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Facebook testing News Feed change in six countries, moving non-promoted posts from Pages to a secondary feed, decreasing engagement for some media — New system could destroy smaller publishers if implemented, after journalists report drop in organic reach - but users will still see their friends' posts
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| Adam Mosseri / Facebook Media: |
Facebook says its News Feed test is about emphasis of personal stories, no plans to expand to more countries or ask publishers to pay for all distribution — There have been a number of reports about a test we're running in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft drops suit against the US DoJ after the department announced new policy to limit the use gag orders by prosecutors for accessing customer data — Microsoft says it's dropping a suit against the U.S. Justice Department that targeted a tactic commonly used by prosecutors …
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| Tom Dotan / The Information: |
Sources: Snap overestimated demand for Spectacles, has hundreds of thousands of unsold units in warehouses; Evan Spiegel previously said sales beat expectations — Snap badly overestimated demand for its Spectacles and now has hundreds of thousands of unsold units sitting in warehouses …
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| Jordan Pearson / Motherboard: |
A second Bitcoin fork expected to take place within days for Bitcoin Gold; new code to be released to public Nov. 1 — When a group of Bitcoin users and companies split the digital currency into two different versions in August, it was an unprecedented event in the technology's nine-year history.| Michael Balsamo / Associated Press: |
FBI Director Christopher Wray says in first 11 months of fiscal year, agents were unable to unlock over half the mobile devices it tried to access, over 6,900+ — PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The FBI hasn't been able to retrieve data from more than half of the mobile devices it tried to access in less than a year …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Sources: typical AI specialists receiving $300K-$500K a year in salary and stock; well-known names in the AI field have received compensation totalling millions — Nearly all big tech companies have an artificial intelligence project, and they are willing to pay experts millions of dollars to help get it done.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Azure customers can now run workloads on Cray supercomputers — Microsoft and Cray are teaming to give Azure customers with data-intentsive HPC, AI workloads access to Cray supercomputers running in select Microsoft datacenters. — Microsoft and Cray are enabling Azure customers … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
FTC failed in allowing Facebook to acquire Instagram, WhatsApp; it should intervene on tbh, regardless of whether the purchase price is enough to mandate review — There was one line in TechCrunch's report about Facebook's purchase of social app tbh [sic] that made me raise my eyebrows (emphasis mine):
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat updates iOS app with link sharing from other apps, introduces temporary opt-out options for Snap Map — Snapchat is embracing links beyond its native content and will now allow you to briefly disappear from its Snap Map. In an update to Snapchat's iOS apptoday, Snap began rolling out two important new features.
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| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it received 238 proposals from across North America for its second HQ — More than 200 metro areas entered to win Amazon's massive HQ2 contest before the Oct. 19 deadline — 238 to be exact. — Those proposals came from 54 states, provinces, districts, and territories across North America, Amazon announced Monday.| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon to shut down its five-year-old Amazon Wine business December 31, 2017, but will still offer wine via Amazon Fresh, Prime Now, and Whole Foods Markets — Amazon Wine will close up shop at the end of this year. — Amazon notified wine sellers on Monday that the company would shut …
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