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Trump tweets that Commerce Department has been instructed to help China's ZTE, which had to stop operations after US companies were banned from selling to it — In a tweet, Trump urges the Commerce Department to give ZTE “a way to get back into business, fast.”
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There has been a bubble in adtech, a bloated industry that undermines brands' value and remains at odds with consumer privacy and security, and GDPR will pop it — In The Big Short, investor Michael Burry says “One hallmark of mania is the rapid rise in the incidence and complexity of fraud.”
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers warn about critical flaws in PGP and S/MIME that can reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails, recommend uninstalling those tools from email clients — The flaws, can expose e-mails sent in the past and “pose an immediate threat.” — The Internet's two most widely used methods …
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Cofounder of ASIC-maker Obelisk on the state of PoW mining: challenges of ASIC-resistant hard forks, many new coins are optimized for secret ASIC designs, more — For those new to the blog, I am the lead developer of Sia, a blockchain based cloud storage platform.| Sumeet Chatterjee / Reuters: |
HSBC claims it has completed the world's first trade-finance interbank transaction using blockchain technology with Dutch bank ING — HONG KONG (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L) said on Monday it had performed the world's first trade finance transaction using blockchain technology …
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Inside the community behind Pi-hole, an open source software package designed to run on a Raspberry Pi for blocking ads and web trackers at the network level — For the advertising industry, ad blocking is an existential crisis. For the Pi-hole community, it's a sport.
Tweets: @business
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Messaging and video conferencing startup Fuze raises $150M; PitchBook: the raise was done at a $400M valuation, compared to previous raise at $765M — A steep downround as the workplace tool battles Slack and Zoom. — Fuze, a messaging and video conferencing company to use with your colleagues at work …
Tweets: @recode
| Stewart Rogers / VentureBeat: |
PumaPay raises $117M in an ICO, to launch its merchant-friendly Pull Payment Protocol, which it says 30 adult entertainment firms have agreed to use — If you want a new technology to succeed, getting the adult entertainment industry onboard as early adopters is never a bad thing.
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Southeast Asia-based Craigslist-like mobile listings startup Carousell raises $85M Series C co-led by Rakuten Ventures and Singapore's EDBI — Carousell, the Singapore-based mobile listing service that operates across Southeast Asia, has pulled in an $85 million Series C fund as it seeks …
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| Economist: |
A detailed look at SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son's $100B Vision Fund, which has invested $30B in 24 companies after launching a year ago — SoftBank subsequently grew into a global conglomerate with stakes in hundreds of web firms, including Yahoo. As tech valuations soared in 2000 … | Adrianne Jeffries / Motherboard: |
Inside YouTube's Trusted Flagger and Contributors programs in which anonymous volunteers have backchannel access to YouTube employees to escalate complaints — When YouTube's content moderation fails, super-users from the YouTube Contributors and Trusted Flagger programs are ready to intervene.
Tweets: @jason_koebler, @motherboard, and @joshpescatore
| Yimian Wu / China Money Network: |
Unisound, a Beijing-based voice recognition, language processing, and big data startup, raises $100M Series C as it is about to release its own AI chip — Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) solution provider Unisound announced that it has raised a US$100 million series C round led … Sponsor Posts
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