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🍦 I’m enjoying the long May weekend in the UK – I’m hoping for some sun so we can eat ice cream on the beach!

Popular news this week

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Twitter:

• Elon Musk will officially buy Twitter: for $ 44 billion and it is unclear how this will affect Twitter in the short and long term.
• In addition, cybersecurity experts say Twitter may be more vulnerable to attack if Musk’s idea to make its open source technology materialize, not to mention privacy concerns. Musk will potentially owe $ 1 billion to Twitter if the deal fails …
• In addition, Musk’s ideas for increasing Twitter profits may include generating revenue from your tweets and increasing engagement with celebrities.

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elsewhere:

• The entire Android industry can’t compete with Apple’s growth in the last quarter: every Android maker lost market share in the first quarter of 2022.
• Hackers have successfully tricked Google, Apple and others into giving up user data.
• Sony has announced an Xperia event for May 11: Xperia 1 IV is likely to come next month.
• And Amazon Prime Day is coming in July, a date to be confirmed.
• Huawei Mate XS 2 launches on Thursday, the first foldable design we’ve seen in a while, with the Snapdragon 888 4G Soc, a 7.8-inch 120Hz foldable OLED display that folds to a smaller 6.5-inch 19: 9 screen and 4600 mAh-4800mAh battery depending on the model, but so far only for China.
• The Vivo X80 series announces: Evolution, not revolution? So far, only China version.
• Launches Poco F4 GT: The Best Gaming Phone on the Market?
• Huawei Band 7 and Watch GT 3 Pro were also released.
• And Honor took the lead in the Chinese phone market, unexpectedly, compared to 5% market share a year ago.
• Also, someone may have found Xiaomi’s next foldable phone hidden in MIUI code …
• Meanwhile, the small Snap Pixy camera drone that connects to Snapchat has been launched for $ 230 in the United States and France alone.
• Changing missing messages in WhatsApp is another reason to use Signal: WhatsApp will allow users to save missing messages, undermining privacy.
• It seems that wireless charging products may not be available in the entire room this year: Belkin questions the future schedule for chargers that will use IR rays to “transfer” power directly to a device from a power supply to another location in the room.
• Wow: The Japanese Railways is building a giant gundam-style robot to repair VR-controlled power lines.

Movies / TV:

• The finale of the Tokyo Vice season aired on Friday, so while we look forward to hearing if there will be a season 2, check out the true story of Jake Adelstein. If you haven’t watched the show, watch HBO Max Season 1 streaming now.
• Nicholas Cage’s 13 best performances (and where to watch them), including leaving Las Vegas, Face / Off and more.
• Mashable’s review of The Man Who Fell to Earth is in: giving justice – and then a little – to the source material.
• Nintendo has postponed its Super Mario movie to April 2023, but it will obviously be worth the wait.
• And Netflix is ​​releasing a trailer, the launch date of the Korean remake of Money Heist: June 24.
• Here’s what’s new on Netflix in May: Stranger Things Season 4 (!), Lincoln’s Lawyer, and a new comedy series by Mike Myers.
• CNN Plus closed two days earlier than planned on April 28.
• Missing Severance? Check out these 15 Reddit AMA revelations from Severance creator Dan Erickson.
• Or check out the best new streaming movies this week, from the bizarre teen drama Crush to Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express.

games:

• Blizzard will unveil the first mobile game of Warcraft on May 3, at 10 p.m.
• Ubisoft suspends online services for 91 games on multiple console and computer platforms, including Just Dance, Splinter Cell, Far Cry 2 and more.
• Sega downloaded Sonic stand-alone games before the arrival of Sonic Origins.
• Apple is threatening to remove games that have not been updated recently from its store, the developers are in arms.
• Meanwhile, Sony is building a gaming storage team to keep old games alive.
• Speaking of Sony, some developers have reportedly required to create two-hour trials of their games in preparation for upcoming PS Plus Premium subscriptions: it will only apply to new games with a wholesale price of $ 34 or more and has no retroactive effect.
• In addition, Sony is limiting the accumulation of PlayStation Now subscriptions to protect its upcoming Premium service: if you are already subscribed, you will have to wait until June to redeem prepaid cards.
• The May PlayStation Plus games are Tribes of Midgard, Curse of the Dead Gods and FIFA 22.
• Speaking of Demonstrations: The annual Tribeca Festival will include a selection of games that distant visitors can play online, including demonstrations for Plague Tale: Requiem and Oxenfree II: Lost Signals – tickets on sale on May 2nd.
• And PAX East is over for another year: Here are some of Ars Technica’s favorite games from the event.
• Meanwhile, a mod for Elden Ring VR is coming and PC Gamer has some footage.
• And Vampire Battle Royale: Bloodhunt is now free for PlayStation 5, not available anywhere else until October 2023.
• Finally: Nintendo Switch Sports has landed and has reviews.

