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| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Sources: Facebook VP of ads Rob Goldman apologized internally for his tweetstorm about Russian interference, saying “I conveyed my view poorly” — ON FRIDAY MORNING, just before 10am on the West Coast, the office of special counsel Robert Mueller published his indictment …
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| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Fact-checking the tweetstorm by Facebook VP of ads Rob Goldman on the Mueller indictment and Facebook's role in election interference by Russia — Rob Goldman, Facebook vice president for ads, tweeted about Russia's disinformation effort. President Trump then cited him. We fact-checked Mr. Goldman.
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| New York Times: |
One hour after news broke about the Florida school shooting, hundreds of suspected Russian-linked Twitter bots released divisive posts on the gun control debate — SAN FRANCISCO — One hour after news broke about the school shooting in Florida last week, Twitter accounts suspected of having links …
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Hackers infiltrated Tesla's Kubernetes console, which lacked a password and contained credentials for its AWS environment, and began mining cryptocurrency — The Cryptojacking Epidemic — A few months ago, the RedLock Cloud Security Intelligence (CSI) team found hundreds …
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft outlines limitations of Windows 10 on ARM compared to on x86: no initial support for 64-bit apps, Hyper-V, or certain app classes, and no x86 drivers — For over a year we've been treated to the fantasy that Windows 10 on ARM was the same as Windows 10 on x86. But it's a bit more nuanced than that.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Pay begins its global rollout, replacing Android Pay, with the home screen showing a personalized list of relevant stores accepting Google Pay — As we reported last month, Google is uniting all of its different payment tools under the Google Pay brand.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat now lets users add GIF stickers to their posts via Giphy and rolls out tabs on Friends and Discover sections to help organize and follow Stories — Snapchat is bringing one of the best recent features of Instagram Stories to its own app, with the ability to add GIF stickers from Giphy to your posts.
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| Reuters: |
Qualcomm raises its bid for NXP Semiconductors from ~$38B to ~$44B, or from $110 to $127.50 per share, in an effort to win shareholder support — (Reuters) - U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) raised its offer to buy NXP Semiconductors NV (NXPI.O) to $127.50 per share from $110 …
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| Mishaal Rahman / xda-developers: |
Nuance discontinues Swype keyboards for iOS and Android after buying Swype for $100M in 2011, says it will focus on AI for businesses instead — For the longest time, one of the advantages of Android over iOS was the ability to use third-party keyboard apps available on the Play Store.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's 3D posts now support glTF 2.0 file format for better textures, lighting, rendering of objects that can be dropped into News Feed, shared to Spaces VR — What if you could digitally sculpt a 3D object and share it on Facebook, play with it in virtual reality, or insert it into your world with augmented reality?| Mark Wilson / Co.Design: |
After opening Snap Store this month, Snap sells special Jordan shoes at LA concert via QR code that sent customers to Snapchat for purchase, shipped same night — The social media company is looking at e-commerce as its next big revenue channel, and it's starting with some brand-new Jordans.
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| BitMEX: |
Data indicates that Tether may hold sufficient reserves in Puerto Rican bank; main danger for Tether is shutdown by authorities due to money laundering concerns — Abstract: Tether is a crypto token based on top of Bitcoin and Ethereum's blockchains, and the value of the token is pegged to the US dollar by centralised USD reserves.
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