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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
YouTube updates community guidelines with a new system for rule-breaking channels, which now get a consequence-free, one-time warning for their first violation — Channels will now get a consequence-free, one-time warning for their first violation — YouTube is overhauling its community guidelines …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
For YouTube, curbing misinformation on its platform may mean punishing some of its stars, a step it's not shown it can broadly take, despite recent policy shift — Last month, the YouTube star Shane Dawson uploaded his new project: a 104-minute documentary, “Conspiracy Theories With Shane Dawson.”
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase buys Neutrino, which helps monitor, analyze, and track cryptocurrency flows, for an undisclosed sum — Coinbase, the world's most valuable crypto company, is gearing up to add more cryptocurrencies to its exchange thanks to its latest acquisition.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon X55, its second generation 5G modem, with a maximum download speed of 7 Gbps, up 40% from the X50's 5 Gbps — The Snapdragon X55 adds support for more 5G technologies — Even before most phone makers have launched their first 5G handsets, Qualcomm …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google publishes 30-page paper on how it combats disinformation across YouTube, Search, News, Ads: product improvements, experience with spam, context for users — Over the weekend, Google presented a white paper at the Munich Security Conference detailing how it fights disinformation across its largest services.| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with Varjo VR-1 headset, out now for $6K with $995/year service fee, which uses 3,000 pixel/inch resolution and dual screens to fix “screen door” issue — Clever dual-display tech means you really can't see the pixels. — Current virtual reality headsets are pretty good at the …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
A deep dive on the widespread and ongoing DNS hijacking attacks, which the DHS issued an emergency directive about last month — The U.S. government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Strategy Analytics: in Q4 2018, shipments of smart speakers grew 95% from 22.6M units in Q3 to 38.5M units, with Amazon shipping 13.7M units and Google 11.5M — Smart speakers continue to sell like hotcakes. That's according to Strategy Analytics, which today reported that in the fourth quarter of 2018 …
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| Twitter: |
Twitter expands its policy for political ad transparency to the EU, India, and Australia, will show billing information, ad spend, impressions per tweet, more — We continue to be committed to enforcing stricter policies for political advertisers and providing clear, transparent disclosure for all ads on Twitter.
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
As emoji become a critical part of communication, unprepared courts are increasingly having to interpret their myriad meanings in criminal cases — What does a crown emoji really mean? — Bay Area prosecutors were trying to prove that a man arrested during a prostitution sting was guilty … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart reports US e-commerce sales rose 43% YoY in Q4, thanks to its growing online grocery business, including the expansion of grocery pickups and deliveries — Walmart this morning posted strong holiday sales growth for its holiday quarter, with U.S. sales up 4.2 percent over the same time last year … | BBC: |
Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei says there is “no way the US can crush us” and that “our company will never undertake any spying activities” — The founder of Huawei has said there is “no way the US can crush” the company, in an exclusive interview with the BBC.
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
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Tweets: @theinformation and @tomlasseter
| Rebecca Keegan / Hollywood Reporter: |
Q&A with Amazon Studios Chief Jennifer Salke on her content acquisition strategy, potentially broadcasting a ceremony such as the Oscars one day, and more — The studio head opened up about her Sundance buying spree, blockbuster ambitions and the secret room where Amazon's 'Lord …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Saudi Arabia PIF and Mubadala, the biggest outside investors in SoftBank's Vision Fund, have complained about high valuations paid for tech companies — High valuations of Vision Fund investments—and the decision-making role of SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son—have led to concerns
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Loom, which equips enterprises with instant video messaging tools, raises $11M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, says it's signed up 1.1M users from 18,000 firms — If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many emails can you replace with a video? As offices fragment into remote teams … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung's One UI is thoughtfully designed and the best software Samsung's ever put on a smartphone, but getting major software updates quickly is still doubtful — But will it get updates? — Believe it or not, Samsung has done something many of us didn't think was possible: it has made great software.| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Sources: Bitmain posts a net loss of ~$500M in the third quarter of 2018; the company had disclosed profits of $1B in the first half of 2018 — Mining hardware giant Bitmain lost about $500 million in the third quarter of 2018 amid an overall bearish market for cryptocurrency, CoinDesk has learned.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
NsKnox, which provides real-time payment fraud detection services, raises $15M Series A co-led by Viola Ventures and Microsoft's M12 — Payments fraud is on the rise, and not even corporate giants are immune. In April 2017, a U.S. Justice Department investigation revealed that Facebook …
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Tech.eu, GeekWire, PR Newswire, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, ZDNet, and FinSMEs
| Shoshanna Solomon / The Times of Israel: |
Palo Alto Networks is buying Demisto, an Israeli firm that provides an automated incident response platform, for ~$560M; Demisto had raised $69M to date — Demisto was founded in 2015 and develops enterprise security solutions; its four founders will join the Palo Alto Networks team
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