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| Daniel Lippman / Politico: |
Sources: Zuckerberg recently hosted off-the-record dinners with conservative figures like Tucker Carlson and Lindsey Graham to discuss free speech, partnerships — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hosting informal talks and small, off-the-record dinners with conservative journalists …
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| Mohit Kumar / The Hacker News: |
A flaw in Sudo, which is installed on almost every Linux OS, could let users run commands as “root” even when they are restricted; patched version now available — Attention Linux Users! — A vulnerability has been discovered in Sudo—one of the most important, powerful …
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| Reuters: |
Libra loses Booking Holdings' support, but continues with association draft laws at Geneva meeting, appoints members from a16z, Xapo, PayU, more to its board — LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Backers of Facebook Inc's (FB.O) Libra cryptocurrency project pledged to forge ahead after selecting …
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| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Apple says its Tencent partnership to flag malicious sites for Safari users only applies to mainland China; hashes of URL prefixes and IP addresses are shared — Apple and China have a complicated relationship and situation that's exploded in the news over the last week. (Much more on that in a future column.)
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is testing content filters for messages on Xbox Live to block toxicity, initially with four levels of text-based filtering; voice filters are planned — Microsoft is starting to test new content filters for its Xbox Live messaging system today in an effort to thwart toxicity on its platform.
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @gpwnce, and @majornelson
| VICE: |
Pornhub removes Girls Do Porn, months after a lawsuit by 22 women and days after the channel's owners and staff were charged with federal sex trafficking counts — After months of knowingly working with porn production company that was accused of lying to women, Pornhub finally removes its official page from its platform.| Washington Post: |
Docs and interviews show that ~44 US universities work with outside companies to data mine and rank prospective students, including tracking their web activity — Before many schools even look at an application, they comb through prospective students' personal data, such as web-browsing habits and financial history
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Defender's Tamper Protection antivirus feature hits general availability and will be enabled by default for all users in the coming weeks — Tamper Protection prevents malware from disabling Windows Defender features. — Today, Microsoft announced the general availability … | Riley MacLeod / Kotaku: |
Fortnite has been down for over a day, as players speculate about what's next after having their maps sucked into a black hole, following the Season 10 event — After weeks of anticipation, Fortnite's big Season 10 event happened. Was the wait worth it? Yes.
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Tweets: @ballmatthew, @slasher, @ninja, @sriramk, @moonalice, @protaytoegamer, @ign, and @ballmatthew
| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Amazon turned off its Add-On program in recent months, making low-priced items, as little as $0.75, available to Prime customers with free one-day shipping — And what about the environment? — As Amazon has grown from an online bookstore into an everything store, it has tackled product category … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts the preview of its Project xCloud game streaming service for Xbox users in the US, UK, and Korea, initially with four games for Android devices — Available in the US, UK, and Korea initially — Microsoft is officially launching its Project xCloud preview today for Xbox users in the US, UK, and Korea.
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Tweets: @xboxp3, @majornelson, @dblackraven1, @reidzer, @_larzen_, @sshodriguez, and @onewoolifeo
| Matthew Boyle / Bloomberg: |
Walmart to make some third-party products on its site cheaper for a limited time, subsidizing the new prices, similar to the Discount Provided by Amazon program — - Chain reimbursing third-party sellers when it forces price cut — Company using new ideas in bid to grab sales from web leaderSponsor Posts
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