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FBI-DHS report fails to make a hard case that Russia tampered with US elections, likely because the agencies want to protect methods for detecting hacks — US issued JAR billed itself as an indictment that would prove Russian involvement. — Talk about disappointments.
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See also Mediagazer| Sam Thielman / The Guardian: |
FBI-DHS joint report links two Russian intelligence hacking groups to hacks of Democratic Party organizations; experts say report is too little too late — Experts say report is too little too late and comes after several others from private sector detailing alleged exploits of groups Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear
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| Anil Dash: |
Ideas to fix Twitter: show you can ship new features, handle abuse transparently, revamp metrics, understand different user types, and embrace developers — Jack asked us for ideas on how to fix Twitter. A coherent plan for fixing Twitter would make millions of people happier …
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See also Mediagazer| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Twitter's managing director for Greater China, Kathy Chen, leaves after 8 months — Kathy Chen follows others out the door of the social communications company. — Twitter lost yet another top exec with the departure of Kathy Chen, its managing director in Greater China.| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
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See also Mediagazer| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
| Matthew Humphries / PC Magazine: |
Researchers: ID codes printed on boarding passes, luggage tags for ~90% of flights let hackers access travelers' personal info, steal reservations, more — Booking a flight has become a simple process thanks to the Internet, and once you have flights secured you can relax, right?
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| Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal: |
PitchBook: non-tech firms spent ~$10B acquiring VC-backed US startups in 2016, nearly double the amount from 2015 and the highest total in at least five years — Silicon Valley upstarts are courted by retail, manufacturing companies seeking new growth — In late 2015, a commuter-shuttle … | Agence France-Presse: |
French law requiring companies to give workers a “right to disconnect” from work-related messages after work hours goes into effect on January 1 — From 1 January, workers have ‘right to disconnect’ as France seeks to establish agreements that afford work flexibility but avoid burnout
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nielsen's 2016 top apps by monthly uniques: Facebook, up 14% YoY to 146M; Messenger, up 28% to 129M; and YouTube, up 20% to 113M; Amazon hits #10, up 43% to 65M — Mobile applications from Facebook and Google dominated the new list of the year's top apps released today by Nielsen.
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg Technology: |
Review of overlooked tech trends in 2016: faster broadband speeds, growth of digital currencies, the success of tech M&A, more — I'm on a flight home to Macon, Georgia, reading Hillbilly Elegy like much of the rest of Silicon Valley. I'm trying to figure out how I misread the American electorate so fundamentally.| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Review of appeals court decisions from 2016 that benefited software patent holders and set the bar for software patents after Supreme Court's Alice decision — It's harder, but not impossible, for owners of software patents to win cases. — In 2014, the US Supreme Court dealt a major blow to software patents.| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
North Korea's Chinese-made Woolim tablet is an Android device that tracks users and distributes propaganda, can access some pre-approved apps and websites — When you think of North Korea, the first thing that springs to mind is probably not a well-featured tablet PC.
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
In 2016 Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, others acknowledged they are not just neutral platforms and began tackling issues like discrimination, harassment, fake news — In early December, Facebook published a blog post summing up the company's breakthroughs and challenges in image and speech recognition.Sponsor Posts
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