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Cloudflare CEO on why the company terminated DDoS protection service for 8chan: the site was “lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths” — The mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio are horrific tragedies. In the case of the El Paso shooting …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Cloudflare says it will stop providing 8chan with DDoS protection services — Fredrick Brennan was getting ready for church at his home in the Philippines when the news of a mass shooting in El Paso arrived. His response was immediate and instinctive. — “Whenever I hear about a mass shooting …
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| Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: |
If 8chan vanished, its users would likely just flock to a new copycat site, like how 4chan users switched to 8chan amid increased moderation during Gamergate — Less than an hour before killing at least 20 people and injuring some 26 more in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart, the suspected shooter …
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| Josh Horwitz / Reuters: |
Chinese state media: Huawei is testing a ~$288 smartphone running its self-developed Hongmeng OS, which could go on sale later this year — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is testing a smartphone equipped with Hongmeng, the company's self-developed operating system … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Watch Active 2 with a new bezel control, 40mm and 44mm sizes, and optional LTE, arriving Sept. 27 for $279+; ECG capability coming soon — Just six months after the first Watch Active, there's a new model in town — Earlier this year, Samsung released the Galaxy Watch Active …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Fossil announces Gen 5, its latest smartwatch running Wear OS, with an updated Snapdragon chipset, 44mm case, and a built-in speaker, available now for $295 — Fossil is the biggest name in Wear OS right now, but the specs on a lot of the company's offerings have been a bit dissappointing.
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Profile of Jeremi Gorman, Snap's chief business officer, credited with turning around Snap's ad business, which is expected to make $1.36B this year, up 30% YoY — KEY POINTS — Snap in October hired Jeremi Gorman from Amazon, where she was most recently head of global field sales.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Walmart's Flipkart plans to start a free video streaming service by September, ahead of Diwali season, for members of its Flipkart Plus loyalty program — - Its Flipkart unit plans to unveil the service in coming months — E-commerce leader plans to carry content from likes of Disney
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| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Scale AI's 22-year-old CEO Alexandr Wang, whose startup, which uses 30,000 contractors and AI to analyze images, says it is now valued at $1B+ — Behind every self-driving car or cashier-less Amazon Go convenience store sit thousands of humans whose job it is to train computers to see.
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| Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason: |
Section 230 of the CDA is the internet's First Amendment; repealing it would hurt online speech and marginalized groups more than it would hurt Big Tech — From Josh Hawley to Kamala Harris, online free speech is under attack. — Imagine, for a moment, the following series of online exchanges.| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Didi Chuxing's autonomous driving unit, which was created in 2016 and has 200+ employees in China and the US, has been spun out as an independent company — Didi Chuxing's autonomous driving unit is now an independent company, the Chinese ride-sharing and transportation giant said today.
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| Ana Wolsztajn / Tech.eu: |
Fever, an event planning startup which analyzes consumer data to curate unique events and experiences to match demand, raises $35M led by Rakuten Capital — Fever, a startup that analyses consumer data to curate unique events and experiences to match demand, has just announced a $35 million funding round.
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