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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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Tweets: @joannastern, @wired, @wired, @laurengoode, @geoffreyfowler, @markgurman, @reckless, @ow, @geoffreyfowler, @eliblumenthal, @bryfitz, @mishaalrahman, and @rdrv3
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
After the news went viral about Starz getting Twitter to remove TorrentFreak's tweet, Starz successfully applied DMCA takedowns to many others' tweets about it — American entertainment giant Starz is continuing to remove tweets that link to a TorrentFreak news report about leaked TV-shows.
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Tweets: @eff, @torrentfreak, @mathewi, @pt, @rakeshlobster, @crankycatcoder, @jilliancyork, @pt, @manan, @dangillmor, @eff, @whvholst, @justin_ling, @dsilverman, @brokep, and @torrentfreak
| 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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| 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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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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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| 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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| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Governments across Southeast Asia, including Vietnam and Thailand, are adopting Chinese-style internet and data controls, raising alarms in the US — - Increasingly autocractic regimes find China's model alluring — The spread of Beijing's vision is starting to alarm the U.S.
Tweets: @bbgvisualdata, @mdudas, @dtbyler, @scs_disputes, @mhbergen, @lindsaypgorman, and @triviumchina
| 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 … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Motivate, the bike share startup owned by Lyft, is pulling its electric bikes in NYC, SFO, and Washington DC after reports of injuries due to faulty brakes — The move comes after dozens of injuries were reported — Lyft, which operates bike-share systems across the US …
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New York Times, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Curbed NY, Silicon Valley Business …, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Gothamist, Socialnomics, and Engadget. Tweets: @andyjayhawk
| 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, Engadget, MacRumors, The Next Web, and MSPoweruser
| 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 … | Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: iOS 13 to include a system-wide Dark Mode, the ability for apps to have multiple windows and a new standard undo gesture for text input on iPad, more — Apple is expected to unveil iOS 13, the next major version of the iPhone and iPad operating system, at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference …
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SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, Macworld, MacRumors, KnowTechie, InvestorPlace, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, Neowin, TechCrunch, Thurrott, iPhone Hacks, MSPoweruser, BGR, SlashGear, TechSpot, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, The Verge, and Apple Must
Tweets: @dancounsell and @stroughtonsmith
| Parmy Olson / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google is quietly disbanding a UK panel to review use of AI in health care after panel members chafed at lack of info, authority, and independence — Panel members in U.K. chafed at lack of information access, authority and independence from Google| BBC: |
UK data watchdog proposes a 16-rule code of practice for online services to protect children's privacy that includes ending “nudge techniques” and more — Facebook and Instagram face a ban on letting under-18s “like” posts on their platforms while Snapchat could be prevented …
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Financial Times, ico.org.uk, Engadget, Gizmodo, Press Association, Fast Company, The Daily Caller, and The Guardian
Tweets: @iconews, @hare_brain, @mattr3, and @lgfldigisafe
| Joi Ito / Wired: |
Locking kids out of big internet platforms is not the solution to commercial bad actors, we should optimize algorithms instead to make them safer for kids — This column is the second in a series about young people and screens. Read the first post, about connected parenting, here.
Tweets: @bjorn, @camerondare, @faeriedevilish, and @nxthompson
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Kaspersky Lab says ~70% of the attacks its products detected in Q4 2018 targeted Office vulnerabilities, four times the percentage it saw in Q4 2016 — That's more than four times the percentage the company was seeing two years before, in Q4 2016. — Microsoft Office products …
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