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Unilever says it will halt US advertising on Facebook and Twitter for at least the remainder of 2020, citing hate speech and divisive content on the platforms — Unilever to halt ads on Facebook, Twitter for remainder of year — Under mounting pressure from advertisers …
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| Mark Zuckerberg: |
Zuckerberg says Facebook will now label content that violates its rules but was left up because it was deemed newsworthy and of public interest — Three weeks ago, I committed to reviewing our policies ahead of the 2020 elections. That work is ongoing, but today I want to share some new policies …
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| Riya Bhattacharjee / CNBC: |
Coca-Cola to pause paid ads on all social media platforms globally for at least 30 days to reassess its ad policies, but isn't joining the official boycott — - Coca Cola on Friday announced it will be pausing advertising on all social media globally. — The company clarified …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook to ban ads that claim people from a specific race, ethnicity, nationality, caste, gender, sexual orientation or immigration origin are a threat — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said the company will change its policies to prohibit hate speech in its advertisements.
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Microsoft says it will permanently close all Microsoft Store retail locations and focus on its online store instead — - Microsoft on Friday announced it will permanently close its Microsoft Store retail locations. — In the past decade or so, Microsoft began to expand its retail presence …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Data broker Mobilewalla touts tracking BLM protesters' cell data and the locations of evangelicals before 2016 election, and says it has data on 1.6B devices — A data broker that tracked Black Lives Matter protesters also tracked the locations of Evangelical Christians on election …
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| CNBC: |
Amazon has signed an agreement to acquire self-driving car startup Zoox, reportedly for $1.2B+; Zoox was valued at over $3B in 2018 — - Zoox was valued at over $3 billion in 2018, but has struggled with management turnover in its efforts to develop a self-driving car.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Ubisoft places two executive VPs and several other employees on administrative leave following misconduct allegations made public in the past week — Ubisoft Entertainment SA, one of the world's largest video-game publishers, placed two executives and several other employees …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Leaked Microsoft document hints at a cheaper and less powerful Xbox console, designed to provide key improvements in Xbox Series X at a lower price point — The document mentions multiple Project Scarlett consoles — Microsoft has been planning a second, cheaper and less power next-gen Xbox console.
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Tweets: @xb1_hexdecimal, @tomwarren, @serkantoto, @alejandroid1979, @justanled, @videotech_, and @deitaone
| Lindsey O'Donnell / Threatpost: |
The creator of the Satori botnet, Kenneth Schuchman, is sentenced to 13 months in prison; experts says Satori gained control of 500K+ IoT devices — A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for developing Mirai botnet variants that compromised hundreds of thousands of devices worldwide.
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U.S. Department of Justice, HackRead, Security Affairs, BleepingComputer, Security Boulevard, and The Hacker News. Tweets: @tomleightonakam
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Apple says iOS 14 and macOS 11 will support the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and DNS-over-TLS (DoT) protocols — Apple said this week that iOS 14 and macOS 11 will support the DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS protocols. — In a presentation at its developer conference this week … | Bloomberg: |
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