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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
How China's drive for a surveillance state is fueling an investment boom in surveillance firms and can instill mass obedience regardless of the tech's efficacy — ZHENGZHOU, China — In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station.
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| Foeke Postma / bellingcat: |
Analysis: fitness tracking website Polar Flow exposed info like names and home addresses of ~6500 military, FBI, NSA, and other staffers at 200+ sensitive sites — Polar, a fitness app, is revealing the homes and lives of people exercising in secretive locations, such as intelligence agencies …
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| CNBC: |
Xiaomi closes just below the IPO price on the first day of trading in Hong Kong after pricing IPO at the bottom of the range at $2.17/share and raising $4.7B — - The company's Hong Kong offering was priced at 17 Hong Kong dollars, which was on the low end of the expected range.
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Bloomberg, TechCrunch, BBC, China Money Network, Reuters, Bloomberg, MediaNama, SiliconANGLE, Financial Times, Tech in Asia, Reuters, South China Morning Post, and New York Times. Tweets: @tculpan
| Timehop: |
Timehop says it detected a network intrusion on July 4 that led to a data breach of names, email addresses, and some phone numbers affecting ~21M users — On July 4, 2018, Timehop experienced a network intrusion that led to a breach of some of your data. We learned of the breach …
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The Next Web, Timehop, Inquirer, Business Insider, CNET, TechCrunch, BetaNews, ZDNet, Neowin, and The Register. Tweets: @zackwhittaker
| Music Business Worldwide: |
Tencent says it has received approval from Hong Kong stock exchange for an IPO of its Tencent Music Entertainment subsidiary in US — Chinese media giant Tencent has confirmed that Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) is set to be spun-off via a public listing in the United States.
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Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, China Money Network, and Axios
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
How AMD stays within its x86 IP cross-licensing agreements with Intel yet enables Chinese firm Hygon to design and sell AMD Zen-based x86 server chips in China — Chinese-designed “Dhyana” x86 processors based on AMD's Zen microarchitecture are beginning to surface from Chinese chip producer Hygon.| Claire Atkinson / NBC News: |
As Amazon's ad business surges, some advertisers worry they are giving it the data and market power it needs to eventually run them out of business — Amazon has already become something of a corporate boogeyman — and now it could be bringing its industry disruption to advertising.
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Beyond Search, Adweek, and The IPKat
| Timothy McLaughlin / Wired: |
How Facebook focused on Myanmar's exploding connectivity, ignored hate speech warnings before 2014 riots, and can still take days to respond to emergencies — The riots wouldn't have happened without Facebook. — ON THE THE evening of July 2, 2014 a swelling mob of hundreds … | Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Analysis finds ~9K Instagram accounts are pretending to be the 10 most followed people on Instagram, highlighting a problem celebrities and social networks face — SAN FRANCISCO — Kip Moore, a country music singer-songwriter with hits like “Beer Money” and “Hey Pretty Girl,” has had some disturbing experiences with fans lately.| Elliott Krause / Wall Street Journal: |
Profiles of four “crypto hunters” who use a variety of methods, from specialized software to hypnosis, to recover lost cryptocurrency and stop crypto crime — A new crop of digital sleuths is working with investors and law enforcement to find misplaced or inaccessible cryptocurrency
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CryptoGlobe, NewsBTC, and Bitcoinist.com
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Profile of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's GEOINT App Store that hosts Android, iOS, desktop, and web apps for the Department of Defense — EVERY DAY, COMPANIES like Google and Apple wage a constant battle to keep malicious apps out of their marketplaces and off people's phones.
Tweets: @lilyhnewman
| Brook Larmer / New York Times: |
The explosion of e-waste, estimated to cross 57M tons annually by 2021, highlights its dual role as environmental scourge and potential economic resource — The police raid on a junkyard on the outskirts of Bangkok had all the trappings of a drug bust. Swarming onto the open-air property in late May … Sponsor Posts
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