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Reddit names Y Combinator CEO and Justin.tv founder Michael Seibel as Alexis Ohanian's replacement — Ohanian stepped down last week, asking the board to replace him with a black candidate — Reddit has named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors.
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Sources: Just Eat Takeaway is nearing an all-stock deal to acquire Grubhub that could be finalized as early as Wednesday, after Uber-Grubhub talks stalled — Uber's board is planning to meet Wednesday and may officially pull the plug on Grubhub talks then — Grubhub Inc. GRUB -.50% … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple says in a memo that its main campus will re-open on June 15 for select employees, with most waiting several months at least before going back — Apple Inc. told staff at its main Silicon Valley headquarters that the first phase of a plan to return to the office will begin on June 15 …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple's rumored shift to its own CPUs for Mac may parallel the 2005 transition to Intel and brings up similar questions of emulation, developer transition kits — Mark Gurman: … I'm not sure what the hedging is about there, other than the fact that anything reported about anyone's future plans could, in theory, change.
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Tweets: @sonnydickson, @vladsavov, @nash076, @jefflaporte, and @stroughtonsmith
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Amazon, Facebook, and Google have been covertly funding a range of political groups to fight back against US antitrust action, pushing positive polling and more — The tech giants have funded a bevy of political groups, including those producing positive polling, and engaged …
Tweets: @caseynewton, @noahbookbinder, and @tonyromm
| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Roku is prominently promoting OAN Encore, an offshoot of OANN with the same news and commentary, on The Roku Channel, as Trump promotes conspiracies from OANN — One America News Network isn't just an app on Roku streaming devices. It's receiving a huge platform as part of Roku's business model.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel details its 3D-stacked Lakefield chips, designed for ultraportable, foldable, and dual-screen devices, in a bid to compete with ARM and Qualcomm — Intel is ready to take on ARM and Qualcomm — Intel's 3D-stacked Lakefield processors are finally getting an official debut after months of previews …
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| Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter: |
Interactive storytelling app Whatifi launches on iOS with $10M led by a16z and participation of former Netflix CFO David Wells, Max Levchin, and others — Andreessen Horowitz and former Netflix CFO David Wells are among the startup's investors. — Jaanus Juss has been staging interactive plays … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Sources detail Facebook's extraordinary efforts to help the FBI track down a repeat child predator, paying a cybersecurity firm six figures for a Tails zero-day — For years, a California man systematically harassed and terrorized young girls using chat apps, email, and Facebook.
Tweets: @lorenzofb, @kimzetter, @kimzetter, @iblametom, and @lorenzofb
| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : |
PimEyes, a Polish facial recognition website, allows users to upload any face photo and find more images of that person on publicly accessible websites — PimEyes markets its service as a tool to protect privacy and the misuse of images — Ever wondered where you appear on the internet?| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Newly released TikTok clone Zynn was removed from the Play Store after reports indicate it was filled with multiple stolen videos from other platforms — Multiple influencers told WIRED that their videos had been copied from other platforms and reposted to Zynn without permission.
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Tweets: @jason_koebler, @caitlin__kelly, @lmatsakis, @lmatsakis, @pomeranian99, and @wongmjane
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Two Texas men face a $225M FCC fine and a lawsuit from multiple AGs after making billions of robocalls over two years; calls targeted Do Not Call registry — Two men embodying the zenith of human villainy have admitted to making approximately a billion robocalls in the first few months of 2019 alone …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
New Intel chip flaws disclosed: one can leak secure enclave data and the second allows cross core info leakage; both have patches that partially fix the issues — Intel's speculative execution flaws go deeper and are harder to fix than we thought. — For the past two years, modern CPUs …
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VUSec, Laptop Mag, TechRadar.com, SGAxe, ZDNet, The Hacker News, SecurityWeek, TechPowerUp, SGAxe, ‘+d+’, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @lizrice, @nelsonijih, @aschilling, @iancoldwater, @aschilling, and @tinkerfairy_net
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Hands-on with Huawei's P40 Pro Plus, launching internationally later this month without Google services: focus on the camera is undermined by Google's absence — - Huawei is challenging Samsung in the smartphone photography department. But Samsung has something Huawei can't offer.| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Twitter and Square say they are adding a permanent company holiday on June 19, or Juneteenth, a key date celebrating African-American emancipation from slavery — - Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square CEO, tweeted on Tuesday that both companies will honor Juneteenth as a company holiday …
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TSMC says it is has begun the installation of 3nm process fabrication lines and is on track to begin volume chip production in H2 2022 — TSMC is fast advancing its manufacturing processes. The foundry maintains that its 3nm fab project remains on schedule, with the technology to be ready …
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TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, Ubergizmo, MacDailyNews, and iMore. Tweets: @counternotions
| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Profile of Bret Arsenault, Microsoft's CISO, who is working on an ambitious project to make its 150K+ employees ditch their passwords by early next year — Bret Arsenault doesn't like cheese. — But for Microsoft's chief information security officer, a distaste for dairy produce isn't born …
Tweets: @karynelevy, @protocol, @williamslauram, @quinnypig, @protocol, @protocol, and @tomkrazit
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft all hit record highs as the Nasdaq Composite broke 10,000 for the first time, alongside several explosive IPOs — - Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft all hit new all-time highs Tuesday after the Nasdaq Composite Index hit a new record.
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Tweets: @mrsdowjones, @fabiochiusi, @dougkass, and @vegix
| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IBM Cloud says it has resolved issues that resulted in a major outage, impacting customers including Techmeme — The IBM Cloud is currently suffering a major outage, and with that, multiple services that are hosted on the platform are also down, including everybody's favorite tech news aggregator, Techmeme.| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
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