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A look at the global trade in hacked links, where hackers compromise websites and charge to add links to sites to improve SEO (BuzzFeed News)

BuzzFeed News: A look at the global trade in hacked links, where hackers compromise websites and charge to add links to sites to improve SEO  —  This August, Molly Stillman logged on to her lifestyle blog to update a few popular old posts, freshening them up so they would continue to attract traffic from Pinterest

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A look at the global trade in hacked links, where hackers compromise websites and charge to add links to sites to improve SEO (BuzzFeed News)

{$inline_image} BuzzFeed News: A look at the global trade in hacked links, where hackers compromise websites and charge to add links to sites to improve SEO  —  This August, Molly Stillman logged on to her lifestyle blog to update a few popular old posts, freshening them up so they would continue to attract traffic from

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Forbes estimates that the highest paid YouTube star of 2019 is Ryan Kaji, an eight-year-old with 23M subscribers, who has earned $26M this year (Madeline Berg/Forbes)

Madeline Berg / Forbes: Forbes estimates that the highest paid YouTube star of 2019 is Ryan Kaji, an eight-year-old with 23M subscribers, who has earned $26M this year  —  Anastasia Radzinskaya is an unlikely media star.  Born in southern Russia with cerebral palsy, her doctors feared she would never be able to speak. Forbes estimates

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Interviews with current and former staff, sellers, and suppliers on how Amazon dictates and unpredictably changes rules, punishes and threatens businesses (Karen Weise/New York Times)

Karen Weise / New York Times: Interviews with current and former staff, sellers, and suppliers on how Amazon dictates and unpredictably changes rules, punishes and threatens businesses  —  Twenty years ago, Amazon opened its storefront to anyone who wanted to sell something.  Then it began demanding more out of them. Interviews with current and former

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During T-Mobile-Sprint merger trial, the key arguments of both T-Mobile and merger-opposing AGs seemed to rest on whether Dish can create a viable competitor (The Verge)

The Verge: During T-Mobile-Sprint merger trial, the key arguments of both T-Mobile and merger-opposing AGs seemed to rest on whether Dish can create a viable competitor  —  For two weeks now, the future of the American mobile broadband industry has hinged on a small courtroom in lower Manhattan … During T-Mobile-Sprint merger trial, the key

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Data shows 21 female founded or co-founded companies reached unicorn status in 2019, up from 15 in 2018 (Natasha Mascarenhas/Crunchbase News)

Natasha Mascarenhas / Crunchbase News: Data shows 21 female founded or co-founded companies reached unicorn status in 2019, up from 15 in 2018  —  Venture capitalist Jennifer Neundorfer gave me (quite possibly) the quote of the year when we spoke in October.  When describing her firm, Jane VC, and its focus on female founders, she

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Recent news that NHS sold patient data to US drug giants fuels fear, but tie-ins between public health services and private firms can offer better patient care (Daphne Leprince-Ringuet/ZDNet)

Daphne Leprince-Ringuet / ZDNet: Recent news that NHS sold patient data to US drug giants fuels fear, but tie-ins between public health services and private firms can offer better patient care  —  Partnerships between public health services and big tech will bring new treatments to patients faster.  But sharing data is still the big stumbling

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Tiny Bubbles in the Clock

When [DonHo] sang about tiny bubbles, he probably wasn’t thinking of them embedded in glycerine. But that’s where the bubbles in [ShinodaY]’s clock reside. The viscous fluid holds the bubbles better allowing the time to be read more easily. You can watch the relaxing display in the video below. The theory of operation is simple

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Profile of Cliff Stoll, whose memoir The Cuckoo's Egg, which traces the first known case of state-sponsored hacking, inspired a generation of cybersecurity pros (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Profile of Cliff Stoll, whose memoir The Cuckoo’s Egg, which traces the first known case of state-sponsored hacking, inspired a generation of cybersecurity pros  —  Thirty years ago, Cliff Stoll published The Cuckoo’s Egg, a book about his cat-and-mouse game with a KGB-sponsored hacker. Profile of Cliff Stoll, whose memoir The

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A look at the biggest tech trends of 2019, a year marked by antitrust investigations, consumer protests against big companies, and tough IPOs for startups (Rani Molla/Vox)

Rani Molla / Vox: A look at the biggest tech trends of 2019, a year marked by antitrust investigations, consumer protests against big companies, and tough IPOs for startups  —  A year-end look back at the tech trends that ended the decade.  —  It’s been a year of shattered expectations in tech. A look at

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