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Sources: last month Zuckerberg agreed to show users positive stories about Facebook via News Feed; Facebook says it ran only a small test with labeled posts — Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, has signed off on an effort to show users pro-Facebook stories and to distance himself from scandals.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @rmac18, @joeosborne, @sheeraf, @juliacarriew, @joeosborne, @wongmjane, @joeosborne, @juanof9, @joeosborne, @cramforce, @kombiz, @alexeheath, @nickbilton, @bcmerchant, @neilturkewitz, @alexeheath, @alexeheath, @clarajeffery, @scout_finch, @oliverdarcy, @mrinaldesai, @katieharbath, @thekenyeung, @aaronhuertas, @timothydurigan, @quinnypig, @hshaban, @johnpaczkowski, @etbrooking, @janelytv, @quinnypig, @slightlylate, @clarajeffery, and @willoremus
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Facebook's Oversight Board wants the company to explain its “cross-check” system, which reportedly lets celebrities, politicians, and others break its rules — pushing Facebook to provide more information on its controversial “cross-check” system, following a report that the company …
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Tweets: @oversightboard, @professorshaw, @inafried, @jason_kint, @riptari, @kaepora, @pkafka, @davidcloudlat, and @karissabe
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Following WSJ's investigation series, Facebook says it has spent over $13B on safety and security since the 2016 election and 40K employees work on these issues — - Company now has more than 40,000 safety and security employees — Facebook responds after critical series of newspaper stories
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About Facebook. More:
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @andymstone, @fbnewsroom, @blakereid, @moonalice, @obrien, @craigsilverman, @hardin, @sarthakgh, @mattnavarra, @banditelli, @jesselehrich, @zilevandamme, and @emmalbriant
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iPhone 13 review: excellent cameras and battery life, more base storage, but front camera is unchanged, refresh rate is standard, and iPhone 12 cases don't fit — So are bigger cameras — What, really, do you want out of a new phone? — Assuming you're starting with a good foundation …
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Tweets: @bxchen, @pogue, @martinvars, and @reckless
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple iPhone 13 Pro review: incredible cameras, improved battery, and high refresh display, but front camera is average, no USB-C, and Cinematic Mode is limited — The iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max are phones designed for people who care about the details. The improvements over last year's iPhones …
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Input, Daring Fireball, news.com.au, TechCrunch, digg.com, Lux, CNET, Pocket-lint, 9to5Mac, Tom's Guide, MobileSyrup, CNN, Above Avalon, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Macworld
Tweets: @mkbhd, @vjeranpavic, @backlon, @stevekovach, @steven_aquino, @reneritchie, @mkbhd, @sdw, @tailosivetech, @raywongy, @techaltar, @backlon, @ijustine, @benbajarin, @raywongy, @backlon, @backlon, @raywongy, @bzamayo, @basicappleguy, @reneritchie, @cnet, @tomwarren, and @backlon
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 15.1 beta lets users store their verifiable health records, including COVID-19 vaccination cards and test results, in the Health app — The iOS 15.1 beta that was introduced today allows iPhone users to upload their COVID-19 vaccination status to the Health app and then generate a vaccination card in Apple Wallet.
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Tweets: @mattcassinelli, @brandonbutch, @tylerg39, @julipuli, and @rklau
| Washington Post: |
Sources: FBI refrained from sharing a ransomware decryptor with businesses for almost three weeks, as it carried out an operation to disrupt the REvil gang — The FBI refrained for almost three weeks from helping to unlock the computers of hundreds of businesses and institutions hobbled …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Treasury Department sanctions cryptocurrency exchange Suex for helping facilitate and launder transactions from at least eight ransomware variants — - The U.S. Treasury Department announced Tuesday it will sanction a cryptocurrency exchange for its alleged role in laundering ransoms for cyberattacks.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
macOS is susceptible to running arbitrary code when a user opens a malicious .inetloc file, and Apple's first attempt to silently fix the issue failed — Security researchers disclosed today a new vulnerability in Apple's macOS Finder, which makes it possible for attackers to run arbitrary commands …
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SSD Secure Disclosure, AppleInsider, Forbes, Tom's Guide, Security Affairs, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @patrickwardle, @securiteam_ssd, @_r_netsec, and @hrbrmstr
| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Shareholders allege Facebook conditioned its $5B Cambridge Analytica settlement on the FTC dropping plans to sue and depose Zuckerberg — Facebook conditioned its $5 billion payment to the Federal Trade Commission to resolve the Cambridge Analytica data leak probe on the agency dropping plans … | Ari Notis / Kotaku: |
Blizzard's chief legal officer Claire Hart leaves Activision Blizzard amid a series of high-level departures — Claire Hart, who had been the company's top lawyer for three years, resigned Friday — Blizzard Entertainment's chief legal officer, Claire Hart, has resigned from the embattled company.
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PC Gamer, The Verge, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Game Rant, and The Register. Tweets: @lucidshitposts
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at Amazon's flagship BFI4 warehouse, located in Kent, WA and capable of processing over 1M items/day, which is run almost entirely by software — At BFI4 outside Seattle, the retailer uses algorithms and robots to ship more than a million packages a day—vastly changing the jobs of humans in the process.
