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Sources: House investigators asked Google about plans to implement DNS-over-HTTPS in Chrome; ISPs fear the protocol will prevent them from tracking user data — New standard could alter web's competitive landscape, cable and wireless companies say — Congressional antitrust investigators …
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CNET, Android Authority, Engadget, Coinspeaker, MSPoweruser, Gizmodo, The Overspill, Fossbytes, PYMNTS.com, Seeking Alpha, and Slashdot
Tweets: @hoofnagle, @hshaban, @reckless, @swiftonsecurity, @herf, and @reckless
| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
A VC narrative that software-enabled companies like Uber should be valued at 10x+ revenue is falling apart but is still valid for startups with margins of 75%+ — Dan Primack wrote in his friday newsletter: … While all of this is true, I think it is a lot simpler than that.
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| New York Times: |
A look at how tech firms and government keep failing to curb the sharing of child sexual abuse images, long after the PROTECT our Children Act was passed in '08 — Online predators create and share the illegal material, which is increasingly cloaked by technology.
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Mashable and Axios
Tweets: @gabrieldance, @nytimes, @alexstamos, @mikeisaac, @alexstamos, @dmoberhaus, @mikeisaac, @geminiimatt, @mikeisaac, and @benedictevans
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Checkm8 creator says his iPhone exploit requires physical device access and lacks persistence after reboot, but will make jailbreaking more accessible and safer — Unpatchable vulnerability is a game-changer that even Apple will be unable to stop. — Often, when new iOS jailbreaks become public, the event is bitter-sweet.
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, Softpedia News, iMore, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @axi0mx, @appleinsider, @emsi_kil3r, and @dinodaizovi
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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BGR India, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, Trail of Bits Blog, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Malwarebytes Labs, Pocketnow, Fossbytes, Firstpost Tech, Liliputing, Tom's Guide, The Register, The Daily Dot, HackRead, TechSpot, CyberScoop, CNET, Cult of Mac, Threatpost, SiliconANGLE, Android Authority, and Mashable
Tweets: @axi0mx, @martijn_grooten, @joebeone, @albertwenger, @kennwhite, @dangoodin001, @dguido, @evacide, @morpheus______, @strangepartscom, @thomasareed, @queercommunist, @dsilverman, @andreabarisani, @dangoodin001, @ihackbanme, @icj_, @_klutchkyle_, @dinodaizovi, @mcgrewsecurity, @evanderburg, and @campuscodi
| Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: |
WaPo's Arc CMS, run by ~250 staff, is now used across ~600 sites, up from ~100 last year, including Tribune Publishing, now adds BP as first non-media customer — - Post says Arc revenue will rival subscriptions and advertising — Jeff Bezos has helped the Post recruit and retain engineers
Tweets: @agnotology42, @sprakash007, and @jbenton
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Venezuela is evaluating if it can count cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin it may have received from oil sales, toward the country's international reserves — - Central bank to decide if crypto can count as foreign reserves — Government hampered by sanctions that limit access to dollars
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Engadget, CryptoGlobe, CryptoSlate, and Inc42 Media
Tweets: @apompliano, @arrington, @ecossexrp1, @pattylaya, and @xrpcommunity
| Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: |
[Thread] UK-US Cloud Act agreement will grant UK courts options similar to those of the US for getting message content but won't alter status quo on E2E crypto — It's really early on a Sunday, so while I sip my coffee I'm also going to try to clear up a lot of confusion about the CLOUD Act created by poor reporting by The Times (of London) and Bloomberg. Here is the original, incorrect story: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
The Chernin Group buys a majority stake in Food52 for $83M, valuing the ecommerce and media startup which offers recipes and home-improvement tips at $100M+ — Food52, a media and e-commerce business, was founded by food journalists from the New York Times| Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: |
Domino's Pizza is asking the Supreme Court to review a site accessibility lawsuit, amid a lack of Justice Department accessibility regulations and enforcement — This is part of CNET's “Tech Enabled” series about the role technology plays in helping the disability community.| Reuters: |
Sources: ByteDance, owner of TikTok, had a revenue of $7B-$8.4B in H1 2019, and posted a profit in June after operating at a loss in H1 2019 — BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's ByteDance, owner of video-sharing app TikTok and one of the world's most valuable unicorns … | Mimi Billing / Sifted: |
A profile of Denmark-based independent consumer review platform Trustpilot, which has raised €162M and has 65M reviews of businesses worldwide — With 65m reviews, Trustpilot is learning to spot the fakes and fight back with the help of algorithms. — Would you ever book an Airbnb stay without checking the scores of the host?
Tweets: @mstothard and @mimibilling
| Geir Moulson / Associated Press: |
German police arrest seven people and shutter a data center in a former NATO bunker that hosted dark web sites and launched an attack on Deutsche Telekom in '16 — BERLIN (AP) — German investigators said Friday they have shut down a data processing center installed in a former NATO bunker …
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Krebs on Security, SiliconANGLE, DW.COM, PCMag, Gizmodo, The Verge, and Slashdot
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