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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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sources: nearly half of HQ Trivia's staff signed a petition seeking to depose CEO Rus Yusupov; the startup had ~$6M in the bank but is spending $1M per month — 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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| 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.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Twitter has removed TorrentFreak's tweet pointing to a news story on recent leaks of unreleased TV shows, after a questionable DMCA takedown request from Starz — A few days ago we reported on several major leaks of unreleased TV-shows. This included several episodes from the Starz original show “American Gods”.
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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: @diegs_valencia, @mancity, @dojadaoud, @bloombergasia, @futuramaking, @business, and @tomwarren
| 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 …
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| Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
Foxconn chairman Terry Gou says he will step away from daily operations at the company in the coming months, but will remain involved in strategic decisions — TAIPEI (Reuters) - The chairman of Taiwan's Foxconn, an assembler of Apple Inc's iPhones, said on Monday he plans to step …
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| 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 … | Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Nokia's factory in Finland, where execs say they have automated some product lines to ~99%, shows how high-speed connectivity can transform manufacturing — Nokia's “factory of the future” in Oulu, Finland offers a glimpse into a world in which high-speed connectivity promises to transform manufacturing.
Tweets: @pauldaugh
| 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.
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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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9to5Mac, Engadget, TouchArcade, Pocket Gamer.biz, MSPoweruser, Gizmodo, Neowin, PYMNTS.com, Firstpost Tech, CNET, GamesIndustry.biz, Digital Trends, BGR, Seeking Alpha, Patently Apple, Thurrott, AppleInsider, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @askagamedev, @aaron_pearce, @balestrapatrick, @wavesblog, @mtlsaiyan, @serkantoto, @rodolfor, @pitts_man, @notpatrick, @natisho, @damienpetrilli, and @elkmovie
| 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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