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Apple launches new iPod touch with A10 Fusion chip, support for Group FaceTime, and a 256GB storage option, available to order now starting at $199 (Apple) https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/05/new-ipod-touch-delivers-even-greater-performance/ …http://www.techmeme.com/190528/p10#a190528p10 …

A behind-the-scenes account on what it was like to provide basic cybersecurity training to 41 Democratic Congressional campaigns from late 2017 to 2018 (@baconmeteor / Idle Words) http://idlewords.com/2019/05/what_i_learned_trying_to_secure_congressional_campaigns.htm …http://www.techmeme.com/190528/p9#a190528p9 …

Four German publishing groups, Axel Springer, Funke Mediengruppe, RTL, and Gruner+Jahr, will sell their combined ad inventory in an effort to combat Big Tech (@jessdaviesmk / Digiday) https://digiday.com/media/germanys-biggest-publisher-sales-houses-unite-fight-google-facebook-amazon/ …http://www.techmeme.com/190528/p8#a190528p8 …

Global Payments will buy Total System Services for $21.5B, valuing it at $119.86 per share, the payment industry's third mega-merger of the year (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-28/global-payments-is-said-to-agree-to-buy-total-system-services …http://www.techmeme.com/190528/p7#a190528p7 …

A Deep Instinct-commissioned art piece of a laptop containing six pieces of malware that have caused an estimated $95B in damages sells for $1.3M+ at auction (@cfisherwrites / Engadget) https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/27/persistence-of-chaos-malware-laptop-auction/ …http://www.techmeme.com/190528/p6#a190528p6 …

Leaked doc: Google has ~121K temporary and contract workers globally, compared with ~102K full-time staff, raising concerns about its growing reliance on them (@daiwaka / New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/google-temp-workers.html …http://www.techmeme.com/190528/p5#a190528p5 …

Dell updates the XPS 13 2-in-1 with a new design, Intel's 10th Gen processors, webcam above the screen, new keyboard and larger touchpad, starting at $1,000 (@devindra / Engadget) https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/28/dell-xps-13-2-in-1-hands-on/ …http://www.techmeme.com/190528/p4#a190528p4 …

Pl@ntNet, a social collaborative app for identifying plants, shows how good social media can be without the engagement imperative (@mj_coren / Quartz) https://qz.com/1615237/plntnet-is-the-worlds-best-social-network/ …http://www.techmeme.com/190528/p3#a190528p3 …

A look at AT&T's grand vision of transforming into a "modern media company" spanning multiple content networks, distribution channels, and customer data streams (@geoffcolvin / Fortune) http://fortune.com/longform/att-media-company/ …http://www.techmeme.com/190528/p2#a190528p2 …

PUBG was banned in the Indian state of Gujarat in March amid fears about its violence and addictiveness; police have arrested 21 people for playing it in public (@pranavdixit / BuzzFeed News) https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/pubg-video-game-arrests-india-ban …http://www.techmeme.com/190528/p1#a190528p1 …

As the Tiananmen anniversary nears, censorship by Chinese internet companies has ramped up and is largely automated with AI and voice and image recognition tech (@catecadell / Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-tiananmen-censorship/chinas-robot-censors-crank-up-as-tiananmen-anniversary-nears-idUSKCN1SW03Y …http://www.techmeme.com/190527/p20#a190527p20 …

The internet is becoming a dark forest, full of life that's retreated from public view, as private spaces like Facebook Groups and invite-only forums have grown (@ystrickler / OneZero) https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1 …http://www.techmeme.com/190527/p19#a190527p19 …

Sources: the overseas version of Honour of Kings flopped due to development and marketing missteps and rift with Riot Games, as Tencent retools strategy abroad (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tencent-holdings-videogames/after-honour-of-kings-failure-abroad-tencent-retools-overseas-strategy-idUSKCN1SX1Y0 …http://www.techmeme.com/190527/p18#a190527p18 …

Neolix, a Chinese driverless vehicle company, is mass producing autonomous delivery vans, expects to manufacture a thousand vans in its first year (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-27/watch-out-mr-postman-robo-deliveries-are-now-reality-in-china …http://www.techmeme.com/190527/p17#a190527p17 …

In the year since GDPR took effect, a look at the first wave of decisions and fines issued by data protection authorities in EU countries (Philip Nabben / Lexology) https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=c04317e4-4fc9-43b4-ab6d-bb19210c812d …http://www.techmeme.com/190527/p16#a190527p16 …

Since GDPR, Ireland's Data Protection Commission says it has launched 19 cross-border investigations, 11 of which focus on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram (@matthew_wall / BBC) https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48357772 …http://www.techmeme.com/190527/p15#a190527p15 …

Profile of HobbyKidsTV, a family-run children's YouTube channel with 3M+ subscribers and adult moderators protecting its kid hosts and viewers from predators (@emmagreyellis / Wired) https://www.wired.com/story/kids-hobbykidstv-youtube-child-stars/ …http://www.techmeme.com/190527/p14#a190527p14 …

Sources: Alibaba is considering raising $20B via a second listing in Hong Kong, after raising a record-breaking $25B in its 2014 market debut on the NYSE (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-27/alibaba-is-said-to-weigh-raising-20-billion-via-second-listing …http://www.techmeme.com/190527/p13#a190527p13 …

SoundCloud acquires rights management platform Repost Network, which is used by over 20M audio creators and offers content distribution to over 25 stores (@robinwauters / http://Tech.eu ) https://tech.eu/brief/soundcloud-repost-network/ …http://www.techmeme.com/190527/p12#a190527p12 …

Coordinated reversal of transactions after some BCH was stolen, due to a bug during the latest Bitcoin Cash hardfork, may undermine trust in this blockchain (BitMEX Blog) https://blog.bitmex.com/the-bitcoin-cash-hardfork-three-interrelated-incidents/ …http://www.techmeme.com/190527/p11#a190527p11 …