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Microsoft unveils $10B Rural Airband Initiative to bring better broadband to 23.4M Americans, to start efforts in 12 states by offering seed money to local ISPs — In an event scheduled for Tuesday in Washington, D.C., Microsoft plans to propose using technology it helped develop as a cornerstone …
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As Google pays academics for research that often ends up justifying its controversial business practices, many academics fail to disclose their funding source — Google operates a little-known program to harness the brain power of university researchers to help sway opinion and public policy …
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Facebook to gradually expand worldwide beta of display ads in Messenger's Home screen, which follow an auction-based model — Facebook Messenger will start to extend its home screen ads beta worldwide in the weeks ahead, Messenger head of product Stan Chudnovsky announced today.
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AT&T Pretends To Love Net Neutrality, Joins Tomorrow's Protest With A Straight Face — You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger enemy of net neutrality than the fine folks at AT&T. The company has a history of all manner of anti-competitive assaults on the open and competitive internet …
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| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
Knight First Amendment Institute sues Trump for blocking Twitter users, alleging the practice amounts to an unconstitutional effort to suppress dissent — A free-speech group said on Tuesday it sued U.S. President Donald Trump for blocking Twitter users from his @realDonaldTrump account …
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The Verge, Bloomberg, The Hill, Ars Technica, knightcolumbia.org, and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@dnvolz
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Ubuntu now available in the Windows Store, is designed to run in a sandbox inside Windows 10 and focused on running command line utilities like bash or SSH — Microsoft announced at its Build 2017 developer conference earlier this year that Ubuntu would be heading to the Windows Store …
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| Mishaal Rahman / xda-developers: |
Android 7.1 Nougat has a “Panic Detection” mode that detects frantic back button presses and returns users to home screen, to stop apps that hijack back button — While many readers of Android-centric websites such as our own are less likely to come across situations … | Bloomberg: |
Company emails: Kaspersky Lab has made products for Russian intelligence and accompanied agents on raids; CEO has insisted that ties to Kremlin are “total BS” — Emails show the software-security maker developed products for the FSB and accompanied agents on raids.
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Snap drops 7%+ to $15.88, well below its $17 IPO price, as Morgan Stanley downgrades the company's stock — Morgan Stanley cut its price target for shares of the Snapchat parent - Snap Inc.'s rough week continued Tuesday, as a bank that led its initial public offering slashed its price target for the Snapchat parent's stock.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK cybersecurity startup Darktrace raises $75M Series D led by Insight Venture Partners, at an $825M valuation — With cybercrime projected to reap some $6 trillion in damages by 2021, and businesses likely to invest around $1 trillion over the next five years to try to mitigate that …
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How Intel's new “Skylake-SP"-based Xeon server chips, launched today, stack up against AMD's EPYC line — This morning kicks off a very interesting time in the world of server-grade CPUs. Officially launching today is Intel's latest generation of Xeon processors, based on the “Skylake-SP” architecture.
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The New Stack, ZDNet, Ars Technica, and New York Times. Tweets: @ampressman. Thanks:@iancutress
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Workload security vendor HyTrust raises $36M Series E led by Advance Venture Partners, and acquires data security startup DataGravity — Word spread late last week that data visibility and security startup DataGravity had been acquired. At the time, though, it was unclear by whom. Now we know.
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