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Trump signs an executive order to block all transactions with ByteDance and WeChat starting Sept. 20, just 5 days after Microsoft's deadline to acquire TikTok — Microsoft is currently in talks to acquire the company — President Trump has signed a new executive order …
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| New York Times: |
Intelligence agencies don't see TikTok as a major security issue, see the claimed risks as largely theoretical, and view companies like Huawei as larger threats — Even as the White House moves against the Chinese social media app, the intelligence agencies do not see it as a major issue along the lines of Huawei.
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| Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
In a memo to advertisers, TikTok says it will refund ad campaigns it can't fulfill due to a US ban and will work with influencers to migrate to other platforms — (Reuters) - TikTok is preparing advertisers for a possible ban of its app in the United States, ad buyers said, offering refunds for ad campaigns that are unable to run.| Financial Times: |
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| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Internal docs: Facebook removed “strikes” so that at least 2 conservative pages, from PragerU and Diamond & Silk, dodged penalties under misinformation policies — Facebook has allowed conservative news outlets and personalities to repeatedly spread false information without facing …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Interview with Bill Gates on COVID-19, Trump, last week's antitrust meeting, Mark Zuckerberg, misinformation, and the “poison chalice” of the TikTok deal — The techie-turned-philanthropist on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice.”
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| Elamin Abdelmahmoud / BuzzFeed News: |
Companies like Facebook and Twitter, which have positioned themselves as the new public square, should absolutely be questioned on their role in cancel culture — Last week, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan asked a question at a Congressional hearing that seemed to come out of nowhere.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Facebook formally open-sourced Pysa, a static analyzer tool for Python code, which detected 44% of all security bugs in Instagram's server-side code in H1 2020 — In the first half of 2020, Pysa detected 44% of all security bugs in Instagram's server-side Python code.
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| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
John Giannandrea and Bob Borchers talk about why Apple is best positioned to “lead the industry” in building machine intelligence-driven features and products — Apple AI chief and ex-Googler John Giannandrea dives into the details with Ars. — Machine learning (ML) …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Reddit says it is investigating after hackers deface more than a dozen subreddits, including some with millions of subscribers, to post pro-Trump messages — Hackers took control and defaced several large subreddits to post pro-Trump content. — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Interview with Color of Change leader Rashad Robinson on the Facebook ad boycott, meeting with Zuckerberg, working with the company, and more — Rashad Robinson, an organizer behind the Stop Hate for Profit boycott, says civil rights groups can't be left to police the company by themselves.| Jackie Snow / Wall Street Journal: |
How online sellers, including Amazon and GOAT, are using AI to spot counterfeit goods, with the help of authentication startups like Entrupy — When Olivia Matthaei, a consignment store sales clerk, needs to check whether a designer handbag is authentic, she knows the drill.| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Toshiba, which started making laptops in 1985, has formally exited the laptop business, after Sharp acquired Toshiba's final shares in Dynabook — Last Dynabook shares shuffled off to new owner Sharp — Toshiba has made laptops since 1985 and claims to have been the first to make a mass-market computer …
Tweets: @film_girl, @timbray, and @benthepcguy
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