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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Reddit will ban r/The_Donald, r/ChapoTrapHouse, and ~2,000 other subreddits, most of which are inactive, after updating rules to more explicitly ban hate speech — More than 2,000 communities are being removed on Monday for violating Reddit's new content policies
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Twitch temporarily bans President Trump for “hateful conduct” that was aired on stream, noting it does not make exceptions for “political or newsworthy content” — A temporary suspension for ‘hateful conduct’ — Twitch has temporarily banned President Donald Trump …
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| Rahul Shrivastava / India Today: |
Indian government bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, ShareIt, UC Browser, WeChat, and Clash of Kings, citing national security and maintaining public order — Govt bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok as border tensions simmer in Ladakh — As tensions along the Line of Actual Control …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Lululemon says it plans to acquire home fitness startup Mirror for $500M; Mirror was last valued at $300M — Lululemon today announced plans to acquire home exercise startup Mirror, for $500 million. The fitness apparel company noted its plans by way of a press release …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Memo: Microsoft suspended its ads on Facebook and Instagram in the US in May and has since expanded the pause globally, over concerns of “inappropriate content” — Microsoft suspended its advertising on Facebook and Instagram in the U.S. in May and recently expanded that to a global pause …
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| Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon details new one-time bonuses for front-line workers and delivery contractors with Amazon throughout June, after phasing out its initial pandemic pay bump — Payout comes after e-commerce giant ended last month a short-term pay bump; sales have shot up during coronavirus — Amazon.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: |
Interviews and documents shed light on Amazon's warehouse policies, exposing inconsistent health and safety protocols and tactics used to quell rising tensions — Courtney Bowden, 30, in front of the Amazon flex warehouse in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, on June 14. Bowden was fired in March.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Benchmark scores for Apple's Developer Transition Kit unit, with A12Z chip used in iPad Pro, suggest it outperforms Surface Pro X even under Rosetta 2 emulation — Apple's Developer Transition Kit equipped with an A12Z iPad Pro chip began arriving in the hands of developers this morning …
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| New York Times: |
The New York Times pulls its stories from Apple News, saying the service does not align with its strategy of building direct relationships with paying readers — The Times said Apple News did not align with its strategy of building direct relationships with paying readers.
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube bans six channels, including those of white supremacists Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, and Richard Spencer, for violating its hate speech policies — Bans come after YouTube's 2019 policy update — YouTube has banned several prominent white supremacist channels …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google brings free product listings to Search results, after adding them to its Shopping tab in April, to help businesses during the pandemic — Back in April, Google announced that all merchants can have their goods appear for free in the Shopping tab. Those free product listings … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Despite pretending to be a free speech alternative to Twitter, Parler is taking down content and shutting down accounts — from the that-did-not-take-long-at-all dept — Well, that did not take long at all. On Friday we predicted that just like every other social media platform out there …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Prime Video launches Watch Party, a desktop feature for US Prime members to watch content together and chat with up to 100 viewers — Amazon Prime Video is beginning to roll out a coviewing feature to Amazon Prime members in the U.S., the company announced today.| Wall Street Journal: |
Just Eat Takeaway's Grubhub acquisition rests on the belief that restaurants should handle delivery, helping it avoid the costs of building delivery fleets — Bid by Dutch giant Just Eat Takeaway would join two companies that have avoided building their own delivery fleets
Tweets: @paulpage and @carnage4life
| Guy Fawkes / vpnMentor: |
Researchers find Toronto-based OneClass left data of 1M+ students exposed, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, and the name of schools attended — Table of Contents — Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor's research team discovered a data breach belonging to the e-Learning platform OneClass.
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