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Source: US investigators identify Guccifer 2.0 as a GRU officer, attributed via hacker's login to US social media service without a VPN from a Moscow IP address — Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to introduce new low-cost iPads and software for the education market at its event in Chicago next week — Company holding rare education-focused event next week — Lower-cost and Pro models have recently reignited iPad sales — Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Craigslist pulls all personal ads after passage of sex-trafficking bill FOSTA, says any tool or service can be misused and that it can't take such risk — Online classified site Craigslist has pulled its entire personal ad section after Congress passed a new sex-trafficking bill that puts more liability on Web sites.
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Tweets: @mccarron, @xxxescortamber, @albertwenger, @mikeisaac, @causalinf, and @johnteti. Thanks:@inafried
| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Dropbox opens up ~40% on its first day of trading after pricing its shares at $21, above already increased range of $18-$20/share, and raising $756M in its IPO — - Dropbox, once valued as high as $10 billion, reported more than $1 billion in 2017 revenue and 500 million registered users …
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Tweets: @akinoyedele, @zachperret, @rolfewinkler, @lesliepicker, @lesliepicker, and @levynews
| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
US DoJ charges nine Iranians and an Iranian company with hacking parts of US government, UN, and hundreds of universities in the US and around the world — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday charged nine Iranians and an Iranian company with attempting to hack into hundreds …
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Symantec report: instances of cryptojacking rose 8,500% in Q4 2017, partly due to easy-to-operate coin mining apps, coin mining up 34,000% in 2017 — Where the money is, the thieves will follow — Instances of computers hijacked to mine cryptocurrency, a practice known as cryptojacking …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
About 2M Spotify users, or 2.3% of users of its free service, are avoiding ads via modified apps or accounts, according to Spotify's IPO filing — Over 2 percent of free users — Earlier this month, news broke that Spotify was cracking down on users running modded versions of the Spotify app …
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese on-demand services app Meituan Dianping to seek at least $60B valuation in Hong Kong IPO as soon as this year — Company is said to want to go public as soon as this year — Meituan's considering a listing in Hong Kong and China as well| Cyrus Lee / ZDNet: |
Baidu granted T3 license plates, which require comprehensive driving abilities, from Beijing's traffic authority to start self-driving vehicle tests in public — Local Beijing authority releases temporary licenses for autonomous driving tests in the city soon after the fatal accident caused by an unmanned Uber car in the US.| Adam Behsudi / Politico: |
Trump announces plans to levy tariffs on ~$60B of Chinese-made goods; source says list of targeted products, coming within 15 days, will mostly focus on tech — President Donald Trump will escalate economic tensions with China by unveiling on Thursday extensive new trade restrictions …
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Tweets: @sambeal and @realdonaldtrump
| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft and Databricks, an Apache Spark-based analytics platform, bring the Azure Databricks cloud service out of beta — Microsoft is bringing its Azure Databricks cloud service out of beta today to help its customers better process massive amounts of data, powered by a partnership unlike anything the tech titan has done before.
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Microsoft Azure Cloud …, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, and MSPoweruser
| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
In interview, Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook has made mistakes in building its platform, the fixes will not be easy and will cost “many millions of dollars” — In a wide-ranging interview, the Facebook CEO admitted that the social networking giant may have made mistakes in opening up its network so much a decade ago.
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