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| David Kirton / Reuters: |
Huawei is selling its Honor smartphone unit to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers for an undisclosed sum; buyers are creating a new company for purchase — Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is selling its budget brand smartphone unit Honor to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers …
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Tweets: @benwood, @sarhan_, @sub8u, and @charlesarthur
| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Twitter names Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, veteran of Stripe, Google, and DARPA, to the new position of head of security — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social media giant Twitter TWTR.N Inc, under increased threat of regulation and plagued by serious security breaches …
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CyberScoop, CoinDesk, Engadget, The Hill, SiliconANGLE, Adweek, Newser, Decrypt, and Dark Reading
Tweets: @dotmudge, @jack, @alexstamos, @socialfresh, @gregghoush, @nudehaberdasher, and @textfiles
| BuzzFeed News: |
Internal Facebook data shows that labels on Trump's election misinformation posts only decreased shares by ~8%, and failed to slow their spread across the site — Internal data shows that labels on President Trump's posts decrease reshares by about 8%. They still account for some of the most engaging posts on the platform.
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Tweets: @craigsilverman, @craigsilverman, @ekp, @numbersmuncher, @alexeheath, @sallyshin, @moonalice, and @slpng_giants
| Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic: |
Barack Obama says today's online information ecosystem, which boosts conspiracy theories like QAnon, is “the single biggest threat to our democracy” — Barack Obama was describing to me the manner in which the Mongol emperor and war-crimes innovator Genghis Khan would besiege a town.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Airbnb releases public IPO filing, seeks Nasdaq listing under ticker ABNB, reports $219M in net income on revenues of $1.3B last quarter, down nearly 19% YoY — - Airbnb has released its prospectus to debut on public markets. — Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb
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| Abby Vollmer / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub reinstates the youtube-dl project, raises its bar for DMCA takedown requests, and creates $1M legal defense fund to help open source devs fight takedowns — Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project …
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Tweets: @githubpolicy, @waxpancake, @thomasfuchs, @konklone, @konklone, @justin_ling, @xor, @film_girl, @artemr, @dhh, and @benthompson
| Callum Booth / The Next Web: |
Security researcher demonstrates how Apple's apps on macOS Big Sur bypass firewalls and VPNs, an issue first brought to light in October — DON'T WORRY THOUGH, APPLE REALLY, REALLY, REALLY CARES ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY — For all of Apple's talk of being privacy-first, often its marketing speak …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Investigation: US military buys granular movement data of people around the world from a wide array of apps for Muslim dating, prayer, Craigslist, weather, more — A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain …
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International Business Times, Business Insider, The Daily Dot, and Input
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Zoom unveils At-Risk Meeting Notifier, a feature that scans the net for posted Zoom meeting links and alerts meeting organizers to potential Zoombombing attacks — The new “At-Risk Meeting Notifier” Zoom feature scans the internet and alerts conference organizers when a link to their Zoom meeting has been posted online.
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Zoom Blog, Engadget, Fossbytes, and Dark Reading
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Podcasts now lets anyone create an embeddable web player for shows or individual episodes — Apple is making it easier to discover and listen to podcasts via the web. The company announced today an Apple Podcasts embed web player is now available, allowing anyone — including creators …
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9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, Apple World Today, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, MacStories, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iMore. Tweets: @brianmcc
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
AliveCor, which makes heart-monitoring hardware and is developing algorithms to flag heart issues, raises $65M Series E led by Omron Healthcare — AliveCor, a startup developing algorithms that detect atrial fibrillation, bradycardia, tachycardia, and other health issues from heart rate readings, today raised $65 million in funding.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft expands third-party app integration support for Teams meetings and launches low-code tools like Power Apps for Teams and the Power Virtual Agents app — Microsoft today announced the general availability of Teams apps for meetings. For those who prefer a low-code approach …
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Microsoft 365 Blog, The Verge, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, OnMSFT.com, Windows Central, and Petri. Tweets: @microsoftteams
| BuzzFeed News: |
Sources: Facebook's 3rd-party content mods were never instructed to enforce its “call to arms policy” from 2019, meant to prevent real-world armed intimidation — “What we learned after Kenosha is that Facebook's call to arms policy didn't just fail. It was never designed to function properly in the first place."
Tweets: @rmac18, @muslimadvocates, @rmac18, @rmac18, @lam_barrett, @shayeganam, @morroweric, @scottlucas, @verambergen, @mat, @slpng_giants, and @buzzfeednews
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Chooch.ai, which seeks to help companies adopt computer vision more broadly, raises $20M Series A led by Vickers Venture Partners — Chooch.ai, a startup that hopes to bring computer vision more broadly to companies to help them identify and tag elements at high speed, announced a $20 million Series A today.
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| Steven Melendez / Fast Company: |
Squarespace now lets customers charge for access to exclusive content like podcasts, video series, and newsletters, by adding “Members Areas” for $10 to $40/mo. — Squarespace has made a name for itself by letting people and small businesses easily build websites.| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
China-based Zilliz, which builds open source software for processing unstructured data, raises $43M Series B led by Hillhouse Capital — For years, founders and investors in China had little interest in open-source software because it did not seem like the most viable business model.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
CVS now supports PayPal and Venmo QR codes at checkout, the first US national retailer to do so, as more customers turn to touch-free transactions amid pandemic — PayPal announced this morning that its customers can now use either PayPal or Venmo QR codes when checking …
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PR Newswire, PennLive, Digital Transactions, PYMNTS.com, and Engadget
| Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese semiconductor companies have raised an estimated $38B so far in 2020, up 100%+ from 2019, through public offerings, private placements, and asset sales — Nation's leadership pours money into grooming semiconductor talent and building new facilities, citing need for self-sufficiency| Financial Times: |
Max Schrems' campaign group noyb files complaints with German and Spanish regulators, claiming Apple breaks EU law by letting advertisers track users via IDFA — Austrian activist files complaints with German and Spanish data protection authorities — Apple is breaking EU law …
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Tweets: @noybeu, @finnmyrstad, @dhh, @pernillet, @mnot, @stephaniebodoni, and @martinsfp
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook now lets any page admin submit images and videos for rights protection, which helps creators monetize their content and may lead to more takedowns — The company opens its rights manager up to all page admins — More copyright takedown requests might be coming to Facebook and Instagram.
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Facebook, Social Media Today, MakeUseOf, and Tubefilter
| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
It's hard to believe Craig Federighi's claim that Apple wasn't “remotely considering” touch for Macs, given Big Sur's large controls and iOS apps coming to Macs — Reviews of new Apple Silicon Macs are not out yet. They're likely to be good. But one small disappointment lingers … | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
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Tweets: @ow and @davidalanmack
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