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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.| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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 … | 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
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