Reviews

Eric Zeman / Android Authority

Settle in for a little long reading this week.

I just finished listening to an episode of the Hoax podcast “Jimmy’s World” about the 26-year-old Pultizer Award winner (and lost) Washington Post reporter Janet Cook. In case you haven’t heard of her, her story is quite interesting.

• On September 28, 1980, readers of the Washington Post were greeted with artwork for a story entitled Jimmy’s World.
• The subtitle of the story: “8-year-old heroin addict lives for repair” excites the whole country.
• But later it became one of the biggest journalistic scandals of all time, something we want to think will not happen today, with all the technology we have to verify facts and background …

From the original article:

“Jimmy is 8 years old and addicted to third-generation heroin, a prematurely mature little boy with sandy hair, velvety brown eyes and needle marks, freckles on the baby-smooth skin of his thin brown hands.

He snuggled into a large, beige reclining chair in the living room of his comfortably furnished home in Southeast Washington. He has an almost cherubim expression on his small, round face as he talks about life – clothes, money, Baltimore orioles and heroin. He is addicted to a 5-year-old. “

shocking. But is any of this true?

Who was Janet Cook?

Janet Cook had worked as a reporter for The Toledo Blade for just over two years when she wrote to executive editor Ben Bradley, asking about a job at The Washington Post, enclosing her autobiography and six articles she had written about The Blade.

• Bradley was impressed that Cook graduated from Vasar’s Phi Beta Kappa in 1976 and offered her an interview.
• Two weeks later, Cook impressed everyone he met. She was an articulate, well-dressed, impressive black woman who looked perfect for the job, especially given the pressure to hire women and minorities.
• Cook began working for The Post on January 3, 1980.
• Everyone was so impressed with her that no one could remember doing more than a cursory check of her recommendations.

Cook began working for The District Weekly under Vivian Aplin-Brownley.

• Cook wrote her first text two weeks after she was hired, a story about a black beauty pageant.
• It wasn’t until February 21 that her first major article was published – a story about a drug-laden corridor for the Washington riots, pushing Cook firmly into the drug reporting scene.
• Cook wrote 52 more stories before Jimmy’s World.
• But behind the scenes, she was known for her dramatic flair. She was conspicuous, wearing designer clothes and “absorbed in blind and rude ambition.”
• She even told others about her ambitions to win Pulitzer in three years and be at the national headquarters in three to five years.

The story itself

Uplin Brownley had heard of a new type of heroin on the streets. Cook was sent to investigate, interviewing drug rehabilitation experts and social workers about heroin abuse in Washington.

• Cook amassed two hours of tape-recorded interviews and 145 pages of handwritten notes that fell on the desk of Milton Coleman, who had worked for the Post since May 1976 and took over the City’s office on May 26, 1980.
• Until now, heroin stories have been circulating regularly, but when Cook talked about the Coleman story and mentioned an 8-year-old addict, he immediately realized it was a front-page story.

Cook is believed to have gone to dinner with the heroin addict’s mother and visited their house, but no one has asked for the boy’s name or address or family, and Cook has been promised confidentiality about her sources. She even claims that she was threatened with a knife by the boy’s stepfather and was sent to stay with another Post Office employee for two nights after the story was published.

The details in the story were extensive, with the first draft being 13.5 pages long, describing the child, his clothes and the family home in great detail. Somewhere along the way, everyone guessed that Coleman knew who the child was, but no one ever asked about him.

• When the story was published on Sunday, September 28, 892,220 copies of the newspaper featured Jimmy’s World on the front page.
• Unlike today, when we could easily use the latest technology to check references, check sources and find out where this family lives, in the 1980s it was all taken for granted. There was no reason to argue that this well-written story was true.
• Readers were outraged and wondered what was being done to find the boy. The story was sent to Nancy Reagan, the nation …