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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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| 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.
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| 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 …
| 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.| Adam K. Raymond / Vulture: |
How spammers, ripoff artists, and even superstars juice their numbers on Spotify with covers, tricky song titles, silent tracks, and large albums — A few weeks after the release of Kendrick Lamar's “Humble,” the hard-charging lead single on his fourth album Damn., the song landed at No. 1 on Billboard's streaming chart.| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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 …
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| 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
| Dominique Vidalon / Reuters: |
Paris, Airbnb's biggest single market, will require that Airbnb hosts register their property, making it harder to exceed the 120 day legal rental limit — French hoteliers cheered on Wednesday a Paris City Council decision making it mandatory from December for people renting their apartments …
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| 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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