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Imgur confirms hackers stole 1.7M email addresses and passwords hashed with SHA-256 algorithm in 2014 hack — The hackers stole email addresses and passwords. — Imgur, one of the world's most visited websites, has confirmed a hack dating back to 2014. — The company confirmed to ZDNet …
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| Jeff Kao / Hacker Noon: |
Analysis of FCC net neutrality comments finds over 1M pro-repeal were likely faked and 99% of organic comments were in favor of keeping rules — I used natural language processing techniques to analyze net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC from April-October 2017, and the results were disturbing.
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Wall Street Journal: |
Pokémon Go developer Niantic raises ~$200M Series B led by Spark Capital with participation from Founders Fund, Meritech, Javelin Venture Capital, and others — Series B led by Spark Capital is secured as company prepares to release a ‘Harry Potter’ title| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Adobe: Thanksgiving day e-commerce sales were $2.87B, up 18.3% YoY, with 46% of all traffic to sites coming from smartphones — Black Friday, the day after a quiet Thanksgiving Thursday, traditionally has been thought of as the start of the holiday sales season, but the rise of e-commerce …
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Adobe: US Black Friday online sales were $5.03B, up 16.9% YoY, with 54.3% of all site visits and 36.9% of purchases made on mobile devices — The final figures for Black Friday online sales are in, and it's another record-breaking day e-commerce in the U.S. Adobe says that shoppers spent $5.03 billion online … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
KGI: iPhone X manufacturing bottlenecks largely resolved with Foxconn producing 450K-550K units per day compared to 50K-150K 1-2 months ago — Steady improvements in iPhone X supplies that have seen shipping estimates fall to 1-2 weeks are due to better-than-expected improvements … | Melia Robinson / Business Insider: |
AltSchool, which raised $175M from Mark Zuckerberg, Founders Fund, and a16z to reimagine primary education, is closing over half its schools and losing students — - A new kind of school crafted by the minds and wallets of Silicon Valley influencers is struggling to keep parents happy and students in seats.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat debuts new ad formats allowing advertisers to post Promoted Stories in Stories tab and AR Trial Ads for placing interactive objects in a camera view — Snap Inc's stock tanked after missing revenue expectations by $30 million last quarter, so Snapchat is looking to win over businesses with immersive new ads formats.| Nick Heath / ZDNet: |
City of Munich decides to switch fully over to Windows 10 after running mostly on Linux for over a decade — Windows 10 will be rolled out to about 29,000 PCs at the city council, a major shift for an authority that has been running Linux for more than a decade.| Cliff Kuang / New York Times: |
A look at Explainable AI, an emerging research discipline to make decision-making of machine learning systems more transparent and understandable to humans — As machine learning becomes more powerful, the field's researchers increasingly find themselves unable to account for what their algorithms know — or how they know it.
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| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Facebook confirms it's testing a Snapchat-like streak feature in Messenger that shows how many consecutive days users have been chatting with friends — Streaks aren't just for Snapchat, anymore. — Facebook is now testing a version of a similar feature in Messenger, the company confirmed with Mashable.
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| Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg: |
Yandex and Uber receive approval from national antitrust regulator to merge their ride sharing businesses in Russia; merger expected to close in January 2018 — Yandex, Uber to combine taxi businesses in January 2018 — Joint venture shouldn't restrict users, drivers using rivals
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| Hamza Shaban / Washington Post: |
Uber faces investigations by 5 US state AGs and at least 3 potential class actions, and has been contacted by FTC over recently disclosed hack and $100K ransom — After Uber revealed that it paid hackers $100,000 to keep quiet about stealing the personal information of 57 million customers and drivers … | Giles Turner / Bloomberg: |
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