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| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
Five years later, a deep dive into Gamergate's origins and how conspiracy-fed trolling tactics it took mainstream are now central to post-truth information wars — On August 15, 2014, an angry 20-something ex-boyfriend published a 9,425-word screed and set in motion a series of vile events that changed the way we fight online.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Coinbase has acquired the custody business of Xapo, a service best known for storing bitcoins in a vault under a Swiss mountain; source says for $55M — Cryptocurrency firm Coinbase has acquired the custody business of Xapo, a service best known for storing Bitcoins in a vault under a Swiss mountain.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube changes policy: copyright owners will no longer be able to monetize creator videos with very short or unintentional uses of music via its manual tool — YouTube is making a change to its copyright enforcement policies around music used in videos, which may result in an increased number …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Bakkt says it plans to launch its physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts on Sept. 23, after getting approval from NY state's financial regulator — Bakkt has been cleared to launch. — The Intercontinental Exchange's young subsidiary announced Friday that it had acquired …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple sues mobile device virtualization company Corellium, accusing it of copyright infringement for illegally replicating iOS, along with iPhone and iPad apps — Apple today filed a lawsuit against Corellium, a mobile device virtualization company that supports iOS.
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| Biswarup Gooptu / The Economic Times: |
India-based Twitter-like platform ShareChat, which supports multiple regional languages, raises $100M round led by Twitter, sources say at $600M-$650M valuation — Regional language social networking platform ShareChat has completed a $100 million (about Rs 718 crore) equity financing round led …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Bluetooth SIG issues a security notice for the “KNOB” flaw, which allows hackers to steal data by brute forcing the encryption key used during bluetooth pairing — A new Bluetooth vulnerability named “KNOB” has been disclosed that allow attackers to more easily brute force …
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| Karen Yue / Amazon Developer Services: |
Amazon launches “Custom Interfaces”, a new API that allows developers to connect gadgets and smart toys with Alexa-enabled devices to create new interactions — Since launching Alexa more than four years ago, customers have purchased more than 100 million Alexa-enabled devices … | Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
In a letter to Congress, the Trump administration asks lawmakers to reauthorize a law that lets the NSA gain access to logs of phone and text records — The White House is seeking reauthorization of a law that lets the N.S.A. gain access to logs of Americans' phone and text records …
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| Hilary Milnes / Digiday: |
Sources and a leaked pitch deck indicate that Amazon may have offered vendors the ability to bid for an Amazon Choice badge in 2017 — Amazon has previously offered vendors the ability to “bid” for an Amazon's Choice badge by lowering prices and spending more money on advertising … | Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
EU's General Court says it will hear arguments in Apple's and Ireland's challenges to EU's €13B bill over the company's back-taxes on September 17-18 — - EU court sets date for Apple, Ireland appeals of payback order — Apple got record tax bill in 2016 EU order over fiscal deal
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| Paul Roberts / The Security Ledger: |
Huge survey of 6K+ firmware images of devices by 18 vendors including Linksys and Netgear finds no improvement in software security and lax security standards — A survey of more than 6,000 firmware images spanning more than a decade finds no improvement in firmware security and lax security standards … | David Frankel / Founder Collective: |
Overview of startup exits outside Silicon Valley from the past ten years, not including Asian companies: Sweden edges out UK, Boston remains big, more — There's never been a better time to build a company outside the Bay Area — The Bay Area has been the best place to build a startup for the last two decades.
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia beats Q2 expectations with revenues of $2.58B, down 17% YoY, gaming chip sales of $1.3B, up 24% from Q1, and data center revenues of $655M, up 3% QoQ — - Chipmaker says all markets grew sequentially in quarter — Stock rallies on optimism for end to inventory slump| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Flyhomes raises $21M Series B and $120M in debt for its platform that lets buyers make upfront cash offers for a house, and then helps them sell their own homes — Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes is reloading its war chest with $141 million in new funding to carve out a spot … | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Brazil-based RD Station, a marketing automation platform aimed at SMBs in emerging markets, raises $50M Series D, bringing its total raised to about $90M — Brazilian digital marketing startup RD Station has raised a $50 million Series D led by Silicon Valley-based Riverwood Capital.
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
SmileDirectClub, which ships teeth-aligners directly to users, with dental professionals monitoring patient progress remotely, files for an IPO — SmileDirectClub, the at-home teeth-straightening service, is on its way to becoming a public company. SmileDirectClub is seeking to raise …
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Edge cloud services provider Zenlayer raises $30M Series B to expand globally with an emphasis on emerging markets like India, Indonesia, and Brazil — Zenlayer, a Los Angeles, CA- and and Shanghai, China-based edge cloud services provider, raised $30m in Series B funding.| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Federal judge rules Georgia will have to fall back to paper ballots if it doesn't replace its electronic voting machines with a secure system for 2020 election — Judge finds several serious flaws with Georgia's current election technology. — Election security advocates scored a major victory …
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| Akanksha Rana / Reuters: |
Report: Alibaba to buy NetEase's Kaola, one of the biggest Chinese shopping sites for imported goods, for $2B in cash — (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has agreed to pay $2 billion in cash to buy Chinese e-commerce firm Kaola, local news outlet Caixin reported on Friday. (bit.ly/2HcCI6C)Sponsor Posts
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