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Sources: House investigators asked Google about plans to implement DNS-over-HTTPS in Chrome; ISPs fear the protocol will prevent them from tracking user data — New standard could alter web's competitive landscape, cable and wireless companies say — Congressional antitrust investigators …
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| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
A VC narrative that software-enabled companies like Uber should be valued at 10x+ revenue is falling apart but is still valid for startups with margins of 75%+ — Dan Primack wrote in his friday newsletter: … While all of this is true, I think it is a lot simpler than that.
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| New York Times: |
A look at how tech firms and government keep failing to curb the sharing of child sexual abuse images, long after the PROTECT our Children Act was passed in '08 — Online predators create and share the illegal material, which is increasingly cloaked by technology.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Checkm8 creator says his iPhone exploit requires physical device access and lacks persistence after reboot, but will make jailbreaking more accessible and safer — Unpatchable vulnerability is a game-changer that even Apple will be unable to stop. — Often, when new iOS jailbreaks become public, the event is bitter-sweet.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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| Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: |
WaPo's Arc CMS, run by ~250 staff, is now used across ~600 sites, up from ~100 last year, including Tribune Publishing, now adds BP as first non-media customer — - Post says Arc revenue will rival subscriptions and advertising — Jeff Bezos has helped the Post recruit and retain engineers
Tweets: @agnotology42, @sprakash007, and @jbenton
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Venezuela is evaluating if it can count cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin it may have received from oil sales, toward the country's international reserves — - Central bank to decide if crypto can count as foreign reserves — Government hampered by sanctions that limit access to dollars
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Engadget, CryptoGlobe, CryptoSlate, and Inc42 Media
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| Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: |
[Thread] UK-US Cloud Act agreement will grant UK courts options similar to those of the US for getting message content but won't alter status quo on E2E crypto — It's really early on a Sunday, so while I sip my coffee I'm also going to try to clear up a lot of confusion about the CLOUD Act created by poor reporting by The Times (of London) and Bloomberg. Here is the original, incorrect story: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
The Chernin Group buys a majority stake in Food52 for $83M, valuing the ecommerce and media startup which offers recipes and home-improvement tips at $100M+ — Food52, a media and e-commerce business, was founded by food journalists from the New York Times| Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: |
Domino's Pizza is asking the Supreme Court to review a site accessibility lawsuit, amid a lack of Justice Department accessibility regulations and enforcement — This is part of CNET's “Tech Enabled” series about the role technology plays in helping the disability community.| Reuters: |
Sources: ByteDance, owner of TikTok, had a revenue of $7B-$8.4B in H1 2019, and posted a profit in June after operating at a loss in H1 2019 — BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's ByteDance, owner of video-sharing app TikTok and one of the world's most valuable unicorns … | Mimi Billing / Sifted: |
A profile of Denmark-based independent consumer review platform Trustpilot, which has raised €162M and has 65M reviews of businesses worldwide — With 65m reviews, Trustpilot is learning to spot the fakes and fight back with the help of algorithms. — Would you ever book an Airbnb stay without checking the scores of the host?
Tweets: @mstothard and @mimibilling
| Geir Moulson / Associated Press: |
German police arrest seven people and shutter a data center in a former NATO bunker that hosted dark web sites and launched an attack on Deutsche Telekom in '16 — BERLIN (AP) — German investigators said Friday they have shut down a data processing center installed in a former NATO bunker …
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