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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
At a hearing on Libra, Mark Zuckerberg was grilled by House lawmakers from both parties on the proposed cryptocurrency, privacy, diversity, and misinformation — The social media giant's chief executive took an early lashing Wednesday over the company's policies to spot and prevent the spread disinformation.
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New York Times, The Verge, Fortune, CoinDesk, Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, Reason, CryptoGlobe, Social Media Today, Fast Company, CNBC, Modern Consensus, VICE, AdExchanger, The Guardian, Decrypt, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Cointelegraph, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and CNBC
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q1 revenue of $33.1B, up 14% YoY, as net income rises 21% YoY to $10.7B; Intelligent Cloud revenue rose 27% YoY to $10.8B, driven by Azure — REDMOND, Wash. — October 23, 2019 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended September 30 …
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Tweets: @jordannovet, @daniel_rubino, @tomwarren, and @colinpenty
| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Google employees accuse the company of making an internal tool to monitor attempts to organize meetings; Google says it's only to prevent calendar spam — - Company says it's an effort to curb calendar, meeting spam — Allegation underscores tensions between employees, leadership
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The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, The Hill, NBC News, The Verge, Gizmodo, CNET, and The Daily Dot
Tweets: @rj_gallagher, @swiftonsecurity, @marypcbuk, @ericgarland, @mmasnick, @pinboard, @evgenymorozov, @neolithicsheep, and @tsgiles
| Alexi McCammond / Axios: |
Memo from a departing chief of White House security lays out how an ongoing reorg under the Trump administration has left its networks more vulnerable to attack — An internal memo on cybersecurity, obtained by Axios, warns that “the White House is posturing itself to be electronically compromised once again.”
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Ars Technica and Gizmodo
Tweets: @thenamecast, @peterwsinger, @thepacketrat, @campuscodi, @alexi, @ellenspivak, @rich_outlaw, @jenlucpiquant, and @wylienewmark
| BBC: |
BBC News launches dark web mirror of its international site, accessible via Tor, as it seeks to thwart censorship from states such as China, Iran, and Vietnam — The BBC has made its international news website available via Tor, in a bid to thwart censorship attempts.| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Google claims “quantum supremacy” after its Sycamore processor completed a calculation in 3 min 20 sec that would take 10K+ years on today's supercomputers — SAN FRANCISCO — Google said on Wednesday that it had achieved a long-sought breakthrough called “quantum supremacy,” … | Reuters: |
Samsung rolls out a patch for Galaxy S10 and Note10 to fix the fingerprint sensor flaw that caused 3D patterns in screen protectors to be read as fingerprints — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) has updated software to fix problems with fingerprint recognition features … | Sarah Lacy / Pando: |
Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr sell Pando, seven years after launching it, to ad-tech company BuySellAds, which bought Digg in 2018 — If there is a single moment when it seemed like my journalism career suddenly caught fire, it was the 2006 Business Week cover story I wrote about the rise of Web 2.0 companies.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Samsung unveils Exynos 990, its new flagship SoC that's 20% faster overall and 2x faster on AI-specific tasks, and a new 5G modem, both made with a 7nm process — If you buy next year's flagship Samsung Galaxy phone, it might come with a performance boost from a new processor the Korean electronics giant announced Wednesday.
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Samsung Global Newsroom, Android Authority, Neowin, SlashGear, Firstpost Tech, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @samsung
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Truebill, which makes an app for managing personal finances, raises $15M Series B, says the app currently has 500K active users — Personal finance startup Truebill announced today that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding. — The new funding was led by Eldridge Industries … | Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Leaked presentation shows Comcast is lobbying US lawmakers against Google and Mozilla's plan to encrypt DNS data, making it harder for ISPs to track users — Motherboard has obtained a leaked presentation internet service providers are using to try and lobby lawmakers against a form of encrypted browsing data.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, Tom's Hardware, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @josephfcox, @campuscodi, @josephfcox, @mdfrancois, @kashhill, @nicholasadeleon, @karlbode, @josephfcox, and @josephfcox
| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Facebook to unveil news tab at an event Friday with News Corp's Robert Thomson; sources: direct payments to 200 publishers will go up to millions of dollars — Facebook plans to launch a “News” tab on Friday that will offer stories from hundreds of news organizations, some of which will be paid fees … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Intel sues SoftBank-owned Fortress, which has acquired a patent portfolio from NXP Semiconductors, claiming Fortress engages in patent troll-like behavior — (Reuters) - Chipmaker Intel Corp has filed an antitrust lawsuit against a SoftBank Group Corp-owned investment company alleging … | CNBC: |
WeWork says SoftBank will provide $5B in new financing and buy up to $3B in shares from existing shareholders, which would give SoftBank an 80% stake in WeWork — - CNBC's David Faber previously reported that SoftBank was seeking to take control of WeWork through a financing package.
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Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, VICE, The Bulwark, Vox, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Reuters, Slate, Crunchbase News, Inc42 Media, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @profgalloway, @shiraovide, @carnage4life, @ritholtz, @walldo, @kateclarktweets, @bchappatta, @sallyshin, and @madhavchanchani
| iFixit News: |
Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 (15") teardown: seems pretty repairable with an easily accessible SSD, but there's one big drawback: its battery is firmly glued down — Teardown of the Surface Laptop 3 reveals a shocking turnaround in repairability on what used to be our least-favorite laptop design.
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Windows Central, SlashGear, and MSPoweruser
| Sarah Emerson / VICE: |
Documents show how Facebook uses Menlo Park's police department, which includes a Facebook-funded unit for campus patrol duties, amid racial profiling concerns — Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by Motherboard show how Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city.
Tweets: @sarahnemerson, @vice, @marshallproj, @vice, @vice, and @josephfcox
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Amazon has acquired Health Navigator, which provides online symptom checking and triage tools to companies that are looking to route patients to the right place — - Amazon has acquired Health Navigator, a start-up founded by emergency medicine doctor David Thompson, the company confirmed to CNBC.Sponsor Posts
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