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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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Facebook: Voice of Europe, BuzzFeed, and CNN
Tweets: @tvietor08, @jordanuhl, @jayrosen_nyu, and @oliverdarcy
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Tweets: @tayhatmaker, @monaeltahawy, @willoremus, @edzitron, and @tomcoates
| 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, @nytimes, @ilvestoomas, @politicalshort, and @gabrieldance
| 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
| 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
| 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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| 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 … | Matt Harris / Fortune: |
Fintech startup trends: most growth in real estate and crypto, wealth and investment startup activity steady, payments and lending are least active, and more — I've been proven wrong once again. — For eight years running, I've predicted that fintech investment is going to plateau.| 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, @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.| 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: @meduza_en, @democracyjourno, and @juliaioffe
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researcher details how vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in wireless gateways could expose emergency first responders and critical infrastructure to risk — Gateways are supposed to make cops safer. Many leak their locations in real time. — In late 2016, security researcher Justin Shattuck …
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