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| Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney: |
Twitter says it found 7 tweets by Infowars or Alex Jones that broke rules but accounts won't be suspended; 2 of the now-deleted tweets were made after Dec. 2017 — Twitter said Friday that the accounts belonging to far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his fringe media organization InfoWars would …
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New York Times, 512tech, Engadget, Mashable, Gizmodo, Axios, and The Hill
Facebook: Voice of Europe, BuzzFeed, and CNN
Tweets: @fawfulfan, @tvietor08, @jordanuhl, @oliverdarcy, and @jayrosen_nyu
| Jeff Jarvis / The Atlantic: |
Internet platforms are places of public conversations where society negotiates norms of acceptable behavior; Infowars bans show the process is starting to work — This post was updated on Friday, August 10 at 7:53 p.m. to reflect the author's role as the founder of a Facebook-funded project.
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Techdirt, CBS San Francisco, and infowars.com
Tweets: @jack, @lzsundaypaper, @mikebutcher, @vivian, @jortpossel, @lilianedwards, @kirstinestewart, and @can
| New York Times: |
Inside Twitter's Friday meeting where Jack Dorsey and executives discussed Infowars, what “dehumanizing speech” means, and a possible drafting of new policies — SAN FRANCISCO — With his arms folded, Jack Dorsey paced back and forth in a conference room at Twitter's headquarters on Friday afternoon.
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Vox. Tweets: @carnage4life, @peterseibel, @sarahlerner, @jasonthalken, @slpng_giants, @fraying, @kurtwagner8, @kimmaicutler, @edmundlee, @slpng_giants, @glennf, and @caseynewton
| Michael H. Keller / New York Times: |
A look at the fake YouTube views ecosystem where sites like Devumi.com and 500Views.com sell millions of bot-generated views and how YouTube is fighting it — Plays can be bought for pennies and delivered in bulk, inflating videos' popularity and creating an environment ripe for manipulation.
Tweets: @nytimes, @samueljscott, @nytimes, @ilvestoomas, @politicalshort, @nytimes, @gabrieldance, and @reallygraceful
| George P. Slefo / Ad Age: |
Spotify is running a test in Australia that lets users skip audio and video ads any time they want, says it may help company train its ad targeting algorithms — Spotify is hoping to deliver another blow at rival Pandora, all in an effort to dominate the fast growing, $1.6 billion market that is digital audio advertising.
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TechCrunch, USA Today, 9to5Mac, Fortune, Engadget, MacRumors, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, The Verge, BGR, Gizmodo, RAIN News, iPhone Hacks, and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @spotifybrands
| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Researchers demo machine learning techniques that de-anonymize the authors of code samples, often with more than 90% accuracy, even from binary code — RESEARCHERS WHO STUDY stylometry—the statistical analysis of linguistic style—have long known that writing is a unique, individualistic process.
Tweets: @shashj, @wired, and @lmatsakis
| CoinDesk: |
Overstock.com says its subsidiary tZero raised $134M in an ICO, announces up to $270M investment in tZero by Chinese private equity firm GSR at $1.5B valuation — Overstock.com subsidiary tZero raised $134 million in its security token offering, the company said Thursday.
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Hacker Noon, CNBC, CNNMoney, Forbes, Cointelegraph, CryptoGlobe, Hacked, BlockTribune, Investopedia, PYMNTS.com, SludgeFeed, CoinSpeaker, CryptoSlate, CCN, and NASDAQ.com
| Kevin Rawlinson / The Guardian: |
Report: UK's advertising regulator to rule that Amazon Prime's “unlimited one-day delivery” claims are misleading in the case of some items — Advertising Standards Authority set to rule on claims about retailer's Prime service — Amazon is to be told to stop claiming … | Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Kim Nilsson's and other WizSec cofounders' quest to find Mt. Gox's hackers, which traced stolen bitcoins to BTC-E and its alleged admin Alexander Vinnik — Rampant thefts are taking the shine off cryptocurrencies. After the Mt. Gox debacle, Kim Nilsson decided to fight back.| Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post: |
Marketers are finding ways to reach children as young as 6 through YouTube influencers, apps, and Snapchat filters, raising concerns of undue influence — Nine-year-old Isabella Colello shops for just about everything online. — She scrolls through the Amazon app on her phone at least once a day.
Tweets: @rachsieg and @commercialfree
| Cory Fields: |
Bitcoin developer describes how he found a critical blockchain splitting vulnerability, now fixed, in competing Bitcoin Cash cryptocurrency — My experience disclosing a critical Bitcoin Cash vulnerability — On April 25, 2018, I anonymously and privately disclosed a critical vulnerability …
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Fortune, CCN, CryptoGlobe, The Next Web, CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, Mashable, and Trustnodes
Tweets: @jimmysong, @alysekilleen, @thebluematt, @neha, @alexbosworth, @vinnylingham, and @ercwl
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
RiskRecon, a SaaS platform providing cybersecurity assessments of third-party vendors, raises $25M Series B led by Accel Partners — In June of this year, Chinese hackers managed to install software into the networks of a contractor for the U.S. Navy and steal information on a roughly $300 million top-secret submarine program.Sponsor Posts
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