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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
In leaked audio from open meetings in July, Mark Zuckerberg talks about Facebook's challenges and potential breakup, politics, competitors, content moderators — In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
What to expect from Microsoft's event on October 2: Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3, an ARM-based Surface, and at least a teaser of a dual-screen device — Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3, and some mysterious new hardware — Microsoft is holding a big Surface hardware event in New York City on Wednesday, October 2nd.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Leaked images reveal the upcoming Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3 (13-inch and 15-inch), and an ARM-powered Surface 2-in-1 device — Well dang, there they are — Microsoft's new Surface lineup appears to have leaked almost in its entirety, thanks to product images obtained by journalist and leaker Evan Blass.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Block.one settles with the SEC for $24M in penalties for conducting an unregistered securities sale; Block.one had raised ~$4.1B via ICO over a one-year period — EOS maker Block.One must pay $24 million in penalties for conducting an unregistered securities sale, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission …
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| Brent Rose / The Verge: |
GoPro Hero8 Black review: doesn't require special housing for mounts, has even better image stabilization, but the camera gets hot while recording — Let's start with the body. Since the Hero 5, GoPro cameras have been waterproof up to 33 feet without the need of an additional housing …
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
Microsoft now lets OneDrive users expand 1TB storage in 200GB increments and launches OneDrive Personal Vault, to protect folders using 2FA, available globally — Microsoft announced two major features for OneDrive back in June: Personal Vault and expandable storage. Both of the features are launching worldwide today.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft rolls out its Azure-based Windows Virtual Desktop globally, with a WVD client app available for Windows, Android, Mac, iOS, and HTML 5 — Microsoft is rolling out its Azure-based Windows Virtual Desktop service and readying some new capabilities around Teams support and MSIX App Attach which could make it even more useful.
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Tweets: @maryjofoley, @markhachman, @sjvn, and @microsoft365
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Collaborative presentation software startup Pitch launches in private beta and raises $30M Series B led by Thrive Capital — The software industry is no spring chicken, and that fact that brought us to an interesting moment in technology: some of the biggest legacy apps — ubiquitous as they may be … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU top court rules that active consent is needed for non-essential cookies, like tracking cookies for targeted ads, rendering pre-checked consent boxes illegal — Europe's top court has ruled that pre-checked consent boxes for dropping cookies are not legally valid.
Tweets: @alexanderhanff, @lukolejnik, @accessnow, @mikarv, @lukolejnik, @mikarv, and @lukolejnik
| Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane: |
Uber is testing a safety feature to let passengers record and send audio to the company if they are “uncomfortable” during a ride — Uber is testing “Record Audio” in case the rider is uncomfortable with the ride https://twitter.com/...
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitter is rolling out a filter that moves unwanted DMs containing questionable language or spam to an “additional messages” folder on Android, iOS, and the web — Twitter is quickly acting on plans to filter potentially offensive direct messages. It's rolling out the filter to all users on Android, iOS and the web.
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| Associated Press: |
Former Yahoo engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into the accounts of about 6,000 Yahoo users in search of sexual photos and videos — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A former Yahoo software engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into the accounts of some 6,000 Yahoo users in search of sexual photos and videos.
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Khatabook, which helps small Indian businesses record financial transactions digitally, raises $25M Series A from investors including GGV Capital, Sequoia India — Even as tens of millions of Indians have come online for the first time in recent years, most businesses in the nation remain offline.
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| Jules Wang / Android Police: |
Google confirms it is testing Duplex-powered Assistant for Chrome, initially with movie ticket booking websites like AMC and Fandango — Back at I/O, Google announced a major expansion to its Assistant-based concierge automation engine, Duplex. Up until then, it would help people book restaurant tables … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rapyd, which helps companies integrate payment and related services into their platforms, raises $100M led by Oak HC/FT, sources say at a ~$1B valuation — The digital payments market is forecast to balloon to $3 trillion by 2023, and today a startup that lets businesses implement not just payments …
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Dave, which offers money management tools to let its 4M users avoid overdraft fees, raises $50M, says it now has a valuation of $1B+ — Two years after the Los Angeles-based fintech startup Dave launched with a suite of money management tools to save consumers from overdraft fees …
Tweets: @iankar_ and @pottsjustin
| Rob Pegoraro / The Atlantic: |
Momentum behind tech companies posting transparency reports has faded, with some like Charter stopping the practice as others like Amazon make them more opaque — TikTok can tell you a lot about internet culture, but the massively popular Chinese-owned social-media app doesn't seem to know much about Hong Kong protests.
Tweets: @theatlantic and @eff
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Dave Willner, who helped put together Facebook's content standards over a decade ago, says its exemption of politicians' hate speech is “cowardice” — Dave Willner helped put together Facebook's content standards over a decade ago. He's not happy with the company's exceptions for politicians.
Tweets: @wired, @stevenlevy, and @slpng_giants
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Armor: over 500 US schools and colleges have been hit by ransomware in 2019, with 100 schools across fifteen school districts attacked in the last two weeks — Fifteen US school districts, accounting for 100 schools, were hit in the past two weeks alone. — In the first nine months of the year … | Jason Torchinsky / Jalopnik: |
Videos of owners trying Tesla's new Smart Summon feature, which show Teslas autonomously driving to owners with varying degrees of success, go viral — Just a few days ago, Tesla announced their new Version 10 software update, which included such things as the ability to play Cuphead …
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