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    • Popular people-tracking app Family Locator left real-time location data of more than 238,000 users exposed online for weeks via an unprotected database server (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

    Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Popular people-tracking app Family Locator left real-time location data of more than 238,000 users exposed online for weeks via an unprotected database server  —  A popular family tracking app was leaking the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users for weeks after the developer left a server exposed without a password.

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    • Pinterest had 250M MAUs in 2018, two thirds of them female, average user in US generated $9.04, up 47% YoY, international user generated $0.25, up 22% YoY (Ashley Rodriguez/Quartz)

    Ashley Rodriguez / Quartz: Pinterest had 250M MAUs in 2018, two thirds of them female, average user in US generated $9.04, up 47% YoY, international user generated $0.25, up 22% YoY  —  Pinterest revealed a trove of data about its more than 250 million monthly active users in an IPO filing on Friday (March 22).

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    Game Boy Recreated in Verilog

    With the wide availability of Raspberry Pi hardware and pre-baked Linux distros with emulators ready to go, making a retro handheld is easier than ever. Emulation isn’t the only way to go about playing old games however. [Wenting Zhang] decided to instead recreate the Nintendo Game Boy in Verilog, and has documented the effort. The

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    • A look at the battle between hacking tool vendors such as NSO Group and UAE-based DarkMatter as they compete for business from authoritarian governments (New York Times)

    New York Times: A look at the battle between hacking tool vendors such as NSO Group and UAE-based DarkMatter as they compete for business from authoritarian governments  —  Sophisticated surveillance, once the domain of world powers, is increasingly available on the private market. A look at the battle between hacking tool vendors such as NSO

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    • A profile of PC4R, a crowdfunded charity that is helping refugees request funds for their pay-as-you-go mobile accounts via a Facebook group with 60K+ members (Alissa Greenberg/Pacific Standard)

    Alissa Greenberg / Pacific Standard: A profile of PC4R, a crowdfunded charity that is helping refugees request funds for their pay-as-you-go mobile accounts via a Facebook group with 60K+ members  —  A Facebook-based refugee charity can be borderless and international in a way that other charities can’t.  —  Musap Yhia was only 10 when he

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    • Source: Apple's planned game subscription service for iOS will only include paid, not freemium, titles, pay developers based on time users spend on their games (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

    Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Source: Apple’s planned game subscription service for iOS will only include paid, not freemium, titles, pay developers based on time users spend on their games  —  – Devices take a back seat to video, news, gaming subscriptions  — Company tries biggest strategy change since the iPhone in 2007 Source: Apple's planned

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    • A profile of Citizen, a crime tracking app that notifies users in NYC, SF Bay Area, Baltimore, and LA when a crime or a major incident is reported near them (John Herrman/New York Times)

    John Herrman / New York Times: A profile of Citizen, a crime tracking app that notifies users in NYC, SF Bay Area, Baltimore, and LA when a crime or a major incident is reported near them  —  An app called Citizen promises “awareness” of nearby danger.  What it provides is more complicated. A profile of

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