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Source: Jack Dorsey weighed in on Twitter content decisions, overruling staff to keep Alex Jones and reinstate Richard Spencer's account; Twitter refutes story — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has personally weighed in on high-profile decisions, frustrating some employees
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Ethereum's blockchain made publicly available on Google BigQuery, after Bitcoin's was added in February; it includes ETH transfers, transaction costs by day — Cloud Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Health AI — dataset available. — Like its predecessor, Bitcoin …
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British P2P lending startup Funding Circle announces plans to IPO on the London Stock Exchange and raise about $387.4M — - The peer-to-peer lender is looking to raise about £300 million ($387.4 million) from the initial public offering (IPO). — Heartland A/S, the private holding company …
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Seattle-based exchange Bittrex delists Bitcoin Gold, as the fallout continues from a 51% attack on the cryptocurrency in May that netted attackers millions — The threat of attack is very real for upstart cryptocurrency projects. Bitcoin Gold, a popular hard fork of Bitcoin …
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| Rebecca Hill / The Register: |
Communiqué from Five Eyes nations tells tech industry to make accommodations on encryption, or legislative or enforcement actions may be taken for lawful access — Five Eyes to tech: We have ways of making you comply — The Five Eyes nations have told the tech industry …
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| Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
BT, TalkTalk, BBC, Sky, ITV, and Channel 4 call for UK government to introduce independent regulatory oversight of the content carried over social networks — The heads of Britain's largest media and telecoms companies have called for the government to introduce independent regulatory oversight …
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| Benjamin Plackett / Engadget: |
Ten Reddit moderators talk about the abuse they receive, including death and rape threats, burnout under pressure, and how Reddit fails to tackle the issues — This article was produced in partnership with Point, a YouTube channel for investigative journalism.
Tweets: @skrishna, @chrizap, @_jaymcgregor, @thegallowboob, and @m4tt
| New York Times: |
In lawsuits against Israeli hacking tools maker NSO Group, which claims to not spy with its tools, court docs allegedly show it snooping on calls to close sales — The rulers of the United Arab Emirates had been using Israeli spyware for more than a year, secretly turning the smartphones … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Swiss startup Avrios has raised $14M to date for an AI-fueled fleet management platform, which is being used by ~700 customers to manage ~700,000 vehicles — Swiss startup Avrios reckons business mobility is going to get a whole lot more interesting as companies adopt more tailored mobility solutions … | Shan Li / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese regulators have not approved a single new game since March, say they will limit the number of games to be released per year, will try to reduce playtime — Regulators haven't approved the sale of new titles since March — BEIJING—China will limit videogame releases and set … | Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Naked Labs' body scanner review: 3D body maps are great and circumference estimates are accurate, but body fat % differs greatly from hydrostatic test results — Naked Labs' body scanner does a great job creating a 3-D model of your nearly naked body, but just how far are you willing to let technology go?
Tweets: @joannastern
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Samsung's head of mobile says company will bring new features and tech to its mid-end smartphones first as company changes strategy to attract millennial users — - Samsung plans to overhaul its smartphone strategy at the mid-range price point in order to appeal more to millennials, the company's mobile CEO told CNBC.
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