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Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

Phil Libin moves to VC firm General Catalyst, two months after stepping down as CEO of Evernote — Evernote Founder Phil Libin Moves Into Venture Capital — Phil Libin, the co-founder of digital note-taking service Evernote Inc., is moving into venture capital two months after he stepped down as chief executive of the startup.

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Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Google OnHub teardown shows large speaker, huge heatsink, lots of antennas, and a light sensor that doesn't yet work — Google OnHub gets torn asunder, reveals big speaker, many antennas — Google's OnHub router is packed with hardware that doesn't work yet.

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Snapchat Acquires Looksery To Power Its Animated Lenses

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Wall Street Journal:

Facebook to work with German Justice Ministry to fight to fight xenophobic and racist messages on its platform — Facebook Outlines Measures to Combat Racist and Xenophobic Content — Germany called for social network to do more to censure hate speech against migrants

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Hands On With Three iOS 9 Content Blockers: 1Blocker, Blockr And Crystal — Apple's support for ad blockers on the new version of its mobile operating system, iOS 9, launching Wednesday, is poised to change how consumers interact with the web on mobile devices.

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Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Google Capital invested $32.5M in Oscar in a deal valuing the health insurance startup at $1.75B — Google Bets on Insurance Startup Oscar Health — Insurance startup Oscar Health Insurance Corp. has a powerful new ally in its costly battle to win customers from entrenched insurance giants …

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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:

AT&T won't throttle unlimited data in congestion until users hit 22GB, an over 4x increase — AT&T today has revealed a slight change to how it is handling throttling users grandfathered into unlimited data plans. Up until today, AT&T has throttled unlimited data users when they hit 5GB of usage and are in a congested area.

Melanie Burney / Philly.com:

Russian national Vladimir Drinkman pleads guilty in US for his role in hacking scheme that stole 160M+ credit card numbers — In Camden court, Russian pleads guilty in vast hacking plot — A Russian national admitted to plotting the largest international hacking and data breach scheme ever prosecuted …

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Aaron Souppouris / Engadget:

Sony's Project Morpheus is now ‘PlayStation VR’ — Sony's Project Morpheus VR system has a new, more obvious name: PlayStation VR. The announcement came today at the company's Tokyo Game Show press conference, but that's about the only new information Sony was willing to part with.

Financial Times:

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Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:

Lawsuit against Twitter alleges that auto-link shortening in direct messages violates privacy laws, seeks class action status — Twitter Hit With Suit Claiming It Snoops on Direct Messages — Twitter Inc.'s direct messages may not be as private as it claims, according to a lawsuit filed against the company on Monday.

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