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    • UK parliament's report on fake news and disinformation finds "digital gangster" Facebook deliberately broke privacy and competition law, calls for regulation (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

    Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: UK parliament’s report on fake news and disinformation finds “digital gangster” Facebook deliberately broke privacy and competition law, calls for regulation  —  A final report by a British parliamentary committee which spent months last year investigating online political disinformation makes … UK parliament's report on fake news and disinformation finds "digital

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    Facebook ‘intentionally and knowingly’ violated U.K. privacy and competition rules, British lawmakers say

    Lawmakers on Sunday said Facebook had “violated both data privacy and anti-competition laws” in the country, stressing that the U.K. government should open investigations into the social media giant’s business practices. Facebook ‘intentionally and knowingly’ violated U.K. privacy and competition rules, British lawmakers say Source: Washington Post Tech

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    • EU negotiators agree on regulations to curb unfair trade practices, requiring more transparency on how internet platforms list and rank products (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

    Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU negotiators agree on regulations to curb unfair trade practices, requiring more transparency on how internet platforms list and rank products  —  BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google, Amazon and other tech firms will have to tell companies how they rank their own or rival products on their platforms under … EU

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    • Research: machine learning techniques today are designed to find patterns and always make a prediction, making a lot of ML-based scientific research unreliable (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)

    Clive Cookson / Financial Times: Research: machine learning techniques today are designed to find patterns and always make a prediction, making a lot of ML-based scientific research unreliable  —  Artificial intelligence is being applied with undue haste to analyse data in some areas of biomedical research … Research: machine learning techniques today are designed to

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    • Gaming hardware maker Razer says it will close its digital game store on February 28, less than a year after it opened (Samuel Horti/PC Gamer)

    Samuel Horti / PC Gamer: Gaming hardware maker Razer says it will close its digital game store on February 28, less than a year after it opened  —  Razer Game Store offered exclusives discounts on games and Razer hardware.  —  Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer is shutting its digital game store later this month, less than

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    • Etsy accidentally charged a number of seller accounts for hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars on Friday, leaving users without money for the long weekend (Gina Loukareas/Boing Boing)

    Gina Loukareas / Boing Boing: Etsy accidentally charged a number of seller accounts for hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars on Friday, leaving users without money for the long weekend  —  Etsy hasn’t said how many sellers are affected, but there are hundreds of complaints in their seller forums. Etsy accidentally charged a number of seller

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    • Sources: the UK government has concluded that it can mitigate the risk from using Huawei equipment in 5G networks, a setback for the US-led anti-Huawei campaign (Financial Times)

    Financial Times: Sources: the UK government has concluded that it can mitigate the risk from using Huawei equipment in 5G networks, a setback for the US-led anti-Huawei campaign  —  The British government has concluded that it can mitigate the risk from using Huawei equipment in 5G networks … Sources: the UK government has concluded that

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    A Lightweight AVR IDE

    It’s entirely possible to do your coding in vim or emacs, hammering out hotkeys to drive the interface and bring your code to life. While working in such a way has its charms, it can be confronting to new coders, and that’s before even considering trying to understand command line compiler settings. The greenhorn coder

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    • Report by a UK parliamentary committee into fake news and disinformation, due Monday, is expected to be very critical of Facebook and its "duplicitous" CEO (Carole Cadwalladr/The Guardian)

    Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian: Report by a UK parliamentary committee into fake news and disinformation, due Monday, is expected to be very critical of Facebook and its “duplicitous” CEO  —  Westminster will also urge investigation into foreign meddling in UK elections  —  Facebook cannot be trusted … Report by a UK parliamentary committee into

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    • A look at how the Enron Corpus, a public database of 600K+ emails that helped bring down Enron, has enabled AI researchers to train natural language models (Corinne Purtill/Quartz)

    Corinne Purtill / Quartz: A look at how the Enron Corpus, a public database of 600K+ emails that helped bring down Enron, has enabled AI researchers to train natural language models  —  During its 2002 investigation of the bankruptcy of Enron, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) checked the energy company’s emails … A

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    • Virginia-based real estate data and analytics company Remine has closed $30M Series A led by Stripes Group, bringing its total raised to $48M (Katishi Maake/Washington Business Journal)

    Katishi Maake / Washington Business Journal: Virginia-based real estate data and analytics company Remine has closed $30M Series A led by Stripes Group, bringing its total raised to $48M  —  Fairfax-based real estate data and analytics company Remine has closed a $30 million Series A funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $48 million.

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