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August 3, 2017, 2:50 PM

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Alex Hern / The Guardian:
DOJ indictment accuses Marcus Hutchins, who halted WannaCry, of helping create, spread, and maintain Kronos banking trojan in 2014-2015  —  Marcus Hutchins arrested at Las Vegas airport by the FBI, according to a US Marshal spokesperson, after attending annual DEF CON hacking conference
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to display “related articles” for popular stories, including ones flagged as false by fact checkers, to combat misinformation, after months of testing  —  Social-media giant will display related articles to limit the damage of false news without censoring posts
Steven Levy / Wired:
How Apple developed new Bluetooth Low Energy Audio tech to stream audio directly from iOS devices to hearing aids and cochlear implants  —  My conversation with Mathias Bahnmueller started as pretty much all my phone interviews do.  “Can you hear me?” he asked, and I replied affirmatively.

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