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September 10, 2018, 12:50 AM

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Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac:
Trend Micro apps including Dr. Unarchiver, the 12th most popular free app in Mac App Store, found to steal and upload sensitive info including browsing history  —  When you give an app access to your home directory on macOS, even if it's an app from the Mac App Store, you should think twice about doing it.
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Profile of Lina Khan, whose antitrust argument, which says Amazon has far too much power, is making waves in Washington by reframing decades of antitrust law  —  With a single scholarly article, Lina Khan, 29, has reframed decades of monopoly law.  —  The dead books are on the top floor of Southern Methodist University's law library.
Aubrey Hruby / Financial Times:
As internet penetration in Africa grows, US and Chinese tech giants are gearing up to fight for marketshare on the continent  —  The Trump administration has made a perceived global rivalry with China the centre of US foreign policy.  This competitive stance has coloured the view …
Diptendu Lahiri / Reuters:
Connecticut-based financial software maker SS&C to acquire confidential data-sharing platform Intralinks for $1.5B  —  (Reuters) - Financial software company SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc said on Thursday it would buy data-sharing platform Intralinks Holdings Inc in a deal valued at $1.5 billion …
Swapna Krishna / Engadget:
Many fitness- and health-tracking apps and devices, including Apple Health and Watch, don't take pregnancy, or any other health condition, into account  —  I'm not a super fit person.  I am considered a healthy weight, and I exercise simply because I enjoy eating and drinking whatever I want.
Matthew De Silva / Quartz:
Ripple's general counsel Brynly Llyr has left the company as it prepares for a class action lawsuit about whether its XRP cryptocurrency is a security or not  —  The general counsel of one of the world's leading cryptocurrency companies has departed her post.
Gregory Barber / Wired:
Researchers think we may be on the verge of breakthroughs in AI's comprehension of language similar to the AI image recognition breakthroughs of 2012  —  IN 2012, ARTIFICIAL intelligence researchers revealed a big improvement in computers' ability to recognize images by feeding …

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