Month: December 2018

    • Inside the bitter fight over a $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract, which Amazon seems set to win: a 33-page anti-Amazon dossier and shady social media campaign (Naomi Nix/Bloomberg)

    Naomi Nix / Bloomberg: Inside the bitter fight over a $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract, which Amazon seems set to win: a 33-page anti-Amazon dossier and shady social media campaign  —  A salacious dossier, a mystery client with an alias, dueling allegations of sexual misconduct. Inside the bitter fight over a B Pentagon JEDI cloud

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    • How Shenzhen-based companies are branching out from making just hardware to making sophisticated products that combine hardware with software and AI (MIT Technology Review)

    MIT Technology Review: How Shenzhen-based companies are branching out from making just hardware to making sophisticated products that combine hardware with software and AI  —  Shenzhen flooded the world with cheap gadgets.  Can it now become what Silicon Valley never did—a global hub of innovation, entrepreneurship, and manufacturing? How Shenzhen-based companies are branching out from

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    • As social media becomes ever more toxic, Fortnite has become the new social network and a place to hangout where you go to talk to friends (Owen Williams/Charged)

    Owen Williams / Charged: As social media becomes ever more toxic, Fortnite has become the new social network and a place to hangout where you go to talk to friends  —  I’ve played a lot of Fortnite this year, and I was struggling to understand why I liked the game so much.  It’s fun to

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    • Inside the cutthroat world of Amazon's Marketplace, where sellers live in fear of getting suspended and use Amazon's rules against each other (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)

    Josh Dzieza / The Verge: Inside the cutthroat world of Amazon’s Marketplace, where sellers live in fear of getting suspended and use Amazon’s rules against each other  —  “These schemes really require the mind of someone whose depravity knows no bounds.” Inside the cutthroat world of Amazon's Marketplace, where sellers live in fear of getting

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    • Huawei and UnionPay's mobile payments service Huawei Pay, available only in China, begins international expansion starting with a launch in Russia in early 2019 (Jeff Beck/Android Police)

    Jeff Beck / Android Police: Huawei and UnionPay’s mobile payments service Huawei Pay, available only in China, begins international expansion starting with a launch in Russia in early 2019  —  UnionPay cardholders that bank with Gazprombank or the Russian Agricultural Bank and that use a Huawei device now have a new mobile payment option –

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    • More than half of top 50 shows on Netflix, by one measure, are owned by others like Disney, NBCU, and WarnerMedia, which are planning rival streaming services (Rani Molla/Recode)

    Rani Molla / Recode: More than half of top 50 shows on Netflix, by one measure, are owned by others like Disney, NBCU, and WarnerMedia, which are planning rival streaming services  —  Fortunately for the streaming giant, its own shows are popular too.  —  Many of Netflix’s most popular shows are owned by companies that

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    Get Your Tweets Without Looking

    Head-mounted displays range from cumbersome to glass-hole-ish. Smart watches have their niche, but they still take your eyes away from whatever you are doing, like driving. Voice assistants can read to you, but they require a speaker that everyone else in the car has to listen to, or a headset that blocks out important sound.

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    • Facebook suspends five accounts, including one belonging to the head of research firm New Knowledge, for spreading disinformation during Alabama Senate race (Washington Post)

    Washington Post: Facebook suspends five accounts, including one belonging to the head of research firm New Knowledge, for spreading disinformation during Alabama Senate race  —  Facebook has suspended Jonathon Morgan, the chief executive of a top social-media research firm, after reports that he and others engaged … Facebook suspends five accounts, including one belonging to

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    Facebook suspends five accounts, including social media researcher, for misleading tactics in Alabama election

    Facebook has suspended Jonathon Morgan, the chief executive of a top social-media research firm, after reports that he and others engaged in an operation to spread disinformation during the special election in Alabama last year. Facebook suspends five accounts, including social media researcher, for misleading tactics in Alabama election Source: Washington Post Tech

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    • A review of websites of the global top 100 companies by market value finds only 5% have listed a CISO or a CSO in their executive leadership pages (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

    Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: A review of websites of the global top 100 companies by market value finds only 5% have listed a CISO or a CSO in their executive leadership pages  —  Virtually all companies like to say they take their customers’ privacy and security seriously, make it a top priority, blah

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