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Internal docs show Facebook gave ~150 companies access to more user data than disclosed; some could read private DMs; Facebook says it didn't violate FTC decree — Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people's data than it has disclosed.
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| Guru Gowrappan / Verizon: |
On January 8, Oath, which was created from Verizon's acquisitions of Yahoo and AOL, will be rebranded as Verizon Media Group — Verizon Media Group will replace the Oath brand, representing our strong alignment as a core pillar of Verizon's business. — I'm excited today to share …
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Anthony Levandowski launches self-driving truck startup Pronto.ai, which plans to ship level 2 automated driving systems in 2019 starting at $4,999 — Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer and serial entrepreneur who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter is relaunching the reverse-chronological feed as an option for all users starting today on iOS and other platforms in the coming weeks — Just hit that sparkle, fam — Twitter is offering users another escape hatch from its ranked timeline. The company said today that it will introduce …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
AT&T to launch 5G mobile service on December 21 across 12 US cities via a $499 mobile hotspot device and $70/month data plan — The 5G era has arrived. AT&T is launching 5G mobile service in a dozen U.S. cities beginning this Friday, becoming the first carrier to do so.
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| Mallory Locklear / Engadget: |
Facebook posts a six-month update on its civil rights audit: 2018 changes included voting encouragement and banning voting disinformation — In May, Facebook agreed to conduct a civil rights audit, and now the company has released an update of its progress.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Blythe Masters, CEO of blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings and a former JPMorgan executive, will step down as CEO but remain on its board — Blythe Masters left her job as a high-flying JPMorgan Chase executive in 2014, and soon after became CEO of Digital Asset, a blockchain startup that caters to banks and startups.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
iPhone prices are unpalatable in India, where reports say its marketshare has shrunk to ~1%, and a source says it's taking in <50% of the revenue once hoped for — With global smartphone sales flattening, Apple has looked to India for new growth, with little success so far
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Spectrum's parent Charter reaches $174.2M settlement in New York AG's speed fraud lawsuit, which alleged that the ISP's speeds were 80% slower than advertised — The lawsuit, filed last year, alleged that Charter's speeds were 80 percent slower than advertised
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| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Truecaller report: worldwide spam calls increased 300% YoY, reaching 17.7B in 2018; Brazil led with more than 37 spam calls per user per month — According to the yearly report published by Stockholm-based phone number-identification service Truecaller, spam calls grew by 300 percent year-over-year in 2018.
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| Emily Dreyfuss / Wired: |
Amnesty International calls Twitter a “toxic place for women” in a study of 288,000 tweets aimed at 778 female journalists and politicians from the US and UK — FOR MANY WOMEN, especially journalists, politicians, and other public figures, Twitter is something to endure.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft announces Windows Sandbox, a desktop environment for running apps in isolation, for users running Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise build 18301 and later — Microsoft's coming ‘Windows Sandbox’ feature is a lightweight virtual machine that allow users to run potentially suspicious software in isolation.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Match fires Tinder comms VP Rosette Pambakian, others; emails show Pambakian blames lawsuit, CEO says Pambakian's refusal to talk without lawyer led to firing — The Verge obtained an email exchange between her and Match's CEO — Multiple Tinder employees who sued the dating app's parent company … | Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
As shilling products has become a sign of success for influencers, up-and-comers on Instagram are posting fake sponsored content to boost their credibility — Tapping through Palak Joshi's Instagram Stories recently, you might have come across a photo that looked like standard sponsored content … | New York Times: |
Senate report on Russia's disinformation campaign accuses Google, Facebook, and Twitter of being evasive and withholding data about Russian activity — SAN FRANCISCO — When lawmakers asked YouTube, a unit of Google, to provide information about Russian manipulation efforts …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Lip-syncing app TikTok, which is popular with children and teens, struggles to remove blatant, violent white supremacy and Nazism — TikTok, which is mega popular with children and teens, has a problem with blatant, violent white supremacy and Nazism. — Users on mega popular children's …
Tweets: @orensegal, @josephfcox, and @carnage4life
| Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review: |
NPR's podcast measurement technology RAD has sparked debate within the industry, with Overcast's Marco Arment expressing concerns about tracking and privacy — Until recently, it hasn't been easy to measure the success of podcasts, beyond how many people download them …
Tweets: @marcoarment, @cjr, @mathewi, @marcoarment, and @marcoarment
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Inside Audi's autonomous driving unit, which has ~150 employees, is testing 12 autonomous vehicles on public roads, and aims to debut self-driving taxis by 2021 — Autonomous Intelligent Driving is to Audi as Cruise is to GM, says the German automaker's CTO
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter was warned by a researcher two years ago of a flaw, recently reported to FTC and EU's DPC by the company, that leaked users' phone # country codes — A security researcher found a bug in Twitter's support form two years ago that exposed the country codes of phone numbers attached to user's accounts.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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