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Cloudflare CEO on why the company terminated DDoS protection service for 8chan: the site was “lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths” — The mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio are horrific tragedies. In the case of the El Paso shooting …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Cloudflare says it will stop providing 8chan with DDoS protection services, but 8chan's domain registrar, Tucows, says it has no plans to ban the site — Fredrick Brennan was getting ready for church at his home in the Philippines when the news of a mass shooting in El Paso arrived.
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| Robert Evans / bellingcat: |
El Paso, the third mass shooting announced on 8chan, shows how its /pol/ board deliberately radicalizes users into mass shooters and gamifies massacring people — On August 3, 2019, at around 11am local time, initial police reports indicated that a gunman had walked into an El Paso Wal-Mart and opened fire.
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| Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: |
If 8chan vanished, its users would likely just flock to a new copycat site, like how 4chan users switched to 8chan amid increased moderation during Gamergate — “If 8chan is shutdown here is what will happen: someone else will spin up a new imageboard, say 20chan or whatever. People will flock to that."
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
AI-powered news aggregation app SmartNews raises $28M Series E led by Japan Post Capital, valuing the startup at $1.1B and bringing the total raised to $116M — A $28 million financing has made SmartNews, an AI-powered news aggregation app, a unicorn. — Japan Post Capital has led … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Didi Chuxing's autonomous driving unit, which was created in 2016 and has 200+ employees in China and the US, has been spun out as an independent company — Didi Chuxing's autonomous driving unit is now an independent company, the Chinese ride-sharing and transportation giant said today.
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at edtech startups like Squirrel AI that are using AI to personalize learning in China, where fierce academic competition is driving an AI education boom — In recent years, the country has rushed to pursue “intelligent education.” Now its billion-dollar ed-tech companies are planning to export their vision overseas.| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Researcher details how misconfigured Jira servers from entities like Google, Yahoo, and NASA publicly expose information about internal projects and users — Misconfigured Jira servers from big names in the tech industry exposed information about internal projects and users that could be accessed … | Maddy Myers / Kotaku: |
E3 website leaks personal info, including addresses and phone numbers, of 2,000+ reporters and content creators; E3 has removed file but data still circulates — A spreadsheet containing the contact information and personal addresses of over 2,000 games journalists, editors …
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| Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal: |
Fox Corp. to buy a 67% stake in Credible Labs, a marketplace for consumer-lending info, for $265M and add up to $75M in growth capital over about two years — Deal for Credible, a marketplace for consumer-lending information, is part of Fox's digital strategy| Taylor Hatmaker / The Daily Beast: |
Palmer Luckey's Anduril is expanding work with CBP, which buys Anduril's surveillance tech to use along Mexico's border and is testing it near Canada's border — With a high-tech spin on building the wall, Anduril is expanding its border surveillance ambitions—and picking up work that some tech companies aren't willing to touch.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Report: out of 188,620 extensions available on the Chrome Web Store, ~50% have fewer than 16 installs and 87% have fewer than 1,000; only 13 have 10M+ users — Around 87% of all Google Chrome extensions have fewer than 1,000 installs. — There are 188,620 extensions available on the Chrome Web Store …
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