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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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    • Publicis to buy US digital marketing company Epsilon, which collects vast amounts of consumer data like transactions, location, and web activity, for $3.95B (Angelina Rascouet/Bloomberg)

    Angelina Rascouet / Bloomberg: Publicis to buy US digital marketing company Epsilon, which collects vast amounts of consumer data like transactions, location, and web activity, for $3.95B  —  – Ad group makes biggest purchase yet in consumer-data bet  — Traditional marketing firms are fighting new rivals online Publicis to buy US digital marketing company Epsilon,

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    • Non-profit Charity: water now accepts stock donations from shareholders of private startups like Uber and Casper to share some IPO proceeds as bonuses for staff (David Gelles/New York Times)

    David Gelles / New York Times: Non-profit Charity: water now accepts stock donations from shareholders of private startups like Uber and Casper to share some IPO proceeds as bonuses for staff  —  Entrepreneurs who own stakes in private companies can donate some of their equity to Charity: water. Non-profit Charity: water now accepts stock donations

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    • 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 (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)

    Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: 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

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    • 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)

    Reuters: 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 … A look at SoftBank's "future of mobility" investments, with B

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