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Sources: Apple's live TV streaming service now slated for 2016 launch as licensing talks stall — Apple Said to Delay Live TV Service to 2016 as Negotiations Stall — Apple Inc. customers waiting for the company to revolutionize live television as it did for music and phone service …
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Ex-employees say Kaspersky tricked rivals' antivirus programs to mark false-positives, deleting or disabling important files — Exclusive: Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals - Ex-employees — Beginning more than a decade ago, one of the largest security companies in the world … | Shan Wang / Nieman Lab: |
NYT builds Blossom, an internal social media suggestion bot for Slack; typical post gets 380% more clicks — The New York Times built a Slack bot to help decide which stories to post to social media — The New York Times publishes more than 300 stories each day.
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Source: Jessica Alba's subscription e-commerce startup, The Honest Company, has raised $100M at a $1.7B valuation — Jessica Alba's Startup, Honest, Valued at $1.7 Billion — Honest, the baby-products retailer co-founded by movie star Jessica Alba, has raised $100 million in a new round of funding, valuing it at about $1.7 billion.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Russian censors remove Reddit from their registry of banned websites after Reddit deletes offending post — Reddit Responds After Being Threatened, Banned And Unbanned By The Russian Government — Reddit has had a pretty bizarre last few days in Russia.| Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica UK: |
Samsung unveils 2.5-inch 16TB SSD: The world's largest hard drive — At the Flash Memory Summit in California, Samsung has unveiled what appears to be the world's largest hard drive—and somewhat surprisingly, it uses NAND flash chips rather than spinning platters.| iFixit: |
OnePlus 2 teardown: more repairable than OnePlus 1, battery can be removed fairly easily — OnePlus 2 Teardown — Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions. — Featured Guide — This guide has been found to be exceptionally cool by the iFixit staff.
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| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg Business: |
VW suppressed research for two years about a security flaw letting hackers steal some VW, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Fiat vehicles; fix requires new hardware — VW Has Spent Two Years Trying to Hide a Big Security Flaw — Got a VW, Fiat, Audi, Ferrari, Porsche or Maserati?| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Adapted OwnStar MITM Wi-Fi attack can grab the virtual keys of BMW, Mercedes, Chrysler cars through a vulnerability in RemoteLink mobile app — OwnStar Wi-Fi attack now grabs BMW, Mercedes, and Chrysler cars' virtual keys — Using SSL proxy, attack decrypts user data, allowing remote access to vehicle.| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Outsourced Zirtual CFO: high employee turnover and lack of capital along with a business model that no longer made sense caused company's collapse — Zirtual's ‘outsourced CFO’ gives his side of the shutdown story — Ryan Keating knew why I had called. — “Yes, I'm the interim CFO in question.”| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Uber wins dismissal of lawsuit by Connecticut taxi companies — Uber Technologies Inc on Thursday won the dismissal of a racketeering lawsuit by 15 Connecticut taxi and limousine companies seeking to stop the ride-sharing company from doing business in the state.
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Rocket Internet is reportedly raising a €1 billion growth fund for late-stage investments — The word on the street is that Rocket Internet, the publicly-listed ‘Internet company builder’ out of Germany, is raising money for a growth fund of which the size could amount up to €1 billion.Sponsor Posts
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SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
Zoho:
Labels that build themselves: Simplified Label Automation in Zoho Writer — Anyone who ships every day knows this feeling. Forty orders, each with a different number of items, and every item needs its own label.
Labels that build themselves: Simplified Label Automation in Zoho Writer — Anyone who ships every day knows this feeling. Forty orders, each with a different number of items, and every item needs its own label.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
WebBrain:
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.
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