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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 …
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| T-Mobile: |
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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| The Guardian: |
Two Russian state-owned companies, VTB Bank and Gazprom, owned stakes in Yuri Milner's DST Global funds that invested in Facebook and Twitter pre-IPO — Institutions with close links to Kremlin financed stakes through business associate of Trump's son-in-law, leaked files reveal
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| Associated Press: |
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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| 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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| 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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| Bloomberg: |
A list of all the questions Facebook, Google, and Twitter told Congress they would answer later — Unanswered questions mean tech companies need to follow up — Lawmakers sought detailed information in Russia meddling probe — Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Twitter Inc. faced hours … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
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| David C. Brock / IEEE Spectrum: |
The history of Forethought, the company which originally created PowerPoint for the Macintosh, before being bought by Microsoft in 1987 for $14M — Here's the surprising story behind the software that conquered the world, one slide at a time — Walking into the hall to deliver the speech was a …
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| Asn / Tor Blog: |
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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| Elizabeth Grieco / Pew Research Center: |
Pew: 26% of US adults get news from two or more social media sites, up from 15% in 2013 and 18% in 2016; 50% of Facebook news users get news via Facebook alone — Americans are more likely than ever to get news from multiple social media sites, according to a recent Pew Research Center report.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find malware with Stuxnet-style use of legitimate digital certificates is much more common than previously believed, going back as early as 2003 — Forgeries undermine the trust millions of people place in digital certificates. — One of the breakthroughs of the Stuxnet worm … Sponsor Posts
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