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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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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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: |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Autonomous vehicle startup Nuro and Kroger begin testing a grocery delivery service in Scottsdale, Arizona, starting today — Self-driving car startup Nuro is ready to put autonomous vehicles on the road in partnership with Kroger to deliver groceries in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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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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| 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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Firebase gets in-app messaging, integration with Atlassian's JIRA, better Crashlytics support, and more — Firebase is now Google's default platform for app developers and over the course of the last four years since it was acquired, the service has greatly expanded its feature set and integrations with our Google services.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Intel updates its NUC mini PC lineup with 8th-gen CPUs and Iris Plus 655 GPUs, available from $299, not including RAM, storage, or an OS — So far, Intel's biggest NUC news of the year is its Hades Canyon mini-gaming PC with AMD RX Vega graphics. If you don't need something quite so powerful and costly …
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| 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.| 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
| 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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| 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.| David Gorman / The Irish Times: |
Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave withdraws invitation to French far right politician Marine Le Pen after having defended it in a Medium post — Web Summit founder rows back on Le Pen invitation ‘based on advice’ — Updated: — Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave has rescinded an invitation …
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| 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.”| Cate Cadell / Reuters: |
Sources and documents show the creeping spread of China's surveillance technology, such as handhelds made by Cellebrite and others that scan smartphones — BEIJING (Reuters) - Filip Liu, a 31-year-old software developer from Beijing, was traveling in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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