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    28 May 2018

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  2. 1 minute ago

    Apple launches new iPod touch with A10 Fusion chip, support for Group FaceTime, and a 256GB storage option, available to order now starting at $199 (Apple)

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  3. 7 minutes ago

    A behind-the-scenes account on what it was like to provide basic cybersecurity training to 41 Democratic Congressional campaigns from late 2017 to 2018 ( / Idle Words)

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  4. 17 minutes ago

    Four German publishing groups, Axel Springer, Funke Mediengruppe, RTL, and Gruner+Jahr, will sell their combined ad inventory in an effort to combat Big Tech ( / Digiday)

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  5. 32 minutes ago

    Global Payments will buy Total System Services for $21.5B, valuing it at $119.86 per share, the payment industry's third mega-merger of the year (Bloomberg)

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  6. 1 hour ago

    A Deep Instinct-commissioned art piece of a laptop containing six pieces of malware that have caused an estimated $95B in damages sells for $1.3M+ at auction ( / Engadget)

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  7. 1 hour ago

    Leaked doc: Google has ~121K temporary and contract workers globally, compared with ~102K full-time staff, raising concerns about its growing reliance on them ( / New York Times)

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  8. 2 hours ago

    Dell updates the XPS 13 2-in-1 with a new design, Intel's 10th Gen processors, webcam above the screen, new keyboard and larger touchpad, starting at $1,000 ( / Engadget)

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  9. 2 hours ago

    Pl@ntNet, a social collaborative app for identifying plants, shows how good social media can be without the engagement imperative ( / Quartz)

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  10. 4 hours ago

    A look at AT&T's grand vision of transforming into a "modern media company" spanning multiple content networks, distribution channels, and customer data streams ( / Fortune)

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  11. 6 hours ago

    PUBG was banned in the Indian state of Gujarat in March amid fears about its violence and addictiveness; police have arrested 21 people for playing it in public ( / BuzzFeed News)

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  12. 9 hours ago

    As the Tiananmen anniversary nears, censorship by Chinese internet companies has ramped up and is largely automated with AI and voice and image recognition tech ( / Reuters)

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  13. 10 hours ago

    The internet is becoming a dark forest, full of life that's retreated from public view, as private spaces like Facebook Groups and invite-only forums have grown ( / OneZero)

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  14. 10 hours ago

    Sources: the overseas version of Honour of Kings flopped due to development and marketing missteps and rift with Riot Games, as Tencent retools strategy abroad (Reuters)

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  15. 11 hours ago

    Neolix, a Chinese driverless vehicle company, is mass producing autonomous delivery vans, expects to manufacture a thousand vans in its first year (Bloomberg)

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  16. 11 hours ago

    In the year since GDPR took effect, a look at the first wave of decisions and fines issued by data protection authorities in EU countries (Philip Nabben / Lexology)

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  17. 13 hours ago

    Since GDPR, Ireland's Data Protection Commission says it has launched 19 cross-border investigations, 11 of which focus on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram ( / BBC)

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  18. 14 hours ago

    Profile of HobbyKidsTV, a family-run children's YouTube channel with 3M+ subscribers and adult moderators protecting its kid hosts and viewers from predators ( / Wired)

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  19. 16 hours ago

    Sources: Alibaba is considering raising $20B via a second listing in Hong Kong, after raising a record-breaking $25B in its 2014 market debut on the NYSE (Bloomberg)

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  20. 18 hours ago

    SoundCloud acquires rights management platform Repost Network, which is used by over 20M audio creators and offers content distribution to over 25 stores ( / )

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  21. 19 hours ago

    Coordinated reversal of transactions after some BCH was stolen, due to a bug during the latest Bitcoin Cash hardfork, may undermine trust in this blockchain (BitMEX Blog)

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