Twitter applied its “manipulated media” label for the first time, after a clipped video of Joe Biden was tweeted by a White House official, retweeted by Trump
It's the first time the social network has enforced a new policy to fight doctored videos and photos
Twitter says Silver Lake will invest $1B as it enters into an agreement with Elliott Management to avoid ousting Dorsey and launches a $2B share buyback program
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Amazon says it will start selling its cashier-less store tech used in Amazon Go, dubbed Just Walk Out, to other companies
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Monday is set to announce a new business line selling the technology behind its cashier-less convenience stores to other retailers, the company told Reuters.
Australia's information commissioner sues Facebook for allegedly breaching the privacy of over 300,000 Australians caught up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Facebook alleged to have committed serious breaches with data collected by This is Your Digital Life app used by Cambridge Analytica for political profiling
Robinhood says it's investigating the cause of its third major outage in two weeks, affecting equities, crypto, and options trading, amid COVID-19 uncertainty
Free stock trading pioneer Robinhood is experiencing another major outage, keeping clients on the sidelines of a major day for stocks.
Chinese government data shows Apple sold under 500,000 iPhones in February as coronavirus outbreak halves demand; total smartphone shipments dropped 54.7% YoY
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple (AAPL.O) sold fewer than half a million smartphones in China in February, government data showed on Monday …
Misinformation about coronavirus persists on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, despite the companies' efforts to stop misleading posts by working with health orgs
Secret labs. Magic cures. Government plots. Despite efforts by social media companies to stop it, false information …
Argent, a cryptocurrency wallet for controlling digital assets and identity, raises $12M Series A led by Paradigm, a Sequoia Capital-backed fund
London-based Argent, a smart wallet for controlling digital assets and identity, has raised a $12 million Series A led by Paradigm …
Facebook now has a “partly false information” label on the video of Joe Biden posted by White House staff and shared by Trump, following fact checkers' input
- Facebook labeled a video shared by President Trump as “partly false information” after the Joe Biden campaign put the company on blast. Tweets: @b_fung See also Mediagazer Tweets: Brian Fung / @b_fu...
AST & Science raises $110M Series B led by Rakuten and Vodafone to build a broadband network via a constellation of satellites that link directly to smartphones
Caleb Henry / SpaceNews.com :
In an internal memo, Tim Cook outlines measures Apple is implementing in response to COVID-19, says office employees in all affected regions can work remotely
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Sources: Facebook and Twitter have struggled to get specifics about coronavirus disinformation from the State Department, which claims disinformation is rampant
The US State Department has accused Russia of spreading fear, panic, and conspiracy theories about coronavirus online, but little is known about exactly how. Tweets: @evelyndouek , @pcunliffejones , a...
As ARM narrows the performance gap with x86 and chips from startups like Ampere rival Intel Xeon, transitioning even Mac Pros to “Axx” CPUs may be feasible
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DoNotPay launches a free Chrome extension that uses cookies to let users share accounts for services like Netflix without revealing passwords
DoNotPay is a startup that seems to delight in corporate trolling. Among its patchwork of services are a virtual credit card …
A look at the rise of unofficial “WhatsApp mods”, like GB WhatsApp, one of the most used messaging apps across Africa with extra features like multiple accounts
WhatsApp is, by far, the top social media platform of choice across several African countries. Tweets: @doctorow , @doctorow , and @philchard Tweets: @doctorow : Facebook's response is predictable. Mo...
Researchers detail how Android apps can steal one-time 2FA codes from Google Authenticator by taking screenshots, a flaw that was first disclosed in 2014
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
A look at the state of telecommuting as ICANN holds its four-day Public Meeting, with ~3,000 people from 150 countries, remotely for the first time
and the American workplace — ready to go fully remote? https://www.latimes.com/... Dani Mlt / @war_kittens : Motherfucker, I can't telecommute lab work. https://twitter.com/... Jeff Bercovici / @jeffb...
A look at the rise of “sharia-fintech” startups in Indonesia, where questions about compliance with Islamic law pose hurdles for adoption of digital payments
Fanny Potkin / Reuters : Tweets: @f_potkin and @psb_dc Tweets: Fanny Potkin / @f_potkin : My story on how winning over conservative Muslims in Indonesia is both a challenge and multi-billion dollar o...
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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