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August 11, 2019

Vienna-based Bitpanda raises €43.6M through an Initial Exchange Offering (IEO), launches a crypto exchange that allows fiat-to-crypto trading in 54+ countries (Thomas Ohr/EU-Startups)

Thomas Ohr / EU-Startups: Vienna-based Bitpanda raises €43.6M through an Initial Exchange Offering (IEO), launches a crypto exchange that allows fiat-to-crypto trading in 54+ countries — Bitpanda, the Viennese fintech with more than 1 million users, just reached a significant milestone. Vienna-based Bitpanda raises €43.6M through an Initial Exchange Offering (IEO), launches a crypto exchange

Ninja disgusted with Twitch after pornography appears on his channel – CNET

The Fortnite pro criticizes the video streaming giant for using his offline channel to promote content across the site. Ninja disgusted with Twitch after pornography appears on his channel – CNET Source: CNet

The Lion King overtakes Frozen as Disney's biggest animated movie ever – CNET

Just ignore the “live-action” technicality. The Lion King overtakes Frozen as Disney's biggest animated movie ever – CNET Source: CNet

August 11, 2019

Defcon has a prototype secure voting machine for hacking, funded by a $10M DARPA project aimed at developing an open source voting platform on secure hardware (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Defcon has a prototype secure voting machine for hacking, funded by a $10M DARPA project aimed at developing an open source voting platform on secure hardware — At this year’s Defcon hacking conference, Darpa brought the beginnings of what it hopes will be impervious hardware. Defcon has a prototype secure

WWE SummerSlam 2019: Live updates, results and match ratings – CNET

Airing live right now on the WWE Network. WWE SummerSlam 2019: Live updates, results and match ratings – CNET Source: CNet

August 11, 2019

LeafLink raises $35M Series B led by Thrive Capital for its e-commerce marketplace that connects 1,200+ licensed cannabis brands to 3,500+ cannabis retailers (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: LeafLink raises $35M Series B led by Thrive Capital for its e-commerce marketplace that connects 1,200+ licensed cannabis brands to 3,500+ cannabis retailers — LeafLink, a wholesale marketplace for the cannabis industry, said today it’s closed a $35 million Series B round of funding led by Joshua Kushner’s Thrive

Best laptops, desktops and tablets for designers and creatives in 2019 – CNET

A place to start when you’re overwhelmed by choices. Best laptops, desktops and tablets for designers and creatives in 2019 – CNET Source: CNet

The best Apple HomeKit devices of 2019 – CNET

Want a smart home you can control using Siri commands? You’ll need the right devices — here are our favorites. The best Apple HomeKit devices of 2019 – CNET Source: CNet

Hackaday Links: August 11, 2019

By the time this goes to press, DEFCON 27 will pretty much be history. But badgelife continues, and it’d be nice to have a way of keeping track of all the badges offered. Martin Lebel stepped up to the challenge with a DEF CON 27 badgelife tracker. He’s been tracking the scene since March, and

August 11, 2019

Researchers: security flaws in 40+ kernel drivers from 20 vendors including Intel, AMD, and Huawei, can give hackers improperly elevated privileges on Windows (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Researchers: security flaws in 40+ kernel drivers from 20 vendors including Intel, AMD, and Huawei, can give hackers improperly elevated privileges on Windows — Affected vendors include the likes of Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, ASRock, AMI, Gigabyte, Realtek, Huawei, and more. Researchers: security flaws in 40+ kernel drivers from 20 vendors including

August 11, 2019

Apple's wearables, now at a $16B annual run rate and growing at 55%-60%, will cross iPad and Mac by the end of 2020 to become its third largest product category (Neil Cybart/Above Avalon)

Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: Apple’s wearables, now at a $16B annual run rate and growing at 55%-60%, will cross iPad and Mac by the end of 2020 to become its third largest product category — The wearables era at Apple began years ago. However, Wall Street and Silicon Valley are only now slowly starting

August 11, 2019

Carrier is an immersive podcast that left me on the edge of my seat

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge There are a ton of podcasts out there, but finding the right one can be difficult. In our new column Pod Hunters, we cover what we’ve been listening to that we can’t stop thinking about. I’d recommend against listening to QCode’s latest podcast while driving. When I

Enterprise software vendors mix and match monetization models: What happens when subscription, usage and licensing converge?

Enterprise software vendors are subscription happy, but they’re delving into usage plans for customers too. Toss in some perpetual licenses and your negotiations with strategic vendors are about to get more complicated. Enterprise software vendors mix and match monetization models: What happens when subscription, usage and licensing converge? Source: ZDNet Microsoft

A Quiet Place Part 2: Everything we know about the haunting sequel – CNET

Shh! John Krasinski is bringing moviegoers back to that horrific universe where noise = death. A Quiet Place Part 2: Everything we know about the haunting sequel – CNET Source: CNet

August 11, 2019

FireEye: Chinese state-backed hacker group APT41 hacks video-game companies and sells virtual game currencies on the dark web as a side hustle (Patrick Howell O'Neill/MIT Technology …)

Patrick Howell O’Neill / MIT Technology Review: FireEye: Chinese state-backed hacker group APT41 hacks video-game companies and sells virtual game currencies on the dark web as a side hustle — Just because you’re a world-class Chinese government hacker busy conducting espionage against geopolitical adversaries doesn’t mean you can’t make a little extra money on the

The dangerous cycle that keeps conspiracy theories in the news — and Trump’s tweets

Trump retweeted a conspiracy theory Saturday about the death of Jeffrey Epstein, turning baseless rumors into national news. The dangerous cycle that keeps conspiracy theories in the news — and Trump’s tweets Source: Washington Post Tech

August 11, 2019

Ninja disgusted at Twitch after porn stream was promoted on his channel

Image: Ninja This afternoon, streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins posted a video to Twitter to address an issue concerning his former Twitch profile page: the streaming platform had begun to promote other streamers in his place, including a channel streaming pornography earlier this morning. Earlier this month, Ninja announced that he was leaving Twitch for another

August 11, 2019

Tyler "Ninja" Blevins calls out Twitch for using his dormant channel to promote other streamers, including a bootleg porn broadcast for more than two hours (Jon Fingas/Engadget)

Jon Fingas / Engadget: Tyler “Ninja” Blevins calls out Twitch for using his dormant channel to promote other streamers, including a bootleg porn broadcast for more than two hours — Ninja (aka Tyler Blevins) has largely avoided any bad blood between him and Twitch following his jump to Mixer, but that apparently didn’t last long.

August 11, 2019

The dueling hashtags on Twitter, blaming the Clintons and Trump for Jeffrey Epstein's death, are a grim testament to our deeply poisoned information ecosystem (Charlie Warzel/New York Times)

Charlie Warzel / New York Times: The dueling hashtags on Twitter, blaming the Clintons and Trump for Jeffrey Epstein’s death, are a grim testament to our deeply poisoned information ecosystem — With each news cycle, the system grows more efficient. — Mr. Warzel is an Opinion writer at large. The dueling hashtags on Twitter, blaming

August 11, 2019

Here’s how anonymized personal data should be used to create better services

Ask anyone their opinion on companies using their data and the response will almost always be negative. It’s not surprising; revelation after revelation has revealed that the likes of Google and Facebook not only profit off of user data, but are often reckless or intrusive in the way that they do so. The level of

ESP8266 Controls TiVo Over the Network

Remember the TiVo? The set-top DVR that was once so popular of a hacking target that Hackaday had a dedicated subdomain for it has today largely faded into obscurity as time-shifted viewing has given way to Internet streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. But make no mistake, while the TiVo may no longer be the

Cats movie: Everything we know, from the weird trailer and beyond – CNET

The mutant cat-humans in the preview are hiss-terical, but there’s more to the upcoming movie than Twitter jokes. Cats movie: Everything we know, from the weird trailer and beyond – CNET Source: CNet

August 11, 2019

J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye will be published as an ebook for the first time

Image: Little, Brown & Company J.D. Salinger’s classic novel Catcher in the Rye will be published as an ebook for the first time this week, according to The New York Times. The profile details the late author and his estate’s reluctance to follow the rest of the publishing industry online. The Times reports that Little,

DARPA's $10 million voting machine couldn't be hacked at Defcon (for the wrong reasons) – CNET

The voting machine was supposed to be available for hackers to find security flaws. An unexpected bug stopped the experiment from starting until Defcon’s day. DARPA's million voting machine couldn't be hacked at Defcon (for the wrong reasons) – CNET Source: CNet

J.D. Salinger's books to finally get digital release – CNET

Reclusive author’s estate was seen as one of the major literary e-book holdouts. J.D. Salinger's books to finally get digital release – CNET Source: CNet

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