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A deep look at Mueller's mid-July indictment of Russia's GRU officers and how they hacked the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and DCCC before the 2016 election — Latest Mueller indictment offers excruciating details to confirm known election pwnage. — In a press briefing just two weeks ago …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ARM has agreed to acquire US-based data analytics company Treasure Data for about $600M — - Treasure Data may fetch about $600 million in a sale — Products are used by auto, retail and entertainment firms — ARM Holdings Plc, the British computer-chip designer owned …
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| Raf Casert / Associated Press: |
Belgian museums complain about Facebook rejecting ads with paintings of Flemish Masters like Rubens; company says it is reviewing its approach to nudity in art — BRUSSELS (AP) — For four centuries, the opulent, exuberant nudes of Peter Paul Rubens have been known to shock and delight in sometimes equal measure.| David Floyd / CoinDesk: |
Prediction markets that let users bet on assassinations of public figures or the number of days before the next mass shooting, start to appear on Augur — “Killed, not die of natural causes or accidents.” — Pretty much everyone saw them coming, but it was no less disturbing … | Reuters: |
To drive sales, retailers like Target, Walmart, and Tesco are increasingly selling ads and search keywords on their websites to consumer goods companies — BERLIN/CHICAGO (Reuters) - People with hay fever hate dust. That was the premise of a marketing drive launched by British vacuum cleaner maker Dyson …
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| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
Amazon disputes results of ACLU's test of its Rekognition tool and says it's reasonable for government to weigh in on how police use facial recognition tech — When Amazon's controversial facial recognition system mistakenly matched 28 members of Congress with criminal mugshots, it caused quite a stir.
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| Oscar Schwartz / The Guardian: |
AI coverage has been misinformed and sensationalized for decades, leading to unrealistic expectations and distracting from the actual consequences of AI — Social media has allowed self-proclaimed ‘AI influencers’ who do nothing more than paraphrase Elon Musk to cash in on this hype with low-quality, pieces.| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Twitter needs to learn to multitask and start concentrating on adding new features to help it grow while simultaneously cleaning up its service — The social communications company's stock tanked on negative user growth, but CEO Jack Dorsey think efforts to clean up the service will pay off down the line.| Shrutika Verma / Livemint: |
SoftBank and Yahoo Japan partner with Paytm to launch a QR code-based mobile payment service, PayPay, in Japan by November, with no commission fees for 3 years — Barcode-based payment service ‘PayPay’ to be launched by November in a JV with Yahoo
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| Alex Spence / BuzzFeed: |
UK Parliament committee proposes social networks be legally responsible for harmful and illegal content and to let watchdogs audit tech company algorithms — A leaked copy of the MPs' report was published online on Friday, two days ahead of its official release.| South China Morning Post: |
How Grab expanded its taxi-hailing app to include booking cars and bikes, and ordering food; worth $10B+, it is Southeast Asia's most valuable tech startup — How Anthony Tan has taken a taxi-hailing app to keep drivers and riders more safe into an everyday app to book cars, bicycles and even food delivery services| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook and YouTube, with rules like the “three strikes policy” that assume good faith users, are unprepared for actors like Infowars that exploit loopholes — Facebook and YouTube never anticipated a site like Infowars — Two weeks ago, CNN's Oliver Darcy put a question …
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