Tweets: @mattmday
| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is working with UCLA and Biogen to identify depression, cognitive decline, and other issues using sensor data, such as typing behavior and sleep — Company is working with UCLA, Biogen to see if sensitive data like facial expressions, typing metrics could signal mental-health concerns
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TechCrunch, TNW, Ubergizmo, Slashdot, TechRadar, TechSpot, Tom's Guide, Cult of Mac, iThinkDifferent, Neowin, and HotHardware.com News
Tweets: @rolfewinkler, @rolfewinkler, @tiffanycli, @shiraovide, @tha_rami, @hypervisible, @thurrott, @tiffanycli, @rolfewinkler, @hypervisible, @rolfewinkler, @shauntelleb, @rolfewinkler, @karlbode, @quotation_marx, @evan_greer, @onekade, @rolfewinkler, @brianroemmele, @drkatedevlin, @rolfewinkler, @rolfewinkler, and @uppittynegress
| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Facebook announces the Portal Go, a $199 10" portable device, and a new $349 Portal+ device with a 14" tilting display and stereo speakers, shipping October 19 — Facebook's Portal devices have proven surprisingly popular over the past year, largely due to the pandemic and our dependence on video calls.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @boztank, @dcseifert, @richlightshed, @andrewcrow, and @shiringhaffary
| Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal: |
Google says it will buy St. John's Terminal, a 1.3M square foot office building it is leasing on Manhattan's West Side, for $2.1B in Q1 2022 — Manhattan deal is priciest sale of a U.S. office building since pandemic began — Google said it is buying a Manhattan office building for $2.1 billion … | Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard: |
Twitch and NMPA reach deal after tensions over takedown notices; sources: deal doesn't include music licenses, and Twitch will warn users before suspending them — Twitch and the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) have reached a long-awaited agreement focused on building … | Ranjan Roy / Margins: |
How Reddit's business model change, hiring of COO Jen Wong, and UX tweaks after raising $200M in 2017 laid the foundations for this year's meme stock mania — “You may be interested in....” … Reddit is probably the social platform that has brought me the most uncomplicated joy over the past decade (Note 1).
Tweets: @ranjanxroy and @thekendallbaker
| James Rubin / CoinDesk: |
Blockdaemon, which offers blockchain staking infrastructure, raises $155M Series B led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $1.26B valuation — Blockdaemon has raised $155 million in a Series B capital round at a valuation of $1.3 billion, the provider of blockchain staking infrastructure said Tuesday.
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| Andrius Sytas / Reuters: |
Lithuanian government recommends ditching Chinese phones after finding Xiaomi devices with censorship capabilities that can be activated remotely — Lithuania's Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones … | Corin Faife / The Markup: |
Analysis: Facebook appears to be adding code to interfere with automated data collection of News Feed posts by researchers, such as NYU's Ad Observatory — The tweak, which targets the code in accessibility features for visually impaired users, drew ire from researchers and those who monitor the platform
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Engadget. Tweets: @themarkup, @jared_w_smith, @juliaangwin, @justinhendrix, @anthony, @mattblaze, @themarkup, @hardin, @juliaangwin, @joeosborne, and @themarkup
| Tory Newmyer / Washington Post: |
SEC's Gary Gensler says stablecoins are a risk to consumers, like “poker chips at the casino”, and equates crypto boom to “wildcat banking” in the 1830s — The top Wall Street regulator described the digital assets frequently pegged to the U.S. dollar as a danger to consumers
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CoinDesk, Insider, MarketWatch, and CoinDesk
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Source: ahead of its NYSE debut, Toast prices its IPO at $40 per share, above its original $30-$33 range, which would give it a market cap of ~$20B — - Toast priced its IPO at $40 a share, after previously raising its price range to as high as $36. — The company, which sells technology … | Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Genesis Digital Assets raises $431M led by Paradigm with NYDIG and FTX among investors, to expand its bitcoin mining in North America and the Nordic region — Paradigm led the funding round, which included other venture heavyweights. — Genesis Digital Assets raised $431 million to expand …
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GlobeNewswire News Room, The Block, and Bitcoin Magazine
| Freedom House: |
Report finds global internet freedom has declined for the 11th consecutive year including in the US, tech giants clashed with governments over data, and more — In the high-stakes battle between states and technology companies, the rights of internet users have become the main casualties.
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Washington Post and Freedom House
Tweets: @adrianshahbaz, @pomed, @adrianshahbaz, @adrianshahbaz, @sbg1, @alfunk, @moonalice, @realhaulegluck, @alfunk, @freedomonthenet, and @freedomonthenet
| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Turkey-based Intenseye, which uses computer vision and AI to monitor workplaces and staff for safety violations, raises $25M Series A led by Insight Partners — Turkish-founded employee health and safety platform Intenseye has raised $25 million in a Series A round.
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PR Newswire, Metal Bulletin, FinSMEs, and VentureBeat
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