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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Apple's WebKit announces strict anti-tracking policy to prevent covert tracking and all cross-site tracking, credits Mozilla's policy for inspiring its approach — WebKit, the open source engine that underpins Internet browsers including Apple's Safari browser, has announced …
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WebKit, The Next Web, Thurrott, AppleInsider, MSPoweruser, The Register, PCMag, Engadget, ZDNet, The Mac Observer, Fast Company, BetaNews, iMore, MacRumors, TechSpot, BleepingComputer, and 9to5Mac
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
IRS sends out letters warning taxpayers that data it received from crypto exchanges shows they owe taxes related to trades over the past several years — The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is sending another round of warning letters to cryptocurrency users, this time to taxpayers …
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Bloomberg, The Block, Wall Street Journal, NewsBTC, and InsideBitcoins.com
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Ikea says it is creating a new business unit, Ikea Home smart, with end-to-end responsibility for its portfolio of smart devices — ‘We are just getting started’ — Ikea is formalizing what has recently become all too obvious: the company is making a major bet on smart home tech as a source of new revenue.
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TechCrunch, Inter IKEA Group, 9to5Mac, and Engadget
Tweets: @ow, @lowresolution, @beirutspring, and @aram
| Kevin Kwok / kwokchain: |
Slack isn't becoming the “central nervous system” for all the workflows of its users because it's just filling cracks left by productivity apps, not fixing them — The arc of collaboration is long and it bends in the direction of functional workflows.| Reuters: |
Sources: the US Department of Commerce to extend Huawei's license to buy US goods, which expires on August 19, by another 90 days — SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to extend a reprieve given to Huawei Technologies that permits the Chinese firm …
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Ars Technica, Engadget, Android Central, Android Police, Neowin, MSPoweruser, Gizmodo, The Hill, and Slashdot
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
How US-based companies are moving manufacturing out of mainland China while their Chinese counterparts are “de-Americanizing” their supply chains — - Electronics makers shift from China to side-step Trump tariffs — Tech giants like Huawei are ‘de-Americanizing’ supply chains
Tweets: @noahpinion
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
How Facebook, which had around 37,000 employees at the end of last year, thinks about its IT strategy and builds most of its IT tools in-house — If you have ever worked at any sizable company, the word “IT” probably doesn't conjure up many warm feelings. If you're working for an old …
Tweets: @kristphr, @grahamgilbert, and @codorniou
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SoftBank plans to lend up to $20B to its employees to buy stakes in its second VC fund, with Masayoshi Son accounting for more than half of the amount — Unusual setup doubly exposes the Japanese company to a startup economy that is starting to show cracks
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TechCrunch and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @edgecgroup, @seldo, @jsmian, @reformedbroker, @gassee, @woganmay, @chudson, @bryce, @davidgni, @shiraovide, @bauhiniacapital, @r0h1n, and @josephjcabral
| Caroline McCarthy / Spectator USA: |
Google was so obsessed with beating Facebook that it missed an opportunity with Google+ to tackle the problems, like radicalization, plaguing social media now — As a member of the marketing team for Google's once-hyped Google+ social network (remember that?)
Tweets: @caro, @marypcbuk, @felizari, @gpanger, @mims, and @chrismessina
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Bakkt says it plans to launch its physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts on Sept. 23, after getting approval from NY state's financial regulator — Bakkt has been cleared to launch. — The Intercontinental Exchange's young subsidiary announced Friday that it had acquired …
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Wired, Medium, Bloomberg, Crowdfund Insider, Department of Financial …, Trustnodes, Hacked, The Daily Hodl, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, NewsBTC, Decrypt, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Bitcoinist.com, Coinspeaker, CryptoSlate, CCN Markets, and The Block
Tweets: @coindesk, @jchervinsky, @reformedbroker, and @xrpcryptowolf
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
By not providing Siri users with clear control over how their data is used, Apple is at odds with the privacy doctrine that it preaches on billboards — Three weeks ago, writing for The Guardian, Alex Hern reported: … I pooh-poohed this story at first, mostly on the grounds that I thought …
Tweets: @carnage4life, @scramblesuited, @ia, @funnymonkey, and @panzer
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Facebook has built a static analysis platform, dubbed Zoncolan, that can scan Facebook's 100M lines of code in under 30 minutes to help catch bugs — FACEBOOK DOESN'T HAVE the most stellar privacy and security track record, especially given that many of its notable gaffes were avoidable.
Tweets: @wired, @wired, and @trustedsec
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