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Sources: Facebook is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its network in the days leading up to the US election in November — Facebook Inc. is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its social network in the days leading up to the U.S. election in November … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Amazon says it will not ask employees to remove TikTok from their mobile devices, and an internal email asking them to delete the app was sent in error — The company confirms that an email was sent out in error earlier today — Amazon says that it will not ask employees to remove … | Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
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Signal's new feature that allows users to store certain data on their servers for recovery purposes has some security experts threatening to stop using the app — The popular encrypted app is now going to store your contacts in the cloud. Experts are worried this compromises users' privacy.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Linux team approves new terminology to replace terms like “master/slave” and “blacklist/whitelist” for new Linux kernel source code and associated documentation — Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts stamp on proposal to use neutral language in kernel code and documentation.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Mozilla suspends Firefox Send file-sharing service after reports malware operators use it to host and send links with malicious payloads to potential victims — Mozilla has temporarily suspended the Firefox Send file-sharing service while it adds a Report Abuse mechanism.| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
Microsoft details how it is collaborating with Google to help developers get their Progressive Web Apps into the Play Store — Microsoft has been collaborating with Google to ensure that their tools interoperate and can help developers get their Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) into the Play Store.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Report: Apple is making thousands of semitransparent lenses for its AR headset at a Foxconn factory as part of engineering validation test stage of the product — Apple and Foxconn have reached a key milestone in the development of Apple's long-rumored augmented reality headset … | Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Microsoft's Phil Spencer claims asking studios to make games for Xbox Series X that will also work on Xbox One at launch won't hinder the potential of Series X — “Held back is a meme that gets created by people who are too caught up in device competition”| Sarah Emerson / OneZero : |
Pinterest's moderation approach, which blocks content at the search query level, rather than removing it entirely, lets some objectionable content remain — The moderation oversight is a result of hiding rather than deleting illicit content — Pinterest, a website best known for inspiration boards … | Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Pupils and teachers question the new grading algorithm used by the IB Diploma Programme to predict student scores after it canceled in-person tests this spring — The International Baccalaureate program canceled its high-stakes exam because of Covid-19. The formula it used to “predict” scores puzzles students and teachers.| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Yevgeniy Nikulin, a Russian indicted for allegedly hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox in 2012 resulting in ~117M stolen credentials, is found guilty by SF federal jury — - Trial was the first in Northern California since the pandemic — Nikulin was of interest to U.S. for 2016 election meddling| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Clubhouse is the latest social network to neglect moderation until it becomes a crisis and why its creators shouldn't treat trust and safety as an afterthought — The $100 million startup is learning the hard way that content moderation needs to come first — I.
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