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| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Sources: prototypes of Google's Dragonfly search engine for China link the search app on users' Android devices to their phone numbers — Google built a prototype of a censored search engine for China that links users' searches to their personal phone numbers, thus making it easier …
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| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News: |
Sources: a list of seven employees who quit Google over Dragonfly, including some engineers with up to 11 years tenure, is circulating inside Google — A list that names seven employees who say they quit their jobs at Google over a lack of corporate transparency is circulating within the company's ranks.
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Pocketnow, The Intercept, Reuters, Axios, Fortune, MSPoweruser, BGR, CNET, The Hill, AndroidHeadlines.com, 9to5Google, Engadget, Firstpost, TechNode, CNET, Breitbart, Business Insider, The Next Web, and Fox News
Tweets: @matthewstoller, @theintercept, @natashakhanhk, @rj_gallagher, @wonkvj, @ceodonovan, and @buzzfeednews
| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
After running Tezos blockchain network in beta since June, Tezos Foundation will officially launch its protocol on Monday — The “experimental” phase for the Tezos blockchain is over. — On Monday morning, the Tezos Foundation will officially announce that the protocol will no longer be in a beta period …
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Cointelegraph, NewsBTC, Anycoin.news, CryptoGlobe, NullTX, and SludgeFeed. Tweets: @tezosfoundation
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Let's Encrypt has issued 380M+ free TLS certificates on 129M unique domains in three years since launch, making it the largest certificate issuer in the world — Bon anniversaire, Let's Encrypt! — The free-to-use nonprofit was founded in 2014 in part by the Electronic Frontier Foundation … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Airware, a drone startup that has raised $118M from Andreessen Horowitz, Google's GV, Kleiner Perkins, and others, is shutting down — Drone operating system startup Airware today suddenly informed employees it will cease operations immediately despite having raised $118 million from top investors …
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Howard Lindzon. Tweets: @trengriffin, @techcrunch, @semil, @semil, @joshconstine, @carnage4life, @petergschmidt, @tomkarren, @timcohn, @yoda, @shiraovide, and @howardlindzon
| Wall Street Journal: |
Investigation: North Korean operatives are evading US sanctions and earning millions by using fake identities on services like Github, Slack, and Paypal — Hiding behind social-media fake profiles, a group linked to Pyongyang solicited technology work to send hard currency back home
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Axios, TechCrunch, U.S. Department …, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @alastairgale, @xinwenfan, @wsj, and @dnvolz
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
An in-depth review of Android 9 Pie, which comes with a lot of useful user-facing changes and, maybe, improved battery life, but the gestures remain a mess — The time has come for our annual deep dive (~19,000 words) into the latest Android release. — It's time for another big Android release …
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Mary Meeker and three partners are leaving Kleiner Perkins to form a new firm; sources describe clashes between early and late stage groups at Kleiner Perkins — Meeker is leading an exodus in a huge split at one of Silicon Valley's most famous firms. — Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins …
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Haystack.vc, CNBC, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Axios, TechCrunch, VatorNews, CNNMoney, Silicon Valley Business …, TechCrunch, and PE Hub Blog
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| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: |
European website finds that a free app is exposing the exact locations of Grindr's 3.6M+ active users via unauthorized access to Grindr's private API — The gay dating app Grindr is still exposing the precise location of its more than 3.6 million active users although it has long been aware of the issue.
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Engadget, Queer Europe, BetaNews, and The Register
Tweets: @itsnicolenguyen, @itsnicolenguyen, @itsnicolenguyen, and @buzzfeednews
| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Study: Facebook engagement for sites identified as publishing fake news dropped by 50%+ between 2016 election and July 2018, while shares on Twitter kept rising — Facebook's efforts to reduce misinformation in its news feed since the 2016 election have opened the company to all manner of criticism …
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Engadget, The Verge, Stanford University …, and The Interface
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Profile of Procore, a cloud-based platform for the $1T US construction industry that has raised $200M+ and is thinking about IPO after barely surviving in 2008 — n a quiet street in Montecito, California, a suburb of Santa Barbara, Procore CEO Craig “Tooey” Courtemanche is considering how best to break into his own house.| Chromium Blog: |
Google adds support for fingerprint sensors on Android phones and Touch ID on Macs to Chrome 70 beta, allowing developers to use biometrics for authentication — Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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