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| The Intercept: |
Documents and sources detail how the NSA taps into the data between AT&T, its partners, and customers, making the telco essential to US surveillance efforts — The secrets are hidden behind fortified walls in cities across the United States, inside towering, windowless skyscrapers …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases first public beta of iOS 12 with Group FaceTime, Siri Shortcuts, new Do Not Disturb features, Memoji, multiplayer shared AR experiences, and more — Apple this afternoon released the first public beta of iOS 12 to its public beta testing group, giving non-developers a chance …
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
a16z has raised $300M for its first crypto-focused fund, bringing on former US DoJ prosecutor Katie Haun as a general partner to lead the effort — - Andreessen Horowitz is “investing aggressively” in crypto, even as bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have dropped by more than 50 percent this year.
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| Brian Brackeen / TechCrunch: |
Brian Brackeen, CEO of facial recognition firm Kairos, on why the tech, given its abuse potential and bias against people of color, shouldn't be used by police — Recent news of Amazon's engagement with law enforcement to provide facial recognition surveillance (branded “Rekognition") … | Julie Creswell / New York Times: |
Amid growing outcry from civil liberties groups, Orlando has ended its pilot project for police to use Amazon's Rekognition facial recognition software for now — Amid a growing outcry about privacy concerns by civil liberties groups, officials in Orlando, Fla., said Monday …
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Florida Politics, CNET, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Mashable, and Business Insider
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Intel's integrated model served it well for 35 years, but in the mobile era, is a straitjacket hemming in the chip maker — Last week Brian Krzanich resigned as the CEO of Intel after violating the company's non-fraternization policy. The details of Krzanich's departure, though …
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| Emily McCormick / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Instagram is estimated to be worth more than $100B if it were a stand-alone company and is on track to cross 2B users within the next five years — - Boost in estimated valuation signifies a 100-fold return — App is predicted to exceed 2 billion users within five years| Lara O'Reilly / Wall Street Journal: |
AT&T confirms it will buy AppNexus, which operates one of the largest independent ad exchanges; sources last week said the price was expected to be around $1.6B — Following acquisitions of AppNexus and Time Warner, telecom giant wants to do more than capitalize on its own content
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| Troy Hunt: |
Have I Been Pwned breach data search now integrated in 1Password via Watchtower, will be trialed in Firefox via a new Firefox Monitor tool starting next week — Pretty much every day, I get a reminder from someone about how little people know about their exposure in data breaches.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is integrating Adblock Plus into its Edge browser on iOS and Android, letting users enable it in settings, rolling out to beta testers now — Available in beta right now — Microsoft is building Adblock Plus directly into its Edge browser for iOS and Android.
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Engadget, Fortune, MacRumors, SlashGear, Windows Central, KnowTechie, The Next Web, and BetaNews. Tweets: @howelloneill
| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed: |
More than 650 Salesforce employees have signed a petition to CEO Marc Benioff asking him to reexamine a contract with US Customs and Border Protection — Employees at Salesforce follow those at Microsoft, Amazon, and Google in pushing back against their companies' contracts with military and government agencies.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to unveil high-end water resistant AirPods with noise-cancellation, studio-quality over-ear headphones, and a new HomePod as early as next year — - High-end AirPods and over-ear headphones coming next year — Foxconn to build AirPods; Inventec may lose some HomePod work
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Tweets: @stevekopack, @tomgara, and @harshilshah1910
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
The Oculus TV app, which displays content in a virtual home theater, debuts for Oculus Go but seems half-baked, with no universal search and clunky navigation — Facebook released a new app for its Oculus Go virtual reality (VR) headset Monday: Oculus TV is meant to be a one-stop-shop for watching streaming video content in VR.
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TechCrunch, Oculus Blog, Neowin, VentureBeat, SlashGear, CNET, iMore, The Verge, and Engadget. Tweets: @jank0
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
T-Mobile unveils FamilyMode, a $10/month subscription plan and HomeBase, a $100 base station, to let parents monitor and manage their kids' internet usage — Even on a home Wi-Fi network — T-Mobile is launching a new subscription plan today as an add-on for subscribers to its T-Mobile … | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Amazon's hearing process for workers facing firing, where they can choose to appeal to a jury of co-workers, seen by some as a “kangaroo court” — The hearing process has raised questions about fairness, according to workers and their attorneys.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
PayPal's Venmo follows Square by officially launching its own MasterCard-branded debit card in the US, following beta tests of a now-discontinued Visa card — Venmo today is officially introducing its own debit card in partnership with MasterCard, following beta tests of a Visa-branded debit card last year.
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SlashGear, The Verge, Engadget, Bank Innovation, GeekWire, Pocket-lint, KnowTechie, TechSpot, SludgeFeed, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, Mashable, CNET, ZDNet, Axios, and Reuters
| Seb Joseph / Digiday: |
Sources: programmatic ad spending, which saw steep declines after GDPR, has started to recover, with some publishers' audience opt-in consent rates hitting 75% — Programmatic ad spending has started to recover a month after the arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation caused it to nosedive.
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