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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Researchers: Friday's internet outage, caused by DDoS attack on DynDNS, was powered in part by a Mirai-based botnet of DVRs and cameras with XiongMai components — A massive and sustained Internet attack that has caused outages and network congestion today for a large number of Web sites …
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See also Mediagazer| AT&T: |
AT&T announces a half-stock, half-cash deal to acquire Time Warner, valuing the company at $85.4B — - New company with complementary strengths to lead the next wave of innovation in converging media and communications industry. —Combination unlike any other …
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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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See also Mediagazer| New York Times: |
AT&T-Time Warner deal will likely face tougher regulatory scrutiny and higher political hurdles than earlier Comcast-NBCUniversal deal — A cable and internet provider decides to buy an entertainment conglomerate. — The merger is met with skepticism by industry analysts and outrage …
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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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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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See also Mediagazer| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
David Bunnell, founder of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld, and a social activist, died Tuesday in Berkeley, CA, at age 69 — The founder of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld was an entrepreneur who thought like a social activist. — In 1973, a former schoolteacher named David Bunnell got …
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| 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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| Gedalyah Reback / GeekTime: |
Israeli self-driving car startup Oryx announces $17M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, for development of its non-LiDAR-based depth-sensing technology — Petah Tikva-based Oryx Vision announced a $17 million Series A funding round Wednesday led by Bessemer Venture Partners …
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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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| Adam Jourdan / Reuters: |
Walmart to invest $50M in New Dada, a Chinese online grocery and delivery firm that has over 25M registered customers and delivers in over 300 cities — Wal-Mart Stores Inc will invest $50 million in Chinese online grocery and delivery firm New Dada, the U.S. retailer said on Friday …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
India's Wipro pays $500M to acquire US-based cloud consulting firm Appirio, which works closely with Salesforce and Workday and had raised about $111M — Some more consolidation afoot in the cloud services industry, specifically around integration services.
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Indianapolis Star, diginomica, The Economic Times, Business Insider, ZDNet, Reuters, Xconomy and PCWorld. Tweets: @benioff
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