Facebook suffers third major outage in 2019, with all of its services down for ~2 hours on Sunday, after 24 hour outage in March, and a smaller crash in January
- Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger down for hours — Frustrated users took to Twitter to vent from across the world
Microsoft says a “limited” number of its web email service accounts were breached between Jan. 1 and March 28 using a customer support agent's credentials
On the heels of a trove of 773 million emails, and tens of millions of passwords, from a variety of domains getting leaked in January …
A detailed look at how police forces use “geofence” warrants and Google's Sensorvault location history database to find witnesses and suspects near crime scenes
The tech giant records people's locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes …
As the key trial between Apple and Qualcomm starts on Tuesday, a report details the increasingly acrimonious relationship between the company CEOs
The legal battle between Qualcomm and Apple has grown increasingly tense since it began in early 2017. A new report from The Wall Street Journal explores … Source: Wall Street Journal .
Twitch releases its first original game, a karaoke title called Twitch Sings, with a “go live” button to start a Twitch broadcast, available for free on Windows
The live streaming platform is getting into game development — Since becoming the de facto game streaming platform …
Sources: Apple is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to secure new games for its Arcade subscription service, with total budget likely to exceed $500M
Apple is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to secure new video games for its forthcoming Arcade subscription service …
An Illinois bill for banning IoT devices from collecting audio without owners' consent was substantially defanged after lobbying by the Internet Association
Lobbyists: Bill would punish even if failure to disclose was “accidental.” — On April 10, the Illinois State Senate passed the …
Sources: Amazon has entered into discussions to launch a free, ad-supported music service, offering a limited catalog, as early as next week
“Alexa, play free music.” — Amazon has entered into discussions to launch a free, ad-supported music service, sources familiar with the plan tell Billboard …
Since 2011, a database error left more than 150,000+ young people off the jury rolls in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisianans who were summoned to decide whether Grover Cannon killed a police officer were Asian, black, Hispanic and white. Tweets: @alanblinder and @jordynreiland Tweets: Alan...
A look at SoftBank's “future of mobility” investments, with $60B now deployed in 40+ companies ranging from ride hailing to delivery robots to self-driving cars
(Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp leader Masayoshi Son has much bigger ambitions for transportation than simply seeing … Tweets: @reuters and @heathersomervil Tweets: @reuters : The extent of SoftBank's...
Facebook nominates PayPal exec Peggy Alford to its board, the first African-American woman, and won't nominate Reed Hastings and Erskine Bowles for re-election
Facebook nominates Paypal's Peggy Alford to board of directors. She'll become 1st black woman nominated in FB history. — Erskine Bowles & Reed Hastings, both have been on the board since 2011, won't b...
Facebook accidentally printed messages like “Big Brother is Watching” inside tens of thousands of Oculus Touch controllers, already shipped some to developers
meaning they will all ultimately make their way to users. http://twitter.com/... Lucky Mac / @rmac18 : And just when we thought today was going to be a bad day for YouTube, Facebook breaks down the do...
Companies are adjusting premiums and policies for life, car, and home insurance based on new forms of surveillance enabled by tech to collect and analyze data
Some technologies are better left in the laboratory. — Ms. Jeong is a member of the editorial board. Tweets: @mozilla and @flexlibris Tweets: @mozilla : “As machine learning works its way into more ...
In a speech to employees, Alibaba founder Jack Ma defends the “996” work culture at Chinese tech companies, calling it a “huge blessing” for young workers
9am to 9pm, 6 days per week — it's a scary thing to compete against. A bit more about this idea from Jack Ma here: http://www.reuters.com/...
Amazon's HR chief Beth Galetti talks about Peccy, a blobby orange internal mascot that is universally recognized by the company employees
and an unexpectedly rich symbol of the tech giant and its culture http://www.fastcompany.com/... Kathleen Davis / @kathleenedavis : This story is a pure delight from the very 1st line: “he is—I mean t...
Interview with RIM cofounder Jim Balsillie about his advocacy against the rise of surveillance capitalism in Canada and the Sidewalk Toronto smart city project
The entrepreneur who made billions putting BlackBerrys into pockets is now sounding the alarm about Big Tech's creep toward surveillance capitalism Tweets: @hkanji and @jasonmoyse Tweets: Hussein Kanj...
Profile of Amazon's HR chief Beth Galetti, the highest-ranking woman at the company and the only woman on the 18-person “S-Team” that reports directly to Bezos
Amazon's HR chief, former engineer Beth Galetti, is hiring hundreds of people a day. As the company's workforce swells, so do her challenges. Tweets: @jill_bernstein , @mieky , @harrymccracken , @fas...
Hackers claim they stole ~4K unique personnel records from sites related to the FBI National Academy Association, claim to have data from 1K+ more hacked sites
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How bodybuilding forums of the 2000s, which offered safe spaces to learn about anabolic drug use and trade insults, contributed to the internet trolling culture
talking to the 'roid-obsessed trolls and pro lifters who created the cult of bodybuilding forums, 20 years later http://melmagazine.com/... Mel / @wearemel : This is how a group of weightlifting pros,...
Facebook's transparency tool, which shows users the advertisers that used a contact list with their information, is a nightmare for a normal person to interpret
Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News :
Q&A with people who still pay for email with EarthLink and AOL, which reported $600M revenue from email and dial-up in 2014 and estimated $400M in 2018
Charlotte West / OneZero :
Current and former US officials and business execs describe hacking and IP theft by China and how victims would remain silent to avoid jeopardizing trade
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