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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 — We have a responsibility to stop abuse and election interference on our platform. That's why we've made significant investments since 2016 …
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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 — Heaven forbid a political candidate's Facebook account gets hacked. They might spread disinformation...like they're already allowed to do in Facebook ads...| CNBC: |
Sources: SoftBank to take control of WeWork, spending $4B-$5B on new funding and existing shares in The We Company, valuing it between $7.5B and $8B — KEY POINTS — Softbank to spend $4 billion to $5 billion on new equity, existing shares, sources say.
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| Joe Maring / Android Central: |
The Pixel 4 and 4 XL support fast wireless charging on any Qi charger, unlike the Pixel 3, which needed Google's own Pixel Stand for fast charging — The Pixel 3 was the first Google phone to support Qi wireless charging, but it came with a weird quirk. While it supported all Qi chargers …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Adobe will preview Illustrator for iPad at its Max conference in November before launching it in 2020 — - Company to announce plans at Max conference in early November — Illustrator is key Adobe app for graphic design and drawing — Adobe Inc. has picked Illustrator …
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9to5Mac, Digital Trends, International Business Times, The Verge, Tom's Guide, TweakTown News, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, iMore, MSPoweruser, Engadget, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, and MacRumors. Tweets: @natisho
| 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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Tweets: @markhachman, @modaly_it, @jamesliamcook, @mover_io, @gokello, @sharepoint, @chupchap, @whatthebit, and @davegershgorn
| vpnMentor: |
Researchers find open database that leaked 179GB+ of customer, US govt, and military records from Autoclerk, a travel reservations system owned by Best Western — Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor's research team discovered a breach in a database belonging to Autoclerk …
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| Shelby Brown / CNET: |
Devumi settles FTC charges that it sold fake followers and likes; cosmetics firm Sunday Riley also settles with FTC for allegedly posting fake online reviews — The Federal Trade Commission uncovered and stopped the misleading online marketing tactics of two different companies, it announced Monday.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Google hires Javier Soltero, Acompli co-founder and former head of Microsoft Outlook, to run G Suite — In its bid to take on Microsoft Office, Google has hired someone who knows the product well: Former Outlook boss Javier Soltero. — Why it matters: Google and Microsoft are in a tough battle …
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| Andrew Nusca / Fortune: |
A look at the revival in digital music sales, which have grown from $14.3B in 2014 to $18.1B in 2018, mainly thanks to paid streaming services like Spotify — Imagine, for a moment, that Taylor Swift was wrong. The reigning queen of country-tinged pop shocked fans in 2014 by abruptly … | 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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Tweets: @dwizzzlemsft, @halberenson, @epro, @lilyhnewman, and @wired
| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Hackers breached the internal network of Avast likely aiming for another supply chain attack on CCleaner; Avast says it didn't find malicious changes to the app — Hackers accessed the internal network of Czech cybersecurity company Avast, likely aiming for a supply chain attack targeting CCleaner.
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Avast EN, ZDNet, Krebs on Security, CyberScoop, ComputerWeekly.com, The Parallax, ZDNet, and Dark Reading. Tweets: @vysecurity
| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Google's Nest Mini is a great-sounding upgrade over the Home Mini, its ability to be mounted to a wall is nice, but it still lacks a 3.5mm jack, unlike Echo Dot — It can't hang with more expensive speakers, but it can hang on the wall — The main thing you need to know about the new Google Nest Mini … | Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Instabase, which sells app making tools to enterprise, raises $105M Series B at a $1.05B valuation — Silicon Valley got another addition to its stable of unicorns on Monday: Instabase Inc. The business tools company said it has raised $105 million at a $1.05 billion valuation.
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
SAP has struck a three-year deal where Microsoft will sell a bundle of SAP cloud services directly to customers who run SAP on Azure — SAP and Microsoft struck a three-year partnership to help companies move their data to the cloud, a move that tightens the already close relationship between the two tech giants.
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