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Lady Bits #5: Facebook’s prude policies, ‘LinkedIn’ for LaDiEs, and #unwantedivanka

Jul08
by on July 8, 2019 at 7:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, newsletter


Welcome back to Lady Bits, our feminist newsletter that makes everyone mad <3 Sorry we’re late this month… we had women stuff to do. We have a new feature! Each month, our gloriously talented designer, Saïna, will illustrate one of the many shitty replies, comments, or tweets we receive from one of TNW’s misogynistic readers. Here’s this month’s featured comment: So Saïna made this: Muahaha! Onto the news… the bloody news The repulsive app that generated nudes from photos of clothed women was shut down, but it still managed to do some damage. A secret US Border Patrol hate group has been exposed…

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Ubuntu maker’s GitHub account hacked — but the source code is safe

Jul08
by on July 8, 2019 at 7:40 am
Posted In: Around the Web


The GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, was hacked over the weekend on July 6. While the hacker’s identity remains unknown, they managed to compromise the account’s credentials to create 11 new empty repositories. The repositories were named “CAN_GOT_HAXXD.” “We can confirm that on 2019-07-06 there was a Canonical owned account on GitHub whose credentials were compromised and used to create repositories and issues among other activities,” Ubuntu Security team said in a statement. Canonical said it has removed the compromised account from the Canonical organization in GitHub and that it’s still investigating the…

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Japan is increasingly renting cars for everything except driving

Jul08
by on July 8, 2019 at 6:29 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Cars


Tokyo-based media outlet The Asahi Shimbun’s Takeho Morita published a quintessentially Japanese story last week: many people who rent cars through vehicle-sharing services across the country don’t drive them at all. Instead, they use them to take naps, making business calls, catching up privately with friends, eating lunch, – and according to a 2018 survey by NTT Docomo, to ‘do facial stretches said to reduce the size of their face.’ That’s from companies including Orix Auto, Times24, and NTT Docomo, which rent out large numbers of vehicles across cities in Japan. While they’d rather that their customers use their cars…

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Mozilla is testing an ad-free news subscription for $5 a month

Jul08
by on July 8, 2019 at 6:09 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Mozilla last month hinted at a paid version of Firefox browser last month, and now it’s making its plans more explicit. The not-for-profit organization has announced it’s exploring a bunch of “alternative funding models for the web.” To that effect, it said it has started testing an ad-free news subscription product for $5 per month in collaboration with Scroll, a news subscription startup. Scroll currently has an ad-free news subscription in collaboration with 12 media partners, including Slate, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Gizmodo, USA Today, and Vox. The service is expected to offer ad-free browsing, audio versions of news articles, and cross-platform syncing…

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