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AppleTim Cook has kept his $50B services promises

With Apple TV+ about to arrive and lots of love already being shown for Apple Arcade, Appleservices business now seems certain to exceed CEO Tim Cook2017 $50-billion-per-year promise.

What did Cook say?

Back in early 2017, Cook made some pretty aggressive promises around how his company planned to build its services business: &Our goal is to double the size of the services business in the next four years,& he said at the time.

He was announcing the results of the companyDecember quarter, in which services generated $7.17 billion. More recently,Apple generated $12.5 billion in services in its just-passed September quarter (announced here) for a 2019 total of $46.3 billion in services alone.

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Twitter says government demands for user data continue to rise

Twitter says the number of government demands for user data are at a record high.

In its latest transparency report covering the six months between January and June, the social media giant said it received 7,300 demands for user data, up by 6% a year earlier, but that the number of accounts affected are down by 25%.

The company turned over some account data in just less than half of all cases.

U.S. government agencies requested the most data from the company during the period, filing 2,120 demands for 4,150 accounts — accounting for about one-third of all demands. Japan was trailing behind with 1,742 demands for 2,445 accounts.

The company also had 33 demands for data on 86 Periscope video-streaming accounts, disclosing some information in 60% of cases.

Twitter also disclosed it was previously served with three so-called national security letters (NSLs), which can compel companies to turn over non-content data at the request of the FBI. These letters are not approved by a judge, and often come with a gag order preventing their disclosure. But since the Freedom Act passed in 2015, companies have been allowed to request the lifting of those gag orders.

The report also said Twitter saw a rise across the board in the amount of private information, sensitive media, hateful content and abuse, but that it was continuing to take action.

Twitter said it removed 124,339 accounts for impersonation, and 115,861 accounts for promoting terrorism, a decline of 30% on the previous reporting period.

The company also removed 244,188 accounts for violations relating to child sexual exploitation.

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Maids for sale: How Silicon Valley enables online slave markets - TheIndianSubcontinent News
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There's not long left to vote for 'Ultimate Game of the Year' in the Golden Joystick AwardsThere's not long left to vote for 'Ultimate Game of the Year' in the Golden Joystick Awards

There's not long left to cast your vote for 'Ultimate Game of the Year' in the Golden Joystick Awards 2019.

This special category sees indies and AAA titles going head to head to be crowned "Ultimate Game of the Year" – the best of the whole bunch.

Here's the full shortlist:

  • Apex Legends (EA / Respawn Entertainment)
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Activi
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Russia will disconnect from the Internet tomorrow to test cyber-war defences
The test will see Russia revert to an internal version of the web called ‘RuNet& which is isolated from the networks of other nations
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Throwback Thursday: Pics, or it didn&t happen

Back in the days when PCs weren&t yet on everydesk, pilot fish gets a call from a client with a week-old PC — and hein a panic.

&When I delivered the new machine to him, I told him that he should refrain from turning his computer on and off too many times during the day,& says fish. &I said two or three times would be OK.&

Now the newbie user is telling fish that he can&t plug in the mouse and keyboard, and he needs to answer an important email that has just arrived.

Fish doesn't get it. After all, the PS/2 connectors on the mouse and keyboard will only go in one way. How hard can reconnecting them be? And anyway, how does the client know this time-critical email is even there? Isn&t the PC turned off?

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