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Chainalysis: between 17% and 23% of bitcoins mined to date have been lost forever; this estimate includes 1M, or about 6%, of bitcoins mined by Satoshi Nakamoto — Just as gold bars are lost at sea or $100 bills can burn, bitcoins can disappear from the Internet forever.
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| Tim Wu / New York Times: |
Net neutrality supporters have strong legal arguments to overturn Ajit Pai's proposed rules repeal in court — Back in 2005, a small phone company based in North Carolina named Madison River began preventing its subscribers from making phone calls using the internet application Vonage.
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| Sunny Sen / FactorDaily: |
How Alexa was trained for India, a multilingual country, to master local accents and common words in Indian languages — She is modern, speaks fluent English, helps you book a cab, finds recipes for cooking, plays your favourite music, and gets charmed by Shah Rukh Khan, her favourite actor.
Tweets: @gischethans, @sounakmitra, and @bgmahesh
| Associated Press: |
FBI knew for more than a year that Fancy Bear was targeting hundreds of government officials and policy makers but warned only a few of them — WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI failed to notify scores of U.S. officials that Russian hackers were trying to break into their personal Gmail accounts …
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Tweets: @arifleischer, @onekade, @razhael, @rosenbergerlm, @ericgarland, @allthingsnatsec, @ap, and @razhael
| David Gelles / New York Times: |
Inside Etsy's transformation as it sheds its B Corp status, freewheeling culture, and idealistic business approach to appease shareholders — The first time Josh Silverman addressed the staff of Etsy as their newly installed chief executive, he tried to connect with a work force known for its diversity, idealism and sincerity.| Angela Chen / The Verge: |
Study: in the 148 days after Pokémon Go's release, there were 286 more car crashes in one Indiana county than the period before; 134 happened near PokéStops — And that's just in one county in Indiana — For a brief, shining period last summer, Pokémon Go reigned supreme.| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
UK's Balderton Capital raised $375M for its sixth fund to invest in Series A startups in Europe; source: some backing was secured from European Investment Fund — - UK venture capital firm Balderton Capital has raised $375 million (£281 million) for its sixth fund to invest in Series A startups in Europe.
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
YouTube's search autofill found to surface disturbing results like “how to have s*x with your kids”, which YouTube says it quickly removed and is investigating — Dozens of users have reported that a YouTube search for “how to have” is auto-completing with pedophiliac phrases.| Ainsley Harris / Fast Company: |
How Facebook is planning to bring businesses and ads to Messenger with the help of AI-enabled chatbots and its own virtual assistant M — The ad tech powering messaging services offers advertisers—and bad actors—new ways to target and personalize content. — [Illustration: Selman Design]Thanks:@hellomountfuji
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Imgur confirms hackers stole 1.7M email addresses and passwords hashed with SHA-256 algorithm in 2014 hack — The hackers stole email addresses and passwords. — Imgur, one of the world's most visited websites, has confirmed a hack dating back to 2014. — The company confirmed to ZDNet …
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Business Insider, Engadget, The Imgur Blog, SecurityWeek, CSO, The Register, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, bgr.in, RAPPLER, CNET, The Hacker News, Digital Trends, The Verge, Gizmodo, HackRead, BleepingComputer.com, Tech Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, DataBreaches.net, and Have I been pwned? …
Tweets: @troyhunt, @imgur, @nicoladiaz, and @zackwhittaker
| BBC: |
UK gov't previews draft Drone Bill coming in 2018: would give police power to seize drones, mandate pilot training and registration of drones heavier than 250g — Drone users in the UK may have to take safety awareness tests under legislation planned by the government.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
KGI: iPhone X manufacturing bottlenecks largely resolved with Foxconn producing 450K-550K units per day compared to 50K-150K 1-2 months ago — Steady improvements in iPhone X supplies that have seen shipping estimates fall to 1-2 weeks are due to better-than-expected improvements … Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Zoho:
Zoho Mail Admin Console: A complete overview — You just got added as an admin for your company's Zoho Mail account. Someone from IT sends you a link, you log in, and there it is, a full console with everything …
Zoho Mail Admin Console: A complete overview — You just got added as an admin for your company's Zoho Mail account. Someone from IT sends you a link, you log in, and there it is, a full console with everything …
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