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Twitter says it's ending legacy API support, used by third-party apps like Tweetbot, due to “technical and business constraints” — It's hard to be a fan of Twitter right now. The company is sticking up for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, when nearly all other platforms …
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Sources: about 1,000 Google employees have signed a letter demanding more transparency following reports of Google developing a censored search engine for China — Hundreds of Google employees, upset at the company's decision to secretly build a censored version of its search engine for China …
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| Erin Pearson / The Age: |
Unnamed Melbourne-based 16-year-old pleads guilty to repeatedly breaching Apple's systems and downloading 90GB of sensitive files — A Melbourne private schoolboy who repeatedly broke into Apple's secure computer systems is facing criminal charges after the technology giant called in the FBI.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is in talks to acquire Landmark Theatres, the indie-focused chain that operates 50+ theaters in the US, backed by Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner — - Move would mark latest incursion into brick-and-mortar world — The indie-focused chain operates more than 50 theaters
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| Zach Dorfman / Foreign Policy: |
Current and former US officials say CIA's communication system used for sources in China was compromised, leading to China executing ~30 US spies from 2010-2012 — The number of informants executed in the debacle is higher than initially thought. — It was considered one of the CIA's worst failures …
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Sony says it has sold 3M PlayStation VR headsets since their fall 2016 launch, up from 2M at the end of 2017 — Sony announced that it has sold 3 million PlayStation VR (PSVR) headsets as of the end of July, showing that its popularity has declined little since the fall 2016 launch.
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Android 9 Pie review: great notification management, text selection, auto-rotation, and AI-based shortcuts, but newly introduced gestures are complicated — The most “opinionated” version of Android yet — Here's the story with every new version of Android, in a nutshell: it's great … | Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Intel updates its NUC mini PC lineup with 8th-gen CPUs and Iris Plus 655 GPUs, available from $299, not including RAM, storage, or an OS — So far, Intel's biggest NUC news of the year is its Hades Canyon mini-gaming PC with AMD RX Vega graphics. If you don't need something quite so powerful and costly …
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Google announces Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids, an open spec that lets hearing aid makers add direct audio streaming to Android from assistive devices — Today's hearing aids increasingly overlap and share the same functionality as Bluetooth headphones.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Firebase gets in-app messaging, integration with Atlassian's JIRA, better Crashlytics support, and more — Firebase is now Google's default platform for app developers and over the course of the last four years since it was acquired, the service has greatly expanded its feature set and integrations with our Google services.
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: President Trump has reversed classified Obama-era rules governing use of cyberweapons in an effort to loosen restrictions on such operations — It isn't clear what rules the president is adopting to replace the existing ones — President Trump has reversed an Obama-era memorandum governing …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Autonomous vehicle startup Nuro and Kroger begin testing a grocery delivery service in Scottsdale, Arizona, starting today — Self-driving car startup Nuro is ready to put autonomous vehicles on the road in partnership with Kroger to deliver groceries in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
In Senate hearing, Ajit Pai says he doubted claims FCC's comment system was taken down by an attack, but says IG asked him to keep quiet until the full report — FCC chairman Ajit Pai was on the defense Thursday during a Senate oversight hearing when he was questioned about why he didn't correct … | Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
SFOX, a crypto trading platform for institutional investors and others, raises $22.7M Series A led by Tribe Capital and Social Capital — A cryptocurrency dealer setting out to provide trading services for institutional investors has closed a Series A funding round of $22.7 million.
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Tencent's recent profit drop and China's freeze on game approvals shows the downsides of government patronage — - ‘If it can happen to Tencent, it can happen to anyone.’ — Internet giant has lost more than $170 billion in market cap — China long celebrated Tencent Holdings Ltd. as a national champion.
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| Cate Cadell / Reuters: |
Sources and documents show the creeping spread of China's surveillance technology, such as handhelds made by Cellebrite and others that scan smartphones — BEIJING (Reuters) - Filip Liu, a 31-year-old software developer from Beijing, was traveling in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Credit Karma acquires mortgage platform Approved for an undisclosed sum, says it's a natural next step to get into the mortgage business — Credit Karma, the service best known for providing free credit score monitoring and other financial advice (mostly to millennials), is getting into the mortgage business.| Arjun Panchadar / Reuters: |
Report: Uber has been urged by investors to sell off its self-driving car unit, which has lost $125M-$200M per quarter over the last 18 months — (Reuters) - Investors have told Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] it would be wise to sell off its self-driving car unit after it racked up losses …
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