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| Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: |
An in-depth look at the baseless conspiracies attempting to turn Bill Gates into the pandemic's villain, widely shared on Facebook and YouTube — After months of conspiracy-mongering, people around the world are demanding Gates be arrested for crimes against humanity. Here's how things got so bad.
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Yahoo News, ZDNet, CNET, Business Insider, and FlowingData
| Mark Scott / Politico: |
With GDPR's two-year anniversary today, the Irish Data Protection Commission is under pressure to act, amid doubts about the agency's enforcement ability — Ireland's Data Protection Commission is under pressure to act, and act soon. — Facebook's European headquarters in Dublin.
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Noyb, CNET, Reuters, CdrInfo.com, TechSpot, and EURACTIV.com
Tweets: @maxschrems, @maxschrems, @maxschrems, @rossjanderson, @markets, and @kaminskimk
| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
Privacy advocate Max Schrems criticizes Irish data protection authority in an open letter for the slow pace of its probes into Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp — - Privacy activist Max Schrems criticizes Irish data authority — Open letter urges EU action amid frustration over long probes
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noyb, EURACTIV.com, Politico, beuc.eu, The Irish Times, Telecoms.com, The Irish Times, Silicon Republic, and Computer Business Review
Tweets: @maxschrems, @dataethicseu, @malteengeler, @nicholasvinocur, and @jason_kint
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Wikimedia's board votes to adopt a formal moderation process, with policies drafted by the end of 2020, to deal with harassment and other “toxic” behavior — Trustees say it hasn't done enough to stop abuse — Wikipedia plans to crack down on harassment and other “toxic” behavior with a new code of conduct.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Thailand's largest cell network, AIS, has pulled a database offline that was leaking billions of real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users — Thailand's largest cell network AIS has pulled a database offline that was spilling billions of real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users.
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TechRadar.com, Rainbowtabl.es, Bangkok Post Website, and SlashGear
Tweets: @mrkoot, @xxdesmus, and @campuscodi
| Ben Smith / New York Times: |
How services like Cameo and Substack have opened up new ways for prominent media figures and journalists to make a living from smaller audiences — With short videos and paid newsletters, everyone from superstars to half-forgotten former athletes and even journalists can, as one tech figure put it, “monetize individuality.”
Tweets: @benyt, @benyt, @daveambrose, @rafat, @benyt, @carterthomas, @nytimes, @alexisohanian, @brianroemmele, @taylorlorenz, @annehelen, @abhijitbhaduri, @sajithpai, @benthompson, @ne0liberal, @thestalwart, @rafat, @benyt, @mr312, @jeremysliew, @hoff, @isaacfitzgerald, @andrewfeinberg, @kantrowitz, @kantrowitz, @sriramk, and @antoniogm
| Will Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Smaller American retailers are turning to robots to automate warehouse work, techniques long used by Amazon and others, spurred on by the pandemic — Big online stores are based around vast automated warehouses. Smaller and cheaper versions of this tech will be key if smaller stores are to survive through a series of lockdowns.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google says ~70% of all serious security bugs in Chrome, largely written in C/C++, are memory safety flaws, after analyzing 912 security bugs fixed since 2015 — Google software engineers are looking into ways of eliminating memory management-related bugs from Chrome.
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TechSpot and The Chromium Projects
Tweets: @johanvos, @ryanaraine, @epakskape, @robdaemon, @0xcharlie, @a_cowley, and @campuscodi
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
The biggest tech companies have the resources to out-innovate their competitors and further solidify their dominance as smaller rivals struggle — The only thing better than being essential to the global economy during a crisis? Having the cash to continue to out-innovate your suddenly impoverished competitors.| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Sensor Tower data: TikTok and Chinese twin app Douyin topped the charts globally for in-app purchases in April, generating $78M, up 10x from April 2019 — - ByteDance's popular video-sharing platform keeps rising — Douyin, TikTok's China version, contributed 87% of revenue| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Medwing, which develops an automatic job matching system connecting workers with hospitals and nursing homes, raises €28M Series B led by Cathay Innovation — Medwing, a German startup with an ambition to tackle Europe's shortage of healthcare workers, said on Tuesday …
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EU-Startups, UKTN, and Tech.eu
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Chinese food delivery service Meituan Dianping beats estimates with sales of $2.4B, net loss of $221M; Meituan stock rose 9.7%, taking its market cap to $100B+ — - CEO Wang Xing warns of persistent pressure over 2020 — Hotel and travel services hit by virus fears, travel curbsSponsor Posts
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