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Avalanche, a 7-year-old network used for malware and phishing attacks, dismantled in global cyber operation; officials sinkhole 800K domains, seize 50 servers — At one point, Avalanche network was responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks. — [Update, 3:00 PM EDT …
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Tweets: @europol, @zcobb, @arstechnicauk, @josephfcox, and @nca_uk
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Twitter acquires Yes Inc., hires ex-Google product director and Yes CEO Keith Coleman as VP of product; Yes apps to be shut down over next few weeks — Twitter has acquired the app maker Yes in a move designed to encourage its users to get better acquainted with each other around events.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
AngelList has acquired Product Hunt, sources say for about $20M; Product Hunt will continue as a standalone site with Ryan Hoover continuing as CEO — Product Hunt will continue to operate as a standalone site. — AngelList, the company that helps investors find startups to invest in … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Lenovo's Moto says it doesn't plan on releasing a new smartwatch in the near future — Don't expect a new Moto 360 any time soon — Moto today confirmed that it will not be releasing a new smartwatch for the launch of Android Wear 2.0, due early next year.
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Tweets: @drbarnard, @dcrainmakerblog, @tim, @backlon, and @pierce
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Saudi Arabia hit by series of state-sponsored cyberattacks against government agencies; digital evidence suggests attacks emanated from Iran — @MichaelRileyDC More stories by Michael Riley — Multiple attacks emanated from Iran, digital evidence suggests
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
HMD Global completes 10-year deal with Nokia to bring Nokia-branded devices to market; HMD says new smartphones are coming in the first half of 2017 — It's been a rough decade or so for Nokia's smartphone business. In 2011, then-CEO Stephen Elop famously described the company's situation as a … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon debuts AWS Shield, its Cloudflare competitor, to protect against DDoS attacks, and offers two tiers; basic version will be on by default — A little more than a month after a massive online assault took down Reddit, Netflix, Twitter and other major online properties …
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AWS Blog, PCWorld, eWeek, Computerworld, The Register, All Things Distributed, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, TechCrunch, and internetretailer.com. Tweets: @kennwhite. Thanks:@taylor_soper
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts AWS X-Ray, which helps developers debug distributed code by showing a graph of processes to identify bottlenecks and see performance of functions — Amazon today is rolling out a tool to help developers dive deep into their existing applications to diagnose each element …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple improving maps to better compete with Google, deploying drones to monitor roads and using Indoor.io, which it bought in 2015, for indoor mapping — Company gets FAA approval to use drones for data collection — Apple acquired startup Indoor.io for interior mapping project
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Recode, GeekTime, Tech Times, MobileSyrup.com, Quartz, GeekWire, Geek.com, TechConnect, International Business Times, Patently Apple, Ars Technica UK, Motherboard, Gizmodo, Search Engine Land, ZDNet, SlashGear, AppAdvice.com Latest, Engadget, Mashable, TechSpot, TechCrunch, Fortune, The Mac Observer, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider, The Verge, Investor's Business Daily, SiliconBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, Insanely Great Mac, Consumerist, MacRumors, iLounge, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Mac, USA Today, AppleInsider, BGR, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @agaleszczynski, @aprilaser, @swilliams, @tomfgoodwin, @jamesliamcook, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman
| Kristina Cooke / Reuters: |
Facebook developing AI to flag nudity, violence, and other content violating its policies in Facebook Live streams — Facebook Inc (FB.O) is working on automatically flagging offensive material in live video streams, building on a growing effort to use artificial intelligence to monitor content …
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Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Tech Times, Engadget, Ubergizmo, and Consumerist
Tweets: @dseetharaman and @mhbergen
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Zenefits ordered to stop offering free insurance software in Washington state, will offer software for $5 per user per month instead — It's been two steps forward and one step back for troubled startup Zenefits and its legal problems after it admitted earlier this year …
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| Vauhini Vara / Bloomberg: |
Facebook tests ad targeting for people streaming certain shows on Roku and Apple TVs, linking FB profiles with IP addresses — The social media company is working with A&E and a streaming startup to tailor more conventional commercials for viewers. — by — Subscribe Reprints
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