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Blizzard is facing an intense backlash after banning a player over Hong Kong pro-democracy comments, with some fans boycotting its games — Players are boycotting games like World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Hearthstone after a user was punished for supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong during a tournament.
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| Verna Yu / The Guardian: |
Chinese state media warns Apple over app that tracks Hong Kong police, says Apple's approval of the app made it an “accomplice” in the protests — State media says ‘poisonous’ app made Apple an accomplice in the Hong Kong protests — China's state media has accused Apple …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Facebook refuses Biden campaign's request to take down a misleading Trump campaign ad, rejected by CNN, reigniting a debate about Facebook and political speech — WASHINGTON — The 30-second video ad released by the Trump campaign last week is grainy, and the narrator's voice is foreboding.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: iPhone SE 2 and new iPad Pro models are coming in Q1'20; MacBooks with new keyboard and an Apple AR headset in partnership with third-party brands in Q2'20 — According to a Chinese language Ming-Chi Kuo report, Apple is readying the release of the iPhone SE 2 and new iPad Pro models for the first quarter of next year.
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| VICE: |
Leaked email from GitHub CEO shows the company will renew its $200K contract with ICE, despite stated opposition to child separation policies — Even though GitHub leadership and others oppose ICE's child separation policy, an internal email suggests GitHub won't stop ICE from renewing a contract with the tech company.| CNBC: |
Shooting in Halle, Germany was livestreamed on Twitch; ~5 people watched the 35-minute video live and about 2,200 watched before it was removed in ~30 minutes — 09 October 2019, Saxony-Anhalt, Landsberg: Police officers walk along a hedge with machine guns in their hands near Wiedersdorf/Landsberg.
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| Anna Baydakova / CoinDesk: |
The IRS publishes its first guidance in five years for calculating taxes owed on cryptocurrency holdings, clearing up how hard forks should be treated — The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has published its first guidance in five years for calculating taxes owed on cryptocurrency holdings.
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Internal Revenue Service, Internal Revenue Service, Coin Center, Decrypt, Fortune, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph, Crowdfund Insider, Bitcoinist.com, SlashGear, and The Block. Tweets: @xrpcryptowolf
| Pew Research Center: |
Survey of 4,272 US adults shows patchy knowledge on tech issues: many answered correctly on cookies and phishing, few knew about 2FA, https, or private browsing — A majority of U.S. adults can answer fewer than half the questions correctly on a digital knowledge quiz, and many struggle with certain cybersecurity and privacy questions
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Apple starts selling Microsoft's Xbox Wireless Controller on its online store for the first time — Apple has added the Xbox Wireless Controller to Apple.com, although the accessory is currently unavailable to purchase at the time of writing. Apple sells a few different gaming controllers …
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| Rose Eveleth / Vox: |
The biggest lie technologists tell themselves and others is that there is nothing we can do to stop the natural and inevitable evolution of technology — They see facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices as inevitable evolutions. They're not.
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New York Times. Tweets: @chengela, @bitarchivist, @went1955, @voxdotcom, @johnwilson, and @vwpickard
| CNBC: |
House Financial Services Committee says Mark Zuckerberg will testify on October 23 as part of a hearing on Libra and more — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the House Financial Services Committee on Oct. 23 at 10 a.m. Eastern Time, the committee announced Wednesday.
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Financial Services Committee, Axios, Decrypt, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, CNET, Business Insider, and CNN
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| Financial Times: |
OECD countries unveil proposals to tax giant multinationals, especially tech giants, after months of negotiations, cracking down on the use of tax havens — The OECD has proposed a global shake-up of corporate taxation, overturning a century of rules that had allowed digital groups such as Facebook …
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