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Microsoft says that Xbox Cloud Gaming will expand beyond PC and mobile to its Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox One consoles this holiday season — - Microsoft said its Xbox Cloud Gaming service will arrive on console this holiday. — Cloud gaming lets people stream games over the internet rather than install them locally.
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| Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: |
OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely blames banks, including BNY Mellon, Metro Bank, JPMorgan, for its porn ban, but says Mastercard's rules had no bearing on the ban — Tim Stokely says Bank of New York Mellon ‘flagged and rejected’ all interbank wires linked to website
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A look at Vaccine Talk, a tightly moderated Facebook group for vaccine skeptics with ~70K members that aims to change their minds with evidence-based info — As social media giants struggle to crack down on false claims about covid, ordinary users are finding ways to reach vaccine skeptics — and win them over.| Axios: |
California expands lawsuit against Activision Blizzard to include temp workers and says the game maker interfered with investigation by shredding pertinent docs — California has expanded its anti-discrimination lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, adding temporary workers to the female full …
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| Sascha Segan / PCMag: |
Testing of carriers across the US shows T-Mobile with a commanding lead in 5G, winning speed tests in 24 cities and rural regions to AT&T's eight, Verizon's two — For our 12th annual test, we drove more than 10,000 miles, speed-testing AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon 4G and 5G in cities, towns, and rural regions all over the US.
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Researchers: Trump tweets with fact-check labels spread further on Twitter than those without; messages blocked by Twitter remained popular on Facebook, Reddit — Twitter blocked and labeled some Donald Trump's claims of election fraud in the run-up and aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Study details how people use hashtags, video effects, and music on TikTok to promote hate against Asians, women, Muslims, Jews, and Black and LGBTQ people — Despite pledges to crack down on hatred, TikTok is still trafficking in short-form videos that promote white supremacy and anti-Black racism … | Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times: |
FBI says a man phished thousands of iCloud accounts via an email scam where he impersonated customer support, stealing 620K photos and 9K videos until mid-2018 — A Los Angeles County man broke into thousands of Apple iCloud accounts and collected more than 620,000 private photos and videos … | Will Knight / Wired: |
Cerebras Systems claims its hardware can now run a neural network with 120 trillion parameters, targeting a nascent market for massive NLP AI algorithms — Cerebras says its technology can run a neural network with 120 trillion connections—a hundred times what's achievable today.
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Hunters, a cybersecurity startup that builds tech known as extended threat detection and response (XDR), raises $30M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners — With the growing volume of ransomware and supply chain security attacks, there is a need for organizations to more rapidly detect threats.| Erin Woo / New York Times: |
TikTok partners with Shopify to launch a pilot program letting merchants add a shopping tab to their profiles and link to products in their posts — TikTok and Shopify, the e-commerce platform, said on Tuesday that they were working together to add the ability for consumers to shop directly in the TikTok app for the first time.
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Tweets: @harleyf, @glenngabe, @shopify, @alex_danco, @harleyf, and @markdistef
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Interview with Discord CEO Jason Citron, who says user numbers doubled and revenue tripled to $130M in 2020, and Discord is developing its own in-house games — Chief executive Jason Citron is looking to broaden the appeal of the popular chat platform — First came the gamers, then came the offers for his business.
Tweets: @davidtallon and @chrisrsword
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Some are raising concerns about harmful uses of “netflow data”, which helps map traffic flow across networks and that some ISPs allow to be sold to 3rd parties — ISPs are quietly distributing “netflow” data that can, among other things, trace traffic through VPNs. — Joseph Cox
Tweets: @matthew_d_green and @mmasnick
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
After being fired as co-head of Google's Ethical AI group, Margaret Mitchell will join Hugging Face, an AI startup that aims to make algorithms fair — Former co-head of Ethical AI group will join Hugging Face to create tools for AI fairness — The former co-head of Google's Ethical AI research group …
Tweets: @dinabass, @timnitgebru, and @mmitchell_ai
| Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: |
A look at how the Chicago Tribune story spread via Facebook and why publishers need to take more responsibility for what they push onto social media — On Friday, The New York Times had a scoop. Facebook — that known vector for the spread of kid photos, neighborhood goings-on … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook's David Marcus says Novi digital wallet is “ready now”, but will wait for the Diem currency, and it is “definitely looking at” building NFT features — Social network is ‘definitely looking’ at digital assets as part of push into financial products, executive says| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
UK ICO's Age Appropriate Design Code, aimed at protecting data and limiting ads for kids, comes into effect next Thursday, with large fines for non-compliance — Legislation aims to stop companies targeting children with ads and nudging them to stay online
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