Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
The FBI is using Sabre, the biggest of three firms that store a majority of the world's travel info, to spy on suspects' movements through sealed court orders — American border patrol already has significant surveillance powers and collects vast amounts of data on who is flying into and out of the country.
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The FBI is using Sabre, the biggest of three firms that store a majority of the world's travel info, to spy on suspects' movements through sealed court orders (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
US expects TikTok to operate as local company, leave ByteDance
YouTube brings back 1080p streaming option in India
Twitter Says Hackers Downloaded Data of 8 Accounts in Bitcoin Scam Attack
Twitter provides an overview about what it knows about Wednesday's hack so far: how it happened, what the attackers accessed, its actions, and the next steps (Twitter)
Twitter:
Twitter provides an overview about what it knows about Wednesday's hack so far: how it happened, what the attackers accessed, its actions, and the next steps — As we've been informing via the @TwitterSupport account, on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, we detected a security incident at Twitter and took immediate action.
From workplace to yoga classes, Zoom has changed the way people connect: Aparna Bawa, COO
Chinese firms revive marketing strategies, highlight 'Make in India' in campaigns
Smartphone shipments in India fell 48% in Q2; Apple least impacted: Canalys
US coronavirus response disappointing: Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg
Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project would force social media companies to compensate users, but the plan underestimates difficulty of valuing data (Will Rinehart/Wired)
Will Rinehart / Wired:
Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project would force social media companies to compensate users, but the plan underestimates difficulty of valuing data — He wants social media companies to pay you for the data you produce. But loopholes abound, it's too expensive, and other plans like it have failed.
Covid-19: Facebook removes 'misleading' post by a doctor on Karnataka govt request
Ebay nears $10 billion sale of classified ads unit: Sources
Companies like Deloitte and IBM have made millions building state unemployment websites that didn't work, yet keep getting contracts to fix them (Colin Lecher/The Markup)
Colin Lecher / The Markup:
Companies like Deloitte and IBM have made millions building state unemployment websites that didn't work, yet keep getting contracts to fix them — In at least one case, that same company is now getting pandemic-relatedcontracts — In 2010, California hired the consulting firm Deloitte …
GitHub took a 21TB snapshot of all active public repositories on February 2 and deposited it in the Arctic Code Vault on July 8 using 186 reels of archival film (Julia Metcalf/The GitHub Blog)
Julia Metcalf / The GitHub Blog:
GitHub took a 21TB snapshot of all active public repositories on February 2 and deposited it in the Arctic Code Vault on July 8 using 186 reels of archival film — At GitHub Universe 2019, we introduced the GitHub Archive Program along with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault.
Chinese video game giant NetEase reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$4B and net profit down 29% to ~$903M, below ~$1.2B est., as it pushes self-developed games (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal : Chinese video game giant NetEase reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$4B and net profit down 29% to ~$903...
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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal : An interview with White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, a Peter Thiel protégé confirmed by ...
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