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Rebecca Smith / Wall Street Journal:
DHS officials say “hundreds of victims”, not a few dozen, have been impacted by Russian hackers infiltrating control room networks of US electric utilities  —  Blackouts could have been caused after the networks of trusted vendors were easily penetrated
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
eBay to add support for Apple Pay, beginning rollout this fall in US, and partners with Square Capital on seller financing  —  Ebay announced this morning it will begin accepting Apple Pay on its marketplace starting this fall, and has also teamed up with Square Capital on seller financing.
Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:
Source: Verizon is seeking to partner with Google or Apple to provide a TV service when it launches 5G to homes in LA and Sacramento later this year  —  - First wireless broadband service with video launches this year  — Live, online TV to be part of showcase for superfast network
Brad Sams / Thurrott.com:
Sources: Microsoft working on two new Xbox consoles, one of them a lower-powered streaming box for upcoming game streaming service referred to as Scarlett Cloud  —  Back at E3, Microsoft mentioned that they were working on a next-generation console.  At that time, I noted that this new console …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
EU fines Asus €63.5M, Philips €29.8M, Pioneer €10.1M, and Denon & Marantz €7.7M for online price fixing  —  The European Union's antitrust authorities have issued a series of penalties, fining consumer electronics companies Asus, Denon & Marantz …
Klint Finley / Wired:
A look at how retailers and consumer brands use bots to scrape prices and other information from rivals' websites, amid efforts to detect and block them  —  COMPANIES ARE WAGING an invisible data war online.  And your phone might be an unwitting soldier.  —  Retailers from Amazon and Walmart …
Alphabet:
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue of $32.7B, up 26% YoY, and net income of $3.2B including EU fine; excluding the fine, net income was $8.3B; stock up 4%+  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 23, 2018 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2018.
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
Jeff Bezos-backed cloud simulation startup Rescale raises $32M Series B led by Keen Venture Partners, SineWave Ventures, and Initialized Capital  —  Rescale Inc., a startup harnessing the public cloud for scientific simulations and other complex workloads, today announced that it has raised $32 million in fresh funding.
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
UK sets out plan for full fiber broadband coverage by 2033 and 5G mobile network coverage for the majority of the population by 2025  —  The UK government has set out a package of measures it's hoping will futureproof domestic networks and boost international competitiveness by supporting …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Publishers like NPR, Al Jazeera, and Bloomberg Media add editorial resources to smart speaker efforts but monetization remains unclear  —  Home voice assistants or smart speakers are still in their infancy as a consumer and revenue proposition, but publishers are stepping up their efforts …
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Ry Crist / CNET:
Amazon adds audio equalizer controls for Echo devices in Alexa app, as well as via English voice commands in US, and opens the EQ functionality to third parties  —  Audiophiles love to nitpick over the way their music sounds, but until now, you haven't been able to do that with any of Amazon's Echo smart speakers.

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Salon:
Salon, launched in 1995 to cover politics, culture, and more, says it is closing: “business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly”

Denise Petski / Deadline:
Amazon Prime Video sets November 20 for the premiere of “Melania, The Series”, the two-episode follow-up to Brett Ratner's “Melania” documentary

Financial Times:
Bomb threats force the evacuation of Irish newsrooms, including national broadcaster RTÉ, which briefly went off air and resumed broadcasts from a mobile unit

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Nat Levy / GeekWire:
Alphabet spent ~$5.5B on capital expenditures in Q2, up from ~$2.8B a year ago, as the company continues to expand its cloud business

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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Google says none of its 85,000+ employees have been successfully phished since early 2017, when it required use of physical Security Keys in place of passwords
Shara Tibken / CNET:
Qualcomm unveils first mmWave 5G and sub-6GHz antenna modules for 5G smartphones and mobile hotspots in 2019
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