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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Hacker siphoned $50M+ worth of Ether from The DAO project; the funds are frozen as Ethereum project leaders debate code change to recover the lost Ether — A hacker appears to have moved digital money worth more than $50 million from an experimental virtual currency project that recently raised …
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Tweets: @bryceweiner, @mikejcasey, @tuurdemeester, @bryce, @tuurdemeester, @tuurdemeester, @tuurdemeester and @rsg
| Robert Graham / Errata Security: |
Background on the alternative cryptocurrency Ethereum, investment fund The DAO, and how they were exploited — The news in the Bitcoin world is the Ethereum/DAO hack. I thought I'd write up a simplified explanation. — What is Bitcoin? — I'm sure you know, or have an idea what Bitcoin is …
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
The “theft” of Ethereum from the DAO violated the DAO's intent, but not its smart contract, exposing tensions between blockchain idealism and real world systems — There's a fairly incredible trial going on in London right now. The Libyan Investment Authority is suing Goldman Sachs …
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Thanks:@_trendspotter| Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple ordered to stop iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus sales in Beijing, as regulator finds it violated design patent; Apple says devices are still on sale during appeal — Intellectual property regulator rules the design is too similar to a Chinese phone — BEIJING—Beijing's intellectual property regulator …
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| Seth Fiegerman / Mashable: |
Behind the scenes at Tumblr after the Yahoo acquisition: new competition, a $240M writedown in February, and an uncertain future — After Marissa Mayer promised ‘not to screw it up’ — Marissa Mayer was running late. This time, it wasn't for a dinner with skeptical advertisers nor …
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Thanks:@ravichandrans25. See also Mediagazer| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
How Marissa Mayer's spending at Yahoo to spur growth, in defiance of deals with activist investors to cut costs, led to auction of core assets, board shakeup — Embattled CEO failed to produce pledged savings, plunged deeper into turnaround; more room in the parking lot
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Petri, CNET, Business Insider and SiliconBeat
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See also Mediagazer| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Due to objections from Apple and others, Unicode did not approve a suggested rifle emoji in the latest Unicode 9 update coming this June — You can currently purchase a semi-automatic rifle in a major U.S. city in just seven minutes, but don't expect to text someone a rifle emoji anytime soon.
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Tweets: @mnot, @jsneedles and @chrismessina
| Nathan Donato-Weinstein / Silicon Valley Business …: |
Yahoo sells 48.6-acre Santa Clara site for $250M to LeEco, a Chinese company planning US video streaming service and smartphone launches later this year — Chinese tech company LeEco has completed the acquisition of Yahoo's nearly 50-acre development site in Santa Clara …
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Phone Scoop, Breitbart, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, Android Authority, TalkAndroid.com, Pocketnow, Fone Arena, SlashGear, Android Central and PhoneDog.com. Thanks:@svbiznate
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Snapchat is launching Real Life, a post-per-day digital publication about living with technology, on June 27, with Nathan Jurgenson as editor in chief — Snapchat doesn't just care about video. — The company is behind a new online magazine called Real Life, which will publish roughly …
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Real Life, MobileSyrup.com, Tech Insider, Adweek, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, International Business Times, Biz Beat Blog, SlashGear, The Verge, PC Tech Magazine, Fast Company, Business Insider, The Next Web, VatorNews, CNET and tech.co
Tweets: @nathanjurgenson, @mims, @hugeinc and @jyarow
See also Mediagazer| Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic: |
Interview with Medium's Ev Williams on corporate web consolidation, the open web, and centralized platforms — To a certain kind of nerd, Ev Williams is the Forrest Gump of internet media. Williams helped write the software that made us call blogs blogs. He founded a podcast company years before most people listened to them.| Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: |
Twitch files lawsuit against seven makers of “view-bots, follow-bots, chat-impersonation bots” designed to artificially inflate the viewer and follower counts — The legal hammer is being dropped on seven of the most prolific bot-makers. — Twitch has filed a lawsuit …
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Twitch Blog, Gamasutra, Tech Times, Hollywood Reporter, SlashGear, The Register, Engadget and Polygon
Tweets: @imfraggindragon, @twitch, @basche42 and @head_crabtv
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
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