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August 10, 2019, 1:15 PM

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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Researcher: robocall-blocking apps like Truecaller and Hiya send user or device data to third-party data analytics companies without users' explicit permission  —  Robocall-blocking apps promise to rid your life of spoofed and spam phone calls.  But are they as trustworthy as they claim to be?
Ina Fried / Axios:
AMD CEO talks about plans to quickly ramp up production of EPYC server chips, launched this week, and sustaining the advantage created by Intel's stumbles  —  With Intel struggling to get to the next generation of chipmaking technology, AMD has an opportunity to gain some ground on its longtime rival.
Jane Manchun Wong:
Twitter's web app code suggests that the company is working on a search feature for Direct Messages  —  As Twitter users, we often have to scroll through the numerous Direct Messages just to find the past conversations we want to recall.  The older the message, the longer it takes to scroll, up to minutes if you are lucky.
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Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
8chan users who are migrating to 08chan, an unofficial site hosted on ZeroNet, inadvertently lose anonymity because the P2P network exposes users' IP address  —  An unofficial new version of the hate-filled forum isn't as anonymous as its users might hope.  —  Refugees from the anonymous 8chan forum …
Richard Lai / Engadget:
Huawei unveils HarmonyOS, a microkernel-based, distributed OS, which Huawei says is an alternative to Android in case it can no longer use Google's OS  —  Huawei's long-rumored Android alternative, Hongmeng, is finally official.  At today's Huawei Developer Conference …
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Sources: WH explored ways to predict mass shootings by scanning social media posts, at a meeting with Facebook, Twitter, and others, who raised privacy concerns  —  Top officials in the Trump administration expressed interest in tools that might anticipate mass shootings or predict attackers …
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
At its Unpacked event, Samsung showed off PlayGalaxy Link, a new feature to stream games directly from a PC to the Galaxy Note10  —  One of the more interesting news tidbits from yesterday's Unpacked event got a bit drowned out in all of the noise.  Understandably so …

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