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Microsoft unveils $10B Rural Airband Initiative to bring better broadband to 23.4M Americans, to start efforts in 12 states by offering seed money to local ISPs — In an event scheduled for Tuesday in Washington, D.C., Microsoft plans to propose using technology it helped develop as a cornerstone …
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Ubuntu now available in the Windows Store, is designed to run in a sandbox inside Windows 10 and focused on running command line utilities like bash or SSH — Microsoft announced at its Build 2017 developer conference earlier this year that Ubuntu would be heading to the Windows Store …
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Android 7.1 Nougat has a “Panic Detection” mode that detects frantic back button presses and returns users to home screen, to stop apps that hijack back button — While many readers of Android-centric websites such as our own are less likely to come across situations … | Elliot Silver / DomainInvesting.com: |
PayPal confirms it sold X.com, a domain originally used for financial services firm co-founded by Elon Musk, back to Musk — X.com is one of the few single letter .com domain names, and I would argue that it is one of the most valuable domain names. The X.com domain name was originally … | Bloomberg: |
Company emails: Kaspersky Lab has made products for Russian intelligence and accompanied agents on raids; CEO has insisted that ties to Kremlin are “total BS” — Emails show the software-security maker developed products for the FSB and accompanied agents on raids.
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UK cybersecurity startup Darktrace raises $75M Series D led by Insight Venture Partners, at an $825M valuation — With cybercrime projected to reap some $6 trillion in damages by 2021, and businesses likely to invest around $1 trillion over the next five years to try to mitigate that …
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Workload security vendor HyTrust raises $36M Series E led by Advance Venture Partners, and acquires data security startup DataGravity — Word spread late last week that data visibility and security startup DataGravity had been acquired. At the time, though, it was unclear by whom. Now we know.
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Knight First Amendment Institute sues Trump for blocking Twitter users, alleging the practice amounts to an unconstitutional effort to suppress dissent — A free-speech group said on Tuesday it sued U.S. President Donald Trump for blocking Twitter users from his @realDonaldTrump account … Thanks:@dnvolz
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EFF Gov't Data Requests 2017 report finds Adobe, Dropbox, Pinterest, Uber, Wickr, and WordPress best protect users; AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, T-Mobile fall short — Download the complete Who Has Your Back? 2017: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests report as a PDF. — Executive Summary| Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: |
Snap drops 6%+ to $15.88, well below its $17 IPO debut price, as Morgan Stanley downgrades the company's stock — Snap's rough week continued Tuesday, as a bank that led its initial public offering slashed its price target for the Snapchat parent's stock.| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
A look at QuantaVerse's AI tech that is increasingly being used to identify financial crimes in some of the world's biggest banks — ONE THING THAT makes ISIS so hard to fight is that the terrorist network is diffuse and scattered, with small cells of operatives all over the world.
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As expected, DHS delays effective date of startup visa “International Entrepreneur Rule”, which Trump administration has now signaled its intent to eliminate — The Department of Homeland Security has delayed the effective date of the International Entrepreneur Rule.
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