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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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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @ewarren, @paulg, @karaswisher, @carlquintanilla, @joshconstine, @ewarren, @mattyglesias, @pkafka, @fmanjoo, @caseynewton, @caseynewton, @loudmouthjulia, @mattyglesias, @thedextriarchy, @verge, @daveleebbc, @abigailtracy, @anildash, @carlquintanilla, @lauraolin, @anildash, @stevekovach, @seldo, @jomc, @jason_kint, @caseynewton, @johnwilson, @larakate, @mattyglesias, @kevinroose, @jbendery, @laurenduca, and @drewmagary
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Appeals court upholds FCC's 2017 repeal of net neutrality, but also rules the FCC can't stop states from setting their own regulations — But the 200-page ruling says the FCC can't stop states from setting their own regulations — A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed …
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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.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Sony drops the price of PlayStation Now by 50% to $10 per month or $25 per quarter in the US, with similar cuts in Japan, EU, and UK — Facing new competition for consumers' entertainment spending, Sony is slashing the price of the PlayStation Now game-subscription service …
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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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Airbnb is planning a direct stock listing for its planned 2020 IPO, following Spotify and Slack — - Spotify and Slack have opted for similar path to public market — Hot IPOs of this year, like Uber, Lyft have had a chilly debut — Airbnb Inc.'s long-awaited Wall Street debut … | 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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| 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 … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Confiant: a bug in Webkit has allowed 1B+ malicious ads to exploit code that's redirected users to hostile websites, affecting primarily iOS and macOS users — Flaw rendered ad-sandboxing protections “entirely useless,” researchers say. — Attackers have bombarded the Internet …
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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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PCWorld, Thurrott, Digital Trends, Engadget, ExtremeTech, Windows Central, CNET, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada Blog, Liliputing, Pureinfotech, Softpedia News, and Pocketnow. Tweets: @backlon
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @h0x0d, @antonioberetini, @szul, @mehedih_, @hidecibels, @tomwarren, @zeroinfinite, and @daniel_rubino
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Skydio debuts the $999 Skydio 2 autonomous drone, an update to the original that is 50% smaller and lighter with 43% more flight time, coming next month — The drone a three-year-old could fly — Last year, I got to play with one of the most amazing gadgets I've ever touched …
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| Alex Davies / Wired: |
UPS says its drone service is the first of its kind to be recognized by the FAA as a commercial airline, but each new site it operates in must be approved — The FAA has granted a Part 135 certification for the logistics giant's drone business, propelling the little fliers closer to a commercial future.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pandora unveils a revamped mobile app with a new For You tab that recommends music, podcasts, and more — Pandora is doubling down on personalization and revamping its app in order to better compete with rivals like Spotify and Apple Music. Today, the company is introducing a new mobile experience …
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The Verge, iMore, Engadget, Android Central, iPhone Hacks, Droid Life, and Variety. Tweets: @wongmjane
| 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 …
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| 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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PR Newswire, Cointelegraph, FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, CoinDesk, Crowdfund Insider, VentureBeat, Fortune, and EU-Startups. Tweets: @mdudas
| 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.
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The Next Web. Tweets: @alexanderhanff, @lukolejnik, @mikarv, @lukolejnik, @lukolejnik, @accessnow, and @mikarv
| David Pan / CoinDesk: |
Skale Labs, parent to Skale Network, which develops a scalable and elastic blockchain network, raises $17.1M from Arrington XRP Capital and others — SKALE Network, a blockchain scalability platform, has raised $17.1 million to launch its mainnet. The firm says it could be ethereum's …
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| 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 … | 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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Microsoft 365 Blog, Engadget, TechCrunch, Inquirer, WinBuzzer, Softpedia News, SlashGear, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @office
| 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/...| Marko Tupper: |
A software engineer's account of his year and a half at Snap, from dealing with a micromanaging director to the move from the Venice to the Santa Monica offices — I spent the last year and a half working as a software engineer for Snap, Inc.. The experience was...unique, if nothing else.
Tweets: @richardmatthias, @tompjacobs, @tomwhitwell, and @holman
| 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
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