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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Alleged owner of biggest torrent site, KickassTorrents, arrested in Poland on US charges of copyright infringement and money laundering, KAT domains seized  —  With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) has become the most-used torrent site on the Internet, beating even The Pirate Bay.
Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com:
How Skype is transitioning from a legacy P2P infrastructure to a new mobile-friendly, cloud-based solution, expecting to complete the transition this year  —  Good news for those stung by Skype weirdness and reliability issues over the past several months: The problems have been caused …
Lauren Goode / The Verge:
Corning unveils Gorilla Glass 5, claims 0.6mm thick glass will not break 80% of the time when dropped from 1.6 meters  —  Glassmaker Corning just unveiled its newest version of Gorilla Glass, the chemically strengthened super glass that dozens of consumer electronics makers use in their devices.
Catalin Cimpanu / Softpedia News:
Apple fixes Stagefright-like vulnerability, which allows attackers to compromise devices via a malicious image, in latest updates to iOS, OS X, tvOS, watchOS  —  RCE flaw exploitable via image files affects many products  —  Apple has fixed five issues in OS X and iOS that pose …
Avery Hartmans / Business Insider:
Airbnb hires former Attorney General Eric Holder to help “craft a world-class anti-discrimination policy”  —  Airbnb has hired former Attorney General Eric Holder.  —  CEO Brian Chesky announced the hire in a blog post on Airbnb's website.  Holder will help “craft …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
A history of Facebook Messenger as it reaches 1B monthly users five years after its debut; 17B photos are now sent through the service each month  —  Facebook's gamble of forcing users to download Messenger has paid off.  Despite the backlash, Messenger has doubled its user count in 20 months …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Microsoft debuts Bookings, a new Office 365 service for online appointment scheduling  —  Microsoft this morning announced an expansion to its Office 365 suite with the debut of a new service called Bookings, which will allow customers to schedule appointments with a business using online software.
Jack Clark / Bloomberg:
Google says DeepMind-powered AI has improved its datacenters' power usage efficiency by 15%  —  Game-playing AI coordinates data center tasks like cooling  —  DeepMind efficiencies cover part of cost of 2014 acquisition  —  Google just paid for part of its acquisition of DeepMind in a surprising way.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
SwiftKey debuts emoji prediction keyboard Swiftmoji, its first product since the Microsoft acquisition  —  Keyboard app maker Swiftkey, which was acquired by Microsoft for $250 million in February, has officially launched its first product since that acquisition — and it's an emoji-predicting keyboard app, called Swiftmoji.
Ed Bott / ZDNet:
The French National Data Protection Commission serves notice to Microsoft for Windows 10 privacy failings, gives company three months to comply  —  Strict online privacy laws in the EU continue to bedevil American tech companies.  Latest to catch flak is Microsoft, over a handful of objections from a French data protection agency.
Jordan Pearson / Motherboard:
Mining is underway for a new Ethereum blockchain, following a hard fork that refunds ether to original investors of the hacked DAO  —  Ethereum, a virtual currency and coding platform, passed one of the most important and potentially dangerous milestones for any piece of software on Wednesday …
Benjamin Smedberg / Future Releases:
Firefox will block non-essential, invisible Flash content starting in August  —  Browser plugins, especially Flash, have enabled some of our favorite experiences on the Web, including videos and interactive content.  But plugins often introduce stability, performance, and security issues for browsers.

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Washington Post:
More than 500 Voice of America contractors are expected to lose their jobs by June 30; Kari Lake says 584 total employees were terminated across USAGM

Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Filing: advertisers ask a US judge to dismiss X's lawsuit accusing them of boycotting the company, arguing X failed to show that they acted with any common plan

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A look at the pay packages of some top media and entertainment executives in 2024; seven of the 10 examined executives got raises despite lackluster earnings

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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Source: Niantic postponed Pokémon Go Japan launch after internal communication from McDonald's Japan, the game's sponsor, detailing the launch leaked
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Unilever acquires Dollar Shave Club, sources say for $1B; DSC founder and CEO Michael Dubin to continue running the company
Nick Statt / The Verge:
Twitter now lets anyone request a verified account
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