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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
US Cyber Command says it has temporarily disrupted the Trickbot botnet, an army of 1M+ hijacked computers run by Russian-speaking criminals, ahead of elections — In recent weeks, the U.S. military has mounted an operation to temporarily disrupt what is described as the world's largest botnet …
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Krebs on Security and Engadget
Tweets: @ericgeller, @malwaretechblog, @briankrebs, and @campuscodi
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Twitter announces changes to clamp down on US election misinfo, like blocking retweets of misleading content from candidates and accounts with 100K+ followers — Move is latest escalation of anti-misinformation measures in run-up to presidential vote — Twitter will block retweets and …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon has canceled Crucible, its free-to-play multiplayer shooter game, after putting it back in closed beta in July amid negative reviews — The game was put back into closed beta in July — Amazon has officially canceled Crucible, its free-to-play multiplayer shooter.
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Crucible, GeekWire, TechSpot, SlashGear, Wccftech, Bloomberg, Destructoid, GameSpot, GamesIndustry.biz, Kotaku, PC Gamer, Ars Technica, Engadget, and Windows Central
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Judge refuses to reinstate Epic's Fortnite on the App Store but grants an injunction that keeps Apple from retaliating against the Unreal Engine — Apple won't be forced to bring Fortnite back to the App Store — Fortnite won't be coming back to the App Store any time soon.
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Tweets: @b_fung, @futterish, @stephenwarwick9, and @matthewstoller
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Report: Apple to announce 4 new iPhones, including $699 5.4" iPhone 12 Mini, MagSafe branded wireless chargers and iPhone case, and $99 HomePod mini on Oct. 13 — Alongside claims we'll see a new HomePod mini this year — A new leak has provided extensive details about what Apple could announce at its October 13th event.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Sources: Twilio has agreed to acquire customer data infrastructure company Segment for $3.2B; the deal is not yet finalized — Covering venture capital, software and startups — With cloud companies booming during the pandemic, one of the category's recent public-company success stories …
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Semil Shah Blog and Reuters
Tweets: @chetanp, @ankitpansari_, @villi, @ow, @turnernovak, @auren, and @shaig. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| OneZero : |
An investigation of the cult leader behind Acellus, an online learning platform used by thousands of US students, who's been accused of violence and abuse — The creator of Acellus and the 'cult's leader has been accused of violence and abuse — was summer when Mark Mauikānehoalani Lovell …
Tweets: @sarahnemerson, @aarongell, @mvzelenks, @bcmerchant, @bendwalsh, and @dlberes. Thanks:@dlberes
| Ashanti M. Martin / New York Times: |
Black LinkedIn is emerging as a professional analog to Black Twitter since the pandemic and George Floyd's killing, with disagreements about moderation arising — The social network's tone has long reflected corporate America: staid, monolithic, white. Now Black users are speaking up — and saying the site is limiting their voice.
Tweets: @rasmus_kleis, @aprjoy, @davidenrich, @naima, @nytimes, @wesleylowery, @janellross, @brentnyt, @nataliekitro, @davidlublin, @hypervisible, and @sambowne
| New York Times: |
A look at the rising popularity of curbside pickup at US retail chains like Target, which coincided with Amazon's struggles during the pandemic's early months — Online orders have surged for retailers in the pandemic, as curbside pickup helps Americans satisfy their desire to hop in a car and drive to the store.
Tweets: @sapna, @sallyshin, @dealbook, @nytimesbusiness, @nytimesbusiness, @nytimesbusiness, @ennisnyt, @ennisnyt, @nytimesbusiness, @sapna, and @sapna
| Joseph F. Kovar / CRN: |
Cloud data management provider Veeam Software acquires Kasten, which develops backup and disaster recovery tech for Kubernetes-native workloads, for $150M — 'The speed at which the container market is evolving dictated we move to ensure leadership in this market. And Kasten has leadership in application-focused containers.
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Capacity Media and Veeam Software
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Avail Medsystems, which develops telemedicine software to let surgical teams in operating rooms collaborate with remote medical experts, raises $100M Series B — Medical technology company Avail Medsystems, which develops telemedicine software for the procedure room, raised $100 million in Series B funding.
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Business Wire, Bloomberg, MassDevice, MedTech Dive, FierceBiotech, FinSMEs, and Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @caseynewton
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Sony says that nearly all PS4 games will work on the PlayStation 5 at launch, with some titles offering the option to upgrade to a PS5-optimized version — Everything you need to know about backwards compatibility on the PS5 — The PlayStation 5 offers backwards compatibility …
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PlayStation® Support, Gizchina, Neowin, GameSpot, Game Rant, GamingBolt, The Next Web, and Input
| Stephen Harrison / Slate: |
The Wikipedia page of a Bollywood star has become an internet battleground as editors dispute if it should reflect conspiracy theories about his cause of death — Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet's knowledge ecosystem. — When Supreme Court Justice Ruth … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
PocketBook Color review: best screen yet for color E Ink and has good battery life, but is too small for color content and doesn't look good with monochrome — E Ink Kaleido is the best screen tech yet for color e-readers — I've been looking at color e-reader prototypes as long as I've been a tech journalist.| Mike Moffitt / SFGATE: |
Mailers masquerading as progressive voter guides and endorsing Proposition 22, the initiative backed by Uber and Lyft, are showing up in California mailboxes — Political mailers masquerading as progressive voter guides and endorsing Proposition 22, the initiative backed by Uber and Lyft … Sponsor Posts
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