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Twitch reverts Tyler “Ninja” Blevins' channel to offline mode after he calls Twitch out for using it to promote other streamers, including a porn broadcast — Ninja (aka Tyler Blevins) has largely avoided any bad blood between him and Twitch following his jump to Mixer, but that apparently didn't last long.
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The FBI is seeking an early alerting tool that scans public data from social media to monitor threats to the US, which may violate Facebook and Twitter policies — Agency solicits vendor proposals to collect data from Facebook, other social media to head off safety threats
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers: security flaws in 40+ kernel drivers from 20 vendors including Intel, AMD, and Huawei, can give hackers improperly elevated privileges on Windows — Affected vendors include the likes of Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, ASRock, AMI, Gigabyte, Realtek, Huawei, and more.| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
The dueling hashtags on Twitter, blaming the Clintons and Trump for Jeffrey Epstein's death, are a grim testament to our deeply poisoned information ecosystem — With each news cycle, the system grows more efficient. Even on an internet bursting at the seams with conspiracy theories and hyperpartisanship …
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| Megan Eckstein / USNI News: |
US Navy to replace touchscreen throttle and helm controls on destroyers with mechanical ones, after finding that touchscreens contributed to a deadly collision — SAN DIEGO - The Navy will begin reverting destroyers back to a physical throttle and traditional helm control system in the next 18 to 24 months …
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| Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: |
Apple's wearables, now at a $16B annual run rate and growing at 55%-60%, will cross iPad and Mac by the end of 2020 to become its third largest product category — The wearables era at Apple began years ago. However, Wall Street and Silicon Valley are only now slowly starting to pay attention to what Apple has been building.| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
An in-depth look at the feasibility, progress, and experts' opinions of lidar-based vs Tesla-like camera-only approaches to fully autonomous cars — “They're all going to dump lidar,” Musk said about self-driving rivals in April. — Lots of companies are working to develop self-driving cars.
Tweets: @ghosthayes, @arstechnica, and @aparanjape
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
ByteDance launches Toutiao Search, a mobile-optimized search engine in China that shows only censored search results, setting it up as a competitor to Baidu — ByteDance has taken another step into search with the launch of a new search portal today. Called Toutiao Search … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Defcon has a prototype secure voting machine for hacking, funded by a $10M DARPA project aimed at developing an open source voting platform on secure hardware — At this year's Defcon hacking conference, Darpa brought the beginnings of what it hopes will be impervious hardware.| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
District judge rules that Coinbase must face a negligence lawsuit from customers who bought bitcoin cash, following its allegedly botched listing in 2017 — Coinbase must face a negligence lawsuit from customers who bought bitcoin cash (BCH) following its allegedly botched listing … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook-backed Indian social commerce startup Meesho raises $125M Series D led by Naspers, bringing its total raised to $190M — Meesho, a Bangalore-based social commerce startup, has raised $125 million in a new financing round to expand its business in the country and change the way millions shop online.
Tweets: @viditaatrey
| Stewart Clarke / Variety: |
Ofcom: streaming services' subscriptions for Q1 in UK: Netflix posts the largest gains, up 26% YoY to 11.5M, Amazon Prime trails with 6M but is up 23% YoY — Almost half of all U.K. homes now take one of the major subscription streaming services, with Netflix at the front of the pack … Sponsor Posts
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