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How Devumi uses its 3.5M+ automated Twitter accounts, sometimes based on stolen social identities, to sell followers and retweets to 200K+ customers — Everyone wants to be popular online. — Some even pay for it. — Inside social media's black market.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
AI advances are now making automated analysis of live surveillance video possible, presaging useful applications while raising serious questions about privacy — What happens when digital eyes get the brains to match? — We usually think of surveillance cameras as digital eyes …
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| Robert Draper / National Geographic: |
A deep look at the evolution of visual surveillance technology, where it is headed, and what its continuing rise will mean for security, transparency, privacy — London authorities were early adopters of widespread closed-circuit television (CCTV) — surveillance after the city was targeted …
Tweets: @model_the_world, @stevecase, @natgeomaps, @natgeomaps, @natgeomaps, @susanbgoldberg, and @dirka
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
YouTube served ads containing Coinhive's cryptocurrency-mining and CPU-draining JavaScript, likely via Google's DoubleClick; Google says ads now blocked — Ad campaign lets attackers profit while unwitting users watch videos. — YouTube was recently caught displaying ads …
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Tweets: @diegobetto and @drevilgames
| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google's AI-powered Clips camera is now available in the US Google Store for $249, with first deliveries expected in March — Three months ago Google announced the Google Clips, a tiny clip-on camera powered by some impressive machine learning technology. The idea behind it was that rather … | Josh Lovejoy / Google Design: |
Google details human-centered UX approach for its Clips camera, says AI for capturing memorable moments was trained with the help of professional photographers — Using Google Clips to understand how a human-centered design process elevates artificial intelligence
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ZDNet, The Verge, Digital Trends, Digital Photography Review, and Engadget
Tweets: @mvitazko, @thesignoffive, and @jdlovejoy
| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Diversity advocates inside Google, including queer and transgender staff, say they are being targeted by a small group of coworkers with doxxing and harassment — FIRED GOOGLE ENGINEER James Damore says he was vilified and harassed for questioning what he calls the company's liberal political orthodoxy …
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| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Renders of upcoming Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ leak, both look similar to their S8 predecessors — EXCLUSIVE: — Having opted against what would have been an uncharacteristic debut at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas — in teaser capacity or otherwise …
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Ars Technica, Lowyat.NET, ValueWalk, International Business Times, Gizmochina, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, 9to5Google, ZDNet, The Verge, TechSpot, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, Highsnobiety, Android Authority, The Next Web, TalkAndroid.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneDog.com, Thurrott.com, Phandroid, BGR, Engadget, CNET, Softpedia News, MSPoweruser, TmoNews, Mashable, Android and Me, Android Police, Windows Central, Droid Life, Android Beat, and 91mobiles.com
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Sources: a16z and USV, who have cryptocurrency experience, are passing on Telegram's ICO; firms newer to crypto like KPCB, Sequoia, and Benchmark are investing — The investors are not who you'd expect. — Some of the most prominent investors in cryptocurrency are passing …
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Tweets: @staska, @rmac18, @kylesamani, and @malloc8
| Ben Hubbard / New York Times: |
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, investor in companies including Twitter and Lyft, is released after November arrest amid corruption crackdown — BEIRUT, Lebanon — Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Saudi Arabia's most prominent and flamboyant investor, has been released from detention …
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BBC, Reuters, Deadline, The Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, Associated Press, and Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Tweets: @nytben
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook will allow fans of game streamers to tip creators a minimum of $3 as part of its new gaming creator pilot program — Facebook Live is launching monetization for video gameplay streamers, allowing users to tip creators a minimum of $3 via the desktop site.
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Facebook for Developers, Mashable, Tech Times, Social Media Today, Engadget, Gizmodo, Variety, Recode, VentureBeat, and The Verge
Tweets: @mattnavarra, @kantrowitz, and @joshconstine
| Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg: |
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck says it will repay all 260K users who lost money in Friday's theft of ~$400M in NEM coins — Users will receive 88.549 yen for each coin that was stolen — Japanese exchange will compensate clients using internal fundsSponsor Posts
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From content collaboration to content intelligence: Zoho WorkDrive's 2025 journey — As 2025 draws to a close, we're reflecting on a year marked by meaningful progress, purposeful innovation, and continuous learning at Zoho WorkDrive.
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