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| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
A look at allegations in Texas AG's antitrust suit, accusing Google of giving Facebook special privileges in exchange for not supporting a competing ad system — A new antitrust case against Google alleges that the two companies made a deal to reduce competition in online advertising.
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| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Source: a bipartisan group of 30+ state attorneys general will sue Google on Thursday, accusing Google of favoring its own products in search results — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google, already facing lawsuits by the U.S. Justice Department and attorneys general led by Texas …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple responds to Facebook's criticism of iOS 14 privacy measures, says Facebook won't be forced to change how it tracks users, but it must give users a choice — Apple has responded to Facebook's criticism over an upcoming iOS 14 privacy measure — specifically a change that will require users … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Facebook hits back at Apple with a second full-page newspaper ad today, says upcoming iOS changes will “change the internet as we know it - for the worse” — Facebook isn't done criticizing Apple just yet — Facebook is stepping up its campaign against Apple's privacy changes with a second full-page newspaper ad today.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook says it will assist Epic Games in its legal battle against Apple, including providing supporting documents — Social-networking company also dials up criticism of Apple's plan to allow iPhone users to restrict access to personal data — Facebook Inc. said it would assist …
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| Washington Post: |
CISA's Einstein, which cost billions and monitors US agencies' networks for bad actors, missed the SolarWinds hack, which now counts the NIH among its victims — When Russian hackers first slipped their digital Trojan horses into federal government computer systems, probably sometime in the spring …
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| Thomas P. Bossert / New York Times: |
Ex-Homeland Security Adviser: the magnitude of the Solarwinds breach is hard to overstate and the remediation effort alone will be staggering — The magnitude of this national security breach is hard to overstate. — Mr. Bossert was the homeland security adviser to President Trump …
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| Jack Morse / Mashable: |
Twitter says it will stop prompting users to Quote Tweet, restoring the standard RT functionality, and says QT use increased but overall sharing dropped by 20% — Well, it was worth a shot. — Twitter announced Wednesday that it will cease prompting users to quote tweet in lieu of the standard retweet.
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Twitter says it will start removing tweets that spread harmful COVID-19 vaccine misinformation starting next week and will label conspiracies starting in 2021 — It may apply labels early in 2021 — Twitter announced Wednesday that it will remove tweets making false or misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccinations.
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| Bloomberg: |
A group of AI researchers at Google have asked for policy and leadership changes including the removal of VP Megan Kacholia from their reporting hierarchy — - Team says it must be able to contest Google ‘revenue agendas’ — Letter to CEO asks company to commit to academic integrity
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| Manuel Vonau / Android Police: |
Netflix is rolling out a Video Off button at the top of the full-screen video player and an audio only mode in settings for its Android app — Netflix might not be playing nicely with Google TV for some reason, but the company is pouring tons of resources into its Android app.| Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: |
A pessimistic look at Facebook and its enormous, uncontrollable impact on the US and world, giving Zuckerberg incredible power with little oversight — The Doomsday Machine was never supposed to exist. It was meant to be a thought experiment that went like this: Imagine a device built … | The Guardian: |
Invoices show Israeli surveillance firm Rayzone leased access to SS7 traffic from a Channel Islands mobile operator to spy on cell communications and locations — The Israeli private intelligence company Rayzone Group appears to have had access to the global telecommunications network via …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Substack launches Substack Reader, an RSS reader for tracking newsletter subscriptions and other feeds, in beta — Substack Reader is now available in beta — If you're worried about all your newsletter subscriptions getting lost in your inbox, Substack may have a solution.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Facebook rolls back temporary post-election change that lifted news from authoritative outlets over hyperpartisan sources — Facebook confirmed that it has in the past few days rolled back a change that lifted news from authoritative outlets over hyperpartisan sources after November's election …
| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Google unveils an open source multilingual language model supporting 16 Indian languages to help researchers and students build tech in local languages — Google has unveiled a machine learning tool for Indian languages to help researchers, students, and startups keen on building local language technologies …
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BigID, which helps monitor and protect enterprise customers' data, raises $70M Series D led by Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global at a valuation of $1B+ — BigID, a NYC-based leader in data discovery and intelligence for privacy, protection and perspective, raised $70Mm in series D financing … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
French P2P payments startup Lydia raises $86M led by Accel, as an extension of its Series B, bringing total of its Series B round to $131M — French fintech startup Lydia has extended its Series B round. Accel is leading the extension with all major existing shareholders also participating.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Ramp, a corporate spend management service, raises $30M, bringing its total raised to $55M — Corporate spend management startup Ramp has raised $30 million more in a new round, it announced today. TechCrunch covered Ramp's launch earlier this year, when it also detailed that it had raised around $23 million up to that point.
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| Dawn Kawamoto / San Francisco Business Journal: |
Upstart, whose P2P lending software uses AI to make credit decisions and eliminate fraud, closes at $29.47 per share, up 47.4% on its first day of trading — Upstart soared 47.4% on its first day as a newly minted public company Wednesday, a marked contrast to the rocky IPO debut of Bay Area e-commerce company Wish.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Filing: Alphabet's AI unit DeepMind lost £460.9M last year, down 2% on 2018, and Alphabet wrote off a further £1.1B in debt — Annual accounts underline huge investment parent company is making in UK-based team — Google's UK-based artificial intelligence unit DeepMind lost half …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Brainly, which operates a crowdsourced service for students and parents to help with homework, raises $80M Series D led by Learn Capital — The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a major upswing in virtual learning — where some schools have gone (and stayed) remote, and others … Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
GoCardless, which processes direct debit payments for businesses, raises $95M led by Bain Capital at a $970M valuation — - Payments technology start-up GoCardless raised $95 million in an investment round that values it at $970 million. — GoCardless plans to capitalize on an emerging trend …
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| Ben Brody / Bloomberg: |
FTC's antitrust suit against Facebook seeks to break it up, unlike DOJ's more measured strike against Google, which asks only for “structural relief as needed” — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission jolted the market on Dec. 9 with filings that seek to force Facebook Inc. to sell Instagram and WhatsApp.
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