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Seattle's dockless bike trial shows 74% of city is in favor of bikeshare even as some complain about clogged streets and working conditions at bike providers — SEAN HEALY WAS driving for Uber in Seattle when a passenger offered him an intriguing job. It wasn't the first time a rider …
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| Andrew Galbraith / Reuters: |
Foxconn says it is establishing its North American headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after announcing plans to build a $10B LCD plant in the state last year — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn said it would establish its North American corporate headquarters in Milwaukee …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researcher details SigSpoof, a recently patched critical flaw in PGP that allowed hackers to spoof digital email signatures, says the bug dates back to 1998 — SigSpoof flaw fixed inGnuPG, Enigmail, GPGTools, and python-gnupg. — For their entire existence, some of the world's …
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| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
Sources: Cyber Command's elevation to independent command and Trump's move to give commanders more authority has led to a more offensive policy for US cyber ops — WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has quietly empowered the United States Cyber Command to take a far more aggressive approach …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
SF-based Skip, a scooter-rental startup formerly known as Waybots, is raising $25M Series A from Menlo Ventures, Accel Partners, and YC at a $100M valuation — Electric scooter startups are aggressively seeking to raise money, telling potential investors that restrictions cities have placed … | Jonathan Eley / Financial Times: |
UK's Dixons Carphone reports breach affecting 5.9M credit cards and 1.2M records with personal info, says only 105K non-EU cards without chip & PIN compromised — Dixons Carphone, the electricals and mobile phone retailer, on Wednesday disclosed an “attempt to compromise” …
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Interview with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence: Google Assistant is coming, Dolby Atmos in current speakers is doubtful, “Works with Sonos” program to expand, more — Sonos CEO Patrick Spence sat down with The Verge's editor-in-chief Nilay Patel for an hour-long interview on this week's Vergecast.| Katherine Maher / WIRED UK: |
As tech firms like Facebook and Google lean more on Wikipedia to fight disinformation, Wikimedia Foundation says they should do more to support the site — If big tech companies are going to use Wikipedia as a resource, they should better support its important work, says the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon ends its Mayday video calling service for customer support for Fire tablets, nearly five years after its high-profile launch — Amazon is pulling the plug on its Mayday video calling feature for on-screen customer support on its Fire tablets, ending a service that was personally unveiled … | Steve LeVine / Axios: |
A look at one of about a million small retail shops that Alibaba has transformed into a digitized Tmall store equipped with AI apps and heat sensors — China's take-no-prisoners Big Tech war is playing out in An Huang's little family grocery in Hangzhou, a three-hour drive southwest of Shanghai.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
17 backdoored Docker images, posted to Docker Hub over the past year and downloaded 5M+ times, removed; some were used to mine at least $90K worth of Monero — 17 images posted by a single account over 10 months may have generated $90,000. — A single person or group may have made as much as $90,000 …
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Tezos, after a record $232M ICO last July with no preconditions, now says “contributors” have to verify identities under KYC/AML rules to receive their tokens — Tezos, the blockchain project that sought to fix crypto's broken governance models, is at the center of talk … Sponsor Posts
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