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

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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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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