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Marcus Hutchins, who helped stop WannaCry, arrested by FBI after Def Con; DoJ indictment accuses him of helping spread Kronos banking trojan in 2014-2015 — Marcus Hutchins arrested over his alleged role in creating Kronos malware targeting banks — Marcus Hutchins, the 23-year-old British …
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| Orin Kerr / Washington Post: |
A preliminary legal analysis of the six counts in the Kronos indictment shows that the government's theory of the case will lead to significant legal challenges — The Justice Department has indicted Marcus Hutchins, a security researcher, for allegedly creating and selling malware. The Verge explains:
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Facebook moves entire translation backend to neural networks, built on Caffe2, to handle 4.5B+ translations per day, says it's seen ~11% increase in accuracy — Facebook announced today that it has started using neural network systems to carry out more than 4.5 billion translations …
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Emails and interviews show Uber bought 1,000+ faulty Hondas, which were subject to recall, in Singapore and leased them to drivers; one vehicle caught fire — Chasing breakneck growth, the ride-hailing giant bought Honda SUVs in Singapore subject to a recall—then one caught fire
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| Jean M. Twenge / The Atlantic: |
How the omnipresence of smartphones, tablets, and internet have affected those born from mid-1990s to mid-2000s: high rates of depression, changing norms, more — One day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas.
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LastPass unveils family plan pricing at $48/year, doubles price of premium tier to $24/year, removes unlimited sharing, more from free version — Last month, LastPass announced that it would soon be introducing a new “Families” plan for sharing passwords, bank account info, and other sensitive data among family members.
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| Becky Peterson / Business Insider: |
Coinbase reverses course after August 1 hard fork, says it will begin supporting Bitcoin Cash by January 1, 2018 — The cryptocurrency online exchange Coinbase has decided to support the new bitcoin cash, days after a user exodus temporarily brought its website to a halt.
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| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Sources: Google was interested in buying Snap for $30B+ in early 2016, around Snap's Series F; source says Snap talked with Google about buyout just before IPO — We keep hearing that Google floated an offer of at least $30 billion to buy Snap in early 2016.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn is rolling out a free service to pair users with mentors — LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with over 500 million users, has put a lot of effort into new areas of business like content, education and bringing on new users in emerging markets … | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Mamoon Hamid, co-founder of Social Capital, joins Kleiner Perkins as a general partner — - Venture firm Kleiner Perkins just poached Mamoon Hamid from Social Capital, a 6-year-old venture fund he co-founded. — The move follows a spate of departures at Kleiner Perkins over the last week … | Anya George Tharakan / Reuters: |
Activision Blizzard announces Q2 profit of $243M on $1.42B revenue, says it has delivered $1B of in-game revenues — (Reuters) - Activision Blizzard Inc raised its full-year adjusted revenue and profit forecasts for the second time on Thursday, as the videogame publisher benefits … | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Yelp says GrubHub is acquiring its Eat24 delivery service for $287.5M; reports Q2 revenue of $208.9M, up 20% YoY; stock up 18%+ after hours — Two huge pieces of news today from Yelp, the company that shows up first in your Google search for a restaurant: first, GrubHub …
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