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| Erin Heffernan / St. Louis Post-Dispatch: |
Uber, Lyft suspend driver who secretly live-streamed hundreds of rides on Twitch, after initially keeping him on and saying he did not violate Missouri law — EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published Friday night. It was updated 9:30 p.m. Saturday with a statement from Uber saying …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat to discontinue Snapcash, its peer-to-peer payment feature, on August 30; the feature was created in partnership with Square in 2014 — Snapcash ended up a way to pay adult performers for private content over Snapchat, not just a way to pay your friends.
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| Alyza Sebenius / Bloomberg: |
Paul Nakasone, head of US Cyber Command and NSA, confirms he created Russia Small Group, a special task force to address Russian cyber threats — - Confirms ‘Russia Small Group’ to combat cyberspace attacks — Persistent incursions by adversies not rising to level of war
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| Lucinda Southern / Digiday: |
UK media firm Future plc, owner of 100+ brands including TechRadar and PC Gamer, to buy Purch, owner of AnandTech, Laptop Mag, and Tom's Hardware, for $132.5M — This week U.K. specialist publisher Future announced the purchase of technology platform and publisher Purch for $132.5 million …
| Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of China's BOE, which supplies LCD screens for MacBooks and iPads and, sources say, wants to supply OLED displays for Apple from 2020 — If BOE succeeds, it would not only prove its manufacturing prowess but also score a win for China in its tech race against South Korea and Japan
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| Richard Chirgwin / The Register: |
Intel fixes longstanding flaws in Intel Management Engine that let hackers on same subnet run code on targeted PC; no patches for first three gens of Core chips — Check your computer makers for patches — In case you missed it, Chipzilla has gone public with more security updates for the Intel Management Engine.
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| David Floyd / CoinDesk: |
The amount of ether staked on Augur, a peer-to-peer protocol to create prediction markets from user-posed questions, grew to ~$1M and first bets paid out $20K — Augur, a decentralized platform for creating predictions markets, just hit a major milestone. — “The first markets …
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CoinFrenzy, Hacked, Ethereum World News, CoinDesk, and Bitsonline
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Nervos Network, which aims to let companies develop apps via an “application chain” on top of its own secure public blockchain network, raises $28M Series A — Blockchain startup Nervos Network has announced the completion of a $28 million Series A funding round.
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Cointelegraph, Blockchain News, and VentureBeat
| Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post: |
Facebook could recognize Holocaust denialism as hate speech and ban it on those grounds, but trying to censor every falsehood should be noted as a bad idea — To follow Mark Zuckerberg's utterances is to constantly cringe. — Last week was no different.
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| Reuters: |
CEO of Chinese commerce giant JD.com says they aim to finalize the strategy to enter European market and open an office in Germany by the end of the year — BERLIN (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce company JD.com plans to expand in Europe and aims to have finalised its strategy for entering …
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Sources: in August 2017, Google sent a letter suggesting changes to Android OEM contracts and apps distribution; offer was rebuffed by EU as too little too late — - Company offered to tweak Android contracts to placate EU — Vestager says the peace offering didn't come quickly enough
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Engadget, Economist, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times
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French IT infrastructure services company Atos has agreed to acquire US-based rival Syntel for around $3.4B in cash — France's Atos nears $4 billion deal for Syntel, part of strategy to expand geographic footprint — France's Atos SE is nearing a deal that could be worth up to $4 billion … Sponsor Posts
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