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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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YouTube Creator Blog, Tubefilter, Engadget, Search Engine Journal, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, BetaNews, SlashGear, The Mac Observer, Marketing Land, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Adweek, CNET, Mashable, Android Police, hypebot, YouTube Blog, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @mattnavarra, @stephenschenck, @youtubegaming, @teamyoutube, @nealmohan, and @davelafontaine
| 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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TechCrunch, Engadget, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, and AOL
Tweets: @kevinroose, @nytimestech, @frankpasquale, @jwherrman, @beccalew, @nytimesbusiness, and @waltmossberg
| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
House Committee on Energy and Commerce asks in open letter whether Facebook users were misled about what personal data could be leaked by joining closed groups — House committee asked for a briefing — Lawmakers are looking to question Facebook about its privacy practices after allegations … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber and GM's Cruise open source their self-driving car visualization software, a rare move in the hyper-competitive autonomous world — ‘See’ the world of a self-driving car with these free web portals — By now you've probably seen those top-down graphical images of a self-driving car …
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Cruise, SiliconANGLE, Uber Engineering Blog, The Information, and VentureBeat
| 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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Qualcomm, TechCrunch, Engadget, Mashable, SiliconANGLE, TalkAndroid.com, TechSpot, KnowTechie, SemiAccurate, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, Bloomberg, Inquirer, Windows Central, CNET, AnandTech, XDA Developers, ZDNet, VentureBeat, and Android Police
Tweets: @neiltwitz and @patrickmoorhead
| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
CrowdStrike: Russian state-sponsored hackers take less than 20 minutes to start moving laterally in a targeted organization's network after an initial breach — It takes Russian state-sponsored hackers less than 20 minutes to start moving laterally within a targeted organization's network …
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Crowdstrike, Threatpost, and MIT Technology Review
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Google announces plans to acquire cloud migration startup Alooma, which has raised around $15M to date — - Google announces plans to acquire cloud migration company Alooma, marking its next play in the competitive space. — Google's new cloud chief said earlier this month that people …
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Google Cloud Blog, Modern data plumbing, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @ymatias, @aloomainc, and @sallyshin
| 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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TechCrunch and The Verge
| 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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Strategy Analytics …, CNET, MacRumors, and iPhone Hacks
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Regulators globally increasingly view “loot boxes”, which provide random in-game items for real money, as a form of gambling, and are considering regulations — A month ago, a woman known online as CadenceLikesVGs realized she had a gambling problem.
Tweets: @nickstatt
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers: India's state gas company allowed a sensitive part of its website to be indexed by Google, exposing 5M+ customer records, including Aadhaar numbers — Another security lapse has exposed millions of Aadhaar numbers. — This time, India's state-owned gas company Indane left exposed …
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Elliot Alderson, Fossbytes, Firstpost, International Business Times, and MediaNama
Tweets: @zackwhittaker and @zackwhittaker
| 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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New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, GeekWire, Digital Trends, CNBC, Business Insider, Notes from Silicon Valley, Variety, and Engadget
Tweets: @thrmattbelloni, @thatrebecca, @thr, and @thr
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
GitHub expands its bug bounty program by upping reward amounts, removing a maximum reward limit, adding Legal Safe Harbor terms; GitHub paid out $250K+ in 2018 — GitHub today beefed up its bug bounty program. The Microsoft-owned company has expanded the program's scope, increased its reward amounts …
| 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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Wall Street Journal, CBS News, The Register, Reuters, New York Times, BGR, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Android Authority, FierceWireless, Gizmodo, The Mac Observer, Thurrott, Fortune, TechSpot, CNET, Phandroid, The Hill, Light Reading, VentureBeat, BBC, iPhone in Canada Blog, IT PRO, Telecoms.com, BetaNews, Inquirer, Fortune, Engadget, The Next Web, Silicon Republic, Forbes, CNN, The Verge, Mashable, Bloomberg, The Loop, BBC, and Firstpost
Tweets: @globaltimesnews, @nytimes, @_samanthanaomi_, and @cnni
| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
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The Information, ZDNet, Android Authority, Cult of Mac, Business Insider, Firstpost, Fortune, Redmond Pie, Tech in Asia, TechNode, BGR, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @theinformation and @tomlasseter
| 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.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
London-based Entrepreneur First, a “talent investor” backing people pre-team and pre-idea so they can found startups, raises $115M fund to keep scaling globally — Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-headquartered “talent investor” that recruits and backs individuals pre-team … Thanks:@sohear
| 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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Twitter, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, The Hill, RTÉ, Neowin, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, Adweek, Engadget, and Fortune
Tweets: @luca, @karenwhite, and @policy
| 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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New York Times, CSO, Ars Technica, and Telegraph
Tweets: @briankrebs, @nicoleperlroth, @cglyer, and @mikko
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