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October 8, 2018, 8:50 AM

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David Brunnstrom / Reuters:
DHS and UK's NCSC say they have “no reason to doubt” statements from Apple, Amazon, and others rejecting Bloomberg's story on China spying via microchips  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Saturday it currently had no reason to doubt statements …
Asif Iqbal Shaik / MySmartPrice:
Images of Google Pixel Slate leak, show a Chrome OS tablet with a detachable keyboard, stylus, stereo speakers, and a USB-C port  —  The Google Pixel Slate will run Chrome OS and will be unveiled during the company's October 09 launch event.  The tablet will feature a capacitive stylus …
Richard Lai / Engadget:
Holden Page / Crunchbase News:
Foursquare raises $33M Series F, two years after its major pivot from consumer social network to location data provider and $45M Series E  —  Tech companies want your location data, and over the years, Foursquare has banked a lot of it from willing users.  —  Originally billed …
Nathan Mattise / Ars Technica:
The Internet Archive stores a total of 22 petabytes, adds four petabytes per year, and uses ~7K processes crawling the web to capture 1.5B items per week  —  Wayback Machine director Mark Graham outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive.  —  AUSTIN, Texas—As much as subscription services …

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