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| Marcy Wheeler / emptywheel: |
A joint US-Russia working group on cybersecurity mostly serves Russia, will make it harder for Congress to purge Kaspersky Lab products from federal networks — Man oh man did Vladimir Putin hand Trump his ass in their meeting the other day. While most the focus has been on Trump's apparent refusal …
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Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @realdonaldtrump, @kylegriffin1, @swiftonsecurity, @wikileaks, @frantownsend, @mat, @nicoleperlroth, @20committee, @kasparov63, @juddlegum, @sarahkendzior, @pierre, @lawrence, @justinjm1, @yashar, @qhardy, @carlbildt, @juddlegum, @mcuban, @preetbharara, @mroesch, and @yashar
| Chris Duckett / ZDNet: |
After this morning's tweet about discussing an “impenetrable Cyber Security unit” with Putin, Trump tweets he doesn't think the joint effort can happen — Fellow politicians have lined up to deride US President Donald Trump's idea of a cybersecurity partnership with Russia.
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Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Politico, The Daily Caller, CNET, Global Nerdy, Mashable, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @marcorubio, @realdonaldtrump, @marcorubio, @pierre, @karaswisher, @davidaxelrod, @reprubengallego, @jacksonleetx18, @senatorcardin, @senblumenthal, @facethenation, @anthony, @chrisvanhollen, @timkaine, @andrewbeatty, @senatorcardin, @bensasse, @senatorcardin, @mikelevinca, @senblumenthal, @martinheinrich, @ianbremmer, and @chrisvanhollen
| Jim Rutenberg / New York Times: |
News Media Alliance, with members including NYT, WaPo, and News Corp, seeks antitrust exemption from Congress to negotiate collectively with Google and Facebook — Google and Facebook continue to gobble up the digital advertising market, siphoning away revenue that once paid for the quality journalism …
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SiliconANGLE, Axios, and WSJ
Tweets: @pt, @pt, @pt, @nxthompson, @rafat, @zseward, @jimrutenberg, @jason_kint, @rafat, and @mathewi
| Ben Sullivan / Motherboard: |
DJI is updating firmware on its drones to prevent hackers from circumventing flight restrictions — The tension between drone pilots who want complete control over their aircraft that they bought and DJI, the world's biggest consumer grade drone maker, has come to a head.
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SiliconANGLE, Neowin, and Engadget
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
In email sent to all portfolio CEOs, Binary Capital's managing partner Jonathan Teo blames “corrupted” media for his resignation, which LPs have yet to accept — Binary Capital co-founder Jonathan Teo slammed the media, investor leaks and at least one of his portfolio companies …
Tweets: @danprimack, @mattgoldstein, @delrey, @mikeisaac, @arlanwashere, @danprimack, @mdudas, @harshilshah1910, and @katiebakes
| Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
Stripe partners with WeChat Pay, which has 600M+ users, and Alipay, with 520M+ users, to let its merchants outside China integrate payments via those platforms — Silicon Valley startup Stripe has partnered with digital payment providers Alipay and WeChat Pay to enable merchants using … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nielsen Music Mid-Year Report: on-demand audio streams in the US up 62.4% year-over-year to 184.3B in the first half of 2017 — A new report from Nielsen out this week paints a picture of the booming on-demand audio streaming business, pointing to a significant increase in consumers' use … | Kim Hart / Axios: |
Sources: Trump will delay and ultimately rescind a rule scheduled to go into effect July 17 that would let entrepreneurs immigrate to US to start companies — In the coming days, the Trump administration will take steps to delay and ultimately rescind an Obama administration rule allowing …
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Business Insider. Tweets: @derekcnel, @thetoddschulte, @ggreeneva, @dittycheria, @christinelu, @dandrezner, @stevecase, @danprimack, and @jstrauss
| Cory Doctorow / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
After controversial vote, W3C announces it will publish Encrypted Media Extensions, a type of DRM for web video, without protection for security researchers — Early today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards body publicly announced its intention to publish Encrypted Media Extensions …
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lists.w3.org, Privacy Online News, Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Verge, Boing Boing, Neowin, TechSpot, Defective, BleepingComputer.com, Fossbytes, SD Times, Engadget, Techdirt, Slashdot, and The Register
Tweets: @eff, @z3r0fox, @benadida, @timsweeneyepic, @fsf, @brendaneich, @doctorow, @jlivingood, @woowoo678, @w3c, @doctorow, @alastc, @boingboing, @artemio, and @textfiles
| Pippa Biddle / Wired: |
As educators grapple with increasing use of Wolfram Alpha, students and the tool's maker claim it's a study aid, not merely a means for cheating on homework — Denise Garcia knows that her students sometimes cheat, but the situation she unearthed in February seemed different.| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Waymo files a preliminary list of 461 questions for Anthony Levandowski, expecting him to invoke his Fifth Amendment right in response to many — On Friday, Waymo filed a list of 461 questions it intends to ask Anthony Levandowski — a former employee it's accusing of downloading 14,000 proprietary files … | Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
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Recode, SlashGear, Slashdot, Tech Times, Fortune, TechCrunch, ZDNet, 9to5Google, TalkAndroid.com, CNET, Engadget, New York Magazine, and Ars Technica. Tweets: @alistairmbarr
| Tamara Chuang / Denver Post: |
After burying elimination of free plan in ToS update, Photobucket starts demanding $400/year for hosted images, kills client links on Amazon, eBay, other sites — Denver photo-sharing site says it needs to find “sustainable business” … Denver-based Photobucket on Thursday …
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Photobucket and Lifehacker
Tweets: @photobucket, @s_m_i, @katienotopoulos, @kevinmarks, @buzzfeednews, @derektmead, @cwarzel, and @chrismessina
| Marcus Baram / Fast Company: |
How the US military is making weapons, surveillance systems, and information systems smarter by leveraging software — As software-based weapons and information systems start to touch all phases of conflict, military leaders are grappling with a new set of challenges.Thanks:@annelisemcgough
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