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Dating site for cheaters AshleyMadison hacked, data of 37M users potentially compromised — Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked — Large caches of data stolen from online cheating site AshleyMadison.com have been posted online by an individual or group that claims to have completely compromised …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Shopping site Jet, facing steep losses and looming competition from Amazon, is looking to raise hundreds of millions at a $3B valuation by year end — Frenzy Around Shopping Site Jet.com Harks Back to Dot-Com Boom — Despite steep losses and looming competition with Amazon.com …
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| Deena Shanker / Quartz: |
Online food delivery ordering is about to overtake phone ordering in the US — Getting your dinner to your door is now easier than ever, and thanks to the internet, almost no human interaction is required. — While phone orders dominated delivery only five years ago … | Re/code: |
Once outcasts, three Canadian researchers now lead the deep learning efforts at Google, Facebook and IBM — Welcome to the AI Conspiracy: The ‘Canadian Mafia’ Behind Tech's Latest Craze — In the late '90s, Tomi Poutanen, a precocious computer whiz from Finland, hoped to do his dissertation … | John Markoff / Edge.org: |
John Markoff on slow pace of automation, shorter term bets from VCs and government, future of transportation, AR as the next big platform, more — The Next Wave — A Conversation With John Markoff — This can't be the end of human evolution. We have to go someplace else. — It's quite remarkable.
Tweets: @philiped, @bigdata, @dangillmor, @cdixon, @hunterwalk, @johnolilly and @digiphile
| Roy Goldenberg / Globes Online: |
Microsoft reportedly buying Israeli cloud security startup Adallom for around $320M — Microsoft buys Israeli cloud security co Adallom for $320m — With its development center in Tel Aviv, the cyber security company has raised $49.5 million to date. — Microsoft Inc. (Nasdaq: MSFT) …
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Wall Street Journal, WinBeta, Business Cloud News, Fortune, Windows Central, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, The Next Web, Microsoft News and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @hilzfuld
| Brandon Chester / AnandTech: |
Samsung announces 8-inch and 9.7-inch Galaxy Tab S2 tablets with new form factor and 4:3 2048x1536 displays, available in August — Samsung Announces The 8.0" and 9.7" Galaxy Tab S2 Tablets — Today Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab S2, the followup to last year's Galaxy Tab S tablets.| JP Mangalindan / Mashable: |
Behind eBay's split from PayPal and a look at the challenges ahead for both companies — Inside the tech divorce of the decade: PayPal and eBay start a new life without each other — eBay CEO John Donahoe was visibly agitated one March afternoon in 2014, as he slowly paced the length … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Uber Says Spain Legal Case Has Been Referred To The European Court Of Justice — After a particularly heated period for upstart transportation business Uber in Europe, Uber is going on the regulatory offensive. Today the company's head of public policy in EMEA, Mark MacGann …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Spotify's ‘Personalized,’ Computer-Generated Playlists Are Here, and They're Pretty Good — I was worried about the Minions. But it turned out to be okay. — Last week Spotify told me it was rolling out a new feature — a weekly, “personalized” playlist, automatically generated by the music service based on my listening habits.
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The Next Web, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Guardian, The Verge, Engadget, SlashGear and Music Ally
| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook Builds A Rough Road Back For Those Booted By Its “Real Name” Policy — Process hell and faceless bureaucracy may await those locked out of their accounts — even when they use their legal names. — Eveshka Ghost — Eveshka Ghost — Until recently, Daniel Wilson … Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare:
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Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
IDrive:
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