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IBM has agreed to acquire Red Hat in a deal valued at $34B, a 60%+ premium over Friday's closing price; Red Hat will become part of IBM's Hybrid Cloud division — IBM is acquiring Red Hat, a major distributor of open-source software and technology, in a deal valued around $34 billion, the companies announced on Sunday.
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After Pittsburgh shooting, Gab has been suspended by PayPal, Stripe, and hosting provider Joyent; Microsoft had terminated Azure agreement with Gab last month — Stripe and cloud host Joyent have indicated that they will suspend Gab's accounts — Hours after Paypal confirmed …
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Twitter told a user that pipe bomb suspect did not violate its rules when she reported his threats weeks ago; Twitter now says it made a mistake, apologizes — At least two Twitter accounts linked to the man suspected of sending explosive devices to more than a dozen prominent Democrats were suspended on Friday afternoon.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
How Gab, the social network where the Pittsburgh shooting suspect aired his hatred in full, became a platform of choice for neo-Nazis and other extremists — Early Saturday, moments before the police say he barged into a Pittsburgh synagogue and opened fire, Robert D. Bowers's anti-Semitic … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers detail how state-owned China Telecom, the third largest carrier in the country, regularly hijacks internet traffic passing through the US and Canada — Chinese government turned to local ISP for intelligence gathering after it signed the Obama-Xi cyber pact in late 2015, researchers say.
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: |
Online hatred, trolling, harassment, and conspiracy theories are spilling into the physical world with ever greater and more alarming frequency — This week, reporters dredged up the online pasts of two monsters: a Florida man who was arrested for sending pipe bombs to at least a dozen …
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| Gabrielle Canon / The Guardian: |
Ann Cavoukian, a key privacy expert in joint Toronto and Sidewalk Labs smart city project, has quit, citing opposition over proposed data collection practices — Wired neighborhood planned by Google sister company has raised questions over data protection — When it was announced last year … | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Tesla starts rolling out Navigate on Autopilot in the US, an active guidance feature that suggests and makes lane changes, takes highway exits, and more — Some Tesla owners in North America will wake up to a new driver assistance feature that had been delayed for testing, according to a tweet sent Friday evening by CEO Elon Musk.
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Ukrainian officials recount their efforts to get Facebook's attention and help stem the flood of disinformation in 2015, in the middle of Russian invasion — KIEV, Ukraine — In the spring of 2015, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was desperate for Mark Zuckerberg's help.
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| Dylan McGrath / EE Times: |
Syntiant, a startup working on microwatt-level AI chips, raises $25M Series B led by Microsoft's M12 with Alexa Fund and Intel Capital among other investors — SAN FRANCISCO — The venture capital arms of six prominent tech companies — including Microsoft, Amazon and Intel — invested Syntiant …
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Interview with Tezos co-founder Kathleen Breitman on Tezos's management problems, negative press, her experience starting a new blockchain, big ICOs, and more — Kathleen Breitman couldn't be happier. That, at least, is what she tells me, and that is the impression she gives.| The Local: |
Google cancels plan to open a second startup incubator in Berlin after protests by anti-gentrification groups, says it is donating the space to local nonprofits — Google has called off plans to open a campus in the Kreuzberg area of Berlin. After months of anti-gentrification protests …
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