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| David Z. Morris / Fortune: |
Bitcoin Cash's market cap is up 130%+ in 2 days to about $26B, briefly overtaking Ethereum's, and Bitcoin Cash's hashrate has surpassed Bitcoin's — The cryptocurrency market is experiencing a complex shakeup this weekend, with a recently created digital token called Bitcoin Cash (BCH) … | Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Mining begins of Bitcoin Gold, a fork of Bitcoin that aims to thwart specialized mining chips — The newest fork of the bitcoin blockchain is officially live after a rocky start. — Developers for the project, dubbed bitcoin gold, published software for the breakaway cryptocurrency today, releasing the code on GitHub as well.
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber-SoftBank deal to see investors buying $1B of Uber shares at current valuation, proceed with $9B tender offer for secondary shares in coming weeks — Uber moves closer to selling up to $10 billion in shares — Benchmark agrees to put suit against Uber co-founder on hold
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Uber says it's entered into an agreement with a consortium led by SoftBank and Dragoneer on a potential investment — The paperwork's done! The long-anticipated SoftBank Group investment into Uber has been agreed upon, a spokesperson confirms to TechCrunch. — We've been provided the following statement.
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Tweets: @mikeisaac, @karaswisher, @danprimack, @ericnewcomer, and @katie_roof
| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: even with truce between Benchmark and Kalanick, the deal hinged on the success of SoftBank's tender offer for Uber's secondary shares — Employees will be able to sell half their stock — A “Peace Deal” to settle an ugly boardroom war at Uber is expected to be signed today or tomorrow.| New York Times: |
Inside NSA's Tailored Access Operations group and the investigation into Shadow Brokers, a hack of NSA now considered much more damaging than Snowden leak — A serial leak of the agency's cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.
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Bloomberg. Tweets: @nicoleperlroth, @susan_hennessey, @kenroth, @da_667, @nytimes, @nytimes, and @e_kaspersky
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Vulnerability present in many now-patched antivirus products including Malwarebytes allowed malware to leave quarantine and gain full system control — New AVGater flaw provided key ingredient for hacker to hijack computer. — Antivirus programs, in many cases, make us safer on the Internet.| Christina Larson / Foreign Policy: |
Facebook, blamed for unintended consequences of the service in nations like Myanmar, says “product and integrity research team” is headed to SE Asia this month — Zuckerberg needs to stop courting Beijing and start paying attention to the countries where Facebook matters.
Tweets: @kenroth, @mattocko, @foreignpolicy, and @_danielsinclair
| Aliya Ram / Financial Times: |
UK-based Graphcore, maker of machine learning chips, has raised $50M from Sequoia Capital — UK chipmaker Graphcore has raised $50m from Sequoia Capital, one of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms, as the start-up angles to become Britain's biggest maker of artificial intelligence hardware.
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| Google Research Blog: |
Behind Google's Fused Video Stabilization, combining optical image stabilization and electronic image stabilization, which it uses on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL — Posted by Chia-Kai Liang, Senior Staff Software Engineer and Fuhao Shi, Android Camera Team — One of the most important aspects …
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Engadget, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, OSNews, and SlashGear
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba smashes its Singles Day record once again as sales hit $25.4B, a 39% increase over last year's sales total — Alibaba has set another Single's Day record after the e-commerce giant sold over $25 billion of product on the Chinese biggest online shopping date.
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CNBC, Quartz, Reuters, ZDNet, Forbes, Business Insider, CNET, SiliconANGLE, Seeking Alpha, Alizila.com, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Verge, CNNMoney, Alizila.com, TechCrunch, and New York Times
Tweets: @david_spitz, @jaathre, @brad30097, @sub8u, and @aparanjape
| Kim Tingley / New York Times: |
Semi-autonomous vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure tech struggles to draw attention away from independent, fully autonomous solutions like Waymo's — THE TECH & DESIGN ISSUE: LIFE AFTER DRIVING — IN HIS 31-YEAR career delivering frozen patties, ketchup packets …
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