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Google ends controversial “first click free” policy, won't demote paywalled news sites in search results, and will offer new tools to help sell subscriptions — Search engine drops controversial ‘first-click free’ program — Company won't demote paywalled news sites in search results| Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg's “both sides” argument is a flimsy defense of Facebook's failure to limit the spread of systematic misinformation during 2016 election — Responding to President Trump's tweet this week that “Facebook was always anti-Trump,” Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook …
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FBI does not have to reveal the name of a vendor that unlocked San Bernardino shooter's iPhone, judge rules in FOIA lawsuit filed by Vice, USA Today, and AP — A federal judge has ruled that the FBI does not have to make public how much it paid last year to unlock an iPhone used …
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Sources: under the President's directive, US Cyber Command performed DDoS attacks against hackers in North Korea's military spy agency — Early in his administration, President Trump signed a directive outlining a strategy of pressure against North Korea that involved actions across … | Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
How exhibitions well adapted to selfies on social media attract visitors to places like the Museum of Ice Cream — WHEN THE MUSEUM of Ice Cream opened in New York in 2015, it was more a temporary curiosity than a rival to, say, the Whitney Museum of American Art, which stood just across the street.
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| Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
Analysis: Apple has sold about 15M Watch units in last 12 months and about 33M since launch, generating about $12B in sales — Apple is now the biggest watchmaker in the world, overtaking Rolex during the last quarter. This achievement happened less than two and a half years after Apple entered the watch market.
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| Florin T. / PhoneArena: |
Renders leak of Huawei Mate 10 Pro with f/1.6 Leica-branded cameras — Huawei won't properly announce its Mate 10 smartphone series before October 16, but we already know plenty about it, including the fact that it should be comprised of multiple devices - a regular Mate 10, a Mate 10 Pro … | Bloomberg: |
Profile of Brendan Greene, director of PC game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which has sold 13M copies and is launching on Xbox later this year — Three years ago, Brendan Greene was on welfare in his hometown of Kildare, Ireland, getting an earful from social workers about how he should stop wasting …
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Oracle unveils 18c, a ML-driven self-patching and self-tuning database, coming December for data warehousing and June for online transaction processing — Oracle Corp. Sunday announced the next generation of its database, which founder and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison said will be able …
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Sources: how Bain-led bid for Toshiba chip unit won out, after Western Digital overplayed its hand with a lowball offer and an attempt to block sale to others — Sale of flash memory unit sparked a ferocious bidding war — Rift with Western Digital began with April clash in California
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| James Somers / MIT Technology Review: |
Inside the history and limitations of Geoffrey Hinton's 30-year-old backpropagation neural network technique, which formed the basis for modern deep learning — Just about every AI advance you've heard of depends on a breakthrough that's three decades old.
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Sources: ongoing investigations find the Equifax hack may have been state-sponsored, and 30+ entry points were created in Equifax computer systems — In the corridors and break rooms of Equifax Inc.'s giant Atlanta headquarters, employees used to joke that their enormously successful credit reporting company …
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