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The joint US-Russia working group on cybersecurity mostly serves Russia, will make it harder for congress to purge Kaspersky Lab products from federal networks — Man oh man did Vladimir Putin hand Trump his ass in their meeting the other day. While most the focus has been on Trump's apparent refusal … | Tamara Chuang / Denver Post: |
After burying elimination of free plan in ToS update, Photobucket starts demanding $400/year for hosted images, kills client links on Amazon, eBay, other sites — Denver photo-sharing site says it needs to find “sustainable business” … Denver-based Photobucket on Thursday …
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Waymo drops 3 of 4 patent infringement claims against Uber, says Uber no longer uses infringing tech; bulk of the case related to trade secrets theft remains — Waymo, Alphabet Inc.'s self-driving car division, dropped three of four patent infringement claims in its lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Waymo files a preliminary list of 461 questions for Anthony Levandowski, expecting him to invoke his Fifth Amendment right in response to many — On Friday, Waymo filed a list of 461 questions it intends to ask Anthony Levandowski — a former employee it's accusing of downloading 14,000 proprietary files …
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| Cory Doctorow / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
After controversial vote, W3C announces it will publish Encrypted Media Extensions, a type of DRM for web video, without protection for security researchers — Early today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards body publicly announced its intention to publish Encrypted Media Extensions …
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| Adam K. Raymond / Vulture: |
How spammers, ripoff artists, and even superstars juice their numbers on Spotify with covers, tricky song titles, silent tracks, and large albums — A few weeks after the release of Kendrick Lamar's “Humble,” the hard-charging lead single on his fourth album Damn., the song landed at No. 1 on Billboard's streaming chart.| Kim Hart / Axios: |
Sources: Trump will delay and ultimately rescind a rule scheduled to go into effect July 17 that would let entrepreneurs immigrate to US to start companies — In the coming days, the Trump administration will take steps to delay and ultimately rescind an Obama administration rule allowing …
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| Ben Sullivan / Motherboard: |
DJI is updating firmware on its drones to prevent hackers from circumventing flight restrictions — The tension between drone pilots who want complete control over their aircraft that they bought and DJI, the world's biggest consumer grade drone maker, has come to a head.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Google and Facebook confirm they will join other companies in a July 12 “day of action” opposing the FCC's plan to change net neutrality rules — The fight over net neutrality just got more interesting as two tech giants said they will step off the sidelines and join a so-called …
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| Marcus Baram / Fast Company: |
How the US military is making weapons, surveillance systems, and information systems smarter by leveraging software — As software-based weapons and information systems start to touch all phases of conflict, military leaders are grappling with a new set of challenges.Thanks:@annelisemcgough
| George Avalos / Mercury News: |
Facebook proposes Willow Campus, “mixed-use village” expansion to its Menlo Park campus with office buildings, housing, retail space, and a grocery store — The proposed village includes offices, home, a grocery store, and parks and plazas — MENLO PARK — Aiming …
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| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
How UberRush, Uber's local delivery service, failed to make Uber a FedEx rival and got overshadowed by UberEats and Uber Freight — As Uber's CEO, Travis Kalanick promoted the idea that the company could become a giant of the logistics business. — In 2014, Uber's CEO Travis Kalanick was reveling in his company's rapid rise.Sponsor Posts
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