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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Leaked audio recordings and internal posts show Mark Zuckerberg's balancing act, as employees demand a harder line against Trump but users want the opposite — In 2020, Facebook would be roiled by a global pandemic, internal protests over racial injustice, a deeply polarizing election …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
DOJ, in a rare legislative proposal, asks Congress to adopt a law weakening Section 230, in an effort to hold Facebook, Google, and others liable for content — At issue is Section 230, which gives Facebook, Twitter and other social media legal protection for items their users post to the companies' websites
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Tweets: @wsj and @kantrowitz
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 review: a big change for iPhones, with widgets, better notifications, and useful App Library, while iPad gets a more incremental update — It's time to blow up your iPhone's home screen — Apple spells out the significance of its new iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 updates right … | Bloomberg: |
Shopify says two “rogue members” of its support teams stole customer data from over 100 merchants; the company is working with the FBI to investigate — - Emails, names, addresses, order details may have been exposed — E-commerce platform is working with FBI on investigation
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Shopify Community, International Business Times, BleepingComputer, TechCrunch, New.blicio.us, Reuters, Security Affairs, Ubergizmo, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, and Yahoo Finance
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out updates to Maps with a layer showing COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people, with labels to indicate trends, coming to 220 countries and territories — Google today announced an update to Google Maps that will bring a new COVID-19 layer to the service to help you better understand the number of cases in a given area.
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The Keyword, Android Police, International Business Times, The Verge, 9to5Google, BGR, Trusted Reviews, SlashGear, Android Central, Fast Company, CNBC, Neowin, and Engadget
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg: |
ByteDance asks a US court for a preliminary injunction to prevent the US government from banning TikTok from app stores, as Trump's ban looms — - China's ByteDance says U.S. has exceeded its authority — White House warns app offers Beijing access to Americans' data
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New York Times, Axios, TechCrunch, NBC News, Protocol, Washington Post, Reuters, Business Insider, and Technology & …
Tweets: @bobbyallyn, @bobbyallyn, @bobbyallyn, @bobbyallyn, @bobbyallyn, and @scottnover
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Twitter says it will begin testing audio DMs soon, after introducing support for audio in tweets, starting in Brazil — Shout into my DMs — After rolling out audio tweets for iOS in June, Twitter is now experimenting with the idea of letting people record and send voice messages through direct messages.| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail what went wrong at Magic Leap, which raised $3.5B and failed to build its much-hyped AR headset, with most blame placed on founder Rony Abovitz — The augmented reality startup was undone by profligate spending and its own hype. Investors finally lost patience when the pandemic struck.
Tweets: @joshuabrustein, @silviakillings, @markmilian, and @kantrowitz
| Christopher Bing / Reuters: |
Sources: US election day exercises simulating attacks like hacks and disruption to voting show US officials will struggle to counter online misinformation — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. election day exercises simulating attacks ranging from hackers to anthrax to disrupt voting show state …
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IC3.gov News, The Daily Dot, CNET, and Bloomberg
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Nick Clegg denies Facebook could pull out of EU over data transfer ban, saying legal action is “to send a signal” that the ban could be a disaster for the EU — Facebook's head of global policy has denied the tech giant could close its service to Europeans if local regulators order …
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The Guardian, Android Headlines, Telecoms.com, and Interdependent Thoughts
Tweets: @alexhern, @jamestitcomb, @alexhern, and @alexhern
| New York Times: |
Facebook removes accounts, groups, and Pages tied to China that posted about US politics; the network was followed by fewer than 3,000 US accounts — The social media campaign was small but targeted all sides of the debate. Officials said Beijing had not decided whether to wade more directly in the American presidential race.
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About Facebook, TechCrunch, The Next Web, CNET, ZDNet, DFRLab, NPR, Washington Post, Graphika, VentureBeat, BuzzFeed News, The Verge, The Verge, Political Wire, Newsbusters, ANI News, Forbes, The Independent, New York Post, Inquirer News, ABS-CBN News, USA Today, Mashable, Associated Press, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, CNN, The Daily Dot, Bloomberg, BNN, Engadget, Input, Axios, Boing Boing, International Business Times, Raw Story, Engadget, CNET, NBC News, MakeUseOf, and TechCrunch
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google says developers can now use its open source UI framework Flutter to develop Windows apps, currently in alpha, with support for Windows 7 and newer — While Flutter first made its name for making it easy to create apps for iOS and Android, the app development framework has since grown …
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Flutter, Thurrott, Neowin, ZDNet, Windows Central, MSPoweruser, SiliconANGLE, and VentureBeat
| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
Reddit, one of QAnon's original hubs, has no meaningful QAnon presence now, although Reddit says it hasn't made a concerted effort to remove the conspiracy — Two years ago, most Americans knew nothing about QAnon, the ever-growing, diffuse, and violent movement devoted to a loosely connected set …
Tweets: @kait_tiffany, @theatlantic, @paulbisceglio, and @adriennelaf
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Avaaz analysis: Facebook has allowed hundreds of misleading super PAC ads, primarily spreading misinformation about Biden and USPS, with 10M+ views collectively — (CNN Business)Facebook has allowed political advertisers to target hundreds of misleading ads about Joe Biden and the US Postal Service …
Tweets: @b_fung, @oliverdarcy, and @marshallcohen
| Sarah Jeong / OneZero: |
Q&A with Casey Newton on leaving The Verge to start a newsletter on Substack called Platformer, after many years as The Verge's Silicon Valley editor — Sarah Jeong talks to Newton about the details of his deal, subscription journalism, and the magic of email
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Platformer and New York Times
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Adobe debuts Liquid Mode, an update for Acrobat Reader that uses AI to reformat PDFs for easier reading on smaller screens, coming first to mobile and Chrome OS — Adobe today announced an update for Acrobat Reader that leverages Sensei, the company's machine learning platform …
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Adobe Blog, TechCrunch, CNET, Engadget, Michael Tsai, Fast Company, ZDNet, and Axios
| Kevin Kwok / kwokchain: |
An in-depth look at Mike Speiser's investment playbook at Sutter Hill Ventures; Speiser incubated Snowflake, of which he was a founding investor, as interim CEO — In Formula 1 racing, you can win a world championship as a driver with one team but then not even make the top 10 without that team's car and infrastructure.
