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A deep look at Mueller's mid-July indictment of Russia's GRU officers and how they hacked the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and DCCC before the 2016 election — Latest Mueller indictment offers excruciating details to confirm known election pwnage. — In a press briefing just two weeks ago …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook and YouTube, with rules like the “three strikes policy” that assume good faith users, are unprepared for actors like Infowars who exploit loopholes — Facebook and YouTube never anticipated a site like Infowars — Two weeks ago, CNN's Oliver Darcy put a question …
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| Shrutika Verma / Livemint: |
SoftBank and Yahoo Japan partner with Paytm to launch a QR code-based mobile payment service PayPay in Japan by November, with no commission fees for 3 years — Barcode-based payment service ‘PayPay’ to be launched by November in a JV with Yahoo
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| Zach Dorfman / Politico: |
Silicon Valley, as world's tech innovation hub, has been target of foreign industrial espionage for decades; its open culture makes it hard to deal with threats — The West Coast is a growing target of foreign espionage. And it's not ready to fight back.
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Sources: ARM has agreed to acquire US-based data analytics company Treasure Data for about $600M — - Treasure Data may fetch about $600 million in a sale — Products are used by auto, retail and entertainment firms — ARM Holdings Plc, the British computer-chip designer owned … | Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Imperva, a provider of cloud and on-premises cybersecurity software, to acquire DevOps security company Prevoty for $140M in cash — The deal is intended to improve enterprise app security on-premise and in the cloud. — Imperva has announced the acquisition of Prevoty in a deal worth $140 million.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it will begin suspending commenting rights of users who repeatedly post abusive comments on Periscope live streams starting August 10 — As part of Twitter's attempted crackdown on abusive behavior across its network, the company announced on Friday afternoon a new policy facing …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
To outsmart Amazon's product-ranking system, some sellers are turning to click farms, reviewers-for-hire, and even paying off Amazon workers for information — The digital giant battles click farms, reviewers-for-hire and other scams as merchants try to outsmart its product-ranking system.
Tweets: @davelorrez, @riskreversal, @wsj, @ddayen, and @triketora
| Daniel Funke / Poynter: |
After Facebook removed 196 pages and 87 accounts for policy violations in Brazil, far-right activists are harassing fact checkers not involved with the removals — Facebook is ramping up its efforts to cut down on misinformation ahead of Brazil's election this fall — and a right-wing movement is protesting.
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| Alex Spence / BuzzFeed: |
UK Parliament committee proposes social networks be legally responsible for harmful and illegal content and to let watchdogs audit tech company algorithms — A leaked copy of the MPs' report was published online on Friday, two days ahead of its official release.| Yimian Wu / China Money Network: |
Chinese IoT solutions provider Tuya Smart has raised $200M Series C round from Australian sovereign wealth fund Future Fund, NEA, and other investors — Chinese Internet of things (IoT) solution provider Tuya Smart has raised a US$200 million series C round from Australian sovereign wealth fund Future Fund and other investors.
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| Sushovan Sircarvakasha Sachdev / The Quint: |
Indian government committee publishes draft data protection law that recommends a data protection authority, right to be forgotten, data localization, and more — The Justice BN Srikrishna committee has submitted its report on data protection to IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Twitter closes down more than 20% after company reports 1M QoQ decline in monthly active users — - Monthly active users (MAUs): 335 million vs. 338.5 million, according to StreetAccount and FactSet estimate — Twitter shares closed more than 20 percent down on Friday after the company reported …
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