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| Garrett M. Graff / Wired: |
Inside the investigation led by the FBI to identify key perpetrators behind the Mirai Botnet, which was created initially to DDoS Minecraft servers — THE MOST DRAMATIC cybersecurity story of 2016 came to a quiet conclusion Friday in an Anchorage courtroom, as three young American computer …
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| Susan Crawford / Wired: |
How a Koch brothers-backed campaign against KentuckyWired, a public-private project to build statewide fiber network, energized Louisville to back the project — THE THREE REPUBLICAN commissioners now in power at the FCC voted this week to erase the agency's legal authority …
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| Rachel Abrams / New York Times: |
Journalist documents her frustrating quest to fix an error in the Knowledge Graph panel appearing on Google searches for her name, which claimed she was dead — I'm not dead yet. — But try telling that to Google. — For much of the last week, I have been trying to persuade the world's … | Benedict Evans: |
How Amazon's decentralized operating structure and small, independent teams that use common internal systems, are integral to the company's unending scalability — When you look at large manufacturing companies, it becomes very clear that the machine that makes the machine is just as important as the machine itself.
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| Business Insider: |
Interview with the “founding father of virtual reality”, Jaron Lanier, on Silicon Valley culture, VR, #MeToo backlash, AI, and the future — Widely recognized as a founding father of virtual reality, Jaron Lanier has been hugely influential in shaping the technology of today.| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
A man in New York allegedly stole $1.8M worth of ether cryptocurrency, kidnapping victim, forcing him to give up his digital wallet, then transferring the funds — The New York County District Attorney's Office has filed armed robbery and kidnapping charges against a man alleged … | Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Splice, a startup that sells digital tools and music samples to musicians, raises $35M Series B led by DFJ Growth — Steve Martocci's first company was a text messaging service. Now he's behind the scenes of a Demi Lovato song. — Making money selling songs is hard: Just ask Spotify … | Erin Griffith / Wired: |
Behind Fitbit's gradual pivot toward personal medical devices via its b2b arm, Health Solutions, as revenue declines and competition from Apple Watch rises — FITBIT SPENT ITS first decade selling activity trackers. With its latest moves, the company is starting to look less …
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Source: Amazon in advanced talks to acquire Sqrrl, a startup that analyzes big data to detect cybersecurity threats; Sqrrl has raised nearly $30M in VC funding — Amazon is in advanced talks to acquire Sqrrl, a Massachusetts-based cybersecurity software company whose founders used to work for the NSA, Axios has learned.
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| Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times: |
Profiles of three current and one former volunteer moderator of KnowYourMeme, a Brooklyn-based website explaining the internet's inside jokes — Social networks produce inside jokes at a relentless pace. The best, worst, stupidest and funniest of those jokes become memes, and either you get them or you don't.
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @nytstyles, and @nytimestech
| Brian Merchant / Wired: |
Email intelligence firm OMC says 19% of “conversational” email, sent by people like friends, spouses, and business partners, is subject to email open tracking — “I JUST CAME across this email," began the message, a long overdue reply. But I knew the sender was lying.
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
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