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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Source: Outlook, MSN, and Hotmail were affected in breach; Microsoft now says email content was also exposed for ~6% of users whose email accounts were hacked — Hackers abused a Microsoft customer support portal that allowed them to read the emails of any non-corporate account.
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| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Facebook suffers third major outage in 2019, with all of its services down for ~2 hours on Sunday, after a ~24-hour outage in March, and a smaller crash in Jan. — - Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger down for hours — Frustrated users took to Twitter to vent from across the world
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Tweets: @dojadaoud, @diegs_valencia, @mancity, @business, @bloombergasia, @futuramaking, and @tomwarren
| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Sources: how China uses AI to specifically track Uighurs, an ethnic minority, in the first known racist application of facial recognition to be widely deployed — In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track members of a largely Muslim minority group.| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to secure new games for its Arcade subscription service, with total budget likely to exceed $500M — Apple is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to secure new video games for its forthcoming Arcade subscription service …
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| Keith J. Kelly / New York Post: |
Sources: Apple paid Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith, Rogers Media, and KKR a total of $100M for Texture, with $385M more to be paid out over the next 3 years — After paying at least $485 million, Apple said it will shut down Texture, its online magazine subscription service … | Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / New York Times: |
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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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
An Illinois bill for banning IoT devices from collecting audio without owners' consent was substantially defanged after lobbying by the Internet Association — Lobbyists: Bill would punish even if failure to disclose was “accidental.” — On April 10, the Illinois State Senate passed the … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A security researcher publicly disclosed 0-day flaws in WordPress plugins before patches were available to protest support-forum moderators' alleged behavior — Exploits published over the past three weeks exposed 160,000 websites to potent attacks. — Over the past three weeks … | Angelina Rascouet / Bloomberg: |
Publicis to buy US digital marketing company Epsilon, which collects vast amounts of consumer data like transactions, location, and web activity, for $3.95B — - Ad group makes biggest purchase yet in consumer-data bet — Traditional marketing firms are fighting new rivals online
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| 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 … | David Gelles / New York Times: |
Charity: water now accepts stock donations from shareholders of private startups like Uber to share some IPO proceeds as bonuses with the non-profit's staff — Entrepreneurs who own stakes in private companies can donate some of their equity to Charity: water.
Tweets: @anandwrites, @jonstahl, @fundraisingau, @nickkristof, @juliacsocial, @nytimesbusiness, and @ryangraves
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: Tinder's Q1 revenue across Play Store and App Store grew by 42% YoY to $260.7M, passing Netflix to become the top-grossing, non-game app globally — For the first time in years, Netflix is no longer the top grossing, non-game mobile app. Instead, that title now goes to dating app Tinder.
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