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1. China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... sites blocked by the Great Firewall in search results would just frustrate Chinese users who tried to click on them). The real reason? Yahoo was in China, and in 2004, if you wanted to get Google to do ...

2. Verizon dumps another Oath property for peanuts: RIP, Mapquest
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... sold, and merged with Yahoo's mangled acquisitions, to Verizon, to form a new, doomed division called "Oath" (because thinking about it made people swear). Verizon has now dumped Mapquest to an ad-tech ...

3. Former Yahoo engineer hacked 6,000 accounts in search of sexual content
(English/engadget)

A former Yahoo engineer pleaded guilty to hacking into roughly 6,000 accounts in search of sexual photos and videos. According to court documents, Reyes Daniel Ruiz, 34, used his employee access to Yahoo's ...

4. Yahoo Mail, novità per l’app Android e iOS
(Italiano/webnews)

Yahoo Mail per Android e iOS è stata aggiornata con un nuova interfaccia e funzionalità che permettono di organizzare meglio i messaggi di posta. The post Yahoo Mail, novità per l’app Android e ...

5. Yahoo unveils new logo
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Yahoo has a new logo (above) and Brand Identity Narrative to go with it. Read the rest Read all  ...

6. Yahoo’s redesigned Mail app aims to bring order to your inbox
(English/engadget)

The way we use email has changed a lot over the years, evolving from person-to-person communications to an all-in-one depository for newsletters, coupons, travel receipts and (a lot of) miscellaneous junk. ...

7. Walmart will reportedly stop selling e-cigarettes
(English/engadget)

Walmart seemingly isn't taking any chances in light of recent concerns about e-cigarettes. CNBC and Yahoo Finance both have obtained a memo indicating that the retailer will stop selling e-cigarettes ...

8. Russia reportedly breached encrypted FBI comms in 2010
(English/engadget)

When the Obama administration kicked out Russian operatives and seized compounds, it might have been for more than their meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Unnamed officials talking to Yahoo ...

9. Demetrification: improving social media by removing public like/follower/repost counts
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... things that made it (briefly) the best social network on the internet (until Yahoo bought it and all but destroyed it): among other things, Flickr did not publicly display follower or favorite counts, ...

10. Alex Stamos schools Apple after they whine about Google revealing a whack of Ios zero-days
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... in companies that get security wrong. He famously resigned as Yahoo's Chief Security Officer in protest of a plan to install an NSA spying tool to scan Yahoo Mail accounts. Then he quit his job as Facebook's ...

11. Si registrano pesanti problemi Yahoo Mail oggi 5 settembre
(Italiano/geekissimo)

Proviamo ad analizzare più da vicino i pesanti problemi Yahoo Mail di oggi 5 settembre, secondo quanto riscontrato stamane L'articolo Si registrano pesanti problemi Yahoo Mail oggi 5 settembre sembra essere ...

12. Announcement of Tumblr's sale to WordPress classified as pornography by Tumblr's notorious "adult content" filter
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Tumblr is being sold to WordPress parent company Automattic for a reported price of "less than $3m," a substantial decline from the $1.1B Yahoo paid for the company in 2013 (Yahoo subsequently sold Tumblr ...

13. Yahoo exec wanted Tumblr to become "the next generation PDF"
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

In this excellent Mashable article about Yahoo's disastrous $1.1 billion purchase of Tumblr and its subsequent mishandling is this bit: Top Yahoo executives clashed with Tumblr, or just flat out confused ...

14. WordPress is buying Tumblr
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... "well below" $20m (which is well below the $1.1b Yahoo paid in 2013). No word as to whether Automattic will get rid of Tumblr's world-beatingly-terrible pornography filter. (via Bruce Sterling's Tumblr)  ...

15. Huawei CEO: Entity List ban is 'the start of the US falling behind'
(English/engadget)

It's been a tumultuous year for Huawei's businesses in the US, and the company's highest-ranking officials are speaking out. Founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei spoke with Yahoo Finance in an hour-long ...

16. Seth Rich conspiracy was a Russian military operation: Yahoo News
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

The Seth Rich conspiracy traces back to an SVR operation, reports Yahoo News today. Huge if true, and possibly the Russian military's biggest coup yet, not counting the one that landed Trump in the White ...

17. High school student claims principal plagiarized Ashton Kutcher for graduation speech
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... Choice Awards. She originally posted the video above on her Facebook page. According to Yahoo Lifestyle, "the principal directed Yahoo Lifestyle to the district's superintendent, who did not immediately ...

18. Alex Stamos on the security problems of the platforms' content moderation, and what to do about them
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Alex Stamos (previously) is the former Chief Security Officer of Yahoo and Facebook. I've jokingly called him a "human warrant canary" because it seems that whenever he leaves a job, we later learn that ...

19. Verizon is trying to sell off Tumblr
(English/engadget)

Just two years after taking control of Tumblr as part of its acquisition of Yahoo, Verizon is looking to offload the blogging platform. According to the Wall Street Journal, the telecommunications giant ...

20. Verizon "trying to sell Tumblr"
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Yahoo bought Tumblr in 2013 for $1.1bn, then Verizon acquired Yahoo. Now Verizon, after purging Tumblr of adult material and watching its traffic plunge as a result, is trying to sell whatever's left. ...

21. Tumblr is for sale...again
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... Tumblr became part of Verizon through the sale of Yahoo's media assets, and is part of a group Verizon dubbed "Oath" because everyone who encounters it ends up swearing. Verizon has admitted that it made ...

22. Bernie Sanders cut his head on shower door, got 7 stitches, shows up to a health care town hall 2 hours later
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... Yahoo News (@YahooNews) March 15, 2019 Bernie Sanders’s crowd in North Charleston. pic.twitter.com/OfMQDS7MPk — Cleve R. Wootson Jr. (@CleveWootson) March 14, 2019 as a clumsy jew who also received ...

23. Screwdriver: A scalable build platform for continuous delivery
(English/Linuxtoday)

Open source build platform emerged from Yahoo's search to find a CI/CD platform to meet its growing developer requirements. Read all  ...

24. Fastest-growing jobs in 2019: solar panel installer, stastistician, wind turbine techs
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Yahoo News' Adriana Belmonte reports on the fastest-growing jobs in America. Construction and extraction jobs are in high demand in the U.S., along with installation, maintenance, and repair services. ...

25. Judge rejects Yahoo's proposed settlement over data breaches
(English/engadget)

Yahoo's proposed settlement over massive data breaches hasn't passed muster in the courtroom. Judge Lucy Koh has rejected the settlement from the company (now owned by Engadget parent Verizon) ...