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The FBI is seeking an early alerting tool that scans public data from social media to monitor threats to the US, which may violate Facebook and Twitter policies — Agency solicits vendor proposals to collect data from Facebook, other social media to head off safety threats
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitch reverts Tyler “Ninja” Blevins' channel to offline mode after he calls Twitch out for using it to promote other streamers, including a porn broadcast — Ninja (aka Tyler Blevins) has largely avoided any bad blood between him and Twitch following his jump to Mixer, but that apparently didn't last long.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers: security flaws in 40+ kernel drivers from 20 vendors including Intel, AMD, and Huawei, can give hackers improperly elevated privileges on Windows — Affected vendors include the likes of Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, ASRock, AMI, Gigabyte, Realtek, Huawei, and more.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Defcon has a prototype secure voting machine for hacking, funded by a $10M DARPA project aimed at developing an open source voting platform on secure hardware — At this year's Defcon hacking conference, Darpa brought the beginnings of what it hopes will be impervious hardware.| Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: |
Apple's wearables, now at a $16B annual run rate and growing at 55%-60%, will cross iPad and Mac by the end of 2020 to become its third largest product category — The wearables era at Apple began years ago. However, Wall Street and Silicon Valley are only now slowly starting to pay attention to what Apple has been building.
Tweets: @neilcybart and @rrhoover
| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
The dueling hashtags on Twitter, blaming the Clintons and Trump for Jeffrey Epstein's death, are a grim testament to our deeply poisoned information ecosystem — With each news cycle, the system grows more efficient. Even on an internet bursting at the seams with conspiracy theories and hyperpartisanship …
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| Megan Eckstein / USNI News: |
US Navy to replace touchscreen throttle and helm controls on destroyers with mechanical ones, after finding that touchscreens contributed to a deadly collision — SAN DIEGO - The Navy will begin reverting destroyers back to a physical throttle and traditional helm control system in the next 18 to 24 months …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Teen hacker Bill Demirkapi on finding bugs, that exposed 5M student records across 5,000 schools, in educational software from providers Blackboard and Follett — A FEW SHORT decades ago, the archetypal hacker was a bored teenager breaking into his school's network to change grades, à la Ferris Bueller.
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VICE. Tweets: @il_fps, @wired, @iethics, @fyrn, @motherboard, @darkainmx, @dangillmor, @a_greenberg, @kidssecuriday, and @metacurity
| Rebecca Keegan / Hollywood Reporter: |
Inside Netflix's government lobbying efforts, which have shifted in recent months to align more with Hollywood studios and less with Silicon Valley — Rather than align itself with the tech giants under increasing Washington pressure, the streamer has joined forces with the studios … | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
LeafLink raises $35M Series B led by Thrive Capital for its e-commerce marketplace that connects 1,200+ licensed cannabis brands to 3,500+ cannabis retailers — LeafLink, a wholesale marketplace for the cannabis industry, said today it's closed a $35 million Series B round of funding led by Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital.| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Private equity firm KKR to acquire German payments group Heidelpay, which is used by 30K+ merchants for online and mobile payments, for €600M+ — KKR has won the race to buy German payments group Heidelpay for more than €600m in a fresh sign of investor appetite for companies that offer digital alternatives to cash.| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
FireEye: Chinese state-backed hacker group APT41 hacks video-game companies and sells virtual game currencies on the dark web as a side hustle — Just because you're a world-class Chinese government hacker busy conducting espionage against geopolitical adversaries doesn't mean you can't make a little extra money on the side.
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