Windows 10 Anniversary Update starts rolling out today via Windows Update or manual download
Starting today the Windows 10 Anniversary Update will begin rolling out for our customers around the world*. The Windows 10 Anniversary Update is full of new features and innovations …
Time Warner buying 10% of Hulu, source says for $580M, will join Hulu's new pay TV service
This TV package is different from the rest. — After months of talks, Time Warner is buying a chunk of Hulu, the web TV service. — The deal means Time Warner will be partners with existing owners D...
Telegram says only publicly available data collected in attack on Telegram in Iran, accounts not accessed
Certain people checked whether some Iranian numbers were registered on Telegram and were able to confirm this for 15 million accounts. As a result, only publicly available data …
Hong Kong-based Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex hacked, roughly 120K bitcoins worth $60M+ stolen; Bitcoin down almost 20%
The price of bitcoin fell sharply today exacerbating an already existing decline as global market participants reacted to news that one of the largest digital currency exchanges had been hacked.
Windows 10 Anniversary Update review: more polished OS, improved Cortana, support for Edge extensions, other improvements make it a worthwhile update
It's already been a year since Microsoft launched Windows 10, and we have had a couple of updates since release.
Privacy International releases a searchable database of 500+ surveillance companies, Surveillance Industry Index, including company brochures and export data
The surveillance industry is notoriously secretive and opaque. But on Tuesday, activists at Privacy International released …
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 available on major US carriers on August 19, starting at $850 unsubsidized, or $35+/month with a 2 year contract
Ready to pre-order the Samsung Galaxy Note 7? Or maybe you just want to know how much this bad boy is going to cost?
Microsoft expands HoloLens availability to business customers, debuts HoloLens Commercial Suite with Kiosk Mode, support for VPN, BitLocker, more
Microsoft is starting to roll out on a limited basis its HoloLens augmented-reality glasses to business customers, beginning with those in the U.S. and Canada.
Firefox 48 arrives with multi-process support, drops old OS X versions and Android Gingerbread
Mozilla today launched Firefox 48 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The browser has gained multi-processor support (finally), enhanced protection against harmful downloads, and media improvements...
Hacker known as Peace is selling a dump of alleged user credentials for 200M+ Yahoo accounts from 2012 for 3 BTC; Yahoo is investigating
A notorious cybercriminal is advertising 200 million of alleged Yahoo user credentials on the dark web, and the company has said it is “aware” …
White House science and tech office announces Alphabet's Project Wing drone delivery to be tested in US; NSF will spend $35M on drone research and safety
White House announces funding, research for unmanned flight — Industry also promises education campaign on drone safety
Sources: Grab raising $600M+ round led by Didi Chuxing and Softbank, and raising $400M separately
China's Didi Chuxing and SoftBank Group Corp. are leading a new round of funding in top Southeast Asian ride-sharing service Grab that could top $600 million, according to people familiar with the dea...
Obama administration is mulling designating the election system as critical infrastructure, which would trigger significant new cybersecurity investments by DHS
Jeh Johnson said the Obama administration is considering ways to further protect the system from a cyber attack.
Sources: Wal-Mart is in talks to buy online retailer Jet.com in deal worth as much as $3B
Jet.com launched one year ago and raised more than $500 million — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is in talks to buy online discount retailer Jet.com Inc., according to people familiar with the matter …
Electronic Arts beat analyst estimates in fiscal Q1 with $1.27B in revenue, $440M net income
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Facebook is testing mid-roll, fifteen-second video ads in Facebook Live streams
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Used-car e-tailer startup Vroom debuts VR showrooms in Houston, Austin, the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie, and Phoenix, enabling VR test drives
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Instagram “Stories” clones Snapchat's Stories feature for ephemeral photo and video slideshows, will roll out globally on iOS and Android over next few weeks
One of the more eye-rolling sentiments … Alexandra Vaidos / Softpedia News : Instagram Introduces Snapchat-like Feature Stories Shashidhar KJ / MediaNama : Instagram takes on Snapchat with self-destru...
Distil raises $21M Series C to discover, shut down bad web scraping bots with proactive traffic analysis, bringing total raised to $65M
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Xbox One S review: striking new design, 4K and HDR are good though limited, but hard to recommend with the more powerful Project Scorpio coming in 2017
to the Xbox 360 John Callaham / Windows Central : PSA: Xbox Live is currently dealing with sign up and purchase issues [Update: It's back] Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech : Microsoft's Xbox One S: 4K Blu-ra...
Google says links in mobile search results will soon take you to AMP version of page, if available, not the traditional HTML page
With yesterday's coverage of more rumours … Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : Google's speeding up mobile web search results for all sites Jordan Novet / VentureBeat : Google Search expands AMP support in...
Chinese mobile app and security software company Cheetah Mobile acquires France-based news aggregator News Republic for $57M
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OpenTV owner Kudelski settles with Apple, ending patent dispute in US and Europe over video streaming tech and removing threat of injunction in Germany
Etsy beats expectations with Q2 revenue of $85.3M, up 39% YoY, merchant sales hitting $669.7M, up 22.6% YoY; Etsy stock up 5%+ after hours
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Attic Labs raises $8.1M Series A round led by Greylock Partners as it debuts Noms, an open-source database with version control similar to Git
Code Issues 186 Pull requests 11 Wiki Pulse Graphs Aaron Boodman : ‘noms init’ — In 2013, I discovered Camlistore and began feverishly hacking on it. Jordan Novet / VentureBeat : Attic Labs raises $...
Medium acquires rich media embedding API platform Embedly; financial terms not disclosed
Medium : A New Team Embeds — A well-timed image or video can really put a point on a paragraph. Sean Creeley : Embedly Medium — Today we announced that Embedly has been acquired by Medium. Ken Yeu...
Sources: Snapchat's making new type of ad where users scan barcodes or other images to unlock sponsored content in app; one source says a fall rollout expected
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LinkedIn launches new app for influencers to share Q&A videos limited to 30 seconds
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NFL, Snapchat agree to multi-year partnership extension; NFL gets a Discover slot, will produce Live Stories for games; Snapchat will do most of ad-selling work
Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal :
Georgia man pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in insider trading hacking case involving the theft of over 150K unpublished press releases
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