UK parliament seizes documents, first obtained in a US civil case, allegedly shedding light on Facebook policies that led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant …
Sheryl Sandberg deserves much blame for the bad decisions at Facebook but, with most criticism directed at her, Mark Zuckerberg largely escapes scrutiny
Perhaps it's only fair that, as women like Sheryl Sandberg rise to power, they pay the price for failure.
Adobe: online sales rose to $6.2B on Black Friday, up 23% YoY, 33% of sales came from mobile devices; Cyber Monday sales are expected to reach $7.8B, up 18% YoY
- Online sales Black Friday jumped 23.6 percent from a year ago, according to a new report from Adobe Analytics.
Jeff Bezos' Day One Fund announces its first grants, worth $97.5M, awarded to 24 non-profits that provide emergency shelter and access to permanent housing
- First awards distributed from the $2 billion Day One Fund — Grant awards those who do ‘needle-moving work’ for families
OpenSignal: average data speeds on mobile networks now outpace customer's Wi-Fi connection, on average, in 33 countries like Australia, France, Turkey, Lebanon
And that means smartphones will need to get smarter — Ofcom's top tech bod, Mansoor Hanif, recently gave the Wi-Fi industry a roasting …
Profile of Mike Novogratz, whose merchant bank Galaxy Digital has raised $242M on Toronto Venture Exchange in August and is a major investor in crypto startups
Mike Novogratz keeps crossing his fingers that this year's bitcoin crash, which has seen the cryptocurrency lose three-quarters …
How lip-syncing video app TikTok got to 6M+ users in the US, in part by relieving job stress for workers like firefighters, military, and nurses
Camille Gates's husband would stare at his phone for long stretches of time, laughing at amateur music videos on an app called TikTok.
NIPS, an important conference for AI researchers, changes acronym for the event to NeurIPS after complaints the former one contributed to a sexist atmosphere
Dear members of the Neural Information … Chris Merriman / Inquirer : NIPS conference forced to change acronym after realising it has boobed Sam Shead / Forbes : ‘NIPS’ AI Conference Changes Name, Kind...
Sources: Logitech has offered $2.2B+ to acquire Plantronics, a maker of unified communications systems, wireless headsets, and video-conferencing equipment
Predictim, a service using AI to generate character scores for babysitters based on years of online activity, provides questionable recommendations to parents
When Jessie Battaglia started looking for a new babysitter for her 1-year-old son, she wanted more information … Tweets: @zeynep , @justinhendrix , @katecrawford , @ai , @carnage4life , @etbrooking , ...
Behind Microsoft's Airband Initiative as it partners with small ISPs, like Michigan's PackerLand, to deliver internet to rural homes using existing TV towers
“You see that hill over there beyond the tree line? That's Canada." — Pointing northwest, Steve Mason leads me and Cory Heigl … Tweets: @mcwm , @mcwm , @carlfranzen , and @taylorlorenz . Thanks: @m...
Inside US law enforcement's hunt for British ISIS hacker Junaid Hussain, who used Twitter and other tools for spreading online propaganda and recruiting
How a British hacker joined ISIS's top ranks and launched a deadly global cyber plot. — This text is excerpted from the book Dawn of the Code War … Tweets: @gregotto , @seamushughes , @gordonmacmill...
Profile of Joe Liemandt, founder of software company Trilogy and PE firm ESW Capital, which buys US software firms and replaces staff with cheap overseas talent
rom an office suite on the 26th floor of the iconic Frost Bank Tower in Austin, Texas, a little-known recruiting firm called Crossover … Tweets: @asanwal , @asanwal , @nathanvardi , @nathanvardi , @na...
Tech companies seeking real estate are asking local officials to sign NDAs, keeping economic and environmental risks hidden from the public and some lawmakers
Less than a week before Amazon officially announced it had chosen New York City and Crystal City, Virginia … Tweets: @katelosse , @aclu , @itsnicolenguyen , @ceodonovan , and @rmac18 Tweets: Kate Loss...
EU watchdog: LinkedIn processed email addresses of 18M non-members and targeted them with advertising on Facebook without permission before GDPR became a law
Elaine Edwards / The Irish Times :
Experts examine the mixed impact of Edward Snowden's leaks, published from June 2013 onwards, on government and policy
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica :
A look back at Diane Greene's tenure as Google cloud boss: a struggle to catch up with AWS and Azure, and tension with Sundar Pichai on GitHub and Project Maven
> Google Git —> G Git for Domains —> Google Cloud Git —> “An Update on Google Cloud Git” drama play out over the next two years. http://twitter.com/... Joseph Jacks / @asynchio : .@GitHub will be a $1...
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