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Hacking group Shadow Brokers share what they allege to be hundreds of orgs hacked by NSA with IP addresses of the compromised devices in a post on Medium — Shadow Brokers—the name used by a person or group that created seismic waves in August when it published some of the National Security Agency's …
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Study co-authored by MIT professor finds racial and gender discrimination by Uber, Lyft drivers, leading to longer wait times — Drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. in Boston canceled rides for men with black-sounding names more than twice as often as for other men.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google doling out $50 Play Store credits due to Pixel shipping delays — Google's new Pixel-branded smartphones have proven to be a little too popular. Already, Google statedthat pre-order demands had exceeded the company's expectations, and now the company is trying to make up for shipping delays … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Thiel defends Trump donation: says lewd tape was poor taste, doesn't back policies like Muslim ban with religion test, and his business relationships are intact — It was a lot. — Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is a vocal and financial supporter of Donald Trump; he is also the man who helped bankrupt Gawker media.
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GIF search engine Giphy raises $72M in new funding, now has a valuation of about $600M according to the WSJ, bringing total raised to just short of $151M — Giphy, the NY-based search engine and platform for GIFs, has raised $72 million in funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Institutional Venture Partners and China Media Capital.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft EVP of Windows and Devices Terry Myerson talks Windows 10 priorities, VR headsets, Surface hardware goals, Windows Mobile, and more — Microsoft Executive Vice President of Windows and Devices Terry Myerson talks to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley about Windows 10 Creators Update, VR headsets, Surface, Windows Mobile and more.
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| Milen Dzhumerov / milen.me: |
Apple's apparent disinterest in supporting users with compute-intensive and memory-intensive applications risks alienating developers across all its platforms — It has taken me some time to collect my thoughts on the state of the Mac platform. My feelings have been developing over several years …
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IDC: Q3 tablet shipments down 14.7% YoY to 43M, as low-cost detachables, tablets reach record sales; iPad Air, Mini make up over two thirds of Apple's shipments — The worldwide tablet market continued its slump as vendors shipped 43 million units in the third quarter of 2016 (3Q16) …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google discloses actively exploited Windows vulnerability just 10 days after reporting it to Microsoft — Google today shared details about a security flaw in Windows, just 10 days after disclosing it to Microsoft on October 21. To make matters worse, Google says it is aware … | Alex Sherman / Bloomberg: |
CenturyLink to buy Level 3 Communications for $34B in cash, stock deal, which values Level 3 at 42% above its stock price before reports of acquisition surfaced — CenturyLink Inc. agreed to buy Level 3 Communications Inc. for about $34 billion cash and stock in a deal that will create …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft PowerApps and Flow to be generally available November 1 — Microsoft's PowerApps and Flow development tools will be generally available on November 1, not coincidentally the same day that Dynamics 365 goes on the company's price list. — Microsoft will be making PowerApps and Flow …
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Postmates raises $141M in a round led by Founders Fund, at share price same as last round; the company is now valued at about $600M — Bastian Lehmann spent most of this year becoming acquainted with the feeling of rejection. The co-founder and chief executive officer of Postmates Inc …
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