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Ajit Pai says FCC will start a rulemaking to clarify the meaning of Section 230, and social media doesn't have “special immunity denied to other media outlets” — - Agency chief says it will conduct rulemaking Trump sought — Social media doesn't have special immunity, Chairman Pai says
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Facebook and Twitter deserve some credit for rapidly restricting the New York Post hack-and-leak operation that made allegations about Hunter Biden — In a New York Post report, Facebook and Twitter smell a rat — I. — In the run-up to the 2020 election, platforms have been preparing for all manner of threats.
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook limits the distribution of a New York Post story that makes disputed claims about Hunter Biden, pending fact-check, while Twitter blocks sharing — Facebook and Twitter said they will be limiting the distribution of or blocking a New York Post story making unverified claims about former vice president Joe Biden.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Sony posts a lengthy walkthrough video of the PS5's UI, showing a significant departure from the sparse PS4 UI — Over 11 minutes of next-gen menus — Sony just revealed one of the final big questions about the upcoming PlayStation 5: what the user interface looks like.
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| NBC News: |
YouTube bans conspiracy theory content, such as QAnon or Pizzagate, that justifies “real-world violence”, but stops short of banning QAnon content outright — YouTube said Thursday that it would no longer allow content that targets individuals and groups with conspiracy theories …
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| Matthew Leske / The Keyword: |
Google says Chat will be available as a free service next year, both as a standalone app and integrated into Gmail; Google will remove Fi support in Hangouts — Over the past few years, we've invested in building helpful and secure products you can use to communicate and stay connected with the people in your life.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google details how it is using AI to improve search, including indexing individual passages from webpages, allowing searches for songs by humming, and more — During a livestreamed event this afternoon, Google detailed the ways it's applying AI and machine learning to improve the Google Search experience.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stripe acquires Nigerian startup Paystack, which enables integration of payments services using an API, sources say for $200M+ — When Stripe announced earlier this year that it had picked up another $600 million in funding, it said one big reason for the funding was to expand its API-based payments services into more geographies.
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Access to Twitter is starting to be restored for some users after a widespread outage; Twitter says it is investigating the cause of the incident — All Twitter can tell us is that ‘something went wrong.’ — Just a day after Twitter got caught up in an outrage cycle over whether …
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Tweets: @levie, @twittercomms, and @gaberivera
| Sophie Alexander / Bloomberg: |
Source: Robinhood estimates that ~2,000 accounts were compromised in a recent hack; Robinhood said a “limited number” were affected by personal email breaches — - A fake Arizona ID offers clue on how a hacker accessed funds — Some clients dispute assertion that email accounts to blame
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CoinDesk, Reuters, CNBC, Business Insider, CNN, Decrypt, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @brucefenton, @enronchairman, @campuscodi, @dandefrancesco, @gaberivera, and @nathanielpopper
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Telegram says when Apple recently ordered it to delete specific posts, Apple demanded it not leave a notice explaining why, because such info was “irrelevant” — Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has been writing about a controversy that I think is fairly summarized as follows …
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MSPoweruser, Forbes, AppleInsider, and iMore
Tweets: @steipete, @timsweeneyepic, @corpssquaddevs, and @starfia
| Bloomberg: |
International operation by UK, US, Australia, and others arrests 20 in connection with QQAAZZ group, which police say has laundered millions for cyber criminals — - Group used shell companies, bank accounts to move stolen funds — Victims included Brooklyn synagogue, Michigan auto-parts maker
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U.S. Department of Justice, Europol, CoinDesk, ZDNet, Dark Reading, BleepingComputer, CyberScoop, Infosecurity Magazine, and ComputerWeekly.com. Tweets: @usambuk
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Seattle-based Temporal, which is building an open source, stateful microservices orchestration service, raises $18.75M Series A led by Sequoia — Temporal, a Seattle-based startup that is building an open-source, stateful microservices orchestration platform, today announced that it has raised …
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GeekWire, Seattle Business Journal, Business Wire, Temporal, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, and TechStartups.com
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox Series X preview: focus on basics that matter like being quiet and cool, high frame rates, faster load times, accessory support, and backward compatibility — I haven't been using my Xbox One as much recently, as it just feels outdated. As someone who plays primarily on PC …
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @mkaech, @jeffgrubb, and @tomwarren
| Mark Wilson / Fast Company: |
YouTube TV is adding NFL Fantasy Football, its first third-party app, allowing viewers to watch a game and pull up player scores on the same screen — Starting today, real football and your fantasy team are one and the same. Tomorrow? We can only guess.
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9to5Google, Cord Cutters News, and Engadget
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Apple confirms an upcoming update will let HomePod, but not HomePod mini, output Dolby Atmos as well as 5.1 and 7.1 channel audio from Apple TV 4K — With new home cinema feature — Apple's HomePod is getting a lot more useful as a home cinema speaker for Apple TV 4K owners.
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Tweets: @reckless, @neilcybart, @stroughtonsmith, and @maddox
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Sources: GameStop will get a share of the lifetime digital sales revenue for any Xbox console they sell, but the specific cut is unknown and likely small — But the size of the unprecedented revenue-sharing deal is up for debate. — In a seemingly unprecedented deal … Sponsor Posts
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