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.
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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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