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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