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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Uber board met Sunday to weigh possible leave of absence for Kalanick and proposals in Holder report, which may recommend that Emil Michael leave — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber's board of directors is meeting on Sunday morning to discuss a leave of absence for Travis Kalanick …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Xbox One X gaming console, formerly known as “Project Scorpio”, which can run games natively at 4K, shipping November 7 worldwide for $499 — After months of speculation, Microsoft is unveiling its “Project Scorpio” games console today, and it's officially named Xbox …
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| Tom Stone / Minecraft.net: |
Microsoft announces cross-platform Minecraft play for Nintendo Switch, Xbox, mobile, Windows 10, and VR devices — Cross-platform play! Super Duper Graphics! In-game servers! — This E3 we shared our plans to introduce the Better Together Update to unify console …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Data shows Xbox Live users spend 19% of their time in Netflix and 7.6% in YouTube; just 1.5% of Xbox One time is spent in backwards compatible Xbox 360 games — Our follow-up to the Steam Gauge series samples statistics from millions of Gamertags. — For three years now … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How a hacking group used comments on Britney Spears' Instagram account to hide the location of their malware's command and control servers — Turla uses social media and clever programming techniques to cover its tracks. — A Russian-speaking hacking group that, for years …
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Tweets: @havenlabs and @annaleen
| Johnny Lin / Medium: |
How scammers use deceptive security apps and abuse search ads in the App Store to trick users into expensive subscriptions — It's far easier than you think. No luck or perseverance necessary. — At WWDC, Apple reported that they've paid out $70 billion to developers, with 30% of that ($21 billion!) in the last year.
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Tweets: @bhatnaturally, @mmurray, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, @om, and @drbarnard
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon says it has loaned over $3B to more than 20K small businesses since launching the Amazon Lending program in 2011, $1B+ in the past 12 months — Amazon has been ramping up its small loans business, with the company announcing today that it has loaned more than $1 billion …
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Tweets: @erinmccune and @wtjern
| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Silk Road now has numerous successors, mostly Asia-based; AlphaBay, now the leading dark web market, has 21k+ opioid listings, 4,100 for fentanyl, related drugs — Anonymous online sales are surging, and people are dying. Despite dozens of arrests, new merchants — many based in Asia — quickly pop up.
Tweets: @jonahnro and @nathanielpopper
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Apple's new third-party ad tracker blocker in Safari will further entrench the dominance of Google and Facebook in web advertising — The brutal logic of online advertising — The internet is an ad-tracking machine. It's been true for long enough that we rarely talk about it anymore, but it bears repeating.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Apple launches Business Chat for iMessage in developer preview; Business Chat currently works with other customer service platforms like Salesforce and Nuance — Apple launched Business Chat for iMessage today in developer preview, company executives said onstage today at WWDC, the company's annual developer conference.| Declan Walsh / New York Times: |
Egypt requested access to Uber's “Heaven” live rider data, preps bill requiring ride-hailing services put servers in Egypt and link customer data to government — CAIRO — As Uber sought this year to expand in Egypt, one of the most competitive ride-sharing markets … | Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Apple will finally offer basic analytics for podcasts, enabling podcast creators and advertisers to get significant listener feedback for the first time — Basic analytics are (finally) coming to Apple's podcast app in an upcoming refresh. It's a big deal.
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