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| Alex Stamos / Washington Post: |
Ex-CSO Alex Stamos says no one at Facebook ever told him not to examine Russian interference, but company's comms strategy of minimization and denial was wrong — Yup, Sheryl Sandberg yelled at me. — It was the day after I briefed Facebook's Board of Directors on an unprecedented and troubling finding on our platform.
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| New York Times: |
Silicon Valley's alliance with Democrats, already strained by issues like fake news and Cambridge Analytica, is at a breaking point after NYT's Facebook exposé — The alliance between Democrats and Silicon Valley has buckled and bent this year amid revelations that platforms like Facebook …
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: this June, Zuckerberg told ~50 execs that Facebook was at war and he'd act more decisively, leading to reorgs, key departures, tension with Sandberg — New approach causes turmoil, driving several key executives from the company and creating tensions with longtime Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
Tumblr says it is working to resolve an issue with iOS app after it disappeared from the App Store amid speculation it was removed due to inappropriate content — The company says that it's working to resolve ‘an issue’ with the app — Tumblr's iOS app is missing from Apple's App Store.
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| Tony Peng / Synced: |
Jia Li, R&D head of Google Cloud AI who also co-led Google's China AI Center in Beijing, has left the company to work full-time at Stanford University's AIMI — Head of R&D of Google Cloud AI Jia Li has left her position with the company. Li informed Synced in a text message yesterday … | Aaron van Wirdum / Bitcoin Magazine: |
Bitcoin Cash has forked, with Bitcoin Cash ABC as an apparent early winner, but Bitcoin Cash SV camp is still threatening 51% attacks, spam, and more — Bitcoin Cash, the “big block” project that forked away from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017, “hard forked” (split) into two different coins …
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Report: Facebook notified some Instagram users that a now-fixed bug in its data download tool sent their passwords in plaintext in a URL that the users received — According to The Information, Instagram has suffered a serious security leak of its own that could've exposed user's passwords.
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| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Profile of former chief AI scientist at Google Cloud Fei-Fei Li, a Stanford professor and co-founder of AI4All nonprofit, which aims to make AI more inclusive — SOMETIME AROUND 1 am on a warm night last June, Fei-Fei Li was sitting in her pajamas in a Washington, DC, hotel room, practicing a speech she would give in a few hours.
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| Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
YouTube quietly began showing ad-supported free feature-length movies in October, giving users access to around 100 titles including “The Terminator” — Streaming on a small screen near you: blockbuster fare like ‘Rocky’ and ‘Terminator’ — Last month, YouTube quietly began …
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| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
Google's VP of News points to 2014 shutdown of Google News in Spain, says “We would not like to see that happen in Europe”, due to the proposed EU “link tax” — Search engine is lobbying hard to stop proposed tax, aimed at compensating news publishers| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Swedish scooter-sharing startup VOI Technology raises $50M Series A led by Balderton Capital with Spencer Rascoff, Justin Mateen, Jeff Wilkes among investors — VOI Technology, an e-scooter startup headquartered in Sweden but with pan-European ambitions, has raised $50 million in Series A funding, confirming our earlier scoop.| Trustnodes: |
Crypto startup Amun says it has been given the green light to list the first crypto Exchange Traded Product on Switzerland's SIX Swiss Exchange — The world's first crypto Exchange Traded Product (ETP) is to start trading next week on Europe's fourth biggest exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, with a market capitalization of $1.6 trillion.
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