Ex-CSO Alex Stamos says no one at Facebook ever told him not to examine Russian interference, but company's comms strategy of minimization and denial was wrong
Alex Stamos is a Hoover fellow and adjunct professor at Stanford University. He previously served as the chief security officer at Facebook until August.
YouTube quietly began showing ad-supported free feature-length movies in October, giving users access to around 100 titles including “The Terminator”
Streaming on a small screen near you: blockbuster fare like ‘Rocky’ and ‘Terminator’ — Last month, YouTube quietly began …
Silicon Valley's alliance with Democrats, already strained by issues like fake news and Cambridge Analytica, is at a breaking point after NYT's Facebook exposé
The alliance between Democrats and Silicon Valley has buckled and bent this year amid revelations that platforms like Facebook …
eMarketer forecast: Walmart to overtake Apple as No. 3 US online retailer by the end of 2018, after capturing 4% of all online retail spending, up 39.4% YoY
Big-box retailer has one of the fastest-growing online businesses — Heading into the fiercely competitive holiday shopping season …
Crypto startup Amun says it has been given the green light to list the first crypto Exchange Traded Product on Switzerland's SIX Swiss Exchange
The world's first crypto Exchange Traded Product (ETP) is to start trading next week on Europe's fourth biggest exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, with a market capitalization of $1.6 trillion.
Report: Facebook notified some Instagram users that a now-fixed bug in its data download tool sent their passwords in plaintext in a URL that the users received
According to The Information, Instagram has suffered a serious security leak of its own that could've exposed user's passwords.
Jia Li, R&D head of Google Cloud AI who also co-led Google's China AI Center in Beijing, has left the company to work full-time at Stanford University's AIMI
Head of R&D of Google Cloud AI Jia Li has left her position with the company. Li informed Synced in a text message yesterday …
SEC settles with Paragon Coin and CarrierEQ, which agree to start filing audited financial reports and refund investors of 2017 ICOs who want their money back
Agreements require startups to comply with investor-protection rules — WASHINGTON—Two startups that raised money …
Mythical Games has raised $16M Series A to build out its blockchain-based player-owned economies starting on a EOS blockchain
Next generation game technology studio Mythical Games has secured $16 Million in its Series-A round. The company builds IPs and a digital ecosystem around player-owned economies …
Microsoft is now selling Amazon's Echo smart speakers from its retail and online stores
In yet another not-so-subtle indication that it is pushing Cortana aside for Amazon's digital personal assistant, Microsoft is now selling Echo smart speakers from its retail and online stores.
Alphabet's Verily says it's pausing its glucose-sensing contact lens project because, after four years of study, lenses didn't gauge blood sugar levels reliably
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Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 10 Mail app; Microsoft says it's an experimental feature never intended to be tested broadly and is being turned off
unless you speak up now Chuong Nguyen / Digital Trends : Microsoft's Windows 10 Mail client goes freemium with the introduction of ads Anmol / MSPoweruser : Microsoft claims Mail and Calendar banner a...
Profile of former chief AI scientist at Google Cloud Fei-Fei Li, a Stanford professor and co-founder of AI4All nonprofit, which aims to make AI more inclusive
SOMETIME AROUND 1 am on a warm night last June, Fei-Fei Li was sitting in her pajamas in a Washington, DC, hotel room, practicing a speech she would give in a few hours.
Google's VP of News points to 2014 shutdown of Google News in Spain, says “We would not like to see that happen in Europe”, due to the proposed EU “link tax”
Search engine is lobbying hard to stop proposed tax, aimed at compensating news publishers Tweets: @jonathanhaynes Tweets: Jonathan Haynes / @jonathanhaynes : This is interesting. And says a lot about...
How a website, Civil War Photo Sleuth, is helping historians and enthusiasts use facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs
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Microsoft says HockeyApp, the beta-testing service for app developers it acquired in 2014, will fully transition to Visual Studio App Center on Nov. 16, 2019
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A look at autonomous weapons systems being developed by the US and the arguments for and against imbuing autonomous robots with lethal decision-making
Kelsey D. Atherton / New York Times : Tweets: @cnasdc , @nytimesatwar , and @bankillerrobots Tweets: Cnas / @cnasdc : In a conversation with @NYTmag, @paul_scharre describes “a world where we'll have...
How podcasts, whose audio narratives offer a rare opportunity for slow immersion, became a seductive mode of storytelling that can sometimes be manipulative
Rebecca Mead / New Yorker : Tweets: @devindra Tweets: Devindra Hardawar / @devindra : Oh no they're onto us http://twitter.com/...
An in-depth look at how misinformation and incendiary images on Facebook are spreading in Nigeria, where police say they contributed to a dozen recent killings
BBC : Tweets: @toluogunlesi and @kevinroose Tweets: Tolu Ogunlesi / @toluogunlesi : “Nigerian police say false information & incendiary images on Facebook have contributed to more than a dozen recent...
A look at the incentives cities offered to Amazon in their HQ2 bids, including an exclusive airport lounge, relocation expenses for employees, and more
BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @tomgara and @dkthomp Tweets: Tom Gara / @tomgara : Among the stuff various cities offered Amazon: zero-interest loans for Amazon employees to buy houses in Boston, a taskforc...
How hackers are stealing the accounts of Instagram influencers with fake sponsored content deals and phishing links to spam the influencer's followers
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic : Tweets: @theatlantic , @mollyjongfast , @sub8u , @savagegrease , @taylorlorenz , and @legalnomads Tweets: @theatlantic : Suspicious companies are offering internet star...
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