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    • Inside Indonesia's "war room", a government-run hub with 70 engineers monitoring online news and social media for fake news, ahead of April 2019 elections (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Inside Indonesia’s “war room”, a government-run hub with 70 engineers monitoring online news and social media for fake news, ahead of April 2019 elections  —  By By Tassia Sipahutar and By Karlis Salna  — President Widodo being targeted by false claims, minister says Inside Indonesia's "war room", a government-run hub with 70 engineers monitoring

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    • After Orlando let its pilot with Amazon's facial "Rekognition" tech expire amid public outcry in June, FOIA docs show a new pilot has begun under a mutual NDA (Davey Alba/BuzzFeed News)

    Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News: After Orlando let its pilot with Amazon’s facial “Rekognition” tech expire amid public outcry in June, FOIA docs show a new pilot has begun under a mutual NDA  —  Walking around downtown Orlando, you might not notice the lightbulb-sized camera affixed to one of the traffic signal poles along …

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    • Moonday Morning: Canadian Bitcoin exchange hacked for $5.5M – ‘we cannot refund anything’

    It’s Monday which means only one thing – it’s also Moonday. We’re so into blockchain and cryptocurrency we don’t even call Monday Monday anymore. It is, and will always be, Moonday in our hearts. You know the drill, here’s what dropped over the weekend: 1. A major Singaporean energy provider has launched a blockchain-powered marketplace

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    • Profile of the "DNA Detective" CeCe Moore, a genetic genealogy expert whose work with data science company Parabon is helping law enforcement solve cold cases (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Profile of the “DNA Detective” CeCe Moore, a genetic genealogy expert whose work with data science company Parabon is helping law enforcement solve cold cases  —  On the afternoon of Nov. 18, 1987, Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg left Saanich, B.C., their hometown … Profile of the "DNA Detective" CeCe Moore, a genetic

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    • With its acquisition of Red Hat, IBM refocuses on its core strengths, rather than Watson, an AI push that was always more hype than reality (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)

    Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: With its acquisition of Red Hat, IBM refocuses on its core strengths, rather than Watson, an AI push that was always more hype than reality  —  With its latest $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, IBM may have found something more elementary than “Watson” to save its flagging business. With its

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    • Gab.com takes its service offline after GoDaddy informed the company they had violated terms of service and had 24 hours to move the domain to another provider (Sam Byford/The Verge)

    Sam Byford / The Verge: Gab.com takes its service offline after GoDaddy informed the company they had violated terms of service and had 24 hours to move the domain to another provider  —  Gab, the controversial social network with a far-right following, has pulled its website offline after domain provider GoDaddy gave it 24 hours

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    • Why Android Nearby, iBeacons, and Eddystone failed to gain traction: low consumer awareness, spammy local notifications, complicated on-site rollouts, more (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Why Android Nearby, iBeacons, and Eddystone failed to gain traction: low consumer awareness, spammy local notifications, complicated on-site rollouts, more  —  Apple, Google, and other tech titans once trumpeted beacons — tiny transmitters that interact with smartphones, wearables, and other nearby gadgets — as the future of retail. Why Android Nearby,

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    • How Gab, the social network where the Pittsburgh shooting suspect aired his hatred in full, became a platform of choice for neo-Nazis and other extremists (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

    Kevin Roose / New York Times: How Gab, the social network where the Pittsburgh shooting suspect aired his hatred in full, became a platform of choice for neo-Nazis and other extremists  —  Early Saturday, moments before the police say he barged into a Pittsburgh synagogue and opened fire, Robert D. Bowers’s anti-Semitic … How Gab,

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    • Interview with Tezos co-founder Kathleen Breitman on Tezos's management problems, negative press, her experience starting a new blockchain, big ICOs, and more (Brian Patrick Eha/BREAKER)

    Brian Patrick Eha / BREAKER: Interview with Tezos co-founder Kathleen Breitman on Tezos’s management problems, negative press, her experience starting a new blockchain, big ICOs, and more  —  Kathleen Breitman couldn’t be happier.  That, at least, is what she tells me, and that is the impression she gives. Interview with Tezos co-founder Kathleen Breitman on

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    • Syntiant, a startup working on microwatt-level AI chips, raises $25M Series B led by Microsoft's M12 with Alexa Fund and Intel Capital among other investors (Dylan McGrath/EE Times)

    Dylan McGrath / EE Times: Syntiant, a startup working on microwatt-level AI chips, raises $25M Series B led by Microsoft’s M12 with Alexa Fund and Intel Capital among other investors  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The venture capital arms of six prominent tech companies — including Microsoft, Amazon and Intel — invested Syntiant … Syntiant, a

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    • Ann Cavoukian, a key privacy expert in joint Toronto and Sidewalk Labs smart city project, has quit, citing opposition over proposed data collection practices (Gabrielle Canon/The Guardian)

    Gabrielle Canon / The Guardian: Ann Cavoukian, a key privacy expert in joint Toronto and Sidewalk Labs smart city project, has quit, citing opposition over proposed data collection practices  —  Wired neighborhood planned by Google sister company has raised questions over data protection  —  When it was announced last year … Ann Cavoukian, a key

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