Facebook to survey users to measure trust in publications, data will affect News Feed rankings; news will make up 4% of News Feed posts, down from 5%
Tech giant will rely on user surveys of trustworthiness to try to preserve objectivity — Facebook Inc. FB .33% plans to start ranking news sources …
Twitter to email 670K+ US users who interacted with tweets from Russia's Internet Research Agency, found 50K+ Russia-linked bots tweeting election content
When we appeared before the United States Congress last fall, Twitter publicly committed to regularly updating both congressional committees …
Amazon Go, a high-tech version of a 7-Eleven, will finally open on Monday — with no checkout lines and no cashiers
Amazon Go allows customers to grab items and just walk out without stopping to pay. — Amazon's store of the future has been five years in the making. But the unveiling is just about here.
Instagram tests new text-only Stories format called “Type” and Story screenshot alerts
Instagram's Stories are one of the most popular ways to share content on social media, but sometimes images and videos just aren't as effective as plain old text.
Indian mobile operator Reliance Jio reports first quarterly profit of ~$79M in FY Q3, 15 months after starting commercial operations, had 160M+ users as of Dec.
Within 15 months of starting commercial operations, Reliance Jio Infocomm turned profitable, posting a net profit of Rs 504 crore for the third quarter of the fiscal year.
The rise of cryptocurrency mining has created a global shortage of high-end graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD, driving up prices for retail gamers/buyers
“Cryptocurrency can't crash soon enough,” one gamer fumes. — The market for high-end graphics cards used to work like the market for almost any other piece of computer gear.
Sources: Twitter COO Anthony Noto, who has led Twitter's push into live video, is in talks to become SoFi's new CEO, following Mike Cagney's departure
SoFi has been looking for a permanent CEO since Mike Cagney resigned in September — Anthony Noto, a top Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.58% executive …
WeChat says it now has 980M monthly active users, claims 170M daily active users for its Mini Program app platform, which now has 580,000 apps
January 9th was WeChat mini program's first birthday. Throughout the year, some startups picked it up and developed their mini program.
How Hawaii's emergency alert software design, which looks similar to one by FEMA-approved company AlertSense, could have led to false ballistic missile alarm
The disastrous false alarm issued by Hawaii over the weekend has raised concerns about what safeguards the state had in place. Tweets: @backlon Tweets: Dieter Bohn / @backlon : Wherein @colinlecher ge...
Slack launches in beta on Linux as a Snap, an application package that's available across a range of Linux distributions, including Ubuntu
Slack's ambition to become the default, go-to place for employees chat to each other and link into hundreds of other applications to get work done …
Schneider Electric researchers share more details about “Triton” malware, which exploited a firmware flaw in company's Triconex Tricon industrial safety systems
A RECENT DIGITAL attack on the control systems of an industrial plant has renewed concerns about the threat hacking poses to critical infrastructure.
How the developers of the Lightning Network plan to make Bitcoin transactions faster and cheaper using private payment channels
IN 2014, JOSEPH Poon and Thaddeus Dryja were bitcoin-obsessed engineers hanging out at pizza-fueled meetups in San Francisco. Tweets: @triketora Tweets: Tracy Chou / @triketora : “It was the second mo...
President Trump signs the bill to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, extending warrantless surveillance program through 2023
Martin Matishak / Politico :
A look at the Change My View subreddit, where people share opinions for commenters to challenge in civil debate
Yeats. How I quarreled with others and myself — and changed my mind. For @WIRED http://www.wired.com/... Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : This is fascinating. Imagine—a haven of civil discourse on Re...
EU says social networks remove 70% of hate speech, up from 59% in May, review 81% of reported content within 24 hours; Instagram and Google+ join the initiative
289 groups and individuals signed 23 SCOTUS amicus briefs supporting Microsoft's case to prevent US government seizure of emails stored on servers in Ireland
Except the DOJ Rebecca Hill / The Register : There are other, legal ways to nab Microsoft emails, privacy groups remind Supremes Rachel Lerman / The Seattle Times : Big tech companies, lawmakers suppo...
OnePlus says up to 40K customers affected in credit card breach between Nov. 2017 and mid-Jan. 2018, offers one year of free credit monitoring to those affected
BAMTech Media hires former Apple and Samsung executive Kevin Swint to build and run Disney's upcoming Netflix competitor
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Apple has hired a team of at least 18 people from a startup called Silicon Valley Data Science, including two of its co-founders
Bitcoin's high transaction fees, delays, and limited anonymity spur cybercriminals towards altcoins like Monero
Danny Palmer / ZDNet :
Baidu details DuerOS platform strategy and how it plans to compete to get its smart assistant into third party hardware as it looks to expand internationally
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Inside the lives of social media stars' parents who are mastering new platforms, dealing with shady agents, and focused on the physical safety of their kids
but what is it like for their parents? @taylorlorenz investigates how moms and dads adjust to their children's fame, while trying to maintain boundaries http://www.theatlantic.com/...
After initial rejection, Apple approves Wehe, an app that detects net neutrality violations by testing download speeds and video throttling in seven apps
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