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Christchurch, announced on 8chan, streamed on Facebook, and shared endlessly on YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit, feels like the first internet-native mass shooting — Before entering a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, the site of one of the deadliest mass murders in the country's history …
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
Reddit bans r/watchpeopledie and r/gore after users shared links to videos of the Christchurch shooting to the subreddits — Reddit banned two contentious but popular groups that regularly featured human injury and death following the widespread sharing of videos of the New Zealand terrorist incident on Friday.| Sherisse Pham / CNN: |
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter struggle to halt the spread of the horrific New Zealand shooting video; one of the shooters livestreamed the attack on Facebook — Hong Kong (CNN Business)Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are struggling to halt the spread of horrific footage that appears to show …
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| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
Valve says it will now investigate Steam review bombing campaigns and hide reviews it identifies as “off-topic” — But there are still problems with this approach — Valve says it's taking a new approach to user reviews on its gaming marketplace Steam, after attempting …
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| Owen Williams / Charged: |
A point-by-point analysis of Apple's eloquent PR doublespeak response to Spotify's antitrust complaint — Apple remained silent for two entire days after Spotify accused it of unfair practices, apparently stunned by the sudden turn of events. Now, it's responded to Spotify's claims …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
McAfee research: 100+ unique exploits are using the recently disclosed code-execution vulnerability in WinRAR, a file compression app, to infect Windows users — As expected, the recent WinRAR vulnerability is now being abused en-masse by multiple threat actors.
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
SimilarWeb data shows visits to Tumblr have fallen nearly 30%, from 521M in Dec. to 370M in Feb., since permanently banning adult content from the site in Dec. — Tumblr has lost 30 percent of web traffic since December — Since Tumblr announced its porn ban in December …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
App performance monitoring startup PagerDuty files its S-1, says it had FY2018 revenue of $79.6M, up 41% YoY, and 10K+ customers, including GE, IBM, and Netflix — - PagerDuty had a $15.3 million net loss on sales of $31.2 million in the quarter that ended on Oct. 31.| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Leaked email: Amazon is seeking investors for a new program, AWS Pro-Rata, which matches private investors with venture funds to invest in specific startups — - Companies listed as opportunities include Boom, which manufactures supersonic jets, and Roman, a maker of men's health products.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Tinder says it no longer relies on a “desirability” score and that it now adjusts matches a user sees within 24 hours of someone acting on that user's profile — RIP to the mysterious Elo score — Tinder wants to set the record straight about how its platform ranks … | Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Beto O'Rourke acknowledges that, as a teenager, he was a member of Cult of the Dead Cow, one of the oldest US computer hacker groups — Illustration REUTERS/Mike Segar/Troy Dunkley — As the Texas Democrat enters the race for president, members of a group famous for “hactivism” …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Zeus, a platform that lets people rent out their homes as long-term corporate housing, says it has raised a total of $24M via seed, Series A, and debt financing — Stealing Airbnb's corporate housing market — Cookie-cutter corporate housing turns people into worker drones.
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