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Sources: Facebook tentatively finds that the hack affecting 30M users was perpetrated by spammers posing as a digital marketing company, not by a nation-state — Facebook Inc. FB .40% believes that the hackers who gained access to the private information of 30 million of its users …
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Twitter says it will show whether a tweet was deleted by the user who posted it or because Twitter took an action, starting in the coming weeks — Twitter is making a change to how its tweet reporting procedures will work. Before, Twitter had experimented with both showing or hiding …
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| Bloomberg: |
Twitter has published data sets of millions of tweets, images, videos, and thousands of accounts linked to Russia and Iran meddling for analysis by researchers — - Data includes images and videos from thousands of accounts — Tech firms remain under fire from lawmakers in EU, U.S.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
How a loophole in Facebook's political ad review system, letting verified buyers put anything in the “paid for by” field, has been weaponized in a Virginia race — A competitive race in Virginia's 10th Congressional District has an alarming new element: anonymous attack ads on Facebook.
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| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
A close look at the suit against Facebook on video metrics and a look back at many statements from publishers pivoting to video as Facebook touted the medium — “It will probably be all video.” — In June 2016, Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook's VP for Europe, the Middle East and Africa …
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| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Andy Rubin's Essential confirms layoffs; sources say it's almost a third of its workforce, primarily from the startup's hardware and sales divisions — Essential Products Inc., the startup founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, has cut almost a third of its employees. — “This has been a difficult decision to make.
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| For The Record: |
Spotify Premium gets streamlined navigation, personalized search, and endless artist radio, rolling out globally on iOS and Android starting today — We're always looking for ways to provide the best possible methods for people to discover and enjoy the music they love.| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Spotify announces a standalone app for Wear OS that lets users control and browse music, rolling out over the next week — Browse, play, and add songs to your library from Spotify's new on-wrist app. — Wear OS gains a popular new app today that many have been waiting for …
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| Financial Times: |
Softbank COO says “there is no certainty” that there will be another Vision Fund, as the firm is “anxiously looking” at fallout from Khashoggi's disappearance — SoftBank has voiced its doubts about the likelihood of a second $100bn Vision Fund for the first time …
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Tweets: @thestalwart, @financialtimes, @asanwal, and @tim
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
A deep look at the emergent Chinese phone market, where the hardware is now on par or better than flagships popular in the West but the software lags behind — 2018 will go down as the year when it became impossible to ignore the increasing advancements of Chinese smartphone hardware … | Dave Zohrob / Chartable: |
An in-depth analysis of how the Apple Podcasts top charts are being manipulated, and how that affects the podcast ecosystem, which relies on Apple's directory — How did an unknown show about real estate beat out Serial, Dr. Death, and The Daily? — Something weird has been happening on the Apple podcast charts lately.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Clippers CourtVision, which uses AI and AR to enhance LA Clippers games on screen, launches Wednesday, backed by Steve Ballmer and built by Second Spectrum — LOS ANGELES — Steve Ballmer has launched plenty of products in high-stakes situations, but this takes it to a new level.| Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
Following a cease-and-desist letter sent in early October, eBay sues Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching eBay sellers via eBay's internal messaging system — Lawsuit claims Amazon infiltrated and exploited eBay's internal member email system to recruit high-value sellers| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
How Silicon Valley's rich can defer or even avoid capital gains tax, via a provision that Sean Parker helped craft, by investing in low-income Opportunity Zones — Sean Parker crafted a little-known part of the tax code called Opportunity Zones. Now every one-percenter in Silicon Valley wants in.
Tweets: @juliaferraioli and @teddyschleifer
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Pixel USB-C earbuds review: sound great and are comfortable, compatible with most modern devices, and affordable at $30, but lack a good seal in the ear — Healing the wound left by the removal of the headphone jack — Unmentioned during Google's big hardware event this month … | Kate Fazzini / CNBC: |
Apple rolls out an updated privacy website, first trialed in the EU in May, that lets customers search the information Apple has on them — - Apple's new privacy website launch fulfills a company promise of making it easier and faster for customers to find what personal information is kept by Apple.
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| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Fiverr announces its own elearning service called Learn, which offers courses aimed at freelancers on topics like SEO, with classes starting at $19 — Freelance marketplace Fiverr announced today that it's getting into the online education game, trying to compete with the likes of Coursera and Udemy.Sponsor Posts
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