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T-Mobile and Sprint end merger talks after being “unable to find mutually agreeable terms” — Companies put an end to the extensive speculation around a transaction — Bellevue, Washington and Overland Park, Kansas — November 4, 2017 — T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) and Sprint …
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Researchers build real-world objects to fool neural nets into classifying them as different objects, trick Google classifier into thinking a toy turtle is a gun — New research shows how machine vision systems of all kinds can be tricked into misidentifying 3D objects| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Broadcom is considering a bid to acquire Qualcomm for about $70 per share, or $100B+; bid is likely to be made in the coming days — Broadcom is exploring a deal to acquire Qualcomm, according to people familiar with the matter, in what could be the biggest ever takeover of a chipmaker …
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Inside story: How Russians hacked the Democrats' emails — WASHINGTON (AP) — It was just before noon in Moscow on March 10, 2016, when the first volley of malicious messages hit the Hillary Clinton campaign. The first 29 phishing emails were almost all misfires.
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Sources: billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who holds large stakes in Twitter, Lyft, and Apple, arrested in apparent power consolidation — Saudi leadership in recent months has clamped down on any traces of dissent — Saudi authorities carried out a new wave of arrests targeting royals … | Stacey Higginbotham / Stacey on IoT: |
ADT wins temporary injunction against video doorbell maker Ring, preventing it from selling Protect security system until trial ends — ADT, which was suing Ring after the video doorbell company hired away most of the employees of Zonoff, has won a temporary injunction against Ring.
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Tor releasing next-gen onion services with improved cryptography and authentication, a project four years in the making — Hello friends! — We are hyped to present the next generation of onion services! We've been working on this project non-stop for the past 4 years and we officially launched …
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Sources: hundreds of people at Twitter had access to tools to shut down accounts; account deletions similar to Trump happened before — Donald Trump wasn't the first account to suffer a ‘mic drop’ — Last night, a rogue Twitter employee celebrated their last day with the company by deactivating President Donald Trump's account.
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TripAdvisor apologizes for removing user reports about rape and assault to keep its forums “family friendly” after Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation — Just after midnight on Dec. 9, 2010, Kristie Love posted on TripAdvisor about the Iberostar Paraiso Maya, a Mexican beach resort between Cancun and Playa del Carmen.| Andrada Fiscutean / Ars Technica: |
The underground story of the Cobra computer, an illicit and handmade ZX Spectrum clone built and sold in Romania in the 1980s — In their poor, Communist country, Romania's computer curious built an underground industry. — BUCHAREST, Romania—Mihai Moldovanu grabs the cardboard box … | Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
Play-by-play account of how iFixit planned for and executed its iPhone X teardown — We went to Australia to learn how—and why—iFixit does its electronics teardowns. — “Just so we're both completely clear: We've spent most of the week flying to Australia to stand in line to buy …
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| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
Internet Association, representing Facebook, Amazon, Google, others, says it now backs Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, after Congress made requested changes — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major U.S. internet firms on Friday said they would support legislation to make it easier to penalize operators …
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