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August 9, 2018, 10:15 AM

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Sean Wolfe / Business Insider:
Jack Dorsey defends Twitter on Sean Hannity's radio show for not taking action against Alex Jones, denies Twitter “shadow bans” users based on politics  —  - Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey briefly called in to right-wing commentator Sean Hannity's radio show on Wednesday.
Kara Swisher / New York Times:
Twitter needs a code of values requiring it to make tough calls on high-profile and malevolent figures like Alex Jones  —  The platform won't ban the dangerous liar Alex Jones because he “hasn't violated our rules.”  Then what's the point of these rules?  —  This week, Alex Jones …
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Infowars is now the number one “trending” app on the Google Play store, but its overall audience is likely reduced by Apple, Facebook, and YouTube's actions  —  Just days after Google, Facebook and Apple purged videos and podcasts from the right-wing conspiracy site Infowars from their sites …
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Wall Street Journal:
New York City Council votes to cap Uber and Lyft, becoming the first US city to do so, imposing a 12-month freeze on new licenses  —  New York plans to cap ride-hailing services including Uber and Lyft, becoming the first U.S. city to take such a step.
Justin Lynch / Fifth Domain:
DHS official says at BlackHat that DHS-funded researchers found major vulnerabilities in phones sold by all 4 major US carriers but doesn't list manufacturers  —  Research funded by the Department of Homeland Security has found a “slew” of vulnerabilities in mobile devices offered …
Sean Captain / Fast Company:
Anki unveils Vector home robot that can detect your face, answer questions, and play games, shipping in October for $249.99, says it has sold 1.5M robots  —  If there's a robot uprising anytime soon, it seems unlikely to start in our living rooms.  Robotic vacuums like Roomba sell well because they are so handy.
Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:
Docs show how Google's building its censored search engine for China, codenamed Dragonfly, using subsidiary 265.com to compile a list of sites China's blocking  —  Google analyzed search terms entered into a Beijing-based website to help develop blacklists for a censored search engine …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Roku brings The Roku Channel, its free ad-supported streaming video offering, to the web and updates navigation on devices to add Featured Free section  —  Roku's homepage also expanded to include ‘Featured Free’ content  —  Roku is today bringing its free, streaming entertainment destination …
Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Intel says it earned $1B in 2017 from sales of Xeon processors running AI workloads in data centers and provides an update for its data center chip roadmap  —  Optane DC persistent memory ships to Google, Xeon roadmap, and more revealed  —  At Intel's Data-Centric Innovation Summit today in Santa Clara …

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