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How Facebook's shifting priorities and inferior monetization options for Instant Articles are leading some big publishers to abandon the format — Facebook's Instant Articles promised to transform journalism — but now big publishers are fleeing — Inside Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Windows exploits disclosed by Shadow Brokers have been patched on all currently supported versions of Windows — Microsoft says it has already patched the Windows exploits released by the Shadow Brokers group. The hacking tools, likely originating from the NSA …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Latest Shadow Brokers dump includes evidence NSA hacked SWIFT transaction system in the Middle East, has new exploits for older Windows versions up to Windows 8 — For eight months, the hacker group known as Shadow Brokers has trickled out an intermittent drip of highly classified NSA data.
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| Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed: |
How Zuckerberg has polished his image to win people over, beginning with greater use of personal FB posts in 2015 and culminating in his current US talking tour — Until recently — , Mark Zuckerberg's most iconic public appearance may have been the image of the young startup founder sweating through …
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| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
Stanford and Princeton researchers create ad-blocker that uses computer vision and evades all known anti ad-blockers, available as a proof of concept on Chrome — A team of Princeton and Stanford University researchers has fundamentally reinvented how ad-blocking works …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft confirms that just about a dozen Windows Phone models will officially support the Windows 10 Creators Update — Microsoft is rolling out a new test builds for Windows 10 to phone Insiders (and to PC users), while acknowledging that only a dozen or so Windows Phone models will get Windows 10 Creators Update.| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Robert Taylor, the innovator who played key roles in the invention of Arpanet, the Alto computer, and the computer mouse, dies at 85 — Like many inventions, the internet was the work of many inventors. But perhaps no one deserves more credit for that world-changing technological leap …
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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
The next Mac Pro should prioritize versatility as aggressive minimalism, among other factors, led to failure of the 2013 Mac Pro — Much of modern Apple's design philosophy is to relentlessly strip down most products to the bare minimum in certain areas as technological progress allows …
| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Several hours passed before Facebook removed a video of a murder shared on the social network — Facebook took posts down hours later — A Cleveland man is at large after reportedly killing someone and uploading the footage to Facebook. The video appears to show a man identified by police …
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| Brian Santo / SDxCentral: |
VMware says it is acquiring Wavefront, a cloud monitoring company that had previously raised $63.5M — VMware said it is buying Wavefront, a startup that specializes in metrics monitoring for cloud networking. The acquisition lets VMware “leapfrog into application management … | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
A look at the opportunities and challenges facing Uber in India, where rival Ola, weak infrastructure, and under-educated drivers test the company's ambitions — BANGALORE, India — Nandini Balasubramanya's office here on the southern edge of India's technology capital does not look …
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| Bloomberg: |
Inside troubled cybersecurity firm Tanium, which was valued at $3.5B in the latest round in 2015, and has had 9 senior executives leave in the past 8 months — Orion Hindawi and his dad built the world's most valuable cybersecurity startup. Now they're grappling with employee unrest and an executive exodus.Sponsor Posts
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