Nick Denton challenges Peter Thiel to a public debate in open letter, says decade-long campaign by Thiel is out of proportion, asks about ultimate intent
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Sources: Jawbone has stopped making UP fitness trackers, sold the remaining inventory to a reseller at a discount to raise cash
Jawbone has stopped making its UP fitness trackers and sold its remaining inventory to a third-party reseller, sources familiar with the matter told Tech Insider.
Investigation into SWIFT breach expands to 12 more banks; Symantec corroborates BAE's report that hackers used code similar to North Korean Sony hack
Symantec becomes the second firm to link the hack to the Sony Pictures attack. — The investigation into the attempted $1 billion electronic heist …
Facebook starts selling offsite ads targeting non-users too
Facebook's advertising network is already a colossal business — it helped the social network bring in over $5 billion in revenue in its most recent quarter alone — but it is about to take a step towar...
Sources: Jawbone is trying to sell its wireless speaker business, will focus on health and wearables
Fitness tracker maker Jawbone has put its speaker business up for sale, according to multiple sources. — The company has been pitching potential buyers for its Jambox wireless speaker business …
As Facebook courts publishers, the company and some of its directors decline to comment on board member Peter Thiel's funding of lawsuit against Gawker
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Facebook plans to officially kill its video ad exchange LiveRail
The writing has been on the wall for some time. — Facebook plans to shutter LiveRail — the video ad exchange that it bought back in 2014 for a reported $400 million to $500 million — for good someti...
Google app on iOS gets faster load times, AMP articles in search, keyboard shortcuts, more
Faster load and search times are the highlight feature of an update to the Google app on iOS. Like on the mobile web and Android, AMP articles will now show up in search results.
Jury in Oracle suit unanimously finds Google's use of Java APIs in Android was fair use; Oracle vows to appeal
here's why that matters Rajesh Pandey / Android Beat : Jury Rules Google Makes ‘Fair Use’ of Java APIs in Android John Callaham / Android Central : Google wins legal fight with Oracle, jury rules for ...
Hacker behind LinkedIn's 117M e-mail database claims to have 360M Myspace user emails with passwords
There's an oft-repeated adage in the world of cybersecurity: There are two types of companies, those that have been hacked, and those that don't yet know they have been hacked.
Pew: 62% of US adults get news on social media; 66% of Facebook, 23% of Instagram, 21% of YouTube, 19% of LinkedIn users get news there
A majority of U.S. adults - 62% - get news on social media, and 18% do so often, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center …
Sources: Xbox compatible VR game slated for 2017 launch by a well-known European studio
New info lends credence to reports of new, VR-compatible console from Microsoft. — Ars can confirm that at least one major developer is currently planning to release a new virtual reality game …
Sources: the Feinstein-Burr encryption bill has lost support in Congress, likely won't be introduced this year
After a rampage that left 14 people dead in San Bernardino, key U.S. lawmakers pledged to seek a law requiring technology companies to give law enforcement agencies a “back door” …
Sen. Wyden: this year's annual intelligence authorization, just passed in Senate committee and not yet public, allows FBI warrantless access to email records
A provision snuck into the still-secret text of the Senate's annual intelligence authorization would give the FBI the ability …
Some Silicon Valley luminaries, including Vinod Khosla and Jessica Livingston, express approval for Peter Thiel's tactics against Gawker
SAN FRANCISCO — After the news that one of Silicon Valley's stars secretly funded a lawsuit to bring down a gossip site, the overwhelming response …
UK carrier Three to test 24 hour, opt-in, network level mobile ad blocking during the week of June 13
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ZTE launches 5.5-inch Google Daydream-ready Axon 7 for $450 alongside its first VR headset
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Facebook and Microsoft partner to lay highest capacity transatlantic internet cable yet, connecting Virginia and Spain with a bandwidth of 160Tbps
Strange bedfellows decide to build 160 … Trevor Mogg / Digital Trends : Facebook and Microsoft dive underwater to lay a new internet cable to Europe BBC : Tech firms plan the highest capacity Atlantic...
Intel buys computer vision company Itseez, co-founded by two former Intel researchers, in IoT and autonomous car push
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Big Win For Fair Use: Jury Says Google's Use Of Java API's Was Fair Use... On To The Appeal
This is somewhat surprising, but good: after a few days of deliberation, the jury in the redo of the Oracle v. Google case concerning Google's use of Java's APIs in Android has resulted …
Genius' web annotator tool exposed sites on genius.it to XSS attacks by ignoring CSP policy
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