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Senate report: Instagram dwarfs all social networks in Russia's IRA posts and engagements, yet Facebook execs have not been upfront about this — - Document prepared for Senate Intelligence evaluates posts — Instagram tops Facebook in IRA posts and unique engagements
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NAACP returns a donation from Facebook and calls for a daylong boycott of it on Dec. 18 after Senate report detailed how FB was used to manipulate black voters — The NAACP has returned a donation from Facebook and called for a daylong boycott of the social network Tuesday following revelations … | Washington Post: |
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Sources: Google's plan for a censored search engine for China “effectively ended” after infighting, with a data analysis operation key to Dragonfly shuttering — Google has been forced to shut down a data analysis system it was using to develop a censored search engine for China … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase is rolling out Coinbase Convert, which enables crypto-to-crypto trading for its retail customers via its website and mobile apps, in the coming days — Coinbase users can begin trading cryptocurrencies directly with other cryptocurrencies, the exchange startup said Monday.
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Twitter fixes flaw in support form that leaked users' phone number country codes and other info, after noticing excessive queries from Chinese and Saudi IPs — Twitter accidentally exposed the ability to pull an account's phone number country code and whether the account had been locked by Twitter.
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Former far right extremists recall how they were radicalized by YouTube as teenagers because of its algorithm that keeps surfacing extremist content — Former extremists say they were sucked in by propaganda as teenagers, thanks to an algorithm's dark side.| DW.COM: |
French economy minister says the country will introduce its own digital tax, dubbed the “GAFA tax”, on large internet and technology companies on January 1 — In early December, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said France would give the EU until March to come up with a deal on taxing US internet giants.
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| Siobhan Roberts / New York Times: |
Profile of Stanford computer scientist Donald Knuth, author of The Art of Computer Programming, a bible of its field with more than one million copies in print — Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.”
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Facebook says its Clear History feature, which was announced at F8 2018, is taking longer than expected and should be ready for testing by spring 2019 — “It's taking longer than we initially had thought.” — Back in May, at the height of Facebook's Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal …
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Oracle reports Q2 revenue of $9.56B, vs. $9.52B est., net profit of $2.3B, up 5% YoY, and cloud services revenue of $6.64B, up 3% YoY; stock up 5%+ after hours — Company has used its cash pile to raise stock buybacks — Oracle Corp. ORCL -1.87% reported flat revenue for its latest quarter …
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Babylon Health has claimed its AI bot is as good at diagnosing as human doctors, but sources say the AI's development was rushed and effectiveness exaggerated — ate one Friday evening in December 2017, a group of worried Babylon Health doctors sat down for a meeting with Ali Parsa … Thanks:@bizcarson
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DoD report finds unpatched flaws and a lack of data encryption, intrusion detection, and multifactor authentication mechanisms in US ballistic missile systems — DOD report finds no antivirus, no data encryption, no multifactor authentication. — No data encryption, no antivirus programs …
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