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 …
Cloudflare says it will stop providing 8chan with DDoS protection services, but 8chan's domain registrar, Tucows, says it has no plans to ban the site
Fredrick Brennan was getting ready for church at his home in the Philippines when the news of a mass shooting in El Paso arrived.
El Paso, the third mass shooting announced on 8chan, shows how its /pol/ board deliberately radicalizes users into mass shooters and gamifies massacring people
lone shooter, assault rifle, online manifesto, a link to a live stream—appears to be contagious. https://www.newyorker.com/... Dave Zatz / @davezatz : @Techmeme 'Let's do nothing because it's just not...
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 …
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 …
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.
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
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 …
E3 website leaks personal info, including addresses and phone numbers, of 2,000+ reporters and content creators; E3 has removed file but data still circulates
Maddy Myers / Kotaku :
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.
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. Tweets: @enbrown , @jkosseff , and @reason See also Mediagaz...
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.
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.
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. Tweets: @weinbergersa and @scale_ai Tweets: Sharon Weinberg...
AI-powered news aggregation app SmartNews raises $28M Series E led by Japan Post Capital, valuing the startup at $1.1B and bringing the total raised to $116M
Kate Clark / TechCrunch :
A look at edtech startups like Squirrel AI that are using AI to personalize learning in China, where fierce academic competition is driving an AI education boom
the fact that the author conflates personalized learning, online collaborative learning, and students' facial recognition in some grand “algorithms are replacing teachers” narrative... https://www.tec...
Researcher details how misconfigured Jira servers from entities like Google, Yahoo, and NASA publicly expose information about internal projects and users
Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer : Tweets: @scribblingon , @logicbomb_1 , and @zackwhittaker Tweets: @scribblingon : Jira is truly the gift that keeps on giving in the worst way possible. https://twit...
Palmer Luckey's Anduril is expanding work with CBP, which buys Anduril's surveillance tech to use along Mexico's border and is testing it near Canada's border
and picking up work that some tech companies aren't willing to touch. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Fox Corp. to buy a 67% stake in Credible Labs, a marketplace for consumer-lending info, for $265M and add up to $75M in growth capital over about two years
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal :
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