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| 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 …
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Phil Does Security, Trilema, Hacking Distributed, Steemit, Ethereum Blog, Edan Yago, CCN, CoinTelegraph.Com News, Office of Inadequate Security, The Verge, Slock.it Blog and Motherboard
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| 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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interfluidity, Swarm, CoinDesk, Recode, Preston J. Byrne, Engineering. Distributed, CoinDesk, Engadget and The Merkle
Tweets: @counternotions, @audreywatters, @xjoeduffyx, @hkanji, @adambanksdotcom, @reichenstein, @robbieprofeta, @dermotcasey, @izakaminska, @ross, @_trendspotter, @ollekullberg, @kartick_vad and @tek_fin
Thanks:@_trendspotter| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
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Blockstack Blog, Hacking Distributed, Business Insider, Ethereum Blog, CoinTelegraph.Com News, CoinDesk, Medium, Slock.it Blog, Peter Vessenes, Blockstack Blog, Wired, NEWSBTC, CCN, Fortune, Stake Ventures Inc., The Verge, Bloomberg, The Register, Bitcoin Magazine, Digital Trends, PYMNTS.com, SecurityWeek and Softpedia News
Tweets: @edsu, @paxdickinson and @bryceweiner
| Tony Romm / Politico: |
Sources: Apple, like HP, won't provide support or cash to the Republican National Convention over concerns about Trump, in break with past elections — Apple has told Republican leaders it will not provide funding or other support for the party's 2016 presidential convention …
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Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Patently Apple, Tech Times, Daring Fireball, Digital Trends, CNET, MacRumors, Mashable, Recode, Engadget, 9to5Mac, SiliconBeat, The Verge, MacNN, AppleInsider, Newser, iMore, BuzzFeed and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @johnpaczkowski, @jeffjarvis and @anzaloneliszt
Thanks:@tonyromm| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Profile of Diane Greene, who is retooling all Google's cloud services to work for business customers and compete with AWS — The first thing to understand about Diane Greene, the woman Google acqui-hired in November to transform its fragmented cloud business, is that she has the mind of an engineer.| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Boxee founder Avner Ronen launches Public, an iOS app for broadcasting group text chats; chats can be embedded on websites and shared on social media — For eight long years, Avner Ronen tried to reinvent television with his consumer electronics startup Boxee.| Joe Nocera / New York Times: |
By creating a market for on-demand TV, Netflix spawned its own competitors and is struggling to survive, with a negative cash flow of nearly $1B — It helped to develop all the new ways we watch TV — on-demand, bingeing, mobile. But the Silicon Valley company still has to keep reinventing itself.
Tweets: @artypapers, @jonsteinberg, @sub8u and @scottporch
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IBM's Watson allows passengers to communicate with Olli, a self-driving minibus from Local Motors, using natural language — IBM today took the wraps off its first big foray into the world of self-driving cars, not as the driver of them, but as the brain behind making your self-driving journey a little more interesting.
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Recode, Mercury News, Nextgov, TechSpot, The Verge, Phys.org, TechnoBuffalo, Autoblog, Marketing Land, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Quartz, PYMNTS.com, FactorDaily, Engadget and 3DPrint.com
| Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair: |
VC Aileen Lee, who coined the term “unicorn”, on diversity in tech, the startup downturn, and how the current wave of unicorns is peaking — Venture capitalist Aileen Lee discusses the role of women in technology, the start-up downturn, and whether we have (please, God) hit peak unicorn.| 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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Wall Street Journal and New York Magazine. Tweets: @stoweboyd. Thanks:@ravichandrans25. See also Mediagazer
| Arthur Scheuer / VentureBeat: |
Xavier Niel, founder of French coding school 42, now with campus in Silicon Valley, explains how a school without teachers, lectures, or tuition fees works — EXCLUSIVE: — 42 is the answer to the ultimate questions about life, the universe, and everything.| Marisa Kendall / Mercury News: |
Twilio sets price range for 10M shares at $12 to $14 for its IPO, valuing company at around $1B, close to its latest private round — SAN FRANCISCO — Cloud communications company Twilio is poised to end Silicon Valley's tech IPO drought next week with a $130 million market debut.
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Bloomberg, MarketWatch, NASDAQ.com, Seeking Alpha, Silicon Valley Business … and Inc.com
| Derek Thompson / The Atlantic: |
Pew: entire net growth in digital advertising happening on mobile, with Google and Facebook controlling half of net mobile ad revenue — In the early 1950s, television was popular, but unsophisticated. This was a common sentiment, even among the people who produced it … Sponsor Posts
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