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YouTube showed a link and description of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as part of its fact checking, underneath live streams of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire — A fire has broken out at the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral today, and as you'd expect, many news networks are offering live coverage of the breaking situation.
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
EU gives final approval to the new Copyright Directive, with its controversial Article 11 and 13 provisions, after 19 of the 28 member countries voted in favor — The European Union has officially approved a controversial and sweeping reform of its copyright rules to protect content creators …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Fold hands-on: feels much more stable and polished than expected and while you can see and feel the crease, it's perhaps worth the trade-off — The folding screen is good, as long as you don't stare at the crease — Two months after an announcement where Samsung talked …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Starz apologizes for “inadvertently” issuing DMCA takedown notices for tweets to stories merely reporting about TV show leak, says it suffered a security breach — Facing a backlash over overzealous copyright enforcement, Starz issued an apology for inadvertently taking down tweets to articles about TV show piracy Monday.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Foxconn will mass produce iPhones in India this year, including newer models, according to Foxconn's chairman Terry Gou, who will step away from day-to-day role — - Apple's main production partner is prepping an output shift — Foxconn's Terry Gou says he'll step back from the day-to-day
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Canalys analysts forecast that the installed base of smart speakers will grow from 114M units in 2018 to 207.9M in 2019, a growth of 82.4% — Smart speakers' global installed base is on track to top 200 million by the end of this year, according to a report out today from analysts at Canalys.
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| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Despite publicly pausing verification, Twitter has verified 10,000+ accounts in recent months but withheld the privilege from anyone without backchannel access — Jack Dorsey's mother and father, the '80s band Whitesnake, a “war room” associated with Donald Trump's reelection campaign …
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| Dave Gershgorn / Quartz: |
Satya Nadella says that Microsoft is making changes to how HR investigates incidents, creates an Employee Advocacy Team to help staff through complaint process — Microsoft employees have been telling executives in recent weeks how workplace harassment and discrimination has pervaded unchecked throughout …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Hulu has repurchased AT&T's 9.5% stake in the business for $1.43B, giving Hulu a valuation of $15B; Disney said in November that Hulu was worth $9.26B — - Hulu bought back AT&T's 9.5 percent stake in the entity for $1.43 billion, valuing the streaming company at $15 billion.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
Source: Twitter left up tweets threatening Rep. Ilhan Omar's life, which would typically be removed once reported, so law enforcement could investigate them — Twitter left up tweets threatening Rep. Ilhan Omar's life over the weekend so law enforcement could investigate them, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Tweets: @carnage4life, @kantrowitz, and @kantrowitz
| New York Times: |
Some companies attacked in 2017's NotPetya ransomware plague have been denied insurance coverage over “war exclusion” clauses — LONDON — Within days of a cyberattack, warehouses of the snack foods company Mondelez International filled with a backlog of Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers.
Tweets: @puiwingtam, @nicoleperlroth, @nytimesbusiness, @jckichen, and @nytimesbusiness
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Binance says it will delist bitcoin SV (BSV) from the exchange, after CEO Changpeng Zhao said BSV's creator Craig Wright, who claims he's Satoshi, is a “fraud” — Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange by reported volume, will delist bitcoin SV (BSV) after a week …
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Tweets: @thestalwart and @jaredctate
| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Facebook rolls out dark mode for Messenger globally, after previously hiding it behind an Easter egg that required users to send a moon emoji to get the feature — It's official now — Facebook Messenger's dark mode is rolling out to globally today, as announced on Facebook's product blog.
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Messenger News, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, Firstpost Tech, XDA Developers, Gizchina, MacRumors, MSPoweruser, and The Next Web
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Since mid-February, hacker Gnosticplayers has posted 932M+ user records from 44 companies, including 500px and UnderArmor, on dark web marketplace Dream Market — Hacker Gnosticplayers has stolen over 932 million user records from 44 companies. — A hacker who spoke with ZDNet in February …
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