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Over 400 advertisers are due to suspend Facebook ads on Wednesday for a month, as sources say talks broke down; Zuckerberg will meet boycott organizers — NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Advertisements for more than 400 brands including Coca-Cola and Starbucks are due to vanish from Facebook …
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| Nikkei Asian Review: |
Sources: Apple is facing production delays of up to 1-2 months for its 5G iPhone lineup, meaning postponing the launch until 2021 is unlikely — US tech titan to make more older handsets to offset coronavirus disruption — TAIPEI/PALO ALTO, U.S. — Apple is pushing its suppliers to try …
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| New York Times: |
Researchers say China's mobile hacking campaign against the Uighurs was broader and more aggressive than previously known, beginning as far back as 2013 — A new report revealed a broad campaign that targeted Muslims in China and their diaspora in other countries, beginning as early as 2013.
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| Katyanna Quach / The Register: |
MIT apologizes and takes down its 80M-strong AI image training dataset, scraped from Google Images, that labeled some images with racist and misogynistic terms — Top uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics — Special report MIT has taken offline its highly cited dataset …
Tweets: @iwillleavenow and @tsimonite
| Jacob Silverman / Columbia Journalism Review: |
Over fifteen journalists describe covering Facebook, which they say lies on the record, has ghost-written op-eds, and received quote approval for interviews — One day in July 2016, Casey Newton, a tech reporter for The Verge, sat down at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park for the biggest interview of his career.
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg: |
Leaked memo: Google will not reopen its US offices until September 7 at the earliest, pushing back its earlier plan to bring some workers back starting July 6 — - U.S. offices will stay closed until Sept. 7 at the earliest — Company had planned to begin returning employees in July
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| NBC News: |
Facebook says it removed 220 Groups and 95 Instagram accounts dedicated to “Boogaloo”, weeks after US said Boogaloo members planned murder of a federal agent — Facebook announced Tuesday that it is removing groups dedicated to the Boogaloo extremist movement one month …
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon Game Studios pulls its free-to-play PC title Crucible from wide circulation following negative reviews, an exceedingly rare step for a big-budget game — - Crucible was first big-budget release from Amazon Game Studios — Game will move to closed beta while developers work on changes
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| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
Spotify expands its Premium Duo plan, which allows ad-free streaming for two people for $12.99 per month, to 55 markets including the US — Streaming services have been offering family plans for years. While the terms and prices may change, the basic premise is the same …
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| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
UK's Competition and Markets Authority calls for a “pro-competition regulatory regime” to monitor Facebook, Google, and other digital ad giants — The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has called on the UK government to create “a new pro-competition regulatory regime” …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has shifted the strategy of its Arcade gaming service, canceling contracts for some titles in development and seeking games with more engagement — - Company ends contracts for multiple future Arcade titles — Apple seeks games with stronger engagement to hook users
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| Synced: |
Yann LeCun, Facebook's chief AI Scientist and Turing Award winner, takes a break from Twitter after an acrimonious debate regarding racial biases in AI — This is an updated version. — Turing Award Winner and Facebook Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun has announced his exit …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Report: Twitch crossed 5B hours watched in Q2, up 62.7% QoQ and 83.1% YoY; YouTube Gaming Live grew 39.6% QoQ to reach 1.5B hours — Twitch had already broken viewership records in the first quarter of 2020 amid coronavirus lockdowns, surpassing 3 billion total hours watched in a single quarter for the first time.
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Sources: Google told European publishers it will cut them off from its ad tools if they block it from harvesting their reader data — OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google upended plans by European media companies to block it from harvesting data about their readers …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: following Amazon's acquisition, two of Zoox's earliest and most senior engineers have left for Waymo — All is not well following Amazon's $1 billion-plus acquisition of self-driving car developer Zoox. Two of its earliest and most senior engineers—James Philbin and Marc Wimmershoff …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook shuts down Hobbi, its experimental Pinterest-like app for documenting personal projects and hobbies — Facebook's recently launched app, Hobbi, an experiment in short-form content creation around personal projects, hobbies, and other Pinterest-y content, is already shutting down.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Zoom has missed its self-imposed June 30 deadline to disclose government data requests, pushing it back to “later this year” — How many government demands for user data has Zoom received? We won't know until “later this year,” an updated Zoom blog post now says.| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
SCOTUS rules 8-1 in favor of letting online companies trademark generic names, siding with Booking.com and rejecting federal government restrictions — Booking.com wins the right to trademark its own name in a case that was first considered by teleconference by the court amid pandemic
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| Bloomberg: |
Dun & Bradstreet, one of Wall Street's oldest data and analytics providers, raises $1.7B in its IPO, valuing the company at $8.8B — - IPO shares priced at $22 each, above its marketed range — Company returns to public markets after less than two years| Yuan Yang / Financial Times: |
Apple freezes updates for tens of thousands of games without licenses on the App Store in China, closing a widely used loophole, to comply with regulations — Tech group under pressure from Chinese government to comply with local rules — Apple has frozen updates for tens of thousands …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNBC, iMore, and Seeking Alpha
| Natalie Obiko Pearson / Bloomberg: |
Canadian Intelligence officials say China hacked Nortel, once a world leader in wireless tech, starting in the late 1990s, to promote companies like Huawei — Nortel was once a world leader in wireless technology. Then came a hack and the rise of Huawei.
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| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
Employees at tech companies say NDAs, widely used across the industry, are muzzling those who have endured racism and discrimination — Earlier this month, Pariss Athena appeared on a podcast to discuss her experiences as a Black woman in web development. During the wide-ranging conversation … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Chicago-based The Mom Project, a job site aimed at women returning to work, raises $25M Series B led by 7CG, bringing its total raised to $36M — Women have long had the short end of the stick when it comes to employment, regularly finding themselves struggling to break through the glass ceiling … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Researchers from Salesforce and Univ. of Virginia propose a new way to mitigate gender bias in word embeddings, the word representations used to train AI models — Researchers at Salesforce and the University of Virginia have proposed a new way to mitigate gender bias in word embeddings …
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| Rachel Lerman / Washington Post: |
California will enforce its digital privacy law, which went into effect on January 1, starting today, despite industry calls for delay because of the pandemic — Measure took effect in January, with a six-month grace period — California's privacy law, often called the broadest law …
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