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    • The Google Transparency Report, a searchable database of political ads has errors, delays, and often does not record political ads bought with Google's ad tools (Wall Street Journal)

    Wall Street Journal: The Google Transparency Report, a searchable database of political ads has errors, delays, and often does not record political ads bought with Google’s ad tools  —  Mistakes have occurred in the Google Transparency Report for both Democratic and Republican presidential and congressional candidates The Google Transparency Report, a searchable database of political

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    • YouTube adds one click switch between audio and video for YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscribers, has time-matched over 5M songs (Brandon Bilinski/YouTube Blog)

    Brandon Bilinski / YouTube Blog: YouTube adds one click switch between audio and video for YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscribers, has time-matched over 5M songs  —  Imagine listening to a new track by your favorite artist in the YouTube Music app and having the ability to seamlessly switch over to watch … YouTube

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    • Chinese AI voice recognition company iFlytek has raised ~$407M from a state-backed industry fund and several provincial government funds via a private placement (Sarah Dai/South China Morning Post)

    Sarah Dai / South China Morning Post: Chinese AI voice recognition company iFlytek has raised ~$407M from a state-backed industry fund and several provincial government funds via a private placement  —  Company to invest 2.05 billion yuan in its AI speech platform, with 1.18 billion yuan coming from proceeds … Chinese AI voice recognition company

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    • Chrome and Firefox extensions with up to 4M installs leaked sensitive data, including names and passwords, to marketing intelligence service Nacho Analytics (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)

    Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: Chrome and Firefox extensions with up to 4M installs leaked sensitive data, including names and passwords, to marketing intelligence service Nacho Analytics  —  As many as 4 million people have Web browser extensions that sell their every click.  And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Chrome and Firefox

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    • US Treasury's FinCEN says scammers tried to steal an average of $301M per month via business email compromise scams in 2018, up from $110M per month in 2016 (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)

    Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: US Treasury’s FinCEN says scammers tried to steal an average of $301M per month via business email compromise scams in 2018, up from $110M per month in 2016  —  The frequency of business email compromise (BEC) scams has increased year over year and so did the value of attempted thefts …

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