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Sheryl Sandberg: Sheryl Sandberg says allegations that she and Zuckerberg hid info about Russian interference are untrue, claims she didn't know Facebook hired Definers -
New York Times: How Definers provided reporters with ammunition to suggest senators grilling Sheryl Sandberg were hypocritical for criticizing Facebook -
Alistair Barr / Bloomberg: Facebook's board says it pushed Zuckerberg and Sandberg to respond to Russian interference faster and calls NYT report “grossly unfair” -
New York Times: Interviews with more than 50 people show how Facebook stumbled in dealing with multiple crises, which Zuckerberg and Sandberg initially tried to obscure -
New York Times: Facebook has ended its relationship with Definers Public Affairs, the consulting firm which cast George Soros as a force behind Facebook's critics -
Kurt Wagner / Recode: Source: Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch, who said he was leaving in July, will now stay until mid-2019 or longer to help with multiple ongoing crises -
Casey Newton / The Interface: One reason for Facebook's aggressive PR against competitors was to manage declining morale, and retain employees who would otherwise jump ship -
Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: Facebook to demote borderline content in News Feed by default, publish minutes of policy meetings, and let users appeal content decisions to an independent body -
Adi Robertson / The Verge: Facebook's second content moderation report: from April to September, 1.5B fake accounts were closed and 23.3M instances of violent content were removed -
10 minutes ago Liam Tung / ZDNet: Microsoft has begun accepting 64-bit ARM apps for the Microsoft Store, updated Visual Studio to support recompiling Win32 apps to run natively on ARM devices -
Brian Crecente / Variety: Sony says it will not attend next year's E3, the annual video game trade show, the first time in E3's 24-year history that Sony will not be there -
Mike Minotti / VentureBeat: Sony says it has sold 86.1M units of PlayStation 4 since the console debuted 5 years ago, 777.9M copies of software were sold on the platform -
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Voxox left database unsecured, exposing a near real-time stream of millions of SMS texts including password reset links and 2FA codes from Google, Yahoo, others -
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: BlackBerry to acquire cybersecurity firm Cylance, which provides an AI-based advanced threat detection platform, for $1.4B in cash -
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple adds third-party workflow extensions to Final Cut Pro X for the first time, with support from Frame.io, Shutterstock, and CatDV at launch -
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Oracle to acquire San Jose-based SD-WAN company Talari Networks, which was founded in 2009 and has so far received $53.5M in VC funding -
Ashley Carman / The Verge: Instagram adds new shopping features: redesigned business profiles, shop items from video posts, and save items to a shopping collection -
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Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Canalys: 19.7M smart speakers were sold globally in Q3, up 137% from 8.3M in Q3 2017; US and China now account for 70% of the global market -
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: Citrix says it acquired Sapho, which makes micro-apps for team collaboration apps like Slack, for $200M in an all cash deal; Sapho has raised $27.9M -
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Facebook publishes 13 NSLs between 2014 and 2017 for several Facebook and Instagram accounts, says number of worldwide government requests for data rose 26% YoY