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Facebook says it has blocked 115 accounts on its services that may have been engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” ahead of the US midterm elections — Facebook announced Monday evening that it had blocked 115 accounts on its services that may have been engaged in …
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Tweets: @snopes, @alexstamos, @usatoday, @donie, @dnvolz, @olivia_gazis, and @kevinroose. Thanks:@sal19
| Jonathan Albright: |
Right Wing News, one of hundreds of “inauthentic” Facebook Pages removed in October, consistently outperformed Pages like Breitbart and Fox News from 2013-2016 — Part III: Granular Enforcement — The third part of my midterm election-time study looks at granular enforcement … | Jonathan Albright: |
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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
The new Mac mini at top specs, with T2 acting as an SSD controller, is an incredibly fast development machine, and, except for GPU, can serve as a mini Mac Pro — Watch the video review — I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my family as our home-theater mixer …
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| John Burek / PCMag: |
Mac mini (2018) review: connectivity ports galore, many CPU choices, upgradeable RAM, and varied multi-display setup options, but Intel graphics disappoint — Editors' Rating: — 4.00 — EXCELLENT — PCMag reviews products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
MacBook Air (2018) review: Retina display, great new trackpad, Touch ID, and a modest speed bump make it a nice upgrade for the owners of older MacBook Airs — Completely whelming — The fan is blowing on this brand-new MacBook Air with Retina Display. It's a familiar sound …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Corporate VP of Cortana, Javier Soltero, is leaving the company by year's end, as Cortana moves from AI + Research to the Experiences & Devices team — Microsoft's head of Cortana is going to depart the company before the year is over, as Microsoft brings more of its research projects …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AWS announces new AMD EPYC-powered cloud instances, purportedly 10% less expensive than other instance types, available today — We're here at AMD's New Horizon Event to bring you up to the minute news on the company's 7nm products. This is breaking news, so check back frequently or refresh the page for updates.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD announces the Zen 2 architecture for the upcoming family of 7nm chips, which it says will start shipping in 2019 — Advanced Micro Devices revealed the Zen 2 architecture for the family of processors that it will launch in the coming years, starting with 2019.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox announces Dropbox Extensions that let users take action directly in Dropbox on tasks like editing video in Vimeo; coming to all users on November 27 — Dropbox has had APIs for years that enable companies to tap into content stored in their repositories, and they have had partnerships …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Crypto wallet Blockchain partners with Stellar Development Foundation for XLM airdrop, will distribute $125M in Stellar lumens to all Blockchain wallet holders — Crypto wallet provider Blockchain plans to stage what it's calling the “largest crypto giveaway in history” with a $125 million airdrop.
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Blockchain Blog, Fortune, TechCrunch, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, and CryptoGlobe
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
VMware acquires Heptio, a startup founded by two Kubernetes co-founders; Heptio was valued at $117M according to PitchBook when it raised $25M Series B in 2017 — During its big customer event in Europe, VMware announced another acquisition to step up its game in helping enterprises build …
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ZDNet, Cloud-Native Apps, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, PE Hub Blog, The New Stack, NASDAQ.com, and Seeking Alpha. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Paris Martineau / Wired: |
Gab is back online; its domain has migrated to Seattle-area-based registrar Epik, and Cloudflare is shielding who actually hosts the site — AFTER IT WAS revealed that the suspect in the shootings at a Pittsburgh synagogue had threatened on the social media network Gab to kill Jews …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft makes the pro version of its WhatsApp-like Kaizala app, normally available for $1.50/user/month, free for Office 365 commercial users worldwide — Microsoft's WhatsApp-like Kaizala application is rolling out worldwide to Office 365 commercial customers for no additional fee.
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TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM, Windows Central, Microsoft, On MSFT, and Neowin
| Alex Warofka / Facebook: |
Facebook posts results of commissioned report on Myanmar that found Facebook wasn't doing enough to prevent it from being used to incite offline violence — We want Facebook to be a place where people can express themselves freely and safely around the world.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Bird launches e-scooters in London but only on private land in Olympic Park because regulators deem e-scooters illegal under UK's Highway Act of 1835 — It was only a matter of time before the electric scooters infiltrated the U.K. — Today, the well-funded startup Bird is launching …
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The Guardian, Bloomberg, BBC, Engadget, London Evening Standard, TechRadar.com, BT.com, The Verge, Telegraph, socalTECH.com, Financial Times, and Forbes. Tweets: @kateclarktweets
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Lime names GV partner Joe Kraus, already on the scooter company's board of directors, as its first COO — Lime announced more big hiring news this morning with the appointment of Joe Kraus, a general partner at Alphabet's venture arm GV and an existing member of the bike …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Engineer.ai, which has developed a human-assisted AI that aims to empower everyone to build and operate bespoke software, has raised $29.5 million in a Series A — Engineer.ai, which has developed a human-assisted AI that aims to empower everyone to build and operate bespoke software, has raised $29.5 million in a Series A round.
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TechCrunch and PE Hub Blog
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GraphQL, the Facebook-incubated open source data query language, is getting its own foundation with an open governance model, hosted by the Linux Foundation — GraphQL, the Facebook -incubated data query language, is moving into its own open-source foundation.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Hackers breach StatCounter, injecting its analytics script with malicious code that currently targets users of crypto exchange Gate.io to hijack BTC withdrawals — StatCounter is still compromised but Gate.io has removed the script form its site. — Hackers have breached StatCounter …
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Federal judge says in preliminary ruling that Qualcomm must license some of its tech to competitors, in lawsuit brought by FTC against Qualcomm in early 2017 — (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge ruled on Tuesday that chip seller Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) must license some of its technology to competitors such as Intel Corp (INTC.O).| Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Bitfury, a cryptocurrency mining technology startup, raises $80M led by Korelya Capital — Cryptocurrency mining technology firm Bitfury Group has just closed an $80 million funding round led by venture capital firm Korelya Capital. — Also participating in the private placement … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Taranis, an Israel-based startup that uses aerial scouting and deep learning to identify potential crop issues, raises $20M Series B — Taranis, an ag-tech startup that uses aerial scouting and deep learning to identify potential crop issues, announced today that it has raised a $20 million Series B led by Viola Ventures.
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