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Inside the investigation led by the FBI to identify key perpetrators behind the Mirai Botnet, which was created initially to DDoS Minecraft servers — THE MOST DRAMATIC cybersecurity story of 2016 came to a quiet conclusion Friday in an Anchorage courtroom, as three young American computer …
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| Susan Crawford / Wired: |
How a Koch brothers-backed campaign against KentuckyWired, a public-private project to build statewide fiber network, energized Louisville to back the project — THE THREE REPUBLICAN commissioners now in power at the FCC voted this week to erase the agency's legal authority …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook is clamping down on “engagement bait”, posts that ask people for Likes or shares, by demoting them in the News Feed — Facebook has identified a new kind of spam: Engagement baiting. — Facebook is cracking down on a new type of clickbait: Posts that ask people …
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| Rachel Abrams / New York Times: |
Journalist documents her frustrating quest to fix an error in the Knowledge Graph panel appearing on Google searches for her name, which claimed she was dead — I'm not dead yet. — But try telling that to Google. — For much of the last week, I have been trying to persuade the world's … | Benedict Evans: |
How Amazon's decentralized operating structure and small, independent teams that use common internal systems, are integral to the company's unending scalability — When you look at large manufacturing companies, it becomes very clear that the machine that makes the machine is just as important as the machine itself.
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| Business Insider: |
Interview with the “founding father of virtual reality”, Jaron Lanier, on Silicon Valley culture, VR, #MeToo backlash, AI, and the future — Widely recognized as a founding father of virtual reality, Jaron Lanier has been hugely influential in shaping the technology of today.| Mike Murphy / Quartz: |
The number of AmazonBasics products available on Amazon.com grew from about 250 products in June 2013 to over 1,500 products now, according to Internet Archive — Amazon launched a house brand, called AmazonBasics, in 2009. It was originally a way for Amazon to sell low-cost … | Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Splice, a startup that sells digital tools and music samples to musicians, raises $35M Series B led by DFJ Growth — Steve Martocci's first company was a text messaging service. Now he's behind the scenes of a Demi Lovato song. — Making money selling songs is hard: Just ask Spotify …
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| Reuters: |
France files complaint against Amazon seeking a fine of €10M for abusing its dominant position with some suppliers — PARIS (Reuters) - The French government has filed a complaint with the Paris Commerce Court against e-commerce company Amazon for abusing its dominant position with some suppliers …
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| Erin Griffith / Wired: |
Behind Fitbit's gradual pivot toward personal medical devices via its b2b arm, Health Solutions, as revenue declines and competition from Apple Watch rises — FITBIT SPENT ITS first decade selling activity trackers. With its latest moves, the company is starting to look less …
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| Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times: |
Profiles of three current and one former volunteer moderator of KnowYourMeme, a Brooklyn-based website explaining the internet's inside jokes — Social networks produce inside jokes at a relentless pace. The best, worst, stupidest and funniest of those jokes become memes, and either you get them or you don't.
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @nytstyles, and @nytimestech
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tencent Music plans IPO in 2018, is expected to raise $1B+, valued at $10B — Internet giant is said to plan music-business IPO next year — Katy Perry, local artists exploit messaging, karaoke apps — One of China's most-anticipated initial public offerings next year …
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