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Tweet Verizon is testing a new way to suggest apps to its customers. AppFlash, an app developed alongside startup Evie, will collect information about your device to “provide relevant advertising.” Read more… Neowin

Tweet Kurt Eichenwald, a prominent critic of US President-Elect Donald Trump claims he has been the victim of a ‘twitter assault’ after being sent a flashing image, successfully triggering an epileptic fit. Read more… Neowin

Tweet The European Commission became the target of a massive distributed denial of service on Thursday. No data was breached, though internet service was taken out for the better part of the day. Read more… Neowin

Tweet “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads … That sucks.” – Jeff Hammerbacher, co-founder and chief scientist, Cloudera Well, something has to pay the bills. Thankfully, there’s also a sweeping trend in the data science world right now around bringing those skills to bear on some really meaningful problems, from the effects of tree pruning to mapping humanitarian crises around the…

Tweet Microsoft has admitted that a number of current and former team members have been the subjects of attacks on their Xbox Live accounts via social engineering techniques. Read more… Neowin