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A detailed look at how police forces use “geofence” warrants and Google's Sensorvault location history database to find witnesses and suspects near crime scenes — The tech giant records people's locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes …
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Microsoft says a “limited” number of its web email service accounts were breached between Jan. 1 and March 28 using a customer support agent's credentials — On the heels of a trove of 773 million emails, and tens of millions of passwords, from a variety of domains getting leaked in January …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
As the key trial between Apple and Qualcomm starts on Tuesday, a report details the increasingly acrimonious relationship between the company CEOs — The legal battle between Qualcomm and Apple has grown increasingly tense since it began in early 2017. A new report from The Wall Street Journal explores …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Twitch releases its first original game called Twitch Sings, a karaoke title with a “go live” button to start a Twitch broadcast, available for free on Windows — The live streaming platform is getting into game development — Since becoming the de facto game streaming platform … | Charlotte West / OneZero: |
Q&A with people who still pay for email with EarthLink and AOL, which reported $600M revenue from email and dial-up in 2014 and estimated $400M in 2018 — It's not just Mike Pence and your grandma — a lot of people still use AOL and EarthLink, and pay for the privilege| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Profile of Amazon's HR chief Beth Galetti, the highest-ranking woman at the company and the only woman on the 18-person “S-Team” that reports directly to Bezos — Amazon's HR chief, former engineer Beth Galetti, is hiring hundreds of people a day. As the company's workforce swells, so do her challenges.
Tweets: @jill_bernstein, @mieky, @fastcodesign, @harrymccracken, and @fastcompany. Thanks:@mariedomingo
| Hannah Karp / Billboard: |
Sources: Amazon has entered into discussions to launch a free, ad-supported music service, offering a limited catalog, as early as next week — “Alexa, play free music.” — Amazon has entered into discussions to launch a free, ad-supported music service, sources familiar with the plan tell Billboard … | Brian J. Barth / The Walrus: |
Interview with RIM cofounder Jim Balsillie about his advocacy against the rise of surveillance capitalism in Canada and the Sidewalk Toronto smart city project — The entrepreneur who made billions putting BlackBerrys into pockets is now sounding the alarm about Big Tech's creep toward surveillance capitalism
Tweets: @hkanji and @jasonmoyse
| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook's transparency tool that shows users which advertisers have used a contact list with their information is a nightmare for a normal person to use — On Facebook under Settings, there's a page in the Ads section where you can view your Ad Preferences.
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| NPR: |
Current and former US officials and business execs describe hacking and IP theft by China and how victims would remain silent to avoid jeopardizing trade — Technology theft and other unfair business practices originating from China are costing the American economy more than $57 billion a year … | Oliver Lee Bateman / MEL Magazine: |
How bodybuilding forums of the 2000s, which offered safe spaces to learn about anabolic drug use and trade insults, contributed to the internet trolling culture — It was never about the politics. It was always about the drugs. This is how a group of weightlifting pros …
Tweets: @wearemel, @wearemel, @moustacheclubus, @katienotopoulos, @wearemel, and @_cooper
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Hackers claim they stole ~4K unique personnel records from sites related to the FBI National Academy Association, claim to have data from 1K+ more hacked sites — A hacker group has breached several FBI-affiliated websites and uploaded their contents to the web, including dozens of files containing …
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Tweets: @jake_hanrahan and @zackwhittaker
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