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Sources: Saudis groomed a Twitter employee to spy on accounts of dissidents; he was investigated and fired in Dec. 2015 after Western intelligence warnings — Each morning, Jamal Khashoggi would check his phone to discover what fresh hell had been unleashed while he was sleeping.
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| Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
dYdX, a startup that develops decentralized financial derivative products on Ethereum blockchain, raises $10M Series A led by a16z crypto and Polychain Capital — A startup called dYdX has raised $10 million in funding from investors to develop financial software that allows people …
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A look at traditional auto makers' attempts to reimagine themselves as software and service companies, in order to fend off rivals like Uber and Waymo — As IPO proposals value Uber at an eye-popping $120 billion, auto makers are racing to gain ground in everything from car sharing to driverless technology.
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| Jake Swearingen / New York Magazine: |
Joshua Schachter on inventing tags for bookmarks, selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo in 2005, and Yahoo's mismanagement of the service before its 2017 shutdown — As told to , Jake Swearingen @JakeSwearingen — Joshua Schachter's groundbreaking social-bookmarking site Del.icio.us, founded in 2003 …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Interview with Brian Amerige, the former Facebook employee whose memo accusing the company of being a political monoculture led to fierce internal debate — AT ONE POINT this summer, Brian Amerige seemed destined to become the next James Damore. — Like Damore, the Google engineer who wrote …
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| Lindsey O'Donnell / Threatpost: |
Researcher discovers and helps patch 13 vulnerabilities in open source IoT OS FreeRTOS and Amazon's AWS secure connectivity modules using the OS — Researchers have found that a popular Internet of Things real-time operating system - FreeRTOS - is riddled with serious vulnerabilities.| New York Times: |
A look at apps like Cruz Crew, N.R.A., and Great America that offer conservatives safe spaces free from the content guidelines of big platforms like Facebook — Imagine a society in which everyone more or less agrees with you. — You wake up in the morning to online greetings from people … | Giles Turner / Bloomberg: |
Brazil-based Loggi, a fast delivery services platform matching couriers with shippers, is raising a $111M round, with SoftBank's Vision Fund contributing $100M — - Loggi notching up to 3 million deliveries a month: CEO — Sao Paulo-based startup to invest in engineers, robotics| Triplebyte Blog: |
Interview with YC partner Paul Buchheit about how he got started with programming, joining Google and creating Gmail, becoming a great engineer, and more — On Becoming a Programmer … One moment I remember really getting into programming came while playing a fantasy RPG video game.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
SEC filing: Microsoft now includes LinkedIn performance metrics, like the number of active users, in calculating stock awards to four top execs, including CEO — - Microsoft paid $27 billion for LinkedIn in 2016 and is now tying its performance to executive pay.
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
South Africa-based Adhara, a startup that builds private blockchains for banks using privacy centric Ethereum fork Quorum, raises $15M from Consensys — Blockchain startup Adhara, which boasts a stellar line-up of former banking innovators, has secured $15 million in new funding from Consensys, the ethereum design studio.| Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press: |
Officials say a government computer system that interacts with HealthCare.gov was hacked earlier this month, compromising sensitive data for ~75,000 people — WASHINGTON (AP) — A government computer system that interacts with HealthCare.gov was hacked earlier this month …
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