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Google VP in charge of Android Security withdraws from Black Hat conference and asks the infosec community to stop using terms like “black hat” and “white hat” — A Google security researcher withdrew from the Black Hat security conference and asked the community to stop using the ‘black hat’ term.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
LinkedIn says its iOS app is copying the contents of users' clipboards after every key press due to a bug and promises a fix, after iOS 14 reveals the snooping — The new clipboard access detection and warning feature in iOS 14 exposes another app. — A LinkedIn spokesperson told ZDNet yesterday …
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Tencent launches US game studio LightSpeed LA, to create AAA titles and increase overseas share of its total games revenue, which accounted for 23% in Q4 2019 — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tencent Holdings, China's biggest social media and video game company, launched a new California-based studio this week …
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Colin Huang, the CEO of Chinese e-commerce company Pinduoduo, steps down; the company says he will remain chairman and work on long-term strategy — - PDD shares have more than quadrupled in less than two years — Huang gives away $14 billion stake after stepping down as CEO
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
Ifeoma Ozoma, Aerica Shimizu Banks, and five other former Pinterest employees share examples of Pinterest's failure in addressing racial discrimination and bias — Ifeoma Ozoma and Aerica Shimizu Banks claim they were underpaid, faced racist comments, and were subject to retaliation for raising complaints.
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Hong Kong's new national security law could force platforms like Facebook and Twitter to relinquish some