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July 31, 2016, 12:15 PM
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Reuters:
Sources: Clinton campaign computer network hacked in addition to Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee  —  The computer network used by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign was hacked as part of a broad cyber attack …
Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security:
Recent hacks indicate US election systems and voting machines could be targeted too; government must take urgent steps to secure them, and consider retaliation  —  Russia was behind the hacks into the Democratic National Committee's computer network that led to the release of thousands …
Mustafa Al-Bassam / Motherboard:
British Spies Used a URL Shortener to Honeypot Arab Spring Dissidents  —  A shadowy unit of the British intelligence agency GCHQ tried to influence online activists during the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests and the 2011 democratic uprisings largely known as the Arab Spring …
Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek:
Google has issued patches for 115 Android Stagefright-related flaws since vulnerability was made public a year ago  —  On July 27, 2015, news broke about Stagefright, a vulnerability in Android.  A year later, it's clear that Stagefright has had a major impact on the mobile security world …
Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:
Instagram will soon let users filter comments on their posts, turn off comments on individual posts, or turn off comments on their posts entirely  —  Instagram is taking an unusual step to deal with the complicated ethics of online commenting.  It's giving users the ability to make the choice …
Paul Ziobro / Wall Street Journal:
Walgreens to shutter Drugstore.com and Beauty.com, which were a part of a $429M acquisition in 2011, to focus on its own website  —  Retailer also to shutter Beauty.com as part of a broader plan to cut costs  —  Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. on Thursday said it is shutting down two websites …
CB Insights:
Only two of 21 tech companies acquired in 2016 for $1B+ were venture-backed unicorns  —  There are buyers of tech companies doing deals of $1B+.  They're just not interested in overvalued unicorns. … The unicorn list currently consists of 169 venture-backed unicorns valued at a collective $600B.
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Harvard University Gazette:
Henry Chu, a longtime foreign correspondent and editor, is named curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, after serving as deputy and interim curator

The Scottish Beacon:
In an open letter, the Scottish Beacon calls on the Scottish government to create a local news fund, invest in public ads, and fund journalism placements

Charlotte Hughes-Morgan / Bloomberg:
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Jonathan Zdziarski / Zdziarski's Blog of Things:
Deleted WhatsApp messages leave behind forensic artifacts that could be reconstructed by someone with access to your device or iCloud backups
Nat Levy / GeekWire:
Amazon reaches new high of 268,900 employees — skyrocketing 47% in just one year
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Sony posts $205M profit as downsized mobile business stops bleeding cash
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Filing: Microsoft to layoff 2,850 staff from mobile and sales divisions as it completes Nokia cuts, which started in 2015
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