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Facebook plans to roll out tool to show users if they liked or followed a Russia-linked account on Facebook or Instagram but not if they saw Russia-linked ads — So far, Google and Twitter have not detailed their plans. — Facebook is trying to alert some U.S. users that they fell victim …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Ajit Pai's proposal to kill net neutrality argues the FCC should not have tried to stop Comcast from blocking BitTorrent in 2008 — This is what happens when you're honest about killing net neutrality — FCC Chairman Ajit Pai released his proposal to kill net neutrality today …
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| John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable: |
As the FCC seeks to kill net neutrality, Comcast, Charter, and cable trade group NCTA vow not to block, throttle, or interfere with lawful sites or activities — Look to calm critics suggesting FCC Title II rollback would lead to such conduct — ISPs were renewing their pledges not to block …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
YouTube details steps it's taking in ongoing effort to clamp down on videos that exploit children, will ramp up removal of offensive material, halt monetization — Across YouTube, an unsettling trend has emerged: Accounts are publishing disturbing and exploitative videos aimed … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
PC vendors scramble to issue patches after Intel announced firmware flaws allowing remote code execution affecting a wide range of chips and millions of devices — Millions of computers could be remotely hijacked through bug in firmware code. — Intel has issued a security alert …
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| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
UK government says it'll charge a 20% tax on companies' earnings that are held offshore from April 2019, a move widely seen to be aimed at tech companies — - The Treasury is cracking down on big tech firms like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple that shift UK profits offshore to minimise their tax bills.
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| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
Amazon's AWS updates its Rekognition service to detect and recognize text within images, perform real-time face searches, and more — Amazon Web Services announced a series of updates to its Recognition service, which provides machine learning-based computer vision capabilities to cloud customers.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Filing shows Lyft is raising an additional $500M in funding, one month after announcing $1B raise led by Alphabet's CapitalG, at an $11.5B post-money valuation — Ride-hail company Lyft is raising up to $500 million in additional funding, according to a share authorization document filed yesterday in Delaware.| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
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| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Source: Samsung plans to showcase Galaxy S9 and S9+ at CES in January; phones will have similar appearance to S8, same screen size, more RAM, second back camera — EXCLUSIVE: — Samsung is planning to show off its next-generation Galaxy S handsets a bit earlier than usual …
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The Verge, Forbes, MSPoweruser, TechSpot, Droid Life, SlashGear, CNET, Neowin, 9to5Google, Android Police, PhoneDog.com, TmoNews, Mashable, Tom's Guide, BGR, Engadget, and Android Central. Tweets: @evleaks
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources say Iconiq Capital, a $7B asset management firm linked to many Silicon Valley elites, plans to refocus on tech investments, including buyouts — Shift in strategy by Iconiq Capital raises the specter of possible conflicts with some of its clients — A secretive wealth manager …
Tweets: @jasonlk, @cezary, @shitfund, @chriswitkowsky, @wsjfinreg, @wsjmarkets, @preetatweets, and @ddayen
| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed: |
Lawyers for Peter Thiel file a motion to block efforts that have prevented him from bidding on Gawker.com assets during bankruptcy proceeding — In a federal bankruptcy court filing on Wednesday, lawyers for venture capitalist Peter Thiel objected to the ongoing sale process of Gawker.com …
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| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
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