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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Some users' Google Photos videos in Takeout backups were exported to strangers between November 21-25, 2019; those affected were notified by email — With Google Takeout, you can download your data from Google apps as a backup or for use with another service.
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Ars Technica, Android Central, BetaNews, Business Insider, Gizmodo, CNBC, LaptopMag, XDA Developers, Digital Trends, Fox Business, TalkAndroid.com, PCWorld, Digital Photography Review, Wccftech, VICE, Neowin, Redmond Pie, Security Boulevard, Engadget, Android Authority, The Hacker News, Thurrott, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, Android Police, KnowTechie, WinBuzzer, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Techaeris, MacRumors, and TechSpot
Tweets: @adrs, @randfish, @iamtherog, @userbasehq, @tomwarren, @backlon, @caseynewton, @dtunkelang, and @stillgray
| HuffPost: |
Sources: Shadow, a company affiliated with Democratic digital nonprofit ACRONYM, built Iowa caucus app used by workers that caused delays in reporting results — Shadow, a Democratic digital firm, created the app that was supposed to deliver quicker caucus results.
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service launches from beta with Steam, Epic Games Store, Battle.net, and Uplay support, rivaling Google Stadia at $5/month — The BYOG cloud gaming service with Steam, Epic, Battle.net, and Uplay support — For the past eight years …
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
A look at the big companies including Marriott, Disney, and IBM pushing to limit Section 230 of the CDA, challenging Facebook, Google, and the web as we know it — A motley group of powerful companies have their knives out for Section 230, which shields platforms from lawsuits over content posted by users.| Associated Press: |
Irish regulators have launched separate inquiries into Google, over location data, and Tinder, examining how they process user data after a number of complaints — LONDON (AP) — Irish regulators have launched separate inquiries into Google and dating app Tinder over how they process user data … | Michael Santoli / CNBC: |
Tesla's stock, up ~23% today, has more than tripled in under 4 months, from $255 on Oct. 23 to ~$960; 12K+ Robinhood users bought TSLA for the first time Monday — Jim Cramer: Tesla is a tech company and must be valued as one — Yes, there's an entrenched short base that's getting torched …
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| Financial Times: |
SoftBank Vision Fund's US chief Michael Ronen says he is “negotiating the terms of my anticipated departure” from the fund, amid concern about its direction — A top US executive at SoftBank's $100bn Vision Fund is leaving after expressing concerns about “issues” … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it has suspended “a large network of fake accounts” and many others for abusing an API feature that let them match phone numbers to usernames — Twitter announced today that over the holidays it identified and shut down “a large network of fake accounts,” …
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privacy.twitter.com, The Register, Inc42 Media, BBC, Security Affairs, Dark Reading, Graham Cluley, The Hacker News, Decrypt, SecurityWeek, Reuters, Neowin, infosecurity-magazine.com, and Digital Trends
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| Davey Alba / New York Times: |
Alphabet-owned Jigsaw is testing Assembler, a tool to identify doctored photographs, even ones created with the help of AI, with over a dozen news organizations — The company, owned by Google's parent, introduced a free tool it calls Assembler to sort out real images from fake ones.
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The Verge, Jigsaw, 9to5Google, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @jaredcohen, @jigsaw, @nytimes, and @jigsaw
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange has made a takeover offer for eBay that could value the marketplace at more than $30B; eBay stock up 10%+ — A deal could value the online marketplace at more than $30 billion — New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange Inc …
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Tweets: @adamnash, @hipster_trader, @thekenyeung, and @benedictevans
| Wall Street Journal: |
The White House says companies, including Dell, Microsoft, and AT&T, are working together to create an open standard for 5G tech to reduce reliance on Huawei — Companies including Dell, Microsoft and AT&T are part of the effort, White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow says| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Amid virus outbreak, authorities in China are using its vast surveillance network to identify potential carriers, ostracizing even those without the symptoms — The authorities hunt for people from Wuhan, the center of the outbreak, encouraging citizens to inform on others.
Tweets: @paulmozur, @sugabelly, @jotted, @amyyqin, and @liyuan6
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Koch Industries announces it's acquiring Infor, a provider of large-scale cloud ERP software founded in 2002, in a deal sources say is worth nearly $13B — Infor announced today that Koch Industries has bought the company in a deal sources peg at close to $13 billion.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Instagram generated ~$20B in advertising revenue in 2019, making up more than a quarter of Facebook's revenue — - Unit brought in about $20 billion in 2019, people familiar say — Photo-sharing app has gained in importance since 2012 purchase
Tweets: @ericjackson, @savequokka, @caseynewton, @yoda, @stevekovach, and @sarahfrier
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Finix, a SaaS startup selling payments tech to other businesses, raises $35M Series B led by Sequoia, bringing its total raised to over $55M — This morning Finix, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup selling payments tech to other businesses, announced that it has raised … | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Sources: top antitrust official Makan Delrahim has recused himself from DOJ's Google probe over a conflict of interest related to his past work for the company — Makan Delrahim, the Justice Department's head of antitrust, removed himself from examining the search giant over a conflict of interest … | Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
As Trump expands his travel ban to Nigeria and five others, Amazon, Apple, and Google have been silent, a break from their impassioned response in 2017 — In January 2017, when the Trump administration first unveiled a travel ban targeting seven majority Muslim countries, the tech industry took up arms.
Tweets: @rmac18, @slpng_giants, @carnage4life, and @brianbeutler
| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google says it has paid Android developers over $80B since 2012, well below the $100B threshold Apple announced it surpassed back in 2018 — Google has confirmed that it has now paid out over $80 billion to Play Store developers since the launch of the digital marketplace in March 2012.
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The Verge, Daring Fireball, iPhone Hacks, Android Central, XDA Developers, and Android Police. Tweets: @flargh
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Facebook debuts more controls for parents in Messenger Kids like the ability to view recent chat history, a log of chat images, remote device logout, and more — We launched Messenger Kids in 2017 after meeting with thousands of parents, parenting organizations, child safety advocates …
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The Verge, Mashable, Yahoo Finance, BetaNews, VentureBeat, MSPoweruser, 9to5Mac, Fatherly, Input, and SlashGear. Tweets: @frankcatalano
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers detail EKANS ransomware, which is targeting industrial control systems and appears to be the work of cybercriminals rather than nation-state hackers — EKANS appears to be the work of cybercriminals, rather than nation-state hackers—a worrying development, if so.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Alphabet breaks out revenue numbers for YouTube ads for the first time: $4.7B in Q4 revenue and $15.15B in fiscal 2019, up from $11.16B YoY — We've never before known how much money YouTube generates — YouTube generated nearly $5 billion in ad revenue in the last three months …
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| Praveen Nagaraj / News Landed: |
Apple updates iCloud.com with mobile web support for Photos, Notes, Reminders, and Find iPhone — iCloud Photo Library on Android! — Apple has silently begun allowing native support for iCloud.com on mobile browsers for both iOS and (most importantly) Android.
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