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DoorDash breach exposes 4.9 million users
App-driven takeaway collection service DoorDash was breached in May, exposing the personal details of "approximately 4.9 million consumers, Dashers, and merchants who joined our platform on or before April 5, 2018" (The Register). The hacker accessed data including names, phone numbers, email and delivery addresses and hashed and salted passwords. 100,000 drivers' registration plate numbers were also compromised.
TikTok inappropriately censors content around the world
Social video service TikTok has content moderation guidelines that ban LGBT content as mild as same-sex couples holding hands in countries where there are no restrictions on the depiction of homosexuality, such as Turkey (The Guardian). Parent company ByteDance says that these guidelines – along with a permissive attitude to videos that appear to show children wearing “sexy outfits” or “dancing seductively” – have now been replaced by more appropriate measures.
The news follows The Guardian's revelation that ByteDance censors subjects that are politically sensitive in its native China – such Tiananmen Square and Tibet – worldwide, rather than solely within China.
Apple's dropped some huge hints about its first AR glasses
Features and language discovered recently inside iOS 13 and 13.1 seem to explicitly confirm the very thing Apple executives have steadfastly refused to acknowledge—an honest-to-Jobs AR headset (WIRED). First came StarBoard. At the very beginning of September, a leaked internal build of iOS 13 was found to contain a "readme" file referring to StarBoard, a system that allows developers to view stereo-enabled AR apps on an iPhone. But more was to follow.
US immigration is using Google Translate in refugee status assessments
Google Translate was never designed to replace a qualified human translator, but a US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) manual recommends that officers handling refugee status applications “utilize one of the many free online language translation services provided by Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other search engines” when assessing applicants' social media posts (ProPublica).
A USCIS spokesperson described this as “a common sense measure to strengthen our vetting procedures,” although the body's official position is that social media content alone won't be used to deny resettlement.
Mario Kart Tour review: Nintendo still can’t get mobile gaming right
More than any of Nintendo’s mobile titles, Mario Kart is a powerhouse franchise (WIRED). And more than any other Nintendo franchise, it seems fundamentally suited to the demands of a successful mobile game: the pick up and play factor that allows players to drop in and out of gaming on short, commutable bursts. Unfortunately, Mario Kart Tour turns out to be a lightly entertaining title let down by an opaque and miserly transaction system.
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