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| Chuq Von Rospach / Writing & Commentary: |
Reddit is fatally broken, should rebuild by hiring or contracting top 100+ moderators to align mod motivations with the company, kill controversial subreddits — The Death of Reddit — [edit July 12: when you're done here, I wrote a followup for you: Fixing or Replacing Reddit, some quick thoughts — take a look! chuq]
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See also Mediagazer| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Welcome to Voat: Reddit killer, troll haven, and the strange face of internet free speech — Reddit's refugees are, by some accounts, the worst of an already bad lot. They're the people who deride any hint of anti-racism or anti-sexism as “social justice warrior” (or SJW) antics …
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| Sam Altman / reddit: |
Sam Altman announces Ellen Pao's resignation to Reddit, begins AMA — An old team at reddit — Ellen Pao resigned from reddit today by mutual agreement. I'm delighted to announce that Steve Huffman, founder and the original reddit CEO, is returning as CEO.
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Tweets: @yishan, @ekp, @mikeisaac, @waxpancake, @om, @drew, @beschizza, @dhh, @caseynewton, @tao23, @cwarzel, @film_girl, @lhockenson, @roseveleth, @codinghorror, @waxpancake, @dangillmor, @om and @sdkstl
See also Mediagazer| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
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See also Mediagazer| Reuters: |
Sources: FTC looking into claims Apple treats rival music streaming services in its app store illegally under antitrust law — FTC exploring Apple rules for streaming music rivals in App Store — U.S. government antitrust regulators are looking into claims about whether Apple's treatment …
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Ars Technica, BetaNews, Digital Trends, Macworld, The Daily Dot, Engadget, PC Magazine, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Patently Apple, Tech Times, iMore, iPhone Hacks, The Next Web, AppleInsider and MacRumors. Tweets: @pkafka
| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
New study finds 90% of tech patent lawsuits in first half of 2015 were filed by patent trolls — Patent troll lawsuits head toward all-time high — Of high-tech patent suits, 90 percent are filed by “non-practicing entities.” — New patent statistics show that patent litigation … | Eric Geller / The Daily Dot: |
Behind the new Crypto War: governments and tech companies face off over encryption backdoors — The rise of the new Crypto War — James B. Comey, Jr., the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is afraid of the dark. — “The law hasn't kept pace with technology … | Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central: |
Google Photos continues syncing photos when app has been deleted from device; stops only when settings in Google Play Services have been changed — Use the Google Settings app to turn photo backup on and off, even after Google Photos is uninstalled — Backing up all of your photos somewhere online is a good idea.| Lucian Constantin / PCWorld: |
Exploit for second Flash vulnerability found in Hacking Team leak; Adobe expects to release a fix in the next week — Second Flash Player zero-day exploit found in Hacking Team's data — The huge cache of files recently leaked from Italian surveillance software maker Hacking Team is the gift that keeps on giving for attackers.
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Adobe Security Bulletin, Threat Research, The Register, TrendLabs Security …, The Hacker News, Trend Micro Simply Security, Malware don't need Coffee, BetaNews, Computerworld, Krebs on Security, Ars Technica, Malwarebytes Unpacked, We Live Security, Adobe Product Security … and SecurityWeek. Tweets: @swiftonsecurity
| Amy Phillips / Pitchfork: |
Apple created music videos in-house with Drake, Pharrell, Eminem, and M.I.A. for Apple Music — M.I.A. Audiovisual Project “Matahdatah Scroll 01 Broader Than a Border” Coming to Apple Music — The launch of Apple Music hasn't only included a new radio station, social network, and streaming service.| Katherine Rushton / Daily Mail: |
Google has received over 281K right to be forgotten requests to remove 1.1M links, deleted 602K of them — More than 280,000 people ask Google for the right to be forgotten and request more than a MILLION pages are wiped from the search engine's results — The massive scale …
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| Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic: |
How Marketplace Lite, a coders-for-hire team, salvaged healthcare.gov after the “tech surge” — The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America — Loren Yu was on a weekend trip in Los Angeles when he received an urgent email from a friend. The friend, Kalvin Wang, had a proposition.
Tweets: @juzmcmuz and @jacobshea
| Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals: |
Apple signs lease on 300K-square-foot campus in north San Jose, former Atmel headquarters, marking first major entry into the city in decades — Exclusive: Apple signs major lease in north San Jose, marking first significant entry into city — It's not the “Spaceship.”
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Mercury News, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Patently Apple and NBC Bay Area. Thanks:@svbiznate
| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Apple finally fixes shift: pressing shift in iOS 9 toggles the case of letters on the keyboard — Apple made a tiny change to the iPhone keyboard that everyone has been begging for — iOS 9, the upcoming operating system for iPhones and iPads, has a seemingly minor new addition to the on-screen keyboard … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
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