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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber-SoftBank deal to see investors buying $1B of Uber shares at current valuation, proceed with $9B tender offer for secondary shares in coming weeks — Uber moves closer to selling up to $10 billion in shares — Benchmark agrees to put suit against Uber co-founder on hold
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Uber says it's entered into an agreement with a consortium led by SoftBank and Dragoneer on a potential investment — The paperwork's done! The long-anticipated SoftBank Group investment into Uber has been agreed upon, a spokesperson confirms to TechCrunch. — We've been provided the following statement.
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: even with truce between Benchmark and Kalanick, the deal hinged on the success of SoftBank's tender offer for Uber's secondary shares — Employees will be able to sell half their stock — A “Peace Deal” to settle an ugly boardroom war at Uber is expected to be signed today or tomorrow.| David Z. Morris / Fortune: |
Bitcoin Cash's market cap is up +130% in 2 days to about $26B, briefly overtaking Ethereum's, and Bitcoin Cash's hashrate has surpassed Bitcoin's — The cryptocurrency market is experiencing a complex shakeup this weekend, with a recently created digital token called Bitcoin Cash (BCH) … | New York Times: |
Inside NSA's Tailored Access Operations group and the investigation into Shadow Brokers, a hack of NSA now considered much more damaging than Snowden leak — A serial leak of the agency's cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.
Tweets: @nicoleperlroth, @susan_hennessey, @kenroth, @da_667, @nytimes, and @nytimes
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Vulnerability present in many now-patched antivirus products including Malwarebytes allowed malware to leave quarantine and gain full system control — New AVGater flaw provided key ingredient for hacker to hijack computer. — Antivirus programs, in many cases, make us safer on the Internet.| Google Online Security Blog: |
Google and UCB study: from March 2016 to March 2017, 788K credentials were stolen via keyloggers, 12M credentials via phishing, and 3.3B via 3rd-party breaches — Posted by Kurt Thomas, Anti-Abuse Research; Angelika Moscicki, Account Security — Account takeover, or ‘hijacking’ … | Julia Angwin / ProPublica: |
How three ProPublica reporters were attacked with Twitter bots and “email bombs” that forced the closure of reporters' email accounts — It was 10 a.m. on a hot, humid Tuesday in August when I decided I could finally relax. After a frantic weekend of finishing a big story …
Tweets: @propublica, @jayrosen_nyu, @micahflee, and @juliaangwin
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba smashes its Singles Day record once again as sales hit $25.4B, a 39% increase over last year's sales total — Alibaba has set another Single's Day record after the e-commerce giant sold over $25 billion of product on the Chinese biggest online shopping date.
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Tweets: @david_spitz, @jaathre, @brad30097, @sub8u, @aparanjape, @venkatananth, @lindayueh, @mailecarnegie, and @liamcasey
| Google Research Blog: |
Behind Google's Fused Video Stabilization, combining optical image stabilization and electronic image stabilization, which it uses on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL — Posted by Chia-Kai Liang, Senior Staff Software Engineer and Fuhao Shi, Android Camera Team — One of the most important aspects … | Aliya Ram / Financial Times: |
UK-based Graphcore, maker of machine learning chips, has raised $50M from Sequoia Capital — UK chipmaker Graphcore has raised $50m from Sequoia Capital, one of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms, as the start-up angles to become Britain's biggest maker of artificial intelligence hardware.
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Study: increases and decreases in Uber's base fare have little effect on long-term driver earnings — Study co-authored by company finds drivers inevitably take home about the same earnings whether fares go up or down — Hours before Uber Technologies Inc.'s chief executive resigned in June …
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