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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.
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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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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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| 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
Tweets: @jonathanhaynes
| 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.| eMarketer Retail: |
eMarketer forecast: Walmart to overtake Apple as No. 3 US online retailer by the end of 2018, after capturing 4% of all online retail spending, up 39.4% YoY — Big-box retailer has one of the fastest-growing online businesses — Heading into the fiercely competitive holiday shopping season …
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
How hackers are stealing the accounts of Instagram influencers with fake sponsored content deals and phishing links to spam the influencer's followers — In early October, a publicist received an irresistible message via email. The publicist's client is a top “influencer” …
Tweets: @theatlantic, @mollyjongfast, @sub8u, @savagegrease, @taylorlorenz, and @legalnomads
| 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.| 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 …
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