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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
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
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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Roku refreshes streaming media players and sticks with faster processors and 4K support, and unveils Roku OS 8 with improvements mainly for Roku TV — More TV streaming boxes — Roku just announced updates to five of its TV streaming products, as well as a new operating system … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple open sourced the kernel of iOS and macOS for ARM processors — Apple has always shared the kernel of macOS after each major release. This kernel also runs on iOS devices as both macOS and iOS are built on the same foundation. This year, Apple also shared the most recent version of the kernel on GitHub.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to hire 1000 more ad reviewers and make all the ads each organization buys visible to users, not just the targeted ones, to fight election interference — Today Facebook handed over 3000 ads to congressional investigators that were bought by a Russian company to influence U.S. politics.
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| Dylan Byers / CNNMoney: |
Facebook says it will disclose the contents of 3,000+ Russian-linked US political ads to Congress on Monday, has no plans to publicly release — Facebook says it will give Congress copies of 3,000 Russian-bought political ads on Monday, giving lawmakers a clearer picture …
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New York Times, Quartz, New York Times, TechCrunch, Washington Post, Recode, Engadget, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @lizzadwoskin
| Josh Gerstein / Politico: |
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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| Costas Pitas / Reuters: |
Uber's head of Northern Europe Jo Bertram is departing amid battle to regain London licence, will be replaced by London GM Tom Elvidge on interim basis — LONDON (Reuters) - Uber's [UBER.UL] top boss in Britain will quit the taxi hailing app just as the firm battles to overturn a decision …
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TechCrunch, Recode, Engadget, Telegraph, VentureBeat, and The Daily Caller
| Bloomberg: |
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
| Alana Semuels / The Atlantic: |
How Sweden's strong safety net, low corporate taxes, and deregulation of industries to promote competition gave rise to its thriving startup community — STOCKHOLM—This is a high-tax, high-spend country, where employees receive generous social benefits and ample amounts of vacation time.
Tweets: @jeremybernier
| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
Sony is updating the design of the PlayStation VR headset, with integrated headphones and HDR passthrough support, for the same price, with availability TBD — It's been almost a year since Sony formally entered the virtual reality arena with the launch of the PlayStation VR (PSVR) headset.
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PlayStation.Blog, The Verge, CNET, Business Insider, VRFocus, Neowin, Road to VR, Polygon, VRFocus, Ubergizmo, Inquirer, VG247, MSPoweruser, Kotaku, GamesIndustry.biz, and Android Central
Tweets: @toadsanime and @markmacd
| Karen DeYoung / Washington Post: |
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 …
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38 North, Fortune, Reuters, Engadget, The Diplomat, Bloomberg, and The Daily Caller
Tweets: @martyn_williams, @asluhn, and @bobbychesney
| SiliconANGLE: |
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 … Sponsor Posts
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