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Questions about Bloomberg's story citing 10+ sources on China hacking, after strong denials by companies mentioned, show limits of national security reporting — Today's bombshell Bloomberg story has the internet split: either the story is right, and reporters have uncovered one of the largest … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Supermicro firmware portal was breached in 2015 and some customers downloaded malware; Facebook was among them, says no servers were used in production — It wasn't just hardware. An online portal for firmware updates hid and distributed malware.| Bloomberg: |
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Leaked documents show Macs with T2 chips must pass Apple diagnostics, which is limited to internal use by Apple, or be rendered nonfunctional after repair — Due to advanced security features of the Apple T2 chip, iMac Pro and 2018 MacBook Pro models must pass Apple diagnostics for certain repairs …
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| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
Study: 80%+ of the Twitter accounts that spread false info during 2016 election are still active, continue to push more than a million tweets per day — Enough with the “whack-a-mole” claims that as soon as you ban one fake news site, another one pops up: A report released by Knight …
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| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
Brex, which provides corporate credit cards to other tech startups, raises $125M Series C led by DST Global and Greenoaks, at a valuation of $1.1B — Payments companies are hot, but none are hotter than Brex — Henrique Dubugras, a 21-year-old Stanford freshman and entrepreneur … | Steven Musil / CNET: |
Samsung forecasts record Q3 operating profit of ~$15.8B, up 20% YoY, and revenue of ~$57.3B, up 5% YoY, on continued strong demand for its memory chips — Samsung really appears to be cashing in chips. — The South Korea electronics giant said Thursday it expects to record … | Kara Swisher / New York Times: |
A look at the Internet Bill of Rights, framed by a Democrat on request by Nancy Pelosi, for how tech and telecom companies should treat Americans online — If Democrats win back the House, they promise to start regulating Silicon Valley. — Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer.
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| Srividya Kalyanaraman / BostInno: |
Randori, a Boston-based startup that claims to have “industry's first nation-state caliber attack platform” to test corporate networks, raises $9.75M seed round — Randori, a startup that claims to be the “industry's first nation-state caliber attack platform,” …
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Sources: SoftBank is nearing a deal to invest ~$500M in ride-hailing company Grab, which is seeking to raise roughly $1B in its latest funding — JAKARTA/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp is nearing a deal to invest about $500 million in Grab as part of roughly $1 billion … | Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review: |
Some smaller publishers say they are scaling back or giving up promoting content on Facebook because new rules for promoted posts are unwieldy and capricious — When Facebook announced in April that it would create a public database of political advertising, it seemed like a meaningful step … | Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Facebook has quietly launched its Facebook Lite app, previously available only on Android, on iOS in Turkey — - Facebook makes a “lite” version of its app for Android phones that uses less data and battery life and is a smaller download. — A version for iPhones appears to have quietly launched in Turkey.| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Report: share of global venture capital captured by US has fallen from over 95% in the mid-1990s to 71% in 2012 to ~50% in 2017; India, China benefited most — Year after year, startups in U.S. cities like San Francisco, New York, and Boston continue to raise an unprecedented amount of venture capital …
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| Alex Marshall / New York Times: |
The National Theatre in London is offering “smart caption glasses” that display live subtitles synchronized by software and transmitted over Wi-Fi — LONDON — If you have hearing difficulties, the idea of spending hours watching a play may not be that attractive given the risk of key dialogue slipping from your grasp.
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| Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: |
Crunchbase News Q3 2018 Global VC Report: at the end of Q3, 2018's venture funding totals have already surpassed 2017's, up 41.1% YoY — In Q3 2018, the global venture capital market carried on Q2's lampshade-on-head levels of litness. — Crunchbase News reports that, in the third quarter … Thanks:@holdenthepage
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