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Sources: Apple, like HP, won't provide support or cash to the Republican National Convention over concerns about Trump, in break with past elections — Apple has told Republican leaders it will not provide funding or other support for the party's 2016 presidential convention …
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The Huffington Post, CNET, Recode, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Engadget, SiliconBeat, Mashable, MacRumors, MacNN, AppleInsider, BuzzFeed, Newser, iMore, MacDailyNews and Bloomberg
Tweets: @johnpaczkowski, @jeffjarvis and @anzaloneliszt
Thanks:@tonyromm| Robert Graham / Errata Security: |
Background on the alternative cryptocurrency Ethereum, investment fund The DAO, and how they were exploited — The news in the Bitcoin world is the Ethereum/DAO hack. I thought I'd write up a simplified explanation. — What is Bitcoin? — I'm sure you know, or have an idea what Bitcoin is …
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Hacking Distributed, Trilema, Slock.it Blog, CCN, The Verge, CoinTelegraph.Com News and CoinDesk
Tweets: @frances_coppola, @x0rz and @desantis
| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Hacker siphoned $50M+ worth of Ether from The DAO project; the funds are frozen as Ethereum project leaders debate code change to recover the lost Ether — A hacker appears to have moved digital money worth more than $50 million from an experimental virtual currency project that recently raised …
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Hacking Distributed, Ethereum Blog, Blockstack Blog, Business Insider, Peter Vessenes, Wired, CoinTelegraph.Com News, CoinDesk, Blockstack Blog, Slock.it Blog, NEWSBTC, CCN, Fortune, Stake Ventures Inc., Quartz, Bloomberg, The Register, Bitcoin Magazine, The Verge, Digital Trends, SecurityWeek, Softpedia News, CCN, Slock.it, Help Net Security and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @edsu, @paxdickinson, @bryceweiner and @chrislundkvist
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
The “theft” of Ethereum from the DAO violated the DAO's intent, but not its smart contract, exposing tensions between blockchain idealism and real world systems — There's a fairly incredible trial going on in London right now. The Libyan Investment Authority is suing Goldman Sachs …
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CoinDesk, Hacking Distributed, Engineering. Distributed, CoinDesk, Medium, Engadget, Swarm and The Merkle
Tweets: @counternotions, @audreywatters, @xjoeduffyx, @hkanji, @adambanksdotcom, @reichenstein, @robbieprofeta, @dermotcasey, @izakaminska, @ross, @_trendspotter, @ollekullberg, @kartick_vad, @tek_fin, @balajis and @cdixon
Thanks:@_trendspotter| Joe Nocera / New York Times: |
By creating a market for on-demand TV, Netflix spawned its own competitors and is struggling to survive, with a negative cash flow of nearly $1B — It helped to develop all the new ways we watch TV — on-demand, bingeing, mobile. But the Silicon Valley company still has to keep reinventing itself.| Seth Fiegerman / Mashable: |
Behind the scenes at Tumblr after the Yahoo acquisition: new competition, a $240M writedown in February, and an uncertain future — After Marissa Mayer promised ‘not to screw it up’ — Marissa Mayer was running late. This time, it wasn't for a dinner with skeptical advertisers nor …
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Gizmodo and New York Magazine. Tweets: @stoweboyd. Thanks:@ravichandrans25. See also Mediagazer
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IBM's Watson allows passengers to communicate with Olli, a self-driving minibus from Local Motors, using natural language — IBM today took the wraps off its first big foray into the world of self-driving cars, not as the driver of them, but as the brain behind making your self-driving journey a little more interesting.| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Gear Fit 2 review: Samsung's $179 fitness band/smartwatch improves upon the original with built-in GPS, makes top-tier Fitbits look outdated — Samsung's $179 Gear device improves upon the first and should make others sweat. — It has been a couple of years since Samsung upgraded …
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Yahoo! Finance, Engadget, Gizmodo and TechCrunch
| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
After success of Hack the Pentagon pilot, Department of Defense is expanding the program to include more DoD systems and networks — Wanna hack the military? The Department of Defense is starting to give hackers more opportunities to test its systems without the threat of prosecution.| Derek Thompson / The Atlantic: |
Pew: entire net growth in digital advertising happening on mobile, with Google and Facebook controlling half of net mobile ad revenue — In the early 1950s, television was popular, but unsophisticated. This was a common sentiment, even among the people who produced it … | Matt Graves: |
The history of Napster from rebel file-sharing software in 1999 to a legal music service in 2016 — Yesterday afternoon, the Rhapsody music service announced that it will retire the Rhapsody name, and re-brand its service (and the company) under the Napster brand.| Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: |
Twitch files lawsuit against seven makers of “view-bots, follow-bots, chat-impersonation bots” designed to artificially inflate the viewer and follower counts — The legal hammer is being dropped on seven of the most prolific bot-makers. — Twitch has filed a lawsuit …
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Twitch Blog, Motherboard, Polygon, Tech Times, Hollywood Reporter, Gamasutra, SlashGear, The Register and Engadget
Tweets: @head_crabtv, @imfraggindragon, @twitch and @basche42
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