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Inside eBay's alleged plot that targeted a blogging duo and a Twitter gadfly using cockroaches, porn, death threats, physical surveillance, and pizza deliveries — “People are basically good” was eBay's founding principle. But in the deranged summer of 2019, prosecutors say …
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| Alex Thompson / Politico: |
Facebook exec says right-wing drives more engagement because its “populism is always more engaging” as it speaks to “an incredibly strong, primitive emotion” — Throughout 2020, Democrats have denounced Facebook with growing ferocity as a “right-wing echo chamber” …
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| Isobel Asher Hamilton / BusinessInsider: |
Elon Musk voiced his discontent on Twitter that OpenAI is exclusively licensing GPT-3 to Microsoft saying “OpenAI is essentially captured by Microsoft” — - Elon Musk voiced his discontent on Twitter that OpenAI — the AI research firm he helped found — is exclusively licensing …
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Amazon, which had struggled to gain a foothold in Italy, benefited from a shift to online shopping during pandemic lockdown as 75% of Italians shopped online — The e-commerce giant had struggled to gain a foothold in a society that prefers to shop in person, with cash, but now Italians are hooked on online shopping.
Tweets: @arihantp, @sheridanct, @nytimesworld, @satariano, @marklandler, @petersgoodman, and @rfisman
| Financial Times: |
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” — Move against SMIC further hurts chip sector after penalties on Huawei — The US government …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Fitbit says its OS 5.0 has been developed exclusively for the new Versa 3 and Sense smartwatches, and older devices, including last year's Versa 2, won't get it — Fitbit Sense and Versa 3 start shipping today to customers, and as promised, they're arriving with a new software experience on board.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Pastebin adds two new features, Burn After Read and Password Protected Pastes, that experts say will make it easier to disguise malware operations — The two new features will make it easier to disguise malware operations. — Pastebin, the most popular website where users can share small snippets … | Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Interviews with Michael Abrash and Andrew Bosworth on the tech behind Facebook's AR glasses, how Facebook will use the personal data from the glasses, more — Imagine your smartphone morphing to wrap around your eyes. But instead of a dark black screen, now it's see-through.
Tweets: @harrymccracken and @hypervisible
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin discloses hack that emptied its hot wallets, with the minimum loss currently estimated at $150M — KuCoin said an intruder drained all its hot wallets today. — Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin disclosed today a mega hack.
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Tweets: @mycrypto, @panama_tj, @rubenmerre, @cryptorank_io, @kucoincom, @250smurf, @lukso_io, @dgwbirch, @akropolisio, @kucoincom, and @ourielohayon
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| Michael Hytha / Bloomberg: |
Poshmark, an online clothes resale marketplace, says it has confidentially filed its draft S-1 with the SEC for an IPO — Poshmark Inc., an online resale marketplace for second-hand clothing, said it has filed confidentially for an initial public offering.| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing: Postmates posted a loss of $32.2M in Q2, compared to a loss of $73M in Q1; Postmates lost $105.2M in H1 2020 vs. $239M in the same period of 2019 — Popular food delivery service Postmates is in the process of merging with Uber in a blockbuster $2.65 billion deal … | Forbes: |
Interview with Visa's Terry Angelos and Cuy Sheffield on the future of blockchain networks, partnering with crypto payment firms, and the Libra Association — Bitcoin was invented to disrupt existing monetary systems that many felt were too expensive and exclusionary.
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Pastebin adds two new features, Burn After Read and Password Protected Pastes, that experts say will make it easier to disguise malware operationsFind
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Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin discloses hack that emptied its hot wallets, with the minimum loss currently estimated at $150MFind
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Poshmark, an online clothes resale marketplace, says it has confidentially filed its draft S-1 with the SEC for an IPOFind
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