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Walmart tells some tech providers not to use Amazon Web Services if they want Walmart's business — Wal-Mart is telling some technology companies that if they want its business, they can't run applications for the retailer on Amazon's leading cloud-computing service, Amazon Web Services.
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Coinbase is reimbursing losses caused by Wednesday's Ethereum flash crash, when prices briefly dropped from $320 to as low as $0.10 on the GDAX exchange — Earlier this week, GDAX, the digital currency exchange run by Coinbase, experienced a flash crash in its USD - Ethereum market.
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Microsoft Teams gets new features for education users: School Data Sync, OneNote Class Notebooks, education app integration, and assignment management — Microsoft today updated Microsoft Teams with four classroom features “designed to help schools achieve more together.”
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65 projects have raised $522M in ICOs this year, according to Smith + Crown; investors should be aware of the unregulated nature and potential for abuse in ICOs — A new crop of technology entrepreneurs is forgoing the usual routes to raising money. The entrepreneurs are not pitching … | Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
With rising competition and no real moat, Uber may find it hard to live up to its $68B valuation, even if it can overhaul its corporate culture — The hard truth for Uber's next CEO is that it might be more taxi company than tech giant — Memo to Uber Technologies' next chief executive … | Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
A behind-the-scenes look at how Google's Project Zero, known for its hard-nosed vulnerability disclosure policy, got started and has evolved over time — Brash. Controversial. A guard against rising digital threats around the globe. Google's Project Zero is securing the Internet on its own terms.| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Waymo court filing shows former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick knew Anthony Levandowski had taken Alphabet files in March 2016 — Uber has also been ordered to produce a key document in the case. — Alphabet is asking a judge to find Uber in contempt for failing to notify the court …
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Anthem agrees to pay $115M to settle class action lawsuit over 2015 data breach in which hackers gained access to personal info of nearly 80M Americans — Anthem Inc. agreed to pay $115 million in a deal to end a court battle over the 2015 data breach where hackers gained access to sensitive records for nearly 80 million Americans.
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Attack on UK parliament email system prompts security team to disable remote access; fewer than 1% of 9,000 accounts on the system compromised, says spokesman — Up to 90 email accounts were compromised during the cyber-attack on Parliament on Friday. — Fewer than 1% of the 9,000 users …
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Snapchat's new Snap Map broadcasts your exact location to your friends every time you open the app, unless you turn on “Ghost Mode” — This detail about Snap Map is frightening — Earlier this week, Snapchat introduced Snap Map, an opt-in function that allows you to share your location with your friends on a map.
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| Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal: |
Consumer-price index for wireless phone service dropped 13% YoY in April, according to US Labor Department, the largest decline in the history of the category — Impact of brutal price competition is rippling through profits, inflation and antitrust law — Customers are used to cellphone bill shock, but not like this.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr says it fixed the ‘Safe Mode’ glitch that hid innocent posts, including LGBTQ+ content — Tumblr this week introduced a “safe mode” for its service, which combines the company's previously available “safe search” functionality with a new filter that would hide “sensitive” content from the site's main Dashboard, using an overlay.
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Engadget, Tumblr Staff, and International Business Times
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Sources: Binary Capital delayed its plans to close on upwards of $75M in new capital in wake of Justin Caldbeck situation — Binary Capital yesterday delayed its plans to close on upwards of $75 million in new capital for its second fund. This comes after co-founding partner Justin Caldbeck took …
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