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Turnitin, a developer of AI software that checks for plagiarism, will be acquired by media conglomerate Advance Publications, reportedly for nearly $1.75B (Sydney Johnson/EdSurge)

Sydney Johnson / EdSurge: Turnitin, a developer of AI software that checks for plagiarism, will be acquired by media conglomerate Advance Publications, reportedly for nearly $1.75B  —  A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. Turnitin, a developer of

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Okta, a provider of identity management services for enterprises, plans to acquire Seattle-based workflow automation startup Azuqua for $52.5M in cash (Robert Hackett/Fortune)

Robert Hackett / Fortune: Okta, a provider of identity management services for enterprises, plans to acquire Seattle-based workflow automation startup Azuqua for $52.5M in cash  —  Okta, an identity-focused tech firm, said while reporting earnings Thursday that it plans to acquire Azuqua, a workflow automation startup based … Okta, a provider of identity management services

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Google says the Chrome zero-day it patched last week was used with a zero-day impacting Windows 7 32-bit systems and that Microsoft said it's working on a fix (Clement Lecigne/Google Online …)

Clement Lecigne / Google Online Security Blog: Google says the Chrome zero-day it patched last week was used with a zero-day impacting Windows 7 32-bit systems and that Microsoft said it’s working on a fix  —  On Wednesday, February 27th, we reported two 0-day vulnerabilities — previously publicly-unknown vulnerabilities … Google says the Chrome zero-day

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Spotify, Google, Pandora, and Amazon have filed to appeal a copyright ruling that increases payouts to songwriters by 44%; sources: Apple not planning to appeal (Variety)

Variety: Spotify, Google, Pandora, and Amazon have filed to appeal a copyright ruling that increases payouts to songwriters by 44%; sources: Apple not planning to appeal  —  Amazon is filing a separate appeal against the ruling, which would increase writer rates by nearly 50%. Spotify, Google, Pandora, and Amazon have filed to appeal a copyright

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Researchers find unprotected database owned by an email validation company with 150 GB of plaintext marketing data, including 763M unique email addresses (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Researchers find unprotected database owned by an email validation company with 150 GB of plaintext marketing data, including 763M unique email addresses  —  Last week, security researchers Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered an unprotected, publicly accessible MongoDB database containing … Researchers find unprotected database owned by an email validation

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This SDR Uses A Tube

When you think of a software defined radio (SDR) setup, maybe you imagine an IC or two, maybe feeding a computer. You probably don’t think of a vacuum tube. [Mirko Pavleski] built a one-tube shortwave SDR using some instructions from [Burkhard Kainka] which are in German, but Google Translate is good enough if you want

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This SDR Uses A Tube

{$inline_image} When you think of a software defined radio (SDR) setup, maybe you imagine an IC or two, maybe feeding a computer. You probably don’t think of a vacuum tube. [Mirko Pavleski] built a one-tube shortwave SDR using some instructions from [Burkhard Kainka] which are in German, but Google Translate is good enough if you

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Twitter adds new options to its reporting process for tweets that contain personal information, allowing users to specify what type of info was shared (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Twitter adds new options to its reporting process for tweets that contain personal information, allowing users to specify what type of info was shared  —  New options will let users flag the specific type of personal information that is being reported  —  Twitter is adding new options … Twitter adds

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Sony launches PS4 Remote Play app for iOS, four and a half years after it first landed on Android and three years after it arrived on PC and Mac (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)

Daniel Cooper / Engadget: Sony launches PS4 Remote Play app for iOS, four and a half years after it first landed on Android and three years after it arrived on PC and Mac  —  The latest update to the PlayStation 4 operating system has a feature that some users have craved since 2014. Sony launches

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Amazon has abruptly stopped buying products from thousands of wholesale vendors and is encouraging them to instead sell direct to customers on its marketplace (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon has abruptly stopped buying products from thousands of wholesale vendors and is encouraging them to instead sell direct to customers on its marketplace  —  – Company wants them to sell on more profitable marketplace  — Long-time suppliers panic about a sudden drought from Amazon Amazon has abruptly stopped buying products

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Sensor Tower: Pokémon GO has earned nearly $2.45B and had ~550M downloads since its July 2016 launch; the six Pokémon mobile games have earned ~$2.5B combined (Brittany Vincent/Variety)

Brittany Vincent / Variety: Sensor Tower: Pokémon GO has earned nearly $2.45B and had ~550M downloads since its July 2016 launch; the six Pokémon mobile games have earned ~$2.5B combined  —  Mobile gamers across the globe have spent approximately $2.5 billion so far on various “Pokémon” titles, according to new data from analyst Sensor Tower.

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