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IBM has agreed to acquire Red Hat in a deal valued at $34B, a 60%+ premium over Friday's closing price; Red Hat will become part of IBM's Hybrid Cloud division — IBM is acquiring Red Hat, a major distributor of open-source software and technology, in a deal valued around $34 billion, the companies announced on Sunday.
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| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
After Pittsburgh shooting, Gab has been suspended by PayPal, Stripe, and hosting provider Joyent; Microsoft had terminated Azure agreement with Gab last month — Stripe and cloud host Joyent have indicated that they will suspend Gab's accounts — Hours after Paypal confirmed …
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Twitter told a user that pipe bomb suspect did not violate its rules when she reported his threats weeks ago; Twitter now says it made a mistake, apologizes — At least two Twitter accounts linked to the man suspected of sending explosive devices to more than a dozen prominent Democrats were suspended on Friday afternoon.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers detail how state-owned China Telecom, the third largest carrier in the country, regularly hijacks internet traffic passing through the US and Canada — Chinese government turned to local ISP for intelligence gathering after it signed the Obama-Xi cyber pact in late 2015, researchers say.
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Tweets: @williamnee, @we3fordemocracy, @tprophet, and @atonton28
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: |
Online hatred, trolling, harassment, and conspiracy theories are spilling into the physical world with ever greater and more alarming frequency — This week, reporters dredged up the online pasts of two monsters: a Florida man who was arrested for sending pipe bombs to at least a dozen …
Tweets: @cwarzel, @drmrfrancis, @mollymckew, @katherinemiller, @harrisalexc, and @mikeh_pr
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Tesla starts rolling out Navigate on Autopilot in the US, an active guidance feature that suggests and makes lane changes, takes highway exits, and more — Some Tesla owners in North America will wake up to a new driver assistance feature that had been delayed for testing, according to a tweet sent Friday evening by CEO Elon Musk.| The Local: |
Google cancels plan to open a second startup incubator in Berlin after protests by anti-gentrification groups, says it is donating the space to local nonprofits — Google has called off plans to open a campus in the Kreuzberg area of Berlin. After months of anti-gentrification protests …
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| Washington Post: |
Ukrainian officials recount their efforts to get Facebook's attention and help stem the flood of disinformation in 2015, in the middle of Russian invasion — KIEV, Ukraine — In the spring of 2015, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was desperate for Mark Zuckerberg's help.
Tweets: @tonyromm and @charleskriel
| iFixit: |
iFixit: iPhone XR is the spiritual “iPhone 9” with internals that look like a hybrid between the iPhone 8 and X; modular SIM card reader is a first for iPhone — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Video Overview Introduction — Don't want to spend $1,000 on a smartphone?
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| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
As children of Silicon Valley's elite move away from screen-based schooling, US public schools are touting devices with screens, presaging a new digital gap — America's public schools are still touting devices with screens — even offering digital-only preschools. The rich are banning screens from class altogether.
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| Frank Catalano / GeekWire: |
Tony Ageh, chief digital officer of New York Public Library, talks about privacy concerns and other issues as libraries embrace digital transformation — If you want to see how a public library adopts technology at scale, consider heading to New York City.| Benjamin Wofford / Vox: |
Interviews with government officials, analysts, and tech experts reveal severe vulnerabilities in many levels of the US election system, ahead of midterms — An investigation into the US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at almost every level.Sponsor Posts
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