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Sources: Amazon is in talks to acquire Landmark Theatres, the indie-focused chain that operates 50+ theaters in the US, backed by Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner — - Move would mark latest incursion into brick-and-mortar world — The indie-focused chain operates more than 50 theaters
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Android 9 Pie review: great notification management, text selection, auto-rotation, and AI-based shortcuts, but newly introduced gestures are complicated — The most “opinionated” version of Android yet — Here's the story with every new version of Android, in a nutshell: it's great … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says there are now 200+ Android Go devices available and details Go for Android 9 Pie, aimed at emerging markets, which takes less space and boots faster — Android 9 Pie began rolling out earlier this month to the Pixel and Pixel 2, as well as the Essential Phone.
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| Zach Dorfman / Foreign Policy: |
Current and former US officials say CIA's communication system used for sources in China was compromised, leading to China executing ~30 US spies from 2010-2012 — The number of informants executed in the debacle is higher than initially thought. — It was considered one of the CIA's worst failures …
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| Washington Post: |
Jack Dorsey says Twitter is considering promoting alternative viewpoints in timeline, labeling bots, and redesigning the like button and follower count display — Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey said he is rethinking core parts of the social media platform so that it doesn't enable …
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| Alyssa Newcomb / NBC News: |
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: President Trump has reversed classified Obama-era rules governing use of cyberweapons in an effort to loosen restrictions on such operations — It isn't clear what rules the president is adopting to replace the existing ones — President Trump has reversed an Obama-era memorandum governing …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Sony says it has sold 3M PlayStation VR headsets since their fall 2016 launch, up from 2M at the end of 2017 — Sony announced that it has sold 3 million PlayStation VR (PSVR) headsets as of the end of July, showing that its popularity has declined little since the fall 2016 launch.
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| Erin Pearson / The Age: |
Unnamed Melbourne-based 16-year-old pleads guilty to repeatedly breaching Apple's systems and downloading 90GB of sensitive files — A Melbourne private schoolboy who repeatedly broke into Apple's secure computer systems is facing criminal charges after the technology giant called in the FBI.
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber's Q2 2018 financials: revenue rose 51% YoY to $2.7B as adjusted EBITDA losses widened to $404M, up from $304M in Q1; gross bookings rose 41% YoY to $12B — While Uber isn't required to disclose its financial results, Uber has done so for past few quarters as it gears up to go public next year.
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Tweets: @profgalloway, @shiraovide, @shiraovide, @alex, @alex, and @thekenyeung
| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed: |
Two people, in their free time, have reported ~2,000 fake Facebook accounts posing as US military and are concerned about the company's tools to catch others — “We know we have more work to do,” Facebook said in a statement to BuzzFeed News. — Kathy Kostrub-Waters and Bryan Denny estimate they've spent …
Tweets: @craigsilverman and @craigsilverman
| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
A look at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Research Lab and its partnership with Facebook as it works to spot the origins of online disinformation — IN LATE JULY, a group of high-ranking Facebook executives organized an emergency conference call with reporters across the country.| Bloomberg: |
Tencent's recent profit drop and China's freeze on game approvals shows the downsides of government patronage — - ‘If it can happen to Tencent, it can happen to anyone.’ — Internet giant has lost more than $170 billion in market cap — China long celebrated Tencent Holdings Ltd. as a national champion.
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| Jeffrey Van Camp / Wired: |
Interview with Sonos Chief Product Officer Nick Millington, who's named on 69 of its patents, on the company's early days, evolution, and future — NICK MILLINGTON HAD just started to feel like a successful software engineer. It was early 2003, and at age 26 he already had a fruitful career at Microsoft.| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at how Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, valued at $225B, is shifting focus to tech-related bets, like Uber and an expanded stake in Tesla — Talks with Tesla show how crown prince's sovereign-wealth fund has become a global player, but some worry about impulsive, risky bets
Tweets: @summer_said, @pwonacott, and @jasonzweigwsj
| John Herrman / New York Times: |
Unlike smaller web forums, centrally run social media platforms like Twitter are just too big to nurture healthy online communities — In late July, President Trump aimed his Twitter account at the platform itself: “Twitter ‘SHADOW BANNING’ prominent Republicans,” he wrote. “Not good.”
Tweets: @noahpinion, @nytmag, @benjysarlin, @jfruh, @jwherrman, and @brianstelter
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy Note9 review: compelling S Pen and performance updates will please power users, but it ships with Android Oreo and Bixby is still kind of a mess — The biggest, beastliest phone of the year is here, and, spoiler alert, the Galaxy Note 9 lives up to the lofty expectations.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Ahead of Twitter API changes coming on August 16, Tapbots removes several features from Tweetbot for iOS, following similar moves by Twitterrific and others — Ahead of upcoming Twitter changes set to be implemented tomorrow, Tapbots has released an updated version of its Tweetbot app for iOS devices …
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Engadget, TechCrunch, CNET, iLounge, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Verge, and MacStories
Tweets: @caseynewton, @bdsams, @mathewi, @backlon, and @alexeheath
| Sara Su / Facebook: |
Facebook says it proactively identified 52% of hate speech in Myanmar it removed in Q2 2018 using AI, up from 13% in Q4 2017 — We have a responsibility to fight abuse on Facebook. This is especially true in countries like Myanmar where many people are using the internet … | Steve Stecklow / Reuters: |
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