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| Luke Plunkett / Kotaku: |
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Dies At 55 — Nintendo has just issued a short statement announcing that president Satoru Iwata has passed away at the age of 55. — The statement reads: … Iwata was forced to skip last year's E3 due to his poor health, and shortly afterwards underwent surgery to remove the bile duct growth.
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| Chuq Von Rospach / Writing & Commentary: |
Reddit is fatally broken, should rebuild by hiring or contracting top 100+ moderators to align mod motivations with the company, kill controversial subreddits — The Death of Reddit — [edit July 12: when you're done here, I wrote a followup for you: Fixing or Replacing Reddit, some quick thoughts — take a look! chuq]
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See also Mediagazer| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Welcome to Voat: Reddit killer, troll haven, and the strange face of internet free speech — Reddit's refugees are, by some accounts, the worst of an already bad lot. They're the people who deride any hint of anti-racism or anti-sexism as “social justice warrior” (or SJW) antics … | Emily Steel / New York Times: |
Comcast announces Stream, a $15/month web TV add-on for its internet subscribers with broadcast networks and HBO, available in select markets later this year — Comcast Offers Its Alternative to Cable TV, Using the Web — Comcast, the country's largest cable operator …
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See also Mediagazer| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft plans a fan-focused Windows 10 launch kick-off — Microsoft's multi-million-dollar Windows 10 ad and marketing campaign will be focused on ‘upgrading the world’ to the coming operating system release. — When Microsoft starts rolling out Windows 10 on July 29 … | Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed: |
Two major pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma, are considering Apple's ResearchKit for drug R&D — Big Pharma Eyes iPhone For Drug R&D — Pharmaceutical giants like GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma are considering Apple's ResearchKit platform for gathering medical research data.| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike raises $100M round led by Google Capital — CrowdStrike, Cybersecurity Services Provider, Raises $100 Million — SAN FRANCISCO — In the wake of computer attacks on the government and other prominent targets, investor interest in cybersecurity is unsurprisingly high.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: FTC looking into claims Apple treats rival music streaming services in its app store illegally under antitrust law — FTC exploring Apple rules for streaming music rivals in App Store — U.S. government antitrust regulators are looking into claims about whether Apple's treatment …
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
New study finds 90% of tech patent lawsuits in first half of 2015 were filed by patent trolls — Patent troll lawsuits head toward all-time high — Of high-tech patent suits, 90 percent are filed by “non-practicing entities.” — New patent statistics show that patent litigation … | Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Negative App Store reviews involving iOS and OS X betas aren't fair to developers; Apple should filter or prevent them, and users should send feedback privately — On Negative App Store Reviews During Betas of iOS and OS X — Earlier this week, Apple released the first public betas …
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ValueWalk, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, iMore, The Register, RCR Wireless News, iDownloadBlog.com, TechWorm and Tech Times. Tweets: @marcoarment
| Eric Geller / The Daily Dot: |
Behind the new Crypto War: governments and tech companies face off over encryption backdoors — The rise of the new Crypto War — James B. Comey, Jr., the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is afraid of the dark. — “The law hasn't kept pace with technology … | Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Exploits for two more Flash vulnerabilities found in Hacking Team leak; Adobe expected to patch the flaws this week — Adobe promises patch for latest wave of critical Hacking Team zero-day exploits — Adobe devs must be working overtime to fix the latest vulnerabilities revealed through the Hacking Team cyberattack.
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