Tweets: @modestproposal1, @pridesai, and @mgirdley
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram updates Reels with longer videos, an extended timer, and better editing tools, after reports the TikTok competitor is failing to gain traction — Instagram is today rolling out a few changes to its TikTok competitor, Reels, after early reviews of the feature criticized its design …
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The Verge, The Next Web, MakeUseOf, Social Media Today, CNET, Engadget, Fortune, and Gizmodo
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify introduces Polls, an interactive tool for podcast hosts that lets listeners answer questions — Spotify today is introducing a new feature designed to make podcasts more interactive. The company says it's beginning to test “Polls,” a tool that will allow listeners to engage … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Report: Facebook's CrowdTangle tool, used by US state election officials to monitor misinformation, doesn't effectively monitor most posts, like those in Groups — - Tech watchdog says Facebook content monitor shows limited data — Private groups, individual posts aren't tracked by CrowdTangle
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Tech Transparency Project and Engadget
| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Facebook says it will reject ads from US political campaigns prematurely claiming victory before results have been declared — Facebook has said it will reject political ads that spread misinformation about the outcome of the November 3 election, several hours after Fast Company reported … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Intel launches 11th-gen CPUs aimed at edge computing, like kiosks, medical devices, and robots, with improved security and performance — Intel today announced the launch of new products tailored to edge computing scenarios like digital signage, interactive kiosks, medical devices, and health care service robots.
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SemiAccurate, AnandTech, Android Authority, Phoronix, ZDNet, Business Insider, and SiliconANGLE
| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
While livestreaming video e-commerce has taken off in China, it has yet to go mainstream in the US, but Walmart hopes it can lead the way with its bet on TikTok — For years, Walmart has been struggling to keep up with Amazon in pursuit of e-commerce dominance. Kena Betancur/VIEWpress via Getty Images
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CNN, CHINAdaily, CNBC, New York Times, WIRED UK, and Techdirt
Tweets: @huxijin_gt, @delrey, and @sherman4949
| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Attentive, which offers enterprise text marketing tools, raises $230M Series D led by Coatue at a $2.2B valuation, following a $110M Series C earlier in 2020 — With the pandemic causing e-commerce sales to skyrocket, 2020 has served as an unlikely year of hypergrowth for Attentive.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google expands Google Cloud's Chronicle cybersecurity analysis tools with threat detection and alerts — Google is officially expanding its Chronicle cybersecurity platform into the threat detection realm, with the promise to bring “Google-scale threat analysis” to enterprises.
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ZDNet, Security Boulevard, SC Media, Google Cloud Blog, and SiliconANGLE
| David French / Reuters: |
Robinhood raises $460M from a16z, Sequoia, DST Global, and others as a extension to its $200M Series G, at a $11.7B valuation — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Robinhood Markets Inc, the financial technology startup credited with helping popularize trading among millennials, has increased …
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Crowdfund Insider, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, BitcoinExchangeGuide, The Block, and Finextra
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple's first product with Mini-LED displays will be a 12.9-inch iPad Pro, with its displays entering mass production in 2020 — Following his report earlier this week indicating that Apple will be accelerating adoption of mini-LED displays in its iPad and Mac notebook lineups thanks …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Mashable, Tom's Guide, iDownloadBlog.com, Wccftech, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, MacDailyNews, BGR, Laptop Mag, SlashGear, Neowin, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, iClarified, GSMArena.com, and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @jetscott
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Leaked manual from UK social media monitoring service Blackdot Solutions details how to create fake Facebook accounts to gather data while avoiding detection — A leaked manual from Blackdot Solutions, a British company that offers social media monitoring services, included a step-by-step guide …
Tweets: @vice and @motherboard
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