sense of belonging — Long before Instagram toyed with removing “likes,” VSCO …
Tweets: @glenngabe, @jessiechar, @joeldflory, @benterry, @kateclarktweets, @mengxilu, @kateclarktweets, and @dinsmore_steele. Thanks:@callum_gd
| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
In safety report, Uber says only 37% of the 464 rape cases during its US rides in 2017 and 2018 were reported to law enforcement — Buried inside Uber's inaugural safety report this week that detailed thousands of sexual assaults and more than 100 deaths was another staggering revelation … | Kate Conger / New York Times: |
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Sponsor Posts
Smartsheet:
Smartsheet's CEO: Our Software Market Is Still in Its Early Stages — During a talk with TheStreet, Mark Mader argues his firm's work execution platform still has a lot of headroom to displace manual business processes.
Smartsheet's CEO: Our Software Market Is Still in Its Early Stages — During a talk with TheStreet, Mark Mader argues his firm's work execution platform still has a lot of headroom to displace manual business processes.
Zoho:
3 ways to bring in high-quality leads — This is a guest post by JotForm. — Gathering high-quality leads to convert into paying customers isn't the easiest thing to do. From spambots to poorly created lead …
3 ways to bring in high-quality leads — This is a guest post by JotForm. — Gathering high-quality leads to convert into paying customers isn't the easiest thing to do. From spambots to poorly created lead …
Google Cloud:
What does the future of cloud computing hold — and what does this mean for businesses? We looked at the data, talked to luminaries, and listened to customers across the world. Here's what they said.
What does the future of cloud computing hold — and what does this mean for businesses? We looked at the data, talked to luminaries, and listened to customers across the world. Here's what they said.
Intel:
Here's why gamers should go with a processor that has high IPC and can hit the highest frequencies — Adding core count for core count's sake does not create a better gaming experience
Here's why gamers should go with a processor that has high IPC and can hit the highest frequencies — Adding core count for core count's sake does not create a better gaming experience
Mattermost:
Open source ChatOps is here — Mattermost ChatOps brings you an end-to-end open source ChatOps suite that makes bringing your DevOps systems together simple, prescriptive, and open.
Open source ChatOps is here — Mattermost ChatOps brings you an end-to-end open source ChatOps suite that makes bringing your DevOps systems together simple, prescriptive, and open.Listen to Techmeme's Podcast:
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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Report: BMW discovered and monitored Vietnam-backed hackers who stayed active on its network since at least the spring of 2019; Hyundai was also targetedFind
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Reuters:
Ericsson admits it has bribed officials while selling telecom equipment in Asia, agrees to pay $1.1B in fines to US DOJ and SECFind
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Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
Reddit says a leak of official US-UK trade documents on its platform was part of a Russian political influence campaign, bans 61 accounts and one subredditFind
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VICE:
A look at the creation of a new kind of nonconsensual porn, which combines deepfakes with 3D avatars that can be manipulated to do whatever their creators wantFind
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Financial Times:
Survey of 6,154 people in China: 74% want the option to choose traditional ID methods over facial recognition, 84% want ability to review or delete their dataFind
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Steven Levy / Wired:
A look at the mixed legacy of Alphabet's organizational structure, which sometimes led to the duplication of efforts among Google and Alphabet's other companiesFind
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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Pichai's track record at Google over the past two years shows that Alphabet companies can be expected to either become more focused or get folded into GoogleFind
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