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Sources: Amazon held advanced talks about opening HQ2 in Crystal City, Northern Virginia and some officials discussed how to make announcement after midterms — Amazon.com has held advanced discussions about the possibility of opening its highly sought-after second headquarters in Crystal City …
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| Google Walkout For Real Change: |
Google walkout organizers say 20,000+ participated and that Sundar Pichai will meet with his leadership team on Monday to review a plan to address their demands — For Immediate Release: — Google employees and contractors participate in global “walkout for real change”| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
How Facebook and Twitter fight online voter suppression for the midterms with algorithm changes and partnerships with organizations that report disinformation — Facebook and Twitter aren't just trying to drive people to the polls — they're racing to fight back bad actors who seek to deter their users from voting.| Christopher Bing / Reuters: |
Twitter has removed some bot accounts, sources say more than 10,000, that posed as Democrats and posted tweets discouraging people from voting in the midterms — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twitter deleted more than 10,000 automated accounts posting messages that discouraged people from voting …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
After The Intercept's inquiry, Facebook deletes “white genocide conspiracy theory” as a pre-defined ad targeting category with an estimated 168K users — Apparently fueled by anti-Semitism and the bogus narrative that outside forces are scheming to exterminate the white race …
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A history of the ongoing quest to build a viable 2-in-1 tablet-laptop hybrid and why they are so hard to design — In a recent barrage of new products, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Lenovo, and HP have all shown off computers that are trying to tackle one of the industry's most vexing problems … | Tom Simonite / Wired: |
A look at how deepfakes, with recent software advances that easily create AI-generated fake audio and video, could be misused to undermine elections — PLENTY OF PEOPLE are following the final days of the midterm election campaigns. Yale law researcher Rebecca Crootof has a special interest—a small wager.
Tweets: @nxthompson and @wired
| Ryan Dezember / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Thasos, which leases trillions of anonymized GPS coordinates from ~1,000 smartphone apps and sells insights from the data to Wall Street traders — The phone in your pocket is dishing info on where you spend your time and, likely, money — When Tesla Inc. TSLA .62% Chief Executive Elon Musk …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: ByteDance's short video app TikTok's monthly US App Store installs in October were higher than those of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube — Beijing-based ByteDance's 2017 acquisition of tween and teen-focused social app Musical.ly is paying off.| Zachary Fryer-Biggs / Center for Public Integrity: |
Current and former senior US officials say the Pentagon has outlined an offensive cyberattack against Russia if it electronically interferes with the midterms — U.S. military hackers have been given the go-ahead to gain access to Russian cyber systems as part of potential retaliation for any meddling in America's elections| Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times: |
Blockchain-powered network Civil's token sale failed because people buy into blockchain to make money and don't necessarily want to use it to “fix” journalism — Hype around the technology has led to incomprehensible applications of it. — Civil Media Company was introduced earlier … | Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire: |
US Department of Commerce to lift price freeze on .com domains from December 2020 after extending contract with Verisign to run the internet registry until 2024 — Verisign is the big winner as consumers face higher bills for .com domain names. — The U.S. Department of Commerce's National …
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