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In court filing, Epic says Fortnite has 116M iOS users, a third of the game's 350M users, and iOS DAUs declined by 60%+ since its removal from the App Store — Epic is formally asking for a preliminary injunction — Shortly before midnight on the Friday before Labor Day weekend …
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Q&A with AI Now Institute's Amba Kak on the organization's new report detailing eight case studies of how biometric ID systems are regulated around the world — A new report from the AI Now Institute reveals how different regulatory approaches work or fall short in protecting communities from surveillance.
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| Jeremy B. Merrill / ProPublica: |
Facebook's ban on political ads in the week prior to the election applies to election officials, who use Facebook to inform voters about the voting process — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.
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Amazon responds to JEDI decision, calling it a “politically corrupted contract award” and attacks Trump's role in steering the award away from AWS — Earlier today, the DoD announced it had concluded its corrective action and affirmed its prior JEDI contract award to Microsoft.
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| Aaron Gregg / Washington Post: |
Pentagon reaffirms its controversial decision to give JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft; Amazon is likely to continue its legal challenge — The Pentagon reaffirmed its controversial decision to give its largest-ever cloud computing contract to Microsoft instead of to market-leader Amazon …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Facebook is testing displaying Instagram Stories directly in the main Facebook app; the test requires users opt in and link their accounts together — Only your Instagram followers can see your stories in Facebook — Some Facebook users have recently noticed that they can now watch …
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| Aroon Deep / MediaNama: |
To pre-empt government censorship, 15 OTT services in India, including Disney Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and MX Player adopt a self-regulation code — Fifteen Indian streaming services and digital content companies have adopted a self-regulation code to pre-empt government censorship …
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Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, Livemint, The Economic Times, Washington Times, Variety, MediaNama, Inc42 Media, The Economic Times, The Hindu BusinessLine, and IAMAI. Tweets: @aroondeep
| Paul Bischoff / Comparitech: |
Researchers: Telmate, a messaging service used by US inmates and their families, exposed a database of messages and personal info of millions of inmates online — Telmate, a service used by incarcerated inmates at US prisons to communicate with their friends and loved ones … | Zeynep Tufekci / The Atlantic: |
In an attempt to open during the pandemic, many US universities are forcing students to download location-tracking apps, sometimes as a condition of enrollment — In Michigan, a small liberal-arts college is requiring students to install an app called Aura, which tracks their location in real time, before they come to campus.
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| Laura Hautala / CNET: |
A look at how scientists, firefighters, and first responders are using advanced computer models to better map, track, and predict the movements of wildfires — Fire-predicting software can project how a fire could spread — while it's still burning. — The wildfire burned through pine trees … | David McCabe / New York Times: |
As Oracle tries to buy TikTok, a look at how the company started embracing and building ties with Donald Trump and his administration after the 2016 election — The tech giant stands out in Silicon Valley for its close ties to the administration, which must bless any deal for the social media app.| Alex Kantrowitz / OneZero : |
Q&A with Box CEO Aaron Levie on the Trump administration, Box's stock rising during the pandemic, decoding his own tweets, competing with tech giants, and more — ‘This economy is definitely not sustainable’ … the pandemic flattens much of the U.S. economy, many technology firms are doing just fine.
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