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May 31, 2016, 1:15 PM

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Amar Toor / The Verge:
Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft agree to EU hate speech rules  —  Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and YouTube today agreed to European regulations that require them to review “the majority of” hateful online content within 24 hours of being notified — and to remove it, if necessary …
Mark Hachman / PCWorld:
Intel's Broadwell-E gaming CPU is a stunner, offering 10 cores for a whopping $1,723  —  Meet the next flagship chip for overclocking, gaming, and transcoding.  —  On paper, Intel's massive new 10-core—yes, 10—Broadwell-E gaming chips top out at 3.8GHz.  But buying one is like purchasing …
Nagraj Kashyap / The Official Microsoft Blog:
New Microsoft Ventures division to focus on early-stage investments in cloud, SaaS, security, and machine learning startups  —  When I came to Microsoft earlier this year, I was driven by the opportunity to establish a corporate venture group that would create an additional channel to engage the start-up ecosystem.
Tom Hals / Reuters:
Ruling from Delaware judge finds that Michael Dell, Silver Lake Partners underpriced their 2013 $24.9B buyout of Dell by 22%, may have to pay tens of millions  —  Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners underpriced their 2013 $24.9 billion buyout of Dell Inc [DI.UL] by about 22 percent …
Bob Dormon / Ars Technica UK:
A deep dive into internet infrastructure including submarine cable networks and landing stations, data centers, and last-mile networks in the UK  —  Ah, there you are.  That didn't take too long, surely?  Just a click or a tap and, if you've some 21st century connectivity, you landed on this page in a trice.
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Nicola Twilley / New Yorker:
Terrapattern, the first open-access, neural net-powered reverse image search tool for satellite imagery, launches in alpha  —  “Why don't you click on the tennis court?”  Golan Levin, an associate professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University, suggested.  I was looking at a satellite image …

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