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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: @mancity, @business, @bloombergasia, @futuramaking, and @tomwarren
| TechCrunch: |
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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| 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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Digital Trends, BGR, Engadget, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Thurrott, Patently Apple, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @natisho, @rodolfor, @serkantoto, @pitts_man, @elkmovie, @damienpetrilli, and @notpatrick
| 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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Tweets: @gabrieldance, @cnet, @dhh, @kashhill, @mattblaze, @dhh, @interfluidity, @orinkerr, @jenvalentino, @agthaler, @josephfcox, @zackwhittaker, @daiwaka, and @matt_cagle
| 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 … | 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.
Tweets: @paulmozur, @dtbyler, @elliotcwilliams, @dtbyler, @jameyharvey, @mohomran, @ebkania, @puiwingtam, and @micsolana
| 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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Tweets: @cybrsalon, @wsj, and @business
| 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
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
As the key trial between Apple and Qualcomm starts on Tuesday, a report details the increasingly acrimonious relationship between the companies' 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 …
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Financial Times, New York Times, Engadget, CNET, Patently Apple, AppleInsider, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
Tweets: @shaunmmaguire, @scottmaustin, @bzamayo, and @natisho
| Sarah Jeong / New York Times: |
Companies are adjusting premiums and policies for life, car, and home insurance based on new forms of surveillance and analysis, enabled by tech like IoT and AI — Some technologies are better left in the laboratory. — Ms. Jeong is a member of the editorial board.
Tweets: @flexlibris and @mozilla
| Reuters: |
A look at SoftBank's “future of mobility” investments, with $60B now deployed in 40+ companies ranging from ride hailing to delivery robots to self-driving cars — (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp leader Masayoshi Son has much bigger ambitions for transportation than simply seeing …
Tweets: @tariqkrim, @reuters, and @heathersomervil
| 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.
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