Source code of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 has leaked online on various file sharing sites this week; Microsoft says it is “investigating the matter”
Windows Server 2003 source also included — Microsoft's source code for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 has leaked online.
Report: longtime Ubisoft veteran and Rayman creator Michel Ancel retired from the game publisher earlier this month while being investigated for toxic behavior
Rayman creator, Beyond Good and Evil 2 director, and longtime Ubisoft veteran Michel Ancel retired from the video game publisher earlier … Source: Libération .
Stan Chudnovsky, head of Messenger at Facebook, says Facebook has asked Apple for years to give users an option to make Messenger the default iOS messaging app
Facebook executives have sharply ramped up their criticism of Apple in recent months, contesting the iPhone maker's restrictions …
Alphabet settles shareholder lawsuit over its handling of sexual harassment claims, agrees to eliminate mandatory arbitration and limit Google's use of NDAs
- Alphabet has reached a settlement with shareholders in a lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct mishandling and cover-up by executives …
Leaked email: Google informed its advertisers on Friday that it will block election ads referencing “the election, or its outcome” after polls close on Nov. 3
Google informed its advertisers Friday that it will broadly block election ads after polls close Nov. 3, according to an email obtained by Axios.
US sets export restrictions on China's biggest chipmaker SMIC, saying exports to SMIC posed an “unacceptable risk” of being diverted to “military end use”
Blacklisting of SMIC hurts China's chip self-sufficiency drive — The US government has sanctioned China's …
DOJ files its opposition to TikTok's request to halt Trump ban, says blocking the ban will infringe on Trump's authority, calls ByteDance CEO mouthpiece for CCP
TikTok is seeking to stave off a ban set to take effect Sunday — The Justice Department filed its opposition Friday …
Epic acquires SuperAwesome, a UK-based platform offering devs a toolkit for implementing kids' safety features in their products; will remain standalone company
Epic Games, an American video game and software developer, announced Friday that it is acquiring SuperAwesome, a UK-based platform used to power kid-safe technology.
Sources: Google to issue new guidelines emphasizing that developers must use Google's own billing service for in-app purchases and subscriptions in Play Store
The European Commission says it will appeal the July 2020 ruling that reversed the original $15B fine against Apple and Ireland over State Aid and taxes
not legally—logical decision: EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager to appeal humiliating defeat in Apple-Ireland “state aid” case Stephen Warwick / iMore : EU to appeal Apple's $15 billion t...
Apple has agreed to allow Facebook to process payments for its paid online events feature via Facebook Pay, without taking a 30% cut, until December 31
for now — when Facebook sells online classes Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat : Facebook takes a shot at Apple over stance on paid online events for game creators Bloomberg : Apple to Let Facebook Online ...
Facebook exec says right-wing drives more engagement because its “populism is always more engaging,” as it speaks to “an incredibly strong, primitive emotion”
A company executive responds to claims of bias. — The growth of right-wing content on Facebook has enraged liberals …
About 25 academics, journalists, others say they've formed the Real Facebook Oversight Board, to analyze and critique Facebook's content moderation decisions
Twitter says its test to prompt users to read articles before retweeting was a success, with users opening articles 40% more and sometimes opting not to retweet
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch :
Tech groups consider legal action against Trump's EO barring federal contractors from offering Diversity and Inclusion training, raising First Amendment issues
The country's top tech companies are mobilizing against President Trump's executive order barring federal contractors … Tweets: @bizcarson , @uche_blackstock , and @carnage4life Tweets: Biz Carson / @...
CB Insights: cloud computing startups raised almost $3B across 97 deals in Q2 2020, up from 76 deals in Q2 2019, with deal volume reaching a three-year high
'It's like digital transformation on steroids': Cloud-computing funding deals reached a three-year high in the second quarter Tweets: @scastellwsj . Thanks: @keithswiader Tweets: Sara Castellanos / @s...
A look at how Iranians are using satellite file-casting app Toosheh to bypass state internet blackouts as the country pushes its national intranet
With the threat of another big internet blackout looming, companies are creating workarounds for Iranians using satellite dishes. — • LAHORE, PAKISTAN Tweets: @cengizyar , @mehrnadeem3 , @anupkaphle...
SEC filing: Alexis Ohanian is raising a fund called 776, with a target of $150M, three months after leaving Initialized Capital
Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch :
Former director at Facebook, Tim Kendall, told Congress Facebook “took a page from Big Tobacco's playbook, working to make our offering addictive at the outset”
Kate Cox / Ars Technica :
Humane raises a $30M Series A led by Sam Altman and Lachy Groom, with Marc Benioff and others participating, to build some new kind of computing platform
Katharine Schwab / Fast Company :
Apple's Craig Federighi details how ML behind handwriting recognition on iPad works, which was trained using data sourced directly from people as they wrote
Alexander George / Popular Mechanics : Tweets: @bruceqburke Tweets: Bruce Burke / @bruceqburke : I tried Scribble when outputting an illustration. I wrote email address I wanted to send to & selected...
Poll: 52% of US voters support shutting down social media platforms for the week of the election, with 62% not confident platforms can stop election misinfo
Ashley Gold / Axios : Tweets: @accountabletech Tweets: @accountabletech : Our new survey is in @axios with some remarkable findings, most notably: -52% of voters support shutting down social media al...
Within3, an Ohio-based collaboration and communication service for the biotech and pharma industries, raises over $100M from Insight Partners and others
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
Google has announced the general availability of AI Platform Prediction, a service for developers to prepare, build, run, and share ML models in the cloud
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Future AR wearables from Facebook, Apple, and Amazon will track how we move and react in real time, setting up a privacy minefield
Karissa Bell / Engadget : Tweets: @txitua Tweets: Katitza Rodrguez / @txitua : Great article by @karissabe about the new generation of wearables. The project Area will collect a very sensitive and in...
Twitter has emailed developers warning that it may have exposed their private app keys and account tokens due to a bug that stored them in browser caches
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Marc Bodnick launches Telepath, a “kinder” social network with Reddit's subreddit topic structure, Twitter's in-the-moment feel, and Snapchat's ephemerality
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