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November 17, 2018, 9:05 PM

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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  —  Alex Stamos is a Hoover fellow and adjunct professor at Stanford University.  He previously served as the chief security officer at Facebook until August.
New York Times:
Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
SEC settles with Paragon Coin and CarrierEQ, which agree to start filing audited financial reports and refund investors of 2017 ICOs who want their money back  —  Agreements require startups to comply with investor-protection rules  —  WASHINGTON—Two startups that raised money …
Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com:
Microsoft is now selling Amazon's Echo smart speakers from its retail and online stores  —  In yet another not-so-subtle indication that it is pushing Cortana aside for Amazon's digital personal assistant, Microsoft is now selling Echo smart speakers from its retail and online stores.
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Erica X Eisen / Slate:
How a website, Civil War Photo Sleuth, is helping historians and enthusiasts use facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs  —  Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs.  —  When Kurt Luther walked …
CNBC:
Google says Diane Greene will step down as Google Cloud CEO in early 2019, will be replaced by Oracle's former president of product development Thomas Kurian  —  Diane Greene, who was hired three years ago to build Google's cloud-computing business, is being replaced in that job by former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian.

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