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Spotify Lite, which requires only 10MB of storage, is now available on Android in 35 countries across Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, and in Canada (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Spotify Lite, which requires only 10MB of storage, is now available on Android in 35 countries across Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, and in Canada  —  Spotify has been testing a smaller, lighter version of its app since mid-2018 in hopes of expanding its reach to regions … Spotify Lite,

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Instagram will now ask you to think twice before posting profanities

Instagram today released two new features with a view to curb bullying on the platform: a warning when you try to post an abusive comment, and a ‘Restrict’ function to limit another person’s interaction with you. Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, said the AI-powered warning feature has stopped some people from posting foulmouthed comments during the early testing period:

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Hacking The Pocket Operator

The number of easily usable and programmable microcontrollers is small, so when selecting one for a project there are only a handful of very popular, well documented chips that most of us reach for. The same can be said for most small companies selling electronics as well, so if you reach for a consumer device

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Tech workers aiming to unionize face challenges, as some managers dismiss organizers and some companies have the resources to settle labor cases brought to them (New York Times)

New York Times: Tech workers aiming to unionize face challenges, as some managers dismiss organizers and some companies have the resources to settle labor cases brought to them  —  SAN FRANCISCO — In February, about a dozen employees at a small technology company called NPM embarked on an effort … Tech workers aiming to unionize

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Microsoft says Azure SQL is launching soon and SQL Server 2019 preview is coming later this month, as it ends support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 (Andrew Brust/ZDNet)

Andrew Brust / ZDNet: Microsoft says Azure SQL is launching soon and SQL Server 2019 preview is coming later this month, as it ends support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2  —  Microsoft’s database releases from 2008 and 2010 reach end of extended support.  In response, Redmond says, that for many customers

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Researcher finds unsecured ElasticSearch server owned by a Chinese public security department that leaked databases with 90M+ records of people and businesses (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Researcher finds unsecured ElasticSearch server owned by a Chinese public security department that leaked databases with 90M+ records of people and businesses  —  A publicly accessible and unsecured ElasticSearch server owned by the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Department … Researcher finds unsecured ElasticSearch server owned by a Chinese public security department

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Researcher discloses zero-day exploit in Zoom's Mac client that lets any malicious site force a user into a Zoom call with video enabled without user permission (Jonathan Leitschuh/Medium)

Jonathan Leitschuh / Medium: Researcher discloses zero-day exploit in Zoom’s Mac client that lets any malicious site force a user into a Zoom call with video enabled without user permission  —  A vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission. Researcher discloses zero-day exploit in Zoom's

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Two years on, WannaCry remains in thousands of networks globally, despite available patches; researcher: "kill switch" stopped ~60M WannaCry detonations in June (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Two years on, WannaCry remains in thousands of networks globally, despite available patches; researcher: “kill switch” stopped ~60M WannaCry detonations in June  —  Two British researchers saved the internet from a global cyberattack in 2017.  Amid mounting pressure and little sleep … Two years on, WannaCry remains in thousands of networks

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