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Credit reporting firm Equifax: breach affecting up to 143M US consumers found on 7/29; 209K credit card numbers, 182K “dispute” docs with personal info stolen — Equifax Inc., which supplies credit information and other information services, said Thursday that a cybersecurity incident …
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Sources: fingerprint scanner will be omitted from “iPhone 8” after production issues, which set back early production by a month and may create supply shortages — The widely anticipated 10th-anniversary iPhone, with an expected base price near $1,000, hit a speed bump or two related to its OLED display
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Microsoft and Facebook partner to launch Open Neural Network Exchange format, letting AI developers switch between frameworks easily — Facebook and Microsoft announced ONNX, the Open Neural Network Exchange this morning in respective blog posts. The Exchange makes it easier …
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| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed: |
Experts say Facebook's reticence to reveal information about advertisers, as other media forums must, threatens the democratic process — Sen. Mark Warner suggested that Facebook should disclose the same information about political ads that radio and TV stations are required to.
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| Alex Stamos / Facebook: |
Facebook says most of ~3K Russia-linked ads during US Presidential campaign referenced divisive social issues, not the election, and that ~25% were geo-targeted — There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 US election about Russian interference in the electoral process.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon seeks proposals from cities for a second HQ in North America, a “full equal” to Seattle HQ, and says it'll invest $5B+ and grow it to 50,000 employees — Amazon plans to build a second headquarters in a North American city to be determined, saying the new $5 billion campus will be a …
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| Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Silicon Valley fondly remembers Dogster cofounder Ted Rheingold, who died of cancer at 47 — The last company Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and angel investor Ted Rheingold advised was one that helps an overlooked segment of American consumers improve their credit scores.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google to sunset Drive app for desktop, with support ending December 11 and full shutdown on March 12, 2018, to be replaced by newer apps — Google will end support on December 11th — The aging Google Drive app for desktop is officially deprecated as of today, Google announced in a blog post.| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Disney CEO Bob Iger says Marvel and Star Wars titles will be streamed exclusively on its new service when it launches in late 2019 — - Marvel and Star Wars titles will be streamed exclusively on the new Disney streaming platform when it launches in late 2019, according to Disney CEO Bob Iger.
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Pew 2017 study of news use on social media: 55% of US people aged 50+ get news on social sites, up 10% YoY; Twitter users who get news on site up 15% YoY to 74% — As of August 2017, two-thirds (67%) of Americans report that they get at least some of their news on social media …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Indiegogo says it will compel campaigns to provide status of product's development and update backers monthly — Indiegogo is making a pair of changes today that are designed to compel crowdfunding campaigns to be clearer with backers about the state of their products.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Atlassian launches Stride, a Slack-like workplace communication tool; free tier stores 25K messages, has 5GB file storage while $3/user/mo. tier removes limits — Atlassian, the company behind popular tools like Jira, Trello and Bitbucket, has also long offered a team communications service in the form of HipChat.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft and Adobe announce new productivity integrations: Adobe Sign now “preferred” option for Office 365, Microsoft Teams now “preferred” for Creative Cloud — Microsoft and Adobe are continuing to integrate more of their cloud services — such as Microsoft Teams … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify and Hulu partner to offer both services in a bundle to US students for $4.99/month, will offer other bundles to more customers in future — Hulu and Spotify announced a partnership today that will see the two companies working together to market entertainment bundles offering …
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Ookla's US Speedtest report: average mobile download speeds increased 19% YoY; T-Mobile fastest for mobile internet and Comcast Xfinity fastest for broadband — Mobile and fixed broadband internet speeds in the U.S. are improving, but not all carriers and providers are created equal …
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