Sources: Saudis groomed a Twitter employee to spy on accounts of dissidents; he was investigated and fired in Dec. 2015 after Western intelligence warnings
Each morning, Jamal Khashoggi would check his phone to discover what fresh hell had been unleashed while he was sleeping.
OnePlus 6T launch event in NYC moved up by a day to avoid overlap with Apple's October 30 event; OnePlus event is a ticketed event for fans as well as press
OnePlus is moving up the launch of its OnePlus 6T by a day in order to avoid colliding with Apple's iPad Pro and Mac event on October 30th, which was just announced yesterday.
Researcher discovers and helps patch 13 vulnerabilities in open source IoT OS FreeRTOS and Amazon's AWS secure connectivity modules using the OS
Researchers have found that a popular Internet of Things real-time operating system - FreeRTOS - is riddled with serious vulnerabilities.
dYdX, a startup that develops decentralized financial derivative products on Ethereum blockchain, raises $10M Series A led by a16z crypto and Polychain Capital
A startup called dYdX has raised $10 million in funding from investors to develop financial software that allows people …
Brazil-based Loggi, a fast delivery services platform matching couriers with shippers, is raising a $111M round, with SoftBank's Vision Fund contributing $100M
- Loggi notching up to 3 million deliveries a month: CEO — Sao Paulo-based startup to invest in engineers, robotics
A look at apps like Cruz Crew, N.R.A., and Great America that offer conservatives safe spaces free from the content guidelines of big platforms like Facebook
Imagine a society in which everyone more or less agrees with you. — You wake up in the morning to online greetings from people …
DOJ charges Russian national involved in “Project Lakhta”, an alleged foreign influence operation to interfere in US midterms by pushing misinformation online
Facebook's ‘War Room’ Is a Marketing Ploy Shaun Nichols / The Register : Apple boss demands Bloomberg Super Micro U-turn, Russian troll charged, NSA hands out cash, and more Washington Post : McCain's...
A look at traditional auto makers' attempts to reimagine themselves as software and service companies, in order to fend off rivals like Uber and Waymo
As IPO proposals value Uber at an eye-popping $120 billion, auto makers are racing to gain ground in everything from car sharing to driverless technology. Tweets: @sub8u Tweets: Subrahmanyam Kvj / @su...
Officials say a government computer system that interacts with HealthCare.gov was hacked earlier this month, compromising sensitive data for ~75,000 people
almost makes you think that the government didn't really want anyone to see this. http://techcrunch.com/... @theregister : US Department of Health IT security breach discovered October 16. Disclosed p...
Joshua Schachter on inventing tags for bookmarks, selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo in 2005, and Yahoo's mismanagement of the service before its 2017 shutdown
As told to , Jake Swearingen @JakeSwearingen — Joshua Schachter's groundbreaking social-bookmarking site Del.icio.us, founded in 2003 … Tweets: @jenny8lee , @csertoglu , @simonowens , and @nymag Twe...
Interview with YC partner Paul Buchheit about how he got started with programming, joining Google and creating Gmail, becoming a great engineer, and more
On Becoming a Programmer … One moment I remember really getting into programming came while playing a fantasy RPG video game. Tweets: @garrytan and @carnage4life Tweets: Garry Buidl Tan / @garrytan : ...
Interview with Brian Amerige, the former Facebook employee whose memo accusing the company of being a political monoculture led to fierce internal debate
AT ONE POINT this summer, Brian Amerige seemed destined to become the next James Damore. — Like Damore, the Google engineer who wrote … Tweets: @lizthegrey , @carnage4life , @caitlin__kelly , and @a...
UK parliament report: an unknown firm spent an estimated £250K+ in the past 10 months on Facebook ads pushing for a hard Brexit and reaching 10M to 11M people
Adam Satariano / New York Times :
How political data firms continue to vacuum up psychological and personal data on people in order to sway voters, even after the Cambridge Analytica scandal
In April, when the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Washington … Tweets: @profcarroll Tweets: David Carroll / @profcarroll : Mind Games: @suehalpernVT ...
DFC Intelligence report: by focusing on games-as-a-service, EA grew to $33B in market value from $4B in 2012, while Activision Blizzard grew to $60B from $10B
Sam Desatoff / GameDaily.biz :
SEC filing: Microsoft now includes LinkedIn performance metrics, like the number of active users, in calculating stock awards to four top execs, including CEO
- Microsoft paid $27 billion for LinkedIn in 2016 and is now tying its performance to executive pay. Tweets: @stevesi , @asanwal , @evanish , and @jordannovet Tweets: Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : // t...
Review of Intel 9th Gen CPUs: best gaming CPUs if money is no object, but for tasks where GPU is the bottleneck, older Intel or AMD chips are a wiser choice
Ian Cutress / AnandTech : Tweets: @nick_craver and @steipete . Thanks: @iancutress Tweets: Nick Craver / @nick_craver : We'll be looking hard at the 9900k for the next Stack Overflow dev build. AMD p...
Real-time data analytics startup Incorta raises $15M Series B extension led by Microsoft's VC arm M12 and Telstra Ventures, closing the round at $30M
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
South Africa-based Adhara, a startup that builds private blockchains for banks using privacy centric Ethereum fork Quorum, raises $15M from Consensys
Ian Allison / CoinDesk :
Many of the economists who testified at FTC hearings this week and dismissed or criticized the idea of tech monopolies received money from big tech in the past
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