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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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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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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 — Less than an hour before killing at least 20 people and injuring some 26 more in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart, the suspected shooter …
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| Josh Horwitz / Reuters: |
Chinese state media: Huawei is testing a ~$288 smartphone running its self-developed Hongmeng OS, which could go on sale later this year — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is testing a smartphone equipped with Hongmeng, the company's self-developed operating system … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Watch Active 2 with a new bezel control, 40mm and 44mm sizes, and optional LTE, arriving Sept. 27 for $279+; ECG capability coming soon — Just six months after the first Watch Active, there's a new model in town — Earlier this year, Samsung released the Galaxy Watch Active …
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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 …
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Profile of Jeremi Gorman, Snap's chief business officer, credited with turning around Snap's ad business, which is expected to make $1.36B this year, up 30% YoY — KEY POINTS — Snap in October hired Jeremi Gorman from Amazon, where she was most recently head of global field sales.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Fossil announces Gen 5, its latest smartwatch running Wear OS, with an updated Snapdragon chipset, 44mm case, and a built-in speaker, available now for $295 — Fossil is the biggest name in Wear OS right now, but the specs on a lot of the company's offerings have been a bit dissappointing.
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Walmart's Flipkart plans to start a free video streaming service by September, ahead of Diwali season, for members of its Flipkart Plus loyalty program — - Its Flipkart unit plans to unveil the service in coming months — E-commerce leader plans to carry content from likes of Disney| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Scale AI's 22-year-old CEO Alexandr Wang, whose startup, which uses 30,000 contractors and AI to analyze images, says it is now valued at $1B+ — Behind every self-driving car or cashier-less Amazon Go convenience store sit thousands of humans whose job it is to train computers to see.
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| 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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