Thursday, January 28, 2021
Amazon app quiz January 29, 2021: Get answers to these five questions to win Rs 15,000 in Amazon Pay balance
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Facebook Shuts Popular Stock Trading Group Amid GameStop Frenzy
Profile of r/WallStreetBets founder Jaime Rogozinski, who hasn't moderated since April and describes the GameStop surge a "train wreck happening in real time" (Akane Otani/Wall Street Journal)
Profile of r/WallStreetBets founder Jaime Rogozinski, who hasn't moderated since April and describes the GameStop surge a “train wreck happening in real time” — Jaime Rogozinski likens recent surge in GameStop shares to a ‘train wreck happening in real time’
Sources: Facebook is developing newsletter tools for journalists and writers, including tools to help build followers, curate email lists, and offer paid subs (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
Sources: Facebook is developing newsletter tools for journalists and writers, including tools to help build followers, curate email lists, and offer paid subs — Facebook is working on newsletter tools for journalists and writers, according to three people familiar with the company's plans …
Robinhood says it didn't proactively sell shares of GameStop, AMC, or any other buzzworthy stocks without traders' permission, denying claims made by some users (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)
Robinhood says it didn't proactively sell shares of GameStop, AMC, or any other buzzworthy stocks without traders' permission, denying claims made by some users — Traders say they intended to keep holding — No, Robinhood tells The Verge, it didn't sell off full shares of GameStop …
Epic says its Games Store has 160M+ PC users, up from 108M in 2019, with DAUs up 192% YoY to 31.3M; gamers spent $700M+ in 2020, with $265M on 3rd-party games (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
Epic says its Games Store has 160M+ PC users, up from 108M in 2019, with DAUs up 192% YoY to 31.3M; gamers spent $700M+ in 2020, with $265M on 3rd-party games — And Epic confirmed it'll keep giving away games in 2021 — Epic Games Store released a bevy of stats to show off …
Henry Moniz, ViacomCBS' top compliance official, will become Facebook's first chief compliance officer, amid heavy regulatory scrutiny (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
Henry Moniz, ViacomCBS' top compliance official, will become Facebook's first chief compliance officer, amid heavy regulatory scrutiny — (Reuters) - ViacomCBS Inc's top compliance official, Henry Moniz, is moving to Facebook Inc as the social media platform's first chief compliance officer …
A PR error by Google is drawing criticism from digital rights activists after it implied its new cloud region in Saudi Arabia would store private Snap user data (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)
A PR error by Google is drawing criticism from digital rights activists after it implied its new cloud region in Saudi Arabia would store private Snap user data — First, Google announced it was expanding cloud services in Saudi Arabia. Then things got messy. Now, more questions than answers remain.
Facebook took down the "Robinhood Stock Traders" group with 157K users; a notification said the group violated polices on "adult sexual exploitation" (Paresh Dave/Reuters)
Facebook took down the “Robinhood Stock Traders” group with 157K users; a notification said the group violated polices on “adult sexual exploitation” — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc took down a popular Wall Street discussion group, Robinhood Stock Traders …
Microsoft reports it has "high confidence" the hacking campaign targeting infosec researchers is linked to ZINC, a DPRK-affiliated and state-sponsored group (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
Microsoft reports it has “high confidence” the hacking campaign targeting infosec researchers is linked to ZINC, a DPRK-affiliated and state-sponsored group — Earlier this week, Google disclosed that a North Korean government-backed hacking group has been using social networks to target security researchers.
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Australia takes on Google advertising dominance amid wider media shakeup
TSMC 'expediting' auto products amid chip shortage
Facebook says it will permanently stop recommending political groups to users
Lawmakers, TikTok staff, and others detail how TikTok lost the war in Washington, including due to CEO Shou Zi Chew's failure to build support on Capitol Hill (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : Lawmakers, TikTok staff, and others detail how TikTok lost the war in Washington, including due to CEO Shou Zi Chew...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa al...
