Trump signs an executive order to block all transactions with ByteDance and WeChat starting Sept. 20, just 5 days after Microsoft's deadline to acquire TikTok
Microsoft is currently in talks to acquire the company — President Trump has signed a new executive order …
As it pursues TikTok, a look at how Microsoft laid roots in China in the 1990s and nurtured China's future tech leaders, including ByteDance's Zhang Yiming
Welcome to the weekend. You all already know that I'm obsessive … Zane Schwartz Last / The Logic : The U.S. did not inform Canada about its new initiative to ban Chinese technology like TikTok and We...
Interview with Bill Gates on COVID-19, Trump, last week's antitrust meeting, Mark Zuckerberg, misinformation, and the “poison chalice” of the TikTok deal
The techie-turned-philanthropist on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice.”
Facebook slams Apple's App Store policies, launches Facebook Gaming on iOS without the app's mini games feature to pass the App Store's strict approval policies
Watch and Connect — iPhone Screenshots — Facebook Gaming welcomes you to a new world of gaming. FP Trending / Firstpost Tech : Facebook Gaming launches official app on iOS without instant gaming f...
Intelligence agencies don't see TikTok as a major security issue, see the claimed risks as largely theoretical, and view companies like Huawei as larger threats
Even as the White House moves against the Chinese social media app, the intelligence agencies do not see it as a major issue along the lines of Huawei.
Internal docs: Facebook removed “strikes” so that at least 2 conservative pages, from PragerU and Diamond & Silk, dodged penalties under misinformation policies
Facebook has allowed conservative news outlets and personalities to repeatedly spread false information without facing …
Reddit says it is investigating after hackers deface more than a dozen subreddits, including some with millions of subscribers, to post pro-Trump messages
Hackers took control and defaced several large subreddits to post pro-Trump content. — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Facebook formally open-sourced Pysa, a static analyzer tool for Python code, which detected 44% of all security bugs in Instagram's server-side code in H1 2020
In the first half of 2020, Pysa detected 44% of all security bugs in Instagram's server-side Python code.
Companies like Facebook and Twitter, which have positioned themselves as the new public square, should absolutely be questioned on their role in cancel culture
Last week, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan asked a question at a Congressional hearing that seemed to come out of nowhere. Tweets: @carnage4life , @jimwaterson , @bradesposito , @mrjkilcoyne , @verba_et_ve...
Toshiba, which started making laptops in 1985, has formally exited the laptop business, after Sharp acquired Toshiba's final shares in Dynabook
Last Dynabook shares shuffled off to new owner Sharp — Toshiba has made laptops since 1985 and claims to have been the first to make a mass-market computer … Tweets: @film_girl , @timbray , and @ben...
Intel is investigating a leak of 20 GB of documents, some confidential, possibly from an internal source accessing its Resource and Design Center
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John Giannandrea and Bob Borchers talk about why Apple is best positioned to “lead the industry” in building machine intelligence-driven features and products
Apple AI chief and ex-Googler John Giannandrea dives into the details with Ars. — Machine learning (ML) …
In a memo to advertisers, TikTok says it will refund ad campaigns it can't fulfill due to a US ban and will work with influencers to migrate to other platforms
(Reuters) - TikTok is preparing advertisers for a possible ban of its app in the United States, ad buyers said, offering refunds for ad campaigns that are unable to run.
US government contractor Anomaly Six collects and sells location data from hundreds of millions of phones globally via an SDK that is embedded in 500+ apps
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Former staff at therapy-by-text app Talkspace say the company provided burner phones to write fake app reviews and doesn't adequately respect client privacy
a sort of Uber-for-therapy app—finds....that the “needs of a VC-backed start-up to grow quickly can sometimes be in conflict w/the core values of professional therapy.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Han...
How online sellers, including Amazon and GOAT, are using AI to spot counterfeit goods, with the help of authentication startups like Entrupy
When Olivia Matthaei, a consignment store sales clerk, needs to check whether a designer handbag is authentic, she knows the drill.
Facebook says it removed one of the largest public QAnon conspiracy groups, with ~200K members, after repeated violations of its hate speech and other policies
Joseph Menn / Reuters :
Facebook and its fact-checking partners say they are grappling with the dilemma of how to police claims about new COVID-19 vaccines that are as yet unreleased
Interview with Jack Dorsey on Twitter's role in shaping public discourse, building nuance in platform design, and whether Twitter should censor Trump
New York Times : Tweets: @justinverrier , @evelyndouek , and @karaswisher Tweets: Justin Verrier / @justinverrier : If Twitter got rid of retweets for stories that you didn't click on, the entire bas...
Interview with Color of Change leader Rashad Robinson on the Facebook ad boycott, meeting with Zuckerberg, working with the company, and more
Rashad Robinson, an organizer behind the Stop Hate for Profit boycott, says civil rights groups can't be left to police the company by themselves.
Researchers: China's state-sponsored hackers stole source code, SDKs, and chip designs from at least seven Taiwanese chip companies over the past two years
Andy Greenberg / Wired : Tweets: @carlzha , @__winn , @hatr , @talbeerysec , @780thc , @heguisen , and @a_greenberg Tweets: Carl Zha / @carlzha : Idk if story is true but if US plan to starve China o...
Online property brokerage Beike, backed by Tencent and SoftBank, files for a US IPO, aiming to raise $2B in the largest US IPO by a Chinese company since 2018
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