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• Facebook's WhatsApp flooded with fake news in Brazil election

  20-10-2018 21:32
  Facebook Inc's popular messaging service WhatsApp has become a political battleground in Brazil's most polarized election in decades, raising concerns that it is distorting debate beyond the public eye.
  
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• Free societies face emerging, existential threats from technology - TechCrunch

  20-10-2018 15:31
  TechCrunch
  Free societies face emerging, existential threats from technology
  TechCrunch
  Silicon Valley is currently, and correctly, under fire for the failure of leading platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter to protect against the spread of disinformation, hate speech and efforts to disrupt our elections. I don't know why these ...
  
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• Exclusive: CrowdStrike hires Goldman Sachs to lead IPO - sources

  20-10-2018 15:07
  (This October 19 story corrects penultimate paragraph to show that Tenable shares have gained, not declined, since the company's IPO)
  
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• How do we stop cutting-edge technology falling into the wrong hands? - The Guardian

  20-10-2018 12:01
  The Guardian
  How do we stop cutting-edge technology falling into the wrong hands?
  The Guardian
  Technology offers gigantic upsides – diagnosing cancer, catching serial killers – but algorithms designed for one purpose can be easily used for a sinister one. Sat 20 Oct 2018 06.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 20 Oct 2018 06.01 EDT. Share on Facebook ...
  
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• Google to charge Android partners up to $40 per device for apps: source

  20-10-2018 10:50
  (This Oct. 19 story has been refiled to fix wording in fourth paragraph)
  
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• Breaking barriers: technology and the dawn of a new supersonic era - Australian Aviation

  20-10-2018 06:02
  Australian Aviation
  Breaking barriers: technology and the dawn of a new supersonic era
  Australian Aviation
  This Australian Aviation feature story looks how technolgy is helping usher in the dawn of a new supersonic era for air travel.and more »
  
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• Brazil election battle rages over Facebook's WhatsApp

  20-10-2018 02:11
  Facebook Inc'sWhatsApp messaging service became the frontline in Brazil's bitter presidential campaign on Friday, as front-runner Jair Bolsonaro angrily denied accusations he had encouraged widespread misinformation campaigns on the platform.
  
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• Cramer to Fed: Consider jobs wiped out by technology before hiking rates - CNBC

  20-10-2018 01:21
  CNBC
  Cramer to Fed: Consider jobs wiped out by technology before hiking rates
  CNBC
  Jim Cramer emphasizes the power of Silicon Valley when it comes to countering inflation in the workforce. Watch CNBC Live TV. You May Like. ‹ › Latest Video. ‹ 01:15. The Look Ahead: October 19th, 2018. 01:15 | 10 Hrs Ago. News Update - The Look Ahead.
  
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• U.S. CMS says 75,000 individuals' files accessed in data breach

  20-10-2018 01:17
  The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said on Friday it was responding to a data breach that exposed the files of about 75,000 individuals.
  
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• Cramer's memo to the Fed: Consider the jobs being wiped out by technology before hiking rates - CNBC

  20-10-2018 00:58
  CNBC
  Cramer's memo to the Fed: Consider the jobs being wiped out by technology before hiking rates
  CNBC
  The Federal Reserve isn't paying enough attention to the jobs being wiped out by technological innovation, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Friday. "Right at the moment when Silicon Valley is laying waste to white-collar jobs and many factory positions — that's ...and more »
  
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• Apple CEO urges Bloomberg to retract spy chip story

  20-10-2018 00:49
  Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook on Friday told an online news website that Bloomberg should retract a story that claimed Apple's internal computer systems had been infiltrated by malicious computer chips inserted by Chinese intelligence agents.
  
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