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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Dyn says today's DDoS attack on its DNS service came from tens of millions of IPs, and involved the Mirai botnet of IoT devices — Friday morning is prime time for some casual news reading, tweeting, and general Internet browsing, but you may have had some trouble accessing your usual sites …
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See also Mediagazer| Jessica Toonkel / Reuters: |
Sources: AT&T reaches agreement in principle to buy Time Warner for about $85B — AT&T Inc (T.N) has reached an agreement in principle to buy Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) for about $85 billion, sources said on Friday, paving the way for a blockbuster deal that would give the telecom company control …
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Tweets: @gerryfsmith, @dangillmor, @stevecase, @davezatz and @brianstelter
See also Mediagazer| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Why AT&T would want to buy Time Warner: content packaged with data connections, a shrinking DirecTV business, and competition with Verizon, Facebook, and Google — AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is busy, so we'll answer for him. — More than 16 years ago, AOL bought Time Warner for $160 billion …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook plans to show more images and stories with graphic content, including violence and nudity, if they're “newsworthy, significant or of public interest” — Facebook will soon display more graphic content including violence and nudity that would normally violate its policies …
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Tweets: @fabiochiusi, @davewiner and @joshconstine
Thanks:@joshconstine. See also Mediagazer| Julia Angwin / ProPublica: |
Google updated its privacy policy this summer, letting Google combine personal info from Gmail and other tools with DoubleClick browsing data to target ads — When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company's …
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Engadget, Guardian, Doc Searls Weblog, Privacy Online News, Marketing Land, Technology Personalized, Slate, Beyond Search, New York Magazine and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @cyberbgone, @amir, @kashhill, @amir, @know_thank_you, @amir, @dangillmor, @pinboard, @propublica, @tsdower, @michael_mclean and @noahmccormack
See also Mediagazer| Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
New York Governor Cuomo signs bill banning less than 30-day rental unit listings on sites like Airbnb when tenant is not present; Airbnb sues to block the law — Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a bill that could deal a blow to Airbnb's operations in New York State.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find serious nine-year old privilege-escalation bug in Linux kernel, official patch released this week — Lurking in the kernel for nine years, flaw gives untrusted users unfettered root access. — A serious vulnerability that has been present for nine years in virtually …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: China overtakes the US in iOS App Store revenue, ending a six year run at the top — China has now overtaken the U.S. to become the largest market in the world for App Store revenue, according to a new report out this morning from app intelligence firm App Annie.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Time Out to pay up to $2.94M for Yplan, the London-based event ticketing startup that had raised $37.5M — Event ticketing startup YPlan has been acquired by travel publication Time Out in a deal worth £1.6 million ($1.96 million), a figure that will rise to £2.4 million …
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| Marco della Cava / USA Today: |
Microsoft shares closed at the all-time high of $59.66 on Friday, above $58.72 mark set in Dec 1999 — Microsoft shares surged 5% in early trading, on track to pass a high set in 1999, helped by enthusiasm for progress in its cloud business. — The stock was up 5% at $60.30 … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, GeekWire, USA Today, Recode, Business Insider, ZDNet, Patently Apple, BetaNews, Quartz, Fortune and Reuters
Tweets: @realdarrencohen and @wsj
| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Visa announces 2017 pilot of Visa B2B Connect, a business-to-business payment platform based on Chain's blockchain technology — Visa has announced new details about a forthcoming business-to-business payments service developed in partnership with blockchain startup Chain.| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Man arrested in Czech Republic, Yevgeniy Nikulin, indicted in US on charges related to hacking of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012 — Late on Friday, the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, who allegedly hacked LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring, and stole customer details.
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