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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Ikea says it is creating a new business unit, Ikea Home smart, with end-to-end responsibility for its portfolio of smart devices — ‘We are just getting started’ — Ikea is formalizing what has recently become all too obvious: the company is making a major bet on smart home tech as a source of new revenue.| Reuters: |
Sources: the US Department of Commerce to extend Huawei's license to buy US goods, which expires on August 19, by another 90 days — SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to extend a reprieve given to Huawei Technologies that permits the Chinese firm …
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
How US-based companies are moving manufacturing out of mainland China while their Chinese counterparts are “de-Americanizing” their supply chains — - Electronics makers shift from China to side-step Trump tariffs — Tech giants like Huawei are ‘de-Americanizing’ supply chains
Tweets: @noahpinion
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Apple's WebKit announces strict anti-tracking policy to prevent covert tracking and all cross-site tracking, credits Mozilla's policy for inspiring its approach — WebKit, the open source engine that underpins Internet browsers including Apple's Safari browser, has announced …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SoftBank plans to lend up to $20B to its employees to buy stakes in its second VC fund, with Masayoshi Son accounting for more than half of the amount — Unusual setup doubly exposes the Japanese company to a startup economy that is starting to show cracks
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TechCrunch and Seeking Alpha
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| VICE: |
Some Defcon attendees discuss why people are still getting hacked and what the cybersecurity community needs to do better — The cybersecurity industry is worth billions of dollars, and tens of thousands of people attend Black Hat and Def Con every year. So, are we getting any safer?
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Vox, Beyond Search, MIT Technology Review, Fortune, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @motherboard, @jason_koebler, @josephfcox, and @shiringhaffary
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
By not providing Siri users with clear control over how their data is used, Apple is at odds with the privacy doctrine that it preaches on billboards — I pooh-poohed this story at first, mostly on the grounds that I thought we knew about this, and that the recordings were only saved from users who had consented to it.
Tweets: @ia, @carnage4life, @funnymonkey, @scramblesuited, and @panzer
| Kevin Kwok / kwokchain: |
Slack isn't becoming the “central nervous system” for all the workflows of its users because it's just filling cracks left by productivity apps, not fixing them — The arc of collaboration is long and it bends in the direction of functional workflows.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
A look at donations by major tech execs to 2020 presidential candidates, with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders notably absent from the list of recipients — KEY POINTS — LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has donated money to four Democratic primary candidates, while Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has provided money to three.| 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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Wired, Medium, Trustnodes, Hacked, Department of Financial …, The Daily Hodl, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, NewsBTC, Decrypt, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Bitcoinist.com, Coinspeaker, CryptoSlate, CCN Markets, and The Block
Tweets: @coindesk, @jchervinsky, @reformedbroker, and @xrpcryptowolf
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Facebook has built a static analysis platform, dubbed Zoncolan, that can scan Facebook's 100M lines of code in under 30 minutes to help catch bugs — FACEBOOK DOESN'T HAVE the most stellar privacy and security track record, especially given that many of its notable gaffes were avoidable.
Tweets: @wired, @wired, and @trustedsec
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who says the company is now working with 4,500 AI startups, compared to 2,000 in April, 2017 — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang proudly proclaimed on an analyst earnings call this week that artificial intelligence is the “single most powerful force of our time.”Sponsor Posts
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