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White House: draft EO ordering probes into practices of Facebook and Google is not an official document; sources: Yelp sent email with the draft EO to WH aides — The White House sought to distance itself Saturday from reports that President Trump is considering an executive order …
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Starting with Chrome 69 on desktop, users logging in to a Google site or service are automatically logged in to Chrome, which is a new mandatory login behavior — Starting with Chrome 69, logging into a Google Site is tied to logging into Chrome. — This is typically the topic where things …
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Sources: Apple delayed launch of a streaming video service twice, most recently until March, and spiked a Dr. Dre series as it seeks less edgy content — The tech giant wants to make scripted shows for streaming, only without violence, politics and risqué story lines
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| Stephen Hiltner / New York Times: |
Defcon attendees say corporate demands, widespread professionalization, and bug bounty programs are reshaping hackers' attitudes toward privacy and anonymity — At Defcon, one of the world's largest hacking conferences, new pressures are reshaping the community's attitudes toward privacy and anonymity.| Alyssa Hertig / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin Core client, patched earlier this week, contained a second vulnerability that let attackers create new bitcoins above the 21M hard cap — This week's major bitcoin bug was even worse than developers initially let on. — The bug originally rocked the bitcoin world when it was reported …
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| Steven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping: |
Amazon increasingly looks like a traditional retailer, with Prime as a loyalty program, Basics as its house brand, and product placements via Amazon search ads — The narrative of Amazon's total disruption of traditional retail and ultimate dominance is well-known.
Tweets: @carnage4life
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Sources shed light on how Qualcomm's nascent server chip unit withered amid Broadcom takeover saga that resulted in cost cuts and key executive departures — - Nascent server chip unit whithered amid dealmaking, cost cuts — SoftBank-backed management buyout is said to have fizzled| Brian Patrick Eha / BREAKER: |
How cryptocurrency lobbying evolved from startup employees educating local officials on basics of blockchain to well funded PACs for electing crypto champions — John Collins will not say who asked him about the Antichrist. — It was an elected official of one of these 50 states … | Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Museums around the world, including the Smithsonian, are increasingly using augmented reality technology to engage visitors at the exhibits — MAE JEMISON, THE first black woman to go into space, stood in the center of the room and prepared to become digital.
Tweets: @wired
| Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: |
Telltale Games, which makes games based on franchises such as Jurassic Park and Batman, lays off most of its staff, keeps 25 to begin “majority studio closure” — Telltale Games, creators of episodic adventure games like The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and Batman …
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Pocket Gamer.biz, Thurrott.com, Polygon, USgamer.net, Forbes, Fortune, Bruner House, LLC, Siliconera, CNET, Android Authority, Mashable, Neowin, Variety, SlashGear, PCWorld, GameSpot, Blue's News, TechSpot, Polygon, Kotaku, VentureBeat, Windows Central, destructoid, Gematsu, Engadget, Android Police, Business Insider, GamesIndustry.biz, VG247, and IGN
Tweets: @telltalegames, @emilybuckshot, @joeparlock, @jonathanlhoward, @joeparlock, @joeparlock, and @joeparlock
| Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi / Reuters: |
The Swiss Bankers Association unveils new guidelines for banks that could make it easier for cryptocurrency/blockchain companies to open corporate bank accounts — Faced with an exodus of cryptocurrency projects from the country due to falling access to the banking sector, the Swiss Bankers Association … | Lux Alptraum / The Verge: |
A look at SASS, which provides anonymous online counseling on abortion pills and helps women avoid prosecution in states where self-managed abortion is illegal — For many people, the phrase “illegal abortion” calls to mind images of back alley clinics, medical providers with questionable credentials …
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