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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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| Aja Romano / Vox: |
8chan struggles to stay up after Cloudflare quit servicing it; 8chan appears to have switched domain registrars to Epik, now hobbled by one of its own vendors — Protesters hold a rally against gun violence outside of New York Public Library in response to recent mass shootings in El Paso …
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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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Sources: on Google's internal forum, a memo viewed by 10,000+ alleges retaliation by managers for being pregnant and that things got worse when HR was contacted — The memo, titled “I'm Not Returning to Google After Maternity Leave, and Here is Why," has been read by more than 10,000 employees at the company.
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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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| Adele Peters / Fast Company: |
Google says that by 2020 all shipments going to or from customers will be carbon neutral; by 2022, all Made by Google products will include recycled materials — The company announced today that by 2022, all “Made by Google” products will include recycled materials.
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| Daniel Strauss / Business Insider: |
Stocks are tumbling towards their worst day of 2019 — China's trade-war retaliation sent the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index sliding more than 3% on Monday. — US tech firms like Apple and microchip manufacturers with high exposure to the Chinese market were among those hit the hardest.
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| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News: |
YouTube removes account of Soph, a girl who attracted 800K+ subs through racist and anti-Muslim videos, after uploading an anti-LGBTQ video alluding to violence — YouTube has removed the account of Soph, a 14-year-old girl who accumulated nearly a million followers through racist and anti-Muslim videos …
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| Davey Winder / Forbes: |
Custom t-shirt and merch company CafePress appears to have been hacked in February, leaking 23M email addresses along with some mailing addresses and more — I report and analyse breaking cybersecurity and privacy stories — CafePress, the custom T-shirt and merchandise company … | 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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| 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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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Microsoft debuts Azure Security Lab, to let researchers test Azure infrastructure in a contained environment, and expands Azure bug bounty rewards up to $40K — Researchers can earn up to $40,000 for reporting Azure vulnerabilities. — Microsoft is pushing for enhanced security …
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