The history of celebrity: from Bernhardt to the Kardashians the-tls.co.uk · Hacker News · 15 hours ago
Datadog, an app performance monitoring and analytics platform, raises $648M in US IPO, valuing the company at $7.83B, after rejecting Cisco's acquisition offer bloomberg.com · Techmeme · 16 hours ago
US‘ fiber broadband shortage: Only 30% of homes have fiber access arstechnica.com · Reddit · 16 hours ago
New studies find smart TVs are still sending sensitive data to third parties techspot.com · Reddit · 16 hours ago
Sources: Cisco approached Datadog recently with a takeover offer significantly higher than the $7B valuation it is aiming for in an IPO expected this week bloomberg.com · Techmeme · 18 hours ago
T-Mobile’s Sprint merger is opposed by 18 state attorneys general. engadget.com · Reddit · 18 hours ago
AT&T may spin off DirecTV as customers continue mass exodus, WSJ reports arstechnica.com · Reddit · 18 hours ago
Arizonans could save $3.5B with quicker coal to solar+storage transition, report finds utilitydive.com · Reddit · 18 hours ago
Nothing standing in the way of energy storage’s ‘explosive growth’. The market research company in its latest report identified close to 2,100 energy storage projects globally. And international storage markets are anticipated to grow exponentially over the next decade. utilitydive.com · Reddit · 18 hours ago
San Jose Becomes the Largest City in the US to Ban New Natural Gas Lines gizmodo.com · Reddit · 18 hours ago
Breaker for Android — Social podcasts are now available on Android producthunt.com · Product Hunt · 19 hours ago
A high-performance, zero allocation, dynamic JSON Threat Protection in pure Go github.com · Hacker News · 19 hours ago
The New York Times shutters NYT en Español after three years niemanlab.org · Hacker News · 19 hours ago
Sources: AT&T is considering parting ways with its DirecTV unit, including spinning it off into a separate public company or combining assets with Dish wsj.com · Techmeme · 20 hours ago
DCVC, which focuses on early-stage "deep" technology startups, closes a $725M fifth fund; the fourth DCVC fund, raised in 2016, topped out at $212M news.crunchbase.com · Techmeme · 20 hours ago
Nielsen acquires a minority stake in OpenSlate, which evaluates brand safety of video content on YouTube and Facebook; source: deal values OpenSlate at $100M+ wsj.com · Techmeme · 20 hours ago
GitHub buys code analysis tool Semmle, which helps identify security vulnerabilities and has Microsoft, Google among clients; Semmle raised $31M in VC funding techcrunch.com · Techmeme · 20 hours ago
Dental Intelligence, a Utah-based analytics and workflow automation platform for dental practices, raises $34M Series A finsmes.com · Techmeme · 20 hours ago
High levels of plastic byproducts discovered in children, study finds. The study found toxic levels of plastic byproducts in 97 percent of the blood and urine samples gathered from 2,500 children tested. inhabitat.com · Reddit · 21 hours ago
This new eco-friendly game packaging could save tonnes of plastic every year – Devs urge the rest of the industry to follow suit in reducing plastic use. arstechnica.com · Reddit · 21 hours ago
AI can’t protect us from deepfakes, argues new report – Media manipulation has always required a social and technical fix theverge.com · Reddit · 21 hours ago
Barack Obama says any president should avoid TV and social media when making a decision — it ‘clouds your judgment’ businessinsider.com · Reddit · 21 hours ago
California just passed a landmark law to regulate Uber and Lyft – Drivers will likely get health care and paid time off under the law. vox.com · Reddit · 21 hours ago
University Of Alabama Is Using A Location-Tracking App To Punish Students For Leaving Football Games Early techdirt.com · Reddit · 21 hours ago
Workers Accuse Kickstarter of Union-Busting in Federal Complaint – The company has terminated three of eight members of Kickstarter’s union organizing committee within the past two weeks. vice.com · Reddit · 21 hours ago
Here’s every electric vehicle on sale in the US for 2020 and its range cnet.com · Reddit · 21 hours ago
Navy Confirms UFO Videos Are Real and Should Not Have Been Released nbcsandiego.com · Hacker News · 22 hours ago
Another push by tech giants to weaken the California Consumer Privacy Act, set to go into effect Jan. 1, has failed as it survives legislative sessions intact eff.org · Techmeme · 23 hours ago
Medium adds a "Save to Medium" bookmarking feature that lets users save articles to a reading list via sharing extensions on mobile and in Chrome theverge.com · Techmeme · 23 hours ago
Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking information swissinfo.ch · Hacker News · 1 day ago
Congress grills Google, Facebook, and Twitter again as lawmakers weigh creating a commission with subpoena power to study and monitor social media weaponization washingtonpost.com · Techmeme · 1 day ago