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    • Shift Technology, whose AI-powered platform to detect fraudulent insurance claims is used by 70 insurance companies around the world, raises $60M Series C (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

    Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Shift Technology, whose AI-powered platform to detect fraudulent insurance claims is used by 70 insurance companies around the world, raises $60M Series C  —  Paris-based Shift Technology has raised another $60 million funding round.  Bessemer Venture Partners is leading the round … Shift Technology, whose AI-powered platform to detect fraudulent insurance

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    • Nancy Pelosi says House Democrats plan to unveil legislation to reinstate "net neutrality" rules that were repealed by the Trump administration in December 2017 (David Shepardson/Reuters)

    {$inline_image} David Shepardson / Reuters: Nancy Pelosi says House Democrats plan to unveil legislation to reinstate “net neutrality” rules that were repealed by the Trump administration in December 2017  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. Congress plan to unveil legislation on Wednesday to reinstate … Nancy Pelosi says House Democrats plan to unveil

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    Justin McAllister’s Simple, Post-Apocalypse-Friendly Antennas

    Watch Justin McAllister’s presentation on simple antennas suitable for a zombie apocalypse and two things will happen: you’ll be reminded that everything antennas do is amazing, and their reputation for being a black magic art will fade dramatically. Justin really knows his stuff; there is no dangle-a-wire-and-hope-for-the-best in his examples. He demonstrates that it’s possible

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    • Alibaba, Office Depot partner to leverage each others' strengths across supplier, delivery, sales networks, debuting a co-branded e-commerce site for US SMBs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Alibaba, Office Depot partner to leverage each others’ strengths across supplier, delivery, sales networks, debuting a co-branded e-commerce site for US SMBs  —  Office Depot, one of the many big box stores feeling the impact from Amazon’s e-commerce dominance, announced on Monday … Alibaba, Office Depot partner to leverage each others'

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    • Juniper Networks to acquire Mist, a startup that offers an AI-powered wireless LAN for enterprises, for $405M (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet)

    Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: Juniper Networks to acquire Mist, a startup that offers an AI-powered wireless LAN for enterprises, for $405M  —  Juniper plans to use the purchase to bolster its software-defined enterprise portfolio and multicloud offerings.  —  Juniper Networks said on Monday that it plans to acquire Mist Systems … Juniper Networks to acquire

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    Cryptocurrency exchange WEX/BTC-e tied to Bitcoin ransomware hackers, report

    {$inline_image}Big four accountancy group PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has issued a special bulletin connecting the Iranian nationals behind notorious SamSam ransomware and the incredibly infamous cryptocurrency exchange WEX (formerly BTC-e). The report alleges SamSam creators Faramarz Shahi Savandi and Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri used the WEX exchange service to launder sizable chunks of the $6 million in Bitcoin generated throughout

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    • Agents and producers working on streaming projects for Apple complain about how involved and "intrusive" execs, including Tim Cook, have been, leading to delays (New York Post)

    New York Post: Agents and producers working on streaming projects for Apple complain about how involved and “intrusive” execs, including Tim Cook, have been, leading to delays  —  Apple’s push into Hollywood is off to a rough start — thanks in part to “intrusive” tech executives, including Tim Cook, The Post has learned. Agents and

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    • Researcher finds a server exposed online with 364M Chinese chat logs, including identity card numbers, addresses, and social media profiles (Yuan Yang/Financial Times)

    Yuan Yang / Financial Times: Researcher finds a server exposed online with 364M Chinese chat logs, including identity card numbers, addresses, and social media profiles  —  Hundreds of millions of private chat logs from Chinese users have been left exposed on the internet, a researcher has found, in another worrying case of weak data protection

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