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Sources: US Cyber Command launched an offensive cyber strike on Thursday that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches — President Trump approved an offensive cyber-strike that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google was never really serious about tablets, with years of scattershot reboots; its decision to stop making tablets was rational but could be shortsighted — Google's getting out of the tablet hardware business, canceling two different tablets it was building and reassigning those employees to other projects.
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Leaked Microsoft memo says Slack, AWS, Google Docs, PagerDuty, and even GitHub are prohibited or discouraged from internal use, primarily over security concerns — As Slack makes its stock market debut, there's a major company that won't be allowing its employees to use the business collaboration …
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| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
How COPPA came about 20 years ago, making 13 years the internet's age of adulthood, as a bipartisan COPPA 2.0 bill seeks to raise the age to 16 — The inside story of COPPA, a law from the early days of e-commerce that is shaping a generation and creating a parental minefield| Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg: |
Magic Leap sues Chi Xu, a former employee who founded the China-based AR startup Nreal, for alleged IP theft — - The startup says the former employee stole its AR secrets — Alleged technology theft a sore point in U.S.-China relations — Magic Leap Inc., a U.S. startup that makes …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
NASA says it was hacked in April 2018 via an unauthorized Raspberry Pi on the network; hackers had access for nearly a year, stealing Mars mission-related data — NASA described the hackers as an “advanced persistent threat,” a term generally used for nation-state hacking groups.
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| Anna Baydakova / CoinDesk: |
FATF says its members, including US and EU countries, should adopt regulations within 12 months requiring crypto exchanges share customer info when moving funds — A powerful intergovernmental organization devoted to combating money laundering and terrorism financing has finalized …
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Less than a day after breaching $10K, Bitcoin climbs to $11K+, as the unveiling of Libra and increased institutional support spur hopes of mainstream adoption — The world's most popular cryptocurrency gets a boost from Facebook's plan to launch Libra — Bitcoin rose over $10,000 …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Owners of Jibo, a social robot designed to be loved, on their attachment to the robot companion and their slow mourning knowing its servers will go dark soon — The story of Jibo — The robot showed up at Kenneth Williams' doorstep when he needed it most.
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Livepeer, a decentralized marketplace for encoding providers and developers who need video-streaming services, based on Ethereum network, raises $8M Series A — Video is the core entertainment medium of the web. Platforms like YouTube, Twitch, Netflix and more deliver millions of hours … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Legal tech startup Atrium's business model incentivizes efficiency over milking billable hours, as most law firms do, giving it a leg up in automating busywork — Law firms have little incentive to build or buy software that will save their lawyers time since they often bill clients by the hour.
Tweets: @joshconstine
| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at the blossoming machine-learning community in Africa, where IBM and Google are trying to use AI to tackle challenges like hunger, poverty, and disease — In the last few years, the machine-learning community has blossomed, applying the technology to challenges like food security and health care.
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