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DOJ charges two ex-Twitter employees, arresting one, with spying for Saudi Arabia by snooping on kingdom critics; one allegedly accessed 6,000 accounts in 2015 — The Justice Department has charged two former Twitter employees with spying for Saudi Arabia in a case that raises concerns …
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Sources: Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund invested $400M in Travis Kalanick's CloudKitchens in January, valuing the “ghost kitchen” operator at about $5B — The sovereign-wealth fund—also an early investor in Uber—poured $400 million into CloudKitchens in January
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
If its Sprint merger goes through, T-Mobile says it will offer free 5G to first responders for a decade and free broadband to 10M households with children — It's been more than a year and a half since T-Mobile and Sprint announced their $26.5 billion merger in a bid to revamp the US wireless industry.
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| Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google has been holding internal meetings on changing its political ad policy, and plans to share more information with employees soon — Discussions come after Twitter said it would bar most political ads amid spread of misinformation — Alphabet Inc. GOOG -.02% 's Google …
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
An investigation into I'm Shmacked, which exploited thousands of students by inducing them to provide viral videos of college parties to earn Instagram fame — The chief executive of I'm Shmacked promises students Instagram fame, then silences them with threats.
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @jimswiftdc, @katierosman, @taylorlorenz, and @nytimes
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google says it is open sourcing the phone-based VR software of Cardboard, less than a month after the company discontinued its Daydream View VR headset — Maybe the last nail in the coffin for phone-based VR — In October, Google officially discontinued its Daydream View VR headset …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
OpenAI releases the full version of GPT-2 text generation AI, which it previously said was too dangerous to share, after finding “no strong evidence of misuse” — The lab say it's seen ‘no strong evidence of misuse so far’ — The research lab OpenAI has released the full version …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Microsoft starts shipping its $3,500 HoloLens 2 to preorder customers in the US, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK — New gesture controls and a bigger field of view — Microsoft's HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset is shipping today after being announced earlier this year.
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Court filing demanding subpoenaed docs reveals California has been probing Facebook's disclosure of user data to Cambridge Analytica and others for 18 months — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California is investigating Facebook Inc's disclosure of user data to Cambridge Analytica and other partners …
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
Inside Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center, where dozens of engineers and analysts track state-sponsored hacking groups, ~70 with names and many more without — From Russian Olympic cyberattacks to billion-dollar North Korean malware, how one tech giant monitors nation-sponsored hackers everywhere on earth.
Tweets: @howelloneill, @khabirm, and @techreview
| The Correspondent: |
Skeptics say the effectiveness of online advertising is overhyped since ad marketers optimize ever more for people who would have bought anyway — Mel Karmazin, the president of Viacom, one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, walked into the Google offices in Mountain View, California.
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Source: Alphabet is probing execs, including Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, over inappropriate relationships, hiring an outside law firm — - The board of Google parent company Alphabet is conducting an investigation into sexual misconduct by executives, and has hired a law firm to assist.| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: |
AMD unveils two new Ryzen Threadripper CPUs in 24-core and 32-core versions, built using its 7nm “Zen 2” architecture, available Nov. 19 for $1,399 and $1,999 — Need CPU power? AMD has you covered with new 24-core and 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors.
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Photoshop for iPad has met with a lackluster reception and a review rating of 2.3 out of 5 stars, prompting Adobe exec to defend this first version — Adobe Inc. debuted its most important mobile application ever this week when it finally released Photoshop for Apple Inc.'s iPad.| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
In a wide-ranging interview, Reed Hastings says Netflix's spending on content will grow and defends cutting an episode of Hasan Minhaj's show in Saudi Arabia — Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings tackled a wide array of issues surrounding the streaming giant during a packed 30-minute keynote session … | Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Filing: Uber says it “will likely” need to change its autonomous driving software or sign a deal with Waymo after an expert found Uber still uses Waymo tech — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber (UBER.N) said it “will likely” have to strike a licensing deal with Waymo or opt … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Ghost Locomotion emerges from stealth with $63.7M and says its self-driving kit will work with some cars made from 2012 onwards when it launches in 2020 — Self-driving cars have countless obstacles to contend with on the road, chiefly drivers who don't always act predictably — or responsibly.
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| Alex Krivit / The Cloudflare Blog: |
An inside account of Cloudflare's defeat of Blackbird's lawsuit by publishing “prior art” that could help others, and attacking the patent troll business model — Remember 2016? Pokemon Go was all the rage, we lost Prince, and there were surprising election results in both the UK and US.
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| CoinDesk: |
Square says it processed $148M in Q3 bitcoin sales, up 244% YoY, for a profit of $2M, flat QoQ, and debuts new fee structure for Cash App bitcoin transactions — Square processed $148 million in bitcoin sales in the third quarter of 2019. — The payments company, founded …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple's weather app stopped showing air quality index data for Chinese cities, source says due to Weather Channel changing how it collects that data in China — When it comes to many of Apple Inc.'s latest services, iPhone users in China are missing out. Podcast choices are paltry.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
LogRocket, which develops a platform to help companies quickly identify and fix website or app bugs, raises $15M Series B led by Battery Ventures — LogRocket is a startup on a mission to help companies root out and fix website app errors quickly and efficiently, and it seems to be going well.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nightfall, which offers an AI-based platform to detect and prevent data leakage from cloud-based apps and services, comes out of stealth with $20.3M — Sensitive data leakage is one of the biggest negative side-effects of cloud-based apps and services. Today, a startup that has built …
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Wrench, an on-demand vehicle maintenance and repair service for consumers and fleets, raises $20M led by Vulcan Capital — Wrench, the Seattle-based on demand vehicle maintenance and repair service for consumers and fleets, has raised $20 million in its latest round of financing.
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