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1. After sweeping election victories, Hong Kong protesters stage massive demonstrations marking their 6-month anniversary
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... Chinese mainland, tweeted a video of the huge crowds with the caption: "Here's your majority Carrie Lam". Hong Kongers mark half a year of protest with mammoth rally [Jerome Taylor, Yan Zhao/Yahoo News] (via ...

2. Trump pledged that Amazon would be forced to pay its taxes; thanks to his #taxscam, their profits went up and their taxes stayed $0.00
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... tax and reporting $3.4 billion in tax expense over the last three years," an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement. Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 2018 [Kristin Myers/Yahoo ...

3. This adorable puppy has a tail growing from his head
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... shelter in Jackson, Mo. From Yahoo!: Once situated in Jackson, Narwhal was evaluated by Dr. Brian Heuring, a veterinarian at Cape Small Animal Clinic, who was able to share a good prognosis on the ...

4. China has 500+ Uighur camps and prisons and is holding far more than one million, activists say
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... cited figure of one million people. From AFP via Yahoo News: The East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, a Washington-based group that seeks independence for the mostly Muslim region known to China ...

5. Venice is flooded right now and it looks miserable
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Rising tides and rain in Venice are flooding the city, and hotels are giving guests knee-high rubber boots so they can slosh their way from one tourist attraction to another. From Yahoo News: The high ...

6. Sports teams are using Signal to duck deflategate-like scandals
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Facebook isn't the only company struggling over the prospect of end-to-end encryption in messaging apps, as a report from Yahoo Sports cites examples from "every level of sport" turning ...

7. Woman arrested for selling fake doctor's notes to students playing hooky
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... in excuse notes from his office. It's surprising that the students would waste money on something they could easily make themselves given the endless free templates available online! From Yahoo! News: Fondren ...

8. Data viz video of the most visited websites from 1996 to 2019
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In 1996, AOL and Yahoo! were at the top. Things changed. They can change again. (Data Is Beautiful) Read the rest Read all  ...

9. Yahoo Groups archivists despair as Verizon blocks their preservation efforts ahead of shutdown
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Since 2010, Nightowl, the "head of the Yahoo Users Crusade," has been leading a preservation effort to scrape and archive the sprawling contents of Yahoo Groups. She writes, "Now we are desperate. We ...

10. Yahoo Groups is being prepared for shutdown, with all stored archives to be deleted on Dec 14
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The latest fuck-you from Oath -- the Verizon division created to manage the zombie assets of AOL and Yahoo, bought at a ridiculous premium and then written down by more than 99% -- is the impending drawdown ...

11. The Morning After: Is this the ultimate retro-gaming portable?
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Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Say goodbye to Yahoo Groups and Google Daydream, and good morning to Volvo's first full EV. Also, the Vatican is going click-to-pray, and Under Armour has unveiled ...

12. Yahoo is shutting down its Groups website and deleting all content
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Yahoo (owned by Engadget's parent company Verizon) is phasing out one its longest-standing features. The internet pioneer is closing the Yahoo Groups website in a two-phase process that will effectively ...

13. China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home
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... 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 ...

14. Verizon dumps another Oath property for peanuts: RIP, Mapquest
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... 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 ...

15. Former Yahoo engineer hacked 6,000 accounts in search of sexual content
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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 ...

16. Yahoo Mail, novità per l’app Android e iOS
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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 ...

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

18. Yahoo’s redesigned Mail app aims to bring order to your inbox
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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. ...

19. Walmart will reportedly stop selling e-cigarettes
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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 ...

20. Russia reportedly breached encrypted FBI comms in 2010
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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 ...

21. Demetrification: improving social media by removing public like/follower/repost counts
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... 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, ...

22. Alex Stamos schools Apple after they whine about Google revealing a whack of Ios zero-days
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... 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 ...

23. Si registrano pesanti problemi Yahoo Mail oggi 5 settembre
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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 ...

24. Announcement of Tumblr's sale to WordPress classified as pornography by Tumblr's notorious "adult content" filter
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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 ...

25. Yahoo exec wanted Tumblr to become "the next generation PDF"
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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 ...