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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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| 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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sources: over half of HQ Trivia's staff signed a petition to depose CEO Rus Yusupov, who then fired some calling for the change, which led to plummeting morale — This week's banishment of host Scott Rogowsky was merely a symptom of the ongoing struggle to decide who will lead HQ Trivia.
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| 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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| 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 … | 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 … | Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
When DEA got a warrant for LogMeIn to divulge a user's passwords, LastPass' encryption scheme meant it couldn't produce them, but other customer info was given — The government makes very few demands for data from password managers, but when it does it expects a lot, including login information, Forbes has learned.
Tweets: @josephfcox, @sashaperigo, @adrjeffries, @entirelyamelia, @brycas, and @nathonsecurity
| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Irvine-based startup Mavenlink raises $48M Series E for its cloud-based project management service bringing the total raised to $111.5M — Big bucks continue to flow into startups that are building and selling productivity and management services. Enterprise collaboration startup Mavenlink … | Brad Sams / Thurrott: |
Leaked images suggest a disc-free Xbox One S will arrive May 8 for €229, alongside a program for trading in disc-based games for digital versions — This shouldn't come as a major surprise since I wrote about this back in November, but Microsoft's on the cusp of releasing a digital-only edition of the Xbox One S console.
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