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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 …
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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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| CNBC: |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Lucinda Shen / Fortune: |
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey says he believes bitcoin will eventually become the world's single currency, but it will probably take over ten years — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey isn't pulling his punches on Bitcoin. — While J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon sees promise in blockchain …
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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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Investigation shows IBM flouted US laws against age discrimination and estimates the company eliminated about 20K+ US employees over 40 in the past five years — For nearly a half century, IBM came as close as any company to bearing the torch for the American Dream.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitLab brings its continuous integration/delivery features to GitHub, letting GitLab create automated builds, tests, deployments when devs push code to GitHub — Here is an interesting twist: GitLab, which in many ways competes with GitHub as a shared code repository service for teams … | 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.| Jeff Engel / Xconomy: |
Profile of Bose Ventures, the investment arm of Bose, which has made eight investments and plans to invest $50M in apps and services that complement its AR tech — See below.] For the first 50 years of its existence, Bose Corporation invested primarily in in-house research and development … Thanks:@jeffengelxcon
| 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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