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Months after failing to sell NSA hacking tools, hacking group The Shadow Brokers publicly releases the alleged exploits — The Shadow Brokers, the mysterious group linked to exploits stolen from the National Security Agency, released a large catalog of files Saturday that give further insight …
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| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
US Labor Department says in court that it found “systemic” pay disparities against women at Google; Google disputes findings, says government provided no data — Allegations of possible employment violations emerge at court hearing as part of lawsuit to compel company, a federal contractor, to provide compensation data
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| Michael Kan / ITworld.com: |
WikiLeaks: After Russian-made Carberp financial malware was leaked in 2013, CIA borrowed elements of the malware for deployment on Windows systems — The CIA's hacking operations allegedly borrowed elements from the Carberp financial malware when the code was leaked in 2013| Jason Rowley / Crunchbase: |
Inside venture capital market in Q1 2017: number of global equity funding rounds increased by 11.9% compared to Q4 2016, but was roughly flat year-over-year — The first quarter of 2017 was a period of transition for the global venture capital ecosystem. — There are signs that the slight downturn … | Jessi Hempel / Backchannel: |
Super-voting shares in Uber held by Kalanick and his allies mean the board has little control over who fills CEO role — The rise of super-voting shares in Silicon Valley has given founders the ultimate job security. — As the calamities amass at Uber, many people—including me—have called for new leadership.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix's chief product officer Neil Hunt to depart in July after 18 years, will be replaced by Greg Peters; chief talent officer Tawni Cranz also leaving — Greg Peters to take over as chief product officer in July; chief talent officer Tawni Cranz is departing| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers uncover BrickerBot-powered botnet attacks that are designed to brick poorly secured Linux-based routers and other IoT devices — Ongoing “BrickerBot” attacks might be trying to kill devices before they can join a botnet. — Researchers have uncovered a rash of ongoing attacks designed … | Walt Mossberg / The Verge: |
Walt Mossberg is retiring in June, shortly after the 2017 Code Conference, ending a 47-year career at publications including the WSJ, Recode, and The Verge — Thanks for reading, watching, listening — It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist.
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| Taylor Wofford / Motherboard: |
Current and former insiders of Something Awful on how forums on the site, which was founded in 1999, presaged current internet culture — I sometimes suspect that we're seeing something in the Internet as significant as the birth of cities. It's something that profound and with that sort of infinite possibilities.
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
TaskRabbit exploring a sale after the firm received inbound interest from a strategic buyer, CEO confirms; sources say there is more than one interested buyer — The gig economy startup has hired advisers after a possible purchaser surfaced during a recent funding process.| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google adds fact checking information to search results and Google News worldwide — Last October, Google launched support to highlight fact-checking articles within Google News in the US and the UK. Now those articles will get special presentation as part of general Google searches worldwide.
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| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
Trov raises $45M Series D to expand its app-based single item insurance service to the US and Japan, bringing total raised to $85M — Financial-technology startup raises $45 million to expand into new markets — Trov Inc., a financial-technology startup aiming to bring on-demand services …
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