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Unsecured database with 419M+ phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts found; FB says data was obtained before it disabled searching for users via phone number — Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts have been found online. — The exposed server contained …
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Google will pay a $136M fine to the FTC and $34M to the New York Attorney General to settle claims that it violated child privacy laws on YouTube — - Google marketed itself as the “leader” for content for children ages 6 through 11, the allegations claim.
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Twitter says it has “temporarily” turned off the SMS-to-tweet feature, after Jack Dorsey's account was compromised — Twitter has “temporarily” turned off the ability to tweet via text message just days after the feature was misused by hackers to tweet a racial slur, bomb threat …
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Brave browser exec hands evidence to Irish data regulator alleging Google uses hidden webpages to pass personal data of users to advertisers — Google is secretly using hidden web pages that feed the personal data of its users to advertisers, undermining its own policies …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Slack reports Q2 revenue of $145M, up 58% YoY, says it had over 100,000 paid customers, up 37% YoY; stock is down ~15%+ after hours — KEY POINTS — Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and CEO of Slack, at the 2018 WEF in Davos, Switzerland. — Shares of Slack, maker of the popular workplace chat app …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Allen Institute for AI unveils Aristo, a system that scored 90% on an eighth-grade science test and 80% on a 12th-grade exam, a breakthrough for AI research — SAN FRANCISCO — Four years ago, more than 700 computer scientists competed in a contest to build artificial intelligence that could pass an eighth-grade science test.| New York Times: |
Source: Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft held a daylong meeting with US government officials over 2020 election security — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, Google, Twitter and Microsoft met with government officials in Silicon Valley on Wednesday to discuss and coordinate on how best …
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| Michael Zelenko / The Verge: |
A look at the newly announced Light Phone 2, a $350 stripped back feature phone with an E Ink display, and how the company learned from the first generation — The Light Phone returns with many aspirations and not too many features — Released in the spring of 2017 …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
As details of Ninja's Mixer deal remain unknown, his first look at Gears 5 prompts questions of why the streamer got exclusive access to the new Microsoft game — What's the proper disclosure in these types of situations? — Tyler “Ninja” Blevins raised some eyebrows yesterday when he announced …
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| Zachary Fryer-Biggs / The Atlantic: |
How the Pentagon is laying the groundwork for AI-powered weapons systems capable of taking lethal action without direct human input — Wallops Island—a remote, marshy spit of land along the eastern shore of Virginia, near a famed national refuge for horses—is mostly known as a launch site for government and private rockets.
Tweets: @inteloperator, @noahpinion, @andrewyang, and @theatlantic
| Jacqueline Howard / CNN: |
Facebook rolls out pop-up windows on Facebook and Instagram that appear when people search for vaccine info; notices point to CDC or World Health Organization — Facebook to crack down on anti-vaccine misinformation — (CNN)A new feature is rolling out on Facebook and Instagram to combat the spread of anti-vaccine misinformation.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Canada-based Clio, which offers cloud-based legal practice management, client intake, and legal CRM software, raises $250M Series D — A software company that helps law practices run more efficiently may not be the flashiest business in town, but that's not stopping some VCs from backing them with pretty high dollars.
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Data protection and management company Commvault to acquire Hedvig, a software-defined distributed storage provider, for $225M; Hedvig had raised $52M from VCs — With the acquisition, Commvault, which has focused primarily on data protection and management, gains new capabilities … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Amazon announces over 20 Fire TV-branded devices, including a new Fire TV Cube and an Anker-made soundbar, as the company seeks to compete with Roku and others — The posts have been deleted, but the info is out — Amazon looks set to release a new Fire TV Cube and a host of new … | Wade Tyler Millward / EdSurge: |
Connected learning platform Chegg to buy Thinkful, a Brooklyn-based online coding bootcamp, for $80M; Thinkful has raised $16M in VC funding — Chegg, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based publicly traded student services company, plans to buy Thinkful, a Brooklyn-based online coding bootcamp.
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Asus announces ROG Phone II Ultimate Edition with 1TB storage, Snapdragon 855 Plus, 6.59-inch 1080p OLED display, and 6,000mAh battery, for €1,199 — Just think of all the Android games you could take everywhere — Asus' ROG Phone II is already a flagship Android phone worth getting excited …
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