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Fri. 02/14 - Is It Time For a $500 PlayStation?
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Fri. 02/14 - Is It Time For a $500 PlayStation?

Feb 14, 2020 16m

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The DOJ charges a bitcoin mixing service. A judge has blocked Microsoft’s JEDI contract. What happens if the PlayStation 5 is $500? Google takes down some malicious browser extensions. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency Netgear.com/bestwifi Links: Ohio man arrested for running Bitcoin mixing service that laundered $300 million (ZDNet) Judge temporarily blocks Microsoft Pentagon cloud contract after Amazon suit (CNBC) Sony Is Struggling With PlayStation 5 Price Due to Costly Parts (Bloomberg) Google removes 500+ malicious Chrome extensions from the Web Store (ZDNet) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Lost Notebook (Wired) THE HIGH COST OF A FREE CODING BOOTCAMP (The Verge) Cost Cutting Algorithms Are Making Your Job Search a Living Hell (Vice) Are Algorithmically-Generated Term Papers the Next Big Challenge to Academic Integrity? (EdSurge) SoftBank’s $375 Million Bet on Pizza Went Really Bad Really Fast (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) How a Space Engineer Made Her Own Rotary Cell Phone (Wired)

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