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German authorities have shut down an illegal data center in a former NATO bunker, which hosted dark web sites and launched the 2016 Deutsche Telekom attack (Geir Moulson/Associated Press)

Geir Moulson / Associated Press: German authorities have shut down an illegal data center in a former NATO bunker, which hosted dark web sites and launched the 2016 Deutsche Telekom attack  —  BERLIN (AP) — German investigators said Friday they have shut down a data processing center installed in a former NATO bunker … German

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A VC narrative that software-enabled companies like Uber should be valued at 10x+ revenue is falling apart but is still valid for startups with margins of 75%+ (Fred Wilson/AVC)

Fred Wilson / AVC: A VC narrative that software-enabled companies like Uber should be valued at 10x+ revenue is falling apart but is still valid for startups with margins of 75%+  —  Dan Primack wrote in his friday newsletter: … While all of this is true, I think it is a lot simpler than that.

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Sources: House investigators asked Google about plans to implement DNS-over-HTTPS in Chrome; ISPs fear the protocol will prevent them from tracking user data (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: House investigators asked Google about plans to implement DNS-over-HTTPS in Chrome; ISPs fear the protocol will prevent them from tracking user data  —  New standard could alter web’s competitive landscape, cable and wireless companies say  —  Congressional antitrust investigators … Sources: House investigators asked Google about plans to implement DNS-over-HTTPS in

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The Chernin Group buys a majority stake in Food52 for $83M, valuing the ecommerce and media startup which offers recipes and home-improvement tips at $100M+ (Benjamin Mullin/Wall Street Journal)

Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: The Chernin Group buys a majority stake in Food52 for $83M, valuing the ecommerce and media startup which offers recipes and home-improvement tips at $100M+  —  Food52, a media and e-commerce business, was founded by food journalists from the New York Times The Chernin Group buys a majority stake

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Sources: Venezuela is evaluating if it can count cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin it may have received from oil sales, toward the country's international reserves (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Venezuela is evaluating if it can count cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin it may have received from oil sales, toward the country’s international reserves  —  – Central bank to decide if crypto can count as foreign reserves  — Government hampered by sanctions that limit access to dollars Sources: Venezuela is evaluating if it can count

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A look at historian Margaret O'Mara's new book The Code, which traces how our uneasy present deviated from the rosy future the tech industry promised (Kim Phillips-Fein/New Republic)

Kim Phillips-Fein / New Republic: A look at historian Margaret O’Mara’s new book The Code, which traces how our uneasy present deviated from the rosy future the tech industry promised  —  Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems.  What went wrong?  —  Add to Pocket A look at historian Margaret O'Mara's

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[Thread] New UK-US treaty grants UK courts options similar to those of the US for obtaining message content, but won't change the status quo on E2E encryption (Alex Stamos/@alexstamos)

Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: [Thread] New UK-US treaty grants UK courts options similar to those of the US for obtaining message content, but won’t change the status quo on E2E encryption  —  It’s really early on a Sunday, so while I sip my coffee I’m also going to try to clear up a lot of

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