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Samsung Electronics to acquire US cloud services firm Joyent; Joyent to retain name and top management, will be integrated into Samsung's mobile division — Acquisition of Joyent shows device maker is pushing to beef up software and services — SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday …
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200+ page dossier on Donald Trump allegedly authored by Democratic strategist Warren Flood leaks a day after Washington Post reported the DNC had been hacked — A 200+ page document that appears to be a Democratic anti-Trump playbook compiled by the Democratic National Committee …
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GUCCIFER 2.0, Recode, CNN, Help Net Security, Washington Post, The Smoking Gun, Wired, Motherboard, Gawker, Varonis Blog, The Verge, CNET, CSO, BGR, Inquirer, Naked Security, Nextgov, Defense One, Fortune and TechSpot
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| Alex Johnson / NBC News: |
“Spam King” Sanford Wallace is sentenced to 30 months in prison and a $100K+ fine for bombarding over 550K Facebook users — Sanford Wallace, the self-proclaimed “spam king” who has bedeviled Web users since the dawn of the public Internet two decades ago, has been sentenced …
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Thanks:@ravichandrans25| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Periscope go-live broadcast button available to all in Twitter's iOS and Andoid apps — Want to livestream for your Twitter audience? You don't have to switch apps to get started. As promised, Twitter's Periscope button is now available to everyone using its Android and iOS apps.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
“Deleting” pre-loaded iOS apps removes them from the homescreen and deletes associated user data but the application binary remains on the device — One of the most talked about features in Apple's upcoming iOS 10 is the ability to delete many of the apps that come pre-loaded on your iPhone or iPad.
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Sources: Airbnb secures $1B debt facility from JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley — Airbnb Inc. secured a $1 billion debt facility from some of the largest U.S. banks to help the home-sharing company develop new services and fund growth initiatives, people familiar with the matter said.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Cavium, chip maker for data centers, buys networking infrastructure provider QLogic, in cash-and-stock deal valued at about $1.36B — The two companies aim to scale better and target large customers such as HPE, Dell, Cisco, IBM and others. — Cavium, which makes processors for enterprise data centers … | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
GAO report raises privacy and accuracy concerns with FBI's facial recognition program, which now has over 173M driver's license photos and 411M photos total — The watchdog said it had “concerns regarding both the effectiveness of the technology” and the “protection of privacy and individual civil liberties.”| Michael del Castillo / CoinDesk: |
Microsoft's Project Bletchley is an Azure-powered enterprise blockchain architecture with blockchain middleware and “cryptlets”, which can add info to contracts — Microsoft today unveiled a new project designed to make it easier for businesses across a wide range of industries …
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SiliconANGLE, InfoWorld, GitHub, Microsoft Azure, CCN, WinBeta, NEWSBTC, MSPoweruser and The Fire Hose
| Anjie Zheng / Wall Street Journal: |
Asia-Pacific countries aim for new cybersecurity regulations for reporting breaches and securing data, as losses incurred from attacks grow — Lower reporting requirements mean some companies have underestimated cyberthreats — Cyberattacks cost Asia-Pacific businesses … | Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Uber agrees to settle driver lawsuit alleging company terminated drivers after obtaining background reports without authorization, for $7.5M — Uber has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by drivers over background checks conducted by the ride-hailing company, according to a court filing on Wednesday.
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Fleksy announces its team is joining Pinterest, its keyboard app will remain in App Store, and it plans to open source some of its technology for the blind — Pinterest announced today that it has acquired the team behind the smart keyboard app Fleksy. The visual search engine company is not picking up the technology.Sponsor Posts
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