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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Dealing with the likes of Infowars on internet platforms is not a binary choice to keep or ban them; many other options exist, and they should all be explored — from the deplatforming-and-denialism dept — Warning 1: I'm about to talk about an issue that has a lot of nuance in it and no clear …
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| Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post: |
Social media pressure is here to stay as a tactic against advertisers and platforms that support shows like Infowars, because it works, as Sleeping Giants shows — Shortly before the 2016 presidential election, Matt Rivitz stumbled upon the Breitbart News website, which once called itself the “home of the alt-right.”| Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney: |
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| Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed News: |
As attendees of Defcon's Voting Village, including an 11-year-old, successfully hack voting machines, vendors and officials try to downplay the problems — Veteran hackers have tried for years to get the world to notice flaws in voting machines. Now that they've got it, they have to wrestle with scaring people away from voting.
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Tweets: @racheltobac, @alexpadilla4ca, @markylikespie, @robkelner, @wired, and @buzzfeednews
| 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.| 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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| Check Point Research: |
Check Point shows how hackers could infiltrate networks via all-in-one printers using just a fax number, points to attack on HP model that HP has since patched — Research By: Eyal Itkin and Yaniv Balmas — Fax, the brilliant technology that lifted mankind out the dark ages of mail delivery …
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| 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: @samueljscott, @nytimes, @joerayment, @revodavid, @reallygraceful, @nytimes, @nytimes, @ilvestoomas, @politicalshort, and @gabrieldance
| 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 … | 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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State Dept. cable says a five-day-long attack on 9+ major Swedish news sites in 2016 was part of a Russian disinformation campaign to destabilize NATO alliances — According to a newly released State Department cable, the attack was part of a Russian campaign to sow disinformation about NATO.
Tweets: @ericgeller and @buzzfeednews
| 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.| Daniil Turovsky / Meduza.io: |
A look at the loose alliance between Russia's criminal hackers and intelligence services that has been attacking Russia's perceived enemies since around 2005 — On the night of August 8, 2008, Georgian troops started shelling Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, and then began their assault on the city.
Tweets: @mark_narusov, @mark_narusov, @meduza_en, @democracyjourno, and @juliaioffe
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