Twitter on Friday released two national security letters it received from the FBI in the last two years that previously came with gag orders not to discuss them.
In a blog post , the social network said it had been ordered by the feds to provide the name, address and other pertinent information of a user account in 2015, and another in 2016, and to not notify the users.
In the released letters, the account names and the names of the specific investigating agencies were redacted.
Twitter’s action comes several weeks after tech companies including Google, Yahoo and Cloudflare published national security letters received from the FBI, some dating back to 2013.
«Twitter remains unsatisfied with restrictions on our right to speak more freely about national security requests we may receive,» wrote Elizabeth Banker, Twitter’s associate general counsel. «We would like a meaningful opportunity to challenge government restrictions when ‘classification’ prevents speech on issues of public importance. »
Twitter sued the Justice Department in 2014 to lift any gag orders placed on the company regarding national security inquiries involving its users. Twitter said it was prohibited from disclosing how many letters it had received.
The parties are due back in court next month.

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The photo shows an adorable smiling toddler dressed in shorts and white shoes. Beneath it, a tragic caption: My name is Joachim Hirsch. The US turned me away at the border in 1939. I was murdered in Auschwitz.
Photos with similar heartbreaking words, but different faces and names, circulated at a rapid clip on Twitter Friday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day .
St. Louis Manifest , a new account, has been tweeting the images all day to remember passengers aboard the St. Louis , a German transatlantic liner that set sail on May 13, 1939. Almost all aboard were Jews, mostly German citizens, fleeing the Third Reich and hoping to gain entry into the United States. Their ship was turned away and the passengers forced to return to Europe, where 254 of them were killed in the Holocaust.
The photos show new parents, grandparents and teenagers enjoying outings with friends. Some of the tweets that go out every five minutes don’t have photos, just names: Gerda Hermann, murdered at Auschwitz; Hilmar Heinemann, murdered at Dachau; Max Hirsch, murdered at Mauthausen.
Software developer and educator Russel Neiss and Rabbi Charlie Schwartz , co-creators of the project, got the information on the passengers from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. They say their project is meant both as a memorial to Hitler’s victims and a statement on President Donald Trump’s executive order this week to halt refugee processing and suspend immigration to the US from some countries.
«People always say that if you forget history then you will be doomed to repeat it. This is one of those moments where history gives us an opportunity to think about where we are now,» Neiss told The Atlantic. «There were legitimate concerns about immigration in the 1930s and 1940s, but people forget sometimes that those legitimate concerns often have real life or death implications for people. »
As of this writing, the Twitter account has 19,000 followers, with the count rising quickly.

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Remember that «Game Mode» feature that Twitter user WalkingCat found in Windows 10 build 14997? When we first heard about it, we were left wondering exactly what it did. Windows Central got to speak with Kevin Gammill from Microsoft’s Xbox team, and the short version is that Game Mode is an OS feature that should slightly improve performance consistency in both UWP and Win32 games when it’s activated.
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Primarily, Game Mode is intended to make game performance more consistent. By preventing system tasks and background tasks from stealing resources away from foreground games, gamers can avoid the hitches and stutters that come with multi-tasking while gaming. Microsoft says that players should see fewer dropped frames as a result of limiting CPU thread contention between games and system processes. The company notes that the ideas behind Game Mode are borrowed directly from the Xbox One.
Game Mode is controlled via the Xbox Game Bar. For those unfamiliar, the Game Bar is the small window that pops up in Windows 10 to ask if you’re running a game or not. Telling the app «Yes, this is a game» brings up a window where you can set up the Game DVR feature on a per-title basis. The Game Mode feature will now be controlled from that window. Folks who have the Game Bar disabled—like yours truly—won’t be able to use Game Mode.
That news doesn’t break my heart, though. Windows Central asked Gammill which games will see the largest benefits from Game Mode, and unsurprisingly, the company says that while the feature will work for Win32 games, titles built on the Universal Windows Platform will see the largest gains.
Tweakers who have experience giving one application system-wide priority will no doubt be aware that doing so can cripple the performance of the rest of your machine. Thankfully, there should be no such issues with Game Mode, as it’ll automatically disable itself when the game in question is minimized or loses focus. Developers don’t have to do anything to support Game Mode, either, though Gammill says Microsoft is working with game developers to see how they can better make use of the feature.
Windows Central says that Game Mode will first appear in Build 15019 on the Windows 10 Fast Ring. By Tom’s Hardware’s reckoning, that should be the next build, planned to reach Windows Insiders around this time tomorrow. Folks who aren’t part of the Windows Insider program will have to wait for the Creators Update coming this Spring.

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