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| Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg's “both sides” argument is a flimsy defense of Facebook's failure to limit the spread of systematic misinformation during 2016 election — Responding to President Trump's tweet this week that “Facebook was always anti-Trump,” Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook …
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| Florin T. / PhoneArena: |
Renders leak of Huawei Mate 10 Pro with f/1.6 Leica-branded cameras — Huawei won't properly announce its Mate 10 smartphone series before October 16, but we already know plenty about it, including the fact that it should be comprised of multiple devices - a regular Mate 10, a Mate 10 Pro …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Here's the proposal to change Uber's governance, which is aimed at limiting Travis Kalanick's power — The changes, listed. — Former CEO Travis Kalanick's decision on Friday to appoint two new directors to the board of the car-hailing company did not come out of nowhere, although it was a surprise to the board and its new CEO.
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Travis Kalanick appoints Ursula Burns, John Thain to Uber board in clout-bolstering move; Uber says decision “came as a complete surprise to Uber and its board” — Kalanick asserts right to pick directors as questions swirl — Unclear if Uber's new CEO Khosrowshahi supports board choices| Josh Gerstein / Politico: |
FBI does not have to reveal the name of a vendor that unlocked San Bernardino shooter's iPhone, judge rules in FOIA lawsuit filed by Vice, USA Today, and AP — A federal judge has ruled that the FBI does not have to make public how much it paid last year to unlock an iPhone used … | Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
Analysis: Apple has sold about 15M Watch units in last 12 months and about 33M since launch, generating about $12B in sales — Apple is now the biggest watchmaker in the world, overtaking Rolex during the last quarter. This achievement happened less than two and a half years after Apple entered the watch market.
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| Karen DeYoung / Washington Post: |
Sources: under the President's directive, US Cyber Command performed DDoS attacks against hackers in North Korea's military spy agency — Early in his administration, President Trump signed a directive outlining a strategy of pressure against North Korea that involved actions across … | Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
Apple has quietly built a global network of small research and development labs that doubles as an employee poaching operation — Apple has opened offices close to companies with top expertise — In recent years, Apple Inc. has quietly put together a global network of small research and development labs … | Bloomberg: |
Profile of Brendan Greene, director of PC game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which has sold 13M copies and is launching on Xbox later this year — Three years ago, Brendan Greene was on welfare in his hometown of Kildare, Ireland, getting an earful from social workers about how he should stop wasting …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ongoing investigations find the Equifax hack may have been state-sponsored, and 30+ entry points were created in Equifax computer systems — In the corridors and break rooms of Equifax Inc.'s giant Atlanta headquarters, employees used to joke that their enormously successful credit reporting company …
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| James Somers / MIT Technology Review: |
Inside the history and limitations of Geoffrey Hinton's 30-year-old backpropagation neural network technique, which formed the basis for modern deep learning — Just about every AI advance you've heard of depends on a breakthrough that's three decades old.| Robert Hof / SiliconANGLE: |
Oracle unveils 18c, a ML-driven self-patching and self-tuning database, coming December for data warehousing and June for online transaction processing — Oracle Corp. Sunday announced the next generation of its database, which founder and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison said will be able …
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