Techmeme: Multiple fatalities reported in a mass shooting during a Madden NFL gaming tournament in Jacksonville, Florida; shooter had won previous Madden NFL tournaments (CNN)

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Facebook removes 18 Facebook accounts, one Instagram account, and 52 Facebook Pages, including Burmese military officials, in response to Myanmar violence — The ethnic violence in Myanmar has been truly horrific. Earlier this month, we shared an update on the steps we're taking to prevent …

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Multiple fatalities reported in a mass shooting during a Madden NFL gaming tournament in Jacksonville, Florida; shooter had won previous Madden NFL tournaments — (CNN)The sheriff's office in Jacksonville, Florida, said there was a mass shooting at a downtown marketplace on Sunday and urged people to stay far away from the area.

Palmer Luckey / The Blog of Palmer Luckey:

Oculus cofounder reviews Magic Leap: less of a functional developer kit, more of a flashy hype vehicle that almost nobody can actually use in a meaningful way — The title of this review was carefully chosen, not glibly. I want what is best for VR and all other technologies on the Reality-Virtuality Continuum, Magic Leap included.

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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Didi suspends its Hitch carpooling service in China after a driver allegedly raped and killed a carpooling passenger, the second such incident in 2018 — Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing, the $60 billion-valued company that bought out Uber's China business, has suspended its carpooling service …

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Tweets: @nytimes, @elizabeth_joh, and @cgtnofficial

Madhav Chanchani / The Economic Times:

Sources: Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to acquire a 3%-4% stake in Paytm's parent company One97 Communications, valuing Paytm at over $10B — Softbank and Alibaba-backed Paytm may get valued at $10 billion after this funding from Berkshire Hathaway

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Cade Metz / New York Times:

Source: the Defense Department wants to put a total of $1.7B toward the new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center over the next five years — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In a May memo to President Trump, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis implored him to create a national strategy for artificial intelligence.

Tweets: @benioff and @stevekopack

Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News:

A look at stealthy self-driving startup Ghost Locomotion, which has raised $15M and offers a dashcam Android app, likely to gather data to train its ML models — The SF Bay Area is home to a lot of self-driving car initiatives. — Some startups, like Zoox, are trying “to make the whole widget” …

Tweets: @jason_rowley. Thanks:@holdenthepage

Patricia Hernandez / The Verge:

The YouTube stream for the Logan Paul vs. KSI fight had ~773K viewers, at $10/view, but 1M+ people watched unofficial streams of the fight on Twitch at its peak — Most people didn't pay for the biggest event on YouTube — After months of hype, YouTube superstars Logan Paul …

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Isobel Koshiw / The Verge:

Sources detail a Ukraine-based hacking scheme that stole press releases from three US newswires over at least five years and made $100M+ via insider trading — At a Kiev nightclub in the spring of 2012, 24-year-old Ivan Turchynov made a fateful drunken boast to some fellow hackers.

Tweets: @markborkowski and @vboykis

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

How women, including Campbell Brown and Alex Hardiman, are commanding Facebook's efforts to foster more legitimate news reporting — At Facebook, where men outnumber women almost two to one, the future of news is female. — Alex Hardiman speaks softly. Leading a team meeting …

More: The Verge. Tweets: @mollie, @campbell_brown, @kwchang, @arctictony, @joan_e, and @groundviews

Tim Swanson / Great Wall of Numbers:

New estimate suggests blockchain networks of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Monero combined consume about as much electricity as The Netherlands — I recently created a thread that on Twitter regarding the lower-bound estimates for how much electricity the Bitcoin blockchain consumed using publicly available numbers.

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Lilia Chang / ProPublica:

Experts say students at a Defcon event didn't hack “exact clones” of state election reporting websites; event co-organizer says critics are missing the point — Headlines from Def Con, a hacking conference held this month in Las Vegas, might have left some thinking …

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