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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot: |
While Hillary Clinton's stance on encryption is unclear, her campaign staffers are reportedly required to use “Snowden-approved” encrypted messaging app Signal — Hillary Clinton wants Edward Snowden in jail but that doesn't mean her campaign won't eagerly take the whistleblower's advice …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
US federal court convicts Russian hacker Seleznev in theft and sale of credit cards resulting in $169M in losses; he could face up to 40 years in prison — Roman Seleznev could face between four to 40 years in prison — The son of a Russian lawmaker was convicted Thursday in federal court … | Quartz: |
Sources: Facebook letting go of entire Trending Topics editorial staff, consisting of 15-18 workers contracted through a third party — Facebook will no longer employ humans to write descriptions for items in its Trending section, which attracted controversy over allegations of political bias in May.
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Thanks:@davegershgorn. See also Mediagazer| Facebook Newsroom: |
Facebook will now select stories and excerpts automatically for Trending topic pages, show topics instead of story descriptions in Trending section — Today, we're making some changes to the Trending feature on Facebook that will make the product more automated and will no longer require people …
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See also Mediagazer| Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Snapchat's head of revenue operations says the company is planning to introduce behavioral ad targeting in Q3 2016 — Snapchat is planning to introduce behavioral targeting for advertisers, the company's director of revenue operations Clement Xue revealed in an eMarketer report published earlier this week.| Bloomberg: |
Hackers at startup MedSec find security vulnerabilites in St. Jude's medical devices, make deal with investment firm to short manufacturer's stock — MedSec found cybersecurity vulnerabilities in pacemakers — The firm's strategy is a “watershed moment” for disclosure
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| Kirsten Korosec / Fortune: |
Quanergy Systems, maker of light-sensitive radar sensors used in self-driving cars, raises $90M at $1.59B post-money valuation — Quanergy Systems, a Silicon Valley startup that makes light detection and ranging sensors used in self-driving cars, has raised $90 million from investors …
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Business Wire, The Korea Heald, Investopedia, TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business … and Forbes. Tweets: @jasonlk
| Jeremy Hsu / Backchannel: |
Amazon's $970M bet on Twitch in 2014 gives Amazon an edge as Facebook, Google, and others jockey to own live video — In 2014 Amazon surprised many by buying Twitch. Today it has an edge as Facebook, Google and others jockey to own live video. — 2015, Twitch viewers watched … | Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
Nutanix is acquiring cloud storage startup PernixData and DevOps automation firm Calm.io — Nutanix, which combines server, storage, and virtualization into a single “converged” piece of data center gear, said it is in the process of buying PernixData and has completed an acquisition of Calm.io.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga (OLED) review: incredible screen but expensive compared to LCD models, meager battery life during typical use, stylus is uncomfortable — The dream of large OLED screens has, for the past few years, seemed perpetually on the horizon.
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Digital Trends, Aperture Games, CNET and SlashGear
| Bruce Schneier / Vox: |
Shadow Brokers leak shows how NSA's tendency to hoard vulnerabilities instead of reporting them is putting our devices and networks at risk — The National Security Agency is lying to us. We know that because of data stolen from an NSA server was dumped on the internet.
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The New Stack, eWeek, Fortune and Engadget
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| Jordan Pearson / Motherboard: |
AlphaBay, the largest darknet market, begins supporting Monero, a cryptocurrency meant to be more anonymous than Bitcoin — Not even bitcoin is anonymous enough for some criminals on the dark net. — For years, the cryptocurrency has been the payment method of choice for people buying …
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CCN, NEWSBTC, Bitcoin Magazine and Wired
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Spotify retaliates against artists who give exclusives to rivals by excluding tracks from promoted playlists and demoting their songs in search results — Service said to tell labels it may keep tracks off playlists — Apple Music emerges as largest challenge to streaming leader
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