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Facebook bans networks, three originating in Iran and one in Russia, running “inauthentic” accounts, Pages, and Groups misleading users in the US, Latin America — Today, we removed four separate networks of accounts, Pages and Groups for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.
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Facebook says it will more prominently label content that fact-checkers deem false on Facebook and Instagram, will ban ads suggesting voting is pointless — By Guy Rosen, VP of Integrity; Katie Harbath, Public Policy Director, Global Elections; Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Facebook now requires some page owners to disclose the orgs running them and if they're tied to state-owned media, will add labels to pages run by state media — The new efforts are meant to bolster its defenses ahead of the upcoming 2020 presidential election but are unlikely to end the growing dispute over political ads.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL review: fast face unlock, smooth display, and great still camera, but average video recording and battery life, and no ultrawide camera — There's a baseline for “fast enough” on Android phones, and the Pixel 4 more than hits it. It might not be the fastest Android phone …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google says it will update the Pixel 4 “in the coming months” with an option that requires open eyes for the phone's face unlock to be successful — In the meanwhile, learn how to use the lockdown feature — One of the headline features for the Google Pixel 4 is that it adds a new …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
NordVPN confirms it found out a few months ago that one of its datacenters was hacked in March 2018, which could've potentially led to man-in-the-middle attacks — NordVPN, a virtual private network provider that promises to “protect your privacy online,” has confirmed it was hacked.
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| Bloomberg: |
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife have privately recommended several potential hires to Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign, two of whom were hired — - Facebook CEO, wife privately recommended hires to Democrat — Zuckerberg facing barrage of criticism in DC for bias, privacy
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| Financial Times: |
Joint UK and US probe finds that a Russian cyber espionage unit hacked the tools of a hacker group linked to Iran's government to lead attacks in 35+ countries — A Russian cyber espionage unit has hacked Iranian hackers to lead attacks in more than 35 countries, a joint UK and US investigation has revealed.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft acquires Edmonton-based Mover to bolster its cloud migration solutions, just weeks after acquiring Movere, another cloud migration company — Microsoft today announced that it's acquired Mover, an Edmonton-based provider of admin-led and self-service cloud file migration offerings.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers show how malicious voice apps for Alexa or Google Home eavesdrop on users, as Amazon and Google take a lax approach to vetting the platforms — Exclusive: Amazon, Google fail to address security loopholes in Alexa and Home devices more than a year after first reports.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Pro 7 review: great performance, is cool and quiet, resumes quickly, and has USB-C, but no Thunderbolt 3, design is dated, and lacks LTE — Minor improvements in a familiar package — Something weird has happened over the past year: I've kind of fallen in love with the Surface Pro.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Secured-core PCs, which will come from many vendors like Dell and adhere to security best practices for better firmware attack protection — Microsoft today announced a new initiative to combat threats specifically targeted at the firmware level and data stored in memory: Secured-core PCs.
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microsoft.com, ZDNet, BleepingComputer, Windows Central, Tom's Hardware, and Windows Experience Blog
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Commercetools, which offers an e-commerce platform for enterprises to sell to consumers, raises $145M led by Insight Partners, source says at a ~$300M valuation — Global retail e-commerce is expected to be a $25 trillion business this year, and today one of the companies that has built …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The Indian government is trying to tempt cellphone manufacturers with lower taxes, incentives, and less red tape, to make the country a major source of exports — Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is trying to tempt cellphone makers, manufacturers with lower taxes and less red tape as economy slows down
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
As Amazon regularly fails to prevent expired food from being sold by merchants, concerned brands are often compelled to police marketplace listings on their own — - Amazon's marketplace has grown to millions of sellers, making it hard for the company to adequately police the platform.| Wall Street Journal: |
Online influencers are expected to make $4.1B-$8.2B in 2019, but with no good way to measure sales, some advertisers are questioning whether it's worth it — Billions are paid to social-media personalities to pitch products in an influencer economy riddled with deceit.Sponsor Posts
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