Author: Tech Support

    • Twitter has "withheld" a tweet published by TorrentFreak, at the request of Starz, pointing to a news story on recent major leaks of unreleased TV shows (Ernesto/TorrentFreak)

    Ernesto / TorrentFreak: Twitter has “withheld” a tweet published by TorrentFreak, at the request of Starz, pointing to a news story on recent major leaks of unreleased TV shows  —  A few days ago we reported on several major leaks of unreleased TV-shows.  This included several episodes from the Starz original show “American Gods”. Twitter

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    • Sources: over half of HQ Trivia's staff signed a petition to depose CEO Rus Yusupov, who then fired some calling for the change, which led to plummeting morale (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

    Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Sources: over half of HQ Trivia’s staff signed a petition to depose CEO Rus Yusupov, who then fired some calling for the change, which led to plummeting morale  —  This week’s banishment of host Scott Rogowsky was merely a symptom of the ongoing struggle to decide who will lead HQ Trivia.

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    • Irvine-based startup Mavenlink raises $48M Series E for its cloud-based project management service bringing the total raised to $111.5M (Manish Singh/VentureBeat)

    Manish Singh / VentureBeat: Irvine-based startup Mavenlink raises $48M Series E for its cloud-based project management service bringing the total raised to $111.5M  —  Big bucks continue to flow into startups that are building and selling productivity and management services.  Enterprise collaboration startup Mavenlink … Irvine-based startup Mavenlink raises M Series E for its cloud-based

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    • Leaked images suggest a disc-free, digital-only Xbox One S will arrive May 8 for €229, alongside a program for trading in disc-based games for digital versions (Brad Sams/Thurrott)

    Brad Sams / Thurrott: Leaked images suggest a disc-free, digital-only Xbox One S will arrive May 8 for €229, alongside a program for trading in disc-based games for digital versions  —  This shouldn’t come as a major surprise since I wrote about this back in November, but Microsoft’s on the cusp of releasing … Leaked

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    • When DEA got a warrant for LogMeIn to divulge a user's passwords, LastPass' encryption scheme meant it couldn't produce them, but other customer info was given (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

    Thomas Brewster / Forbes: When DEA got a warrant for LogMeIn to divulge a user’s passwords, LastPass’ encryption scheme meant it couldn’t produce them, but other customer info was given  —  The government makes very few demands for data from password managers, but when it does it expects a lot, including login information, Forbes has

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    • Sensor Tower: Tinder's Q1 revenue across Play Store and App Store grew by 42% YoY to $260.7M, passing Netflix to become the top-grossing, non-game app globally (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Sensor Tower: Tinder’s Q1 revenue across Play Store and App Store grew by 42% YoY to $260.7M, passing Netflix to become the top-grossing, non-game app globally  —  For the first time in years, Netflix is no longer the top grossing, non-game mobile app.  Instead, that title now goes to dating app

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    • A security researcher publicly disclosed 0-day flaws in WordPress plugins before patches were available to protest support-forum moderators' alleged behavior (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

    Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: A security researcher publicly disclosed 0-day flaws in WordPress plugins before patches were available to protest support-forum moderators’ alleged behavior  —  Exploits published over the past three weeks exposed 160,000 websites to potent attacks.  —  Over the past three weeks … A security researcher publicly disclosed 0-day flaws in WordPress

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    • Source: Outlook, MSN, and Hotmail were affected in breach; Microsoft now says email content was also exposed for ~6% of users whose email accounts were hacked (Joseph Cox/Motherboard)

    Joseph Cox / Motherboard: Source: Outlook, MSN, and Hotmail were affected in breach; Microsoft now says email content was also exposed for ~6% of users whose email accounts were hacked  —  Hackers abused a Microsoft customer support portal that allowed them to read the emails of any non-corporate account. Source: Outlook, MSN, and Hotmail were

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    • Sources: how China uses AI to specifically track Uighurs, an ethnic minority, in the first known racist application of facial recognition to be widely deployed (Paul Mozur/New York Times)

    Paul Mozur / New York Times: Sources: how China uses AI to specifically track Uighurs, an ethnic minority, in the first known racist application of facial recognition to be widely deployed  —  In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track members of a

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