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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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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
With its acquisition of Red Hat, IBM refocuses on its core strengths, rather than Watson, an AI push that was always more hype than reality — With its latest $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, IBM may have found something more elementary than “Watson” to save its flagging business.
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Gab.com takes its service offline after GoDaddy informed the company they had violated terms of service and had 24 hours to move the domain to another provider — Gab, the controversial social network with a far-right following, has pulled its website offline after domain provider GoDaddy gave it 24 hours to move to another service.
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How Gab, the social network where the Pittsburgh shooting suspect aired his hatred in full, became a platform of choice for neo-Nazis and other extremists — Early Saturday, moments before the police say he barged into a Pittsburgh synagogue and opened fire, Robert D. Bowers's anti-Semitic …
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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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| 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 …
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| Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News: |
After Orlando let its pilot with Amazon's facial “Rekognition” tech expire amid public outcry in June, FOIA docs show a new pilot has begun under a mutual NDA — Walking around downtown Orlando, you might not notice the lightbulb-sized camera affixed to one of the traffic signal poles along …
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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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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google updates Firebase with premium enterprise-grade support, better ML Kit facial recognition, Management API, a Test Lab for iOS, and more — Google today updated Firebase, its service for helping developers build apps for Android, iOS, and the web. Firebase has gained paid enterprise-grade support …
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| Bloomberg: |
Inside Indonesia's “war room”, a government-run hub with 70 engineers monitoring online news and social media for fake news, ahead of April 2019 elections — By By Tassia Sipahutar and By Karlis Salna — President Widodo being targeted by false claims, minister says
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| Gabrielle Canon / The Guardian: |
Ann Cavoukian, a key privacy expert in joint Toronto and Sidewalk Labs smart city project, has quit, citing opposition over proposed data collection practices — Wired neighborhood planned by Google sister company has raised questions over data protection — When it was announced last year … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Why Android Nearby, iBeacons, and Eddystone failed to gain traction: low consumer awareness, spammy local notifications, complicated on-site rollouts, more — Apple, Google, and other tech titans once trumpeted beacons — tiny transmitters that interact with smartphones, wearables, and other nearby gadgets — as the future of retail.Sponsor Posts
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