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| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
A look at the rapidly declining morale at Uber amid budget cuts for basic amenities, mass layoffs, and a 30% decline in stock price since its IPO — Uber's CEO told staff: “We need to ship more quickly and operate more effectively and efficiently than we are today.”
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| Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News: |
Hacker claims to have breached Zynga and stolen info on 218M Words with Friends players; Zynga has started notifying users but has not disclosed size of breach — A Pakistani hacker who previously made headlines earlier this year for selling almost a billion user records stolen …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 13.1.2 and iPadOS 13.1.2 with fixes for several bugs including those affecting Camera, iCloud Backup, shortcuts on HomePod, and flashlight — Apple today released iOS and iPadOS 13.1.2, updates to the iOS and iPadOS 13.1.1 software that was released on Friday.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: a US online privacy bill is not likely to come before Congress in 2019, forcing companies to deal with a stricter law in CA that takes effect on Jan. 1 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. online privacy bill is not likely to come before Congress this year, three sources said …
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| Rick Paulas / OneZero: |
Nextdoor's verification requirement excludes homeless people from neighborhood discussions, leading to echo chambers that demonize them — The platform built for neighborhood news often scapegoats the most disadvantaged communities — August 14, a man broke into a home in the Shafter neighborhood in Oakland, California.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Verizon to acquire the software and technology assets of VR startup Jaunt XR, which raised $100M in funding from Disney, GV, and others; Jaunt is pivoting to AR — - The start-up develops tools that enable brands and consumers to make high-quality VR content, among other things.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook is planning to pay only about a quarter of the 200 publishers that will be featured in its news tab, set to launch as soon as the end of Oct. — Social-media giant plans to pay about a quarter of news organizations whose content will be featured
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
US Treasury goes after the planes and yacht of the founder of Russia's IRA troll farm, with new sanctions imposed for alleged meddling in 2018 midterm elections — US Treasury takes new approach to imposing sanctions on IRA's owner. — The US Treasury Department announced today the third set …
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| Lawrence White / Reuters: |
Revolut partners with Visa to expand into 24 new markets, including the US and Japan, by year's end, plans to increase staff from 1,500 to 5,000 by next summer — LONDON (Reuters) - British-based digital banking app Revolut is set to hire around 3500 staff as it expands into 24 new markets thanks …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
A coalition of creators and researchers accuses YouTube of automatically demonetizing videos with LGBTQ words in metadata and titles; YouTube denies the charge — YouTube spokesperson states this isn't the case — A new investigation from a coalition of YouTube creators and researchers … | Reuters: |
Sources: Nasdaq tightens restrictions and slows approvals for small Chinese firms' IPOs, which increasingly raise a majority of capital from Chinese investors — (Reuters) - Nasdaq Inc (NDAQ.O) is cracking down on initial public offerings (IPOs) of small Chinese companies by tightening restrictions … | Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
Crypto exchanges including Coinbase, Kraken, Circle, and Bittrex form the Crypto Ratings Council to rate digital assets on whether they are securities — Businesses to score which assets can be traded without ire of regulators — The U.S.'s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges have developed …
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