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Source: US investigators identify Guccifer 2.0 as a GRU officer, attributed via hacker's login to US social media service without a VPN from a Moscow IP address — Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Craigslist pulls all personal ads after passage of sex-trafficking bill FOSTA, says any tool or service can be misused and that it can't take such risk — Online classified site Craigslist has pulled its entire personal ad section after Congress passed a new sex-trafficking bill that puts more liability on Web sites.
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Dropbox priced IPO at $21/share, above already increased range of $18-$20, raising $756M and giving company a valuation of $8.2B+ — Dropbox priced its IPO above expectations at $21 per share on Thursday night, setting the stage for the software company's stock to hit the public market on Friday.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to introduce new low-cost iPads and software for the education market at an event in Chicago next week — Company holding rare education-focused event next week — Lower-cost and Pro models have recently reignited iPad sales — Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce … | Gabe Madway / Instagram: |
Instagram says it's making changes to ensure that newer posts are more likely to appear first and is testing a button to let users choose when to refresh — Today we're introducing changes to give you more control over your feed and ensure the posts you see are timely.
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Symantec report: instances of cryptojacking rose 8,500% in Q4 2017, partly due to easy-to-operate coin mining apps, coin mining up 34,000% in 2017 — Where the money is, the thieves will follow — Instances of computers hijacked to mine cryptocurrency, a practice known as cryptojacking …
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| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft and Databricks, an Apache Spark-based analytics platform, bring the Azure Databricks cloud service out of beta — Microsoft is bringing its Azure Databricks cloud service out of beta today to help its customers better process massive amounts of data, powered by a partnership unlike anything the tech titan has done before.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says it will fix a privacy bug that let Siri read out hidden third-party lock screen notifications in a future update — Apple has confirmed it will fix a privacy issue in which Siri can read aloud hidden lock screen notifications from many apps on iPhones.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google rolls out the ability to send payments using Assistant through Google Pay to iOS and Android users in the US — But only via Google Pay — Google is rolling out the ability to send peer-to-peer payments with Google Assistant. Starting today (only in the US) …
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| Bloomberg: |
Experts analyzing video of Uber's autonomous car accident say car's sensors should have detected the pedestrian and a human driver could have responded quicker — Self-driving sensors should have detected victim, experts say — Footage at odds with early crash descriptions by police chief
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Files Go, an Android file manager that's popular in developing markets, with improved search, better Photos integration, improved notifications — Originally intended for Android Go and developing markets, Files Go became a small hit app for Google.
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| Adam Behsudi / Politico: |
Trump announces plans to levy tariffs on ~$60B of Chinese-made goods; source says list of targeted products, coming within 15 days, will mostly focus on tech — President Donald Trump will escalate economic tensions with China by unveiling on Thursday extensive new trade restrictions …
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Tweets: @sambeal and @realdonaldtrump
| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
In interview, Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook has made mistakes in building its platform, the fixes will not be easy and will cost “many millions of dollars” — In a wide-ranging interview, the Facebook CEO admitted that the social networking giant may have made mistakes in opening up its network so much a decade ago.
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