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US indicts 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian entities, including Internet Research Agency, in Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 elections — The special counsel's office said Friday that a federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Russia used US VPNs, matching stolen photo IDs and SSNs, fake PayPal accounts to make it hard for Facebook, Twitter spot illicit influence of the 2016 election — How do you stop a troll with an entire fake identity? — The Russian troll farm has been hit with its first major indictment.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Twitter says Twitter for Mac app will no longer be available for download starting today, will end support for the app in 30 days — The company will no longer support the client after 30 days — Twitter's erratic support for its dedicated desktop Mac application is coming to an end …
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| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
National Labor Relations Board memo: statements in James Damore's memo were “so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive” that Google had a right to fire him — Engineer claimed tech giant violated his labor law rights — U.S. lawyer said ‘discriminatory statements’ aren't protected
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| Daniel Nazer / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
District court in New York rules that by embedding a tweet with copyrighted content, websites may violate copyright, rejecting years of settled legal precedent — Rejecting years of settled precedent, a federal court in New York has ruled [PDF] that you could infringe copyright simply by embedding a tweet in a web page.
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| Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal: |
Google tests 911 call location tech expected to launch this year; RapidSOS says tests got to within 121 feet of callers while carriers averaged 522 feet — 911 centers often struggle to locate cellphone callers, but new technology from Google could improve the U.S. system
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| Alison Griswold / Quartz: |
Waymo received permit in Arizona to operate a transportation network company, says it is “taking all the steps necessary to launch commercial service this year” — Waymo is preparing to launch a ride-hailing service akin to Uber's, but with driverless cars.
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| Sahil Patel / Digiday: |
Wojcicki sees YouTube Red as a music service, has no plans to compete with video streaming services; media execs say subscriptions make creators little revenue — What, exactly, is YouTube Red? That's a question creators and YouTube network executives might want to ask more than two years … | Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Sources: Uber is preparing to sell its Southeast Asia business to Grab in exchange for a sizable stake in the Singaporean company — - Uber is preparing to sell its Southeast Asia business to Grab, similar to its deal with Didi in China. — Uber is preparing to sell its Southeast Asia business … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook apologizes for 2FA-related SMS notifications spam and auto-posting replies on user Facebook profiles, says fix rolling out in coming days — The company also plans disable a feature that automatically posts SMS replies as status updates — Facebook this evening clarified … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
SEC filing: Intel facing 32 class action lawsuits over Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws and three shareholder derivative actions over alleged insider trading — Shareholders also allege insider trading — Intel has revealed today that the company is facing at least 32 lawsuits over the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws.| Venessa Wong / BuzzFeed: |
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