Author: Tech Support

    • Following a cease-and-desist letter sent in early October, eBay sues Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching eBay sellers via eBay's internal messaging system (Laura Stevens/Wall Street Journal)

    Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: Following a cease-and-desist letter sent in early October, eBay sues Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching eBay sellers via eBay’s internal messaging system  —  Lawsuit claims Amazon infiltrated and exploited eBay’s internal member email system to recruit high-value sellers Following a cease-and-desist letter sent in early October, eBay sues

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    • Twitter says it will show whether a tweet was deleted by the user who posted it or because Twitter took an action, starting in the coming weeks (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter says it will show whether a tweet was deleted by the user who posted it or because Twitter took an action, starting in the coming weeks  —  Twitter is making a change to how its tweet reporting procedures will work.  Before, Twitter had experimented with both showing or hiding …

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    • Sidestepping App Stores, Facebook Lite and Groups get Instant Games, which launch in browsers (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

    Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Sidestepping App Stores, Facebook Lite and Groups get Instant Games, which launch in browsers  —  HTML5 almost ruined Facebook when baking in the mobile web standard to speed up development slowed down the performance of the social network’s main iOS and Android apps. Sidestepping App Stores, Facebook Lite and Groups get

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    • A look at how the Democratic National Committee has beefed up cybersecurity since 2016, hiring staff from Silicon Valley, warning about phishing, and more (Eric Geller/Politico)

    Eric Geller / Politico: A look at how the Democratic National Committee has beefed up cybersecurity since 2016, hiring staff from Silicon Valley, warning about phishing, and more  —  The DNC’s chief technology officer has led a massive cybersecurity overhaul at the committee and its sister organizations. A look at how the Democratic National Committee

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    • How a loophole in Facebook's political ad review system, letting verified buyers put anything in the "paid for by" field, has been weaponized in a Virginia race (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

    Kevin Roose / New York Times: How a loophole in Facebook’s political ad review system, letting verified buyers put anything in the “paid for by” field, has been weaponized in a Virginia race  —  A competitive race in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District has an alarming new element: anonymous attack ads on Facebook. How a loophole

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    • Spotify announces a standalone app for Wear OS that lets users control and browse music, rolling out over the next week (Valentina Palladino/Ars Technica)

    Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: Spotify announces a standalone app for Wear OS that lets users control and browse music, rolling out over the next week  —  Browse, play, and add songs to your library from Spotify’s new on-wrist app.  —  Wear OS gains a popular new app today that many have been waiting for

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    • Softbank COO says "there is no certainty" that there will be another Vision Fund, as the firm is "anxiously looking" at fallout from Khashoggi's disappearance (Financial Times)

    Financial Times: Softbank COO says “there is no certainty” that there will be another Vision Fund, as the firm is “anxiously looking” at fallout from Khashoggi’s disappearance  —  SoftBank has voiced its doubts about the likelihood of a second $100bn Vision Fund for the first time … Softbank COO says "there is no certainty" that

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    • Sources: SoftBank Group has lined up commitments for a ~$9B loan for its Vision Fund from banks including the arrangers of its Japanese wireless business' IPO (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank Group has lined up commitments for a ~$9B loan for its Vision Fund from banks including the arrangers of its Japanese wireless business’ IPO  —  – Top underwriters of wireless IPO agree to provide financing  — Banks finalizing terms of loan backed by Vision Fund holdings Sources: SoftBank Group has lined up

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    • Hitman 2 announces the oft-killed Sean Bean as a contract target

    IO Interactive, the developers behind the Hitman series, today announced the first post-release content for the upcoming Hitman 2, including the subject of the first contract. Soon you — yes, you — will join the long, long list of individuals who can boast they’ve killed Sean Bean. The new Hitman games are bolstered after release with missions called Elusive Targets,

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    • Twilio debuts Autopilot, to help developers deploy bots across text, message, and voice assistants, and Pay, an API to securely process payments over the phone (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Twilio debuts Autopilot, to help developers deploy bots across text, message, and voice assistants, and Pay, an API to securely process payments over the phone  —  Twilio wants to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to contact call centers.  During its annual Signal developer conference in San Francisco … Twilio debuts Autopilot, to

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    • Microsoft begins testing a major redesign of the iOS and Android Cortana apps, with a focus on conversational experiences and more (Dan Thorp-Lancaster/Windows Central)

    Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central: Microsoft begins testing a major redesign of the iOS and Android Cortana apps, with a focus on conversational experiences and more  —  Microsoft is gearing up to release a major update to Cortana on Android and iOS, and beta testers are getting the first shot at it. Microsoft begins testing

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    • Interview with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on free speech, filter bubbles, the chronological feed, and more (Nicholas Thompson/Wired)

    Nicholas Thompson / Wired: Interview with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on free speech, filter bubbles, the chronological feed, and more  —  ON MONDAY, AT Wired’s 25th anniversary summit, I spoke with Jack Dorsey about some of the biggest questions he confronts running Twitter and Square.  How has his position on free speech evolved? Interview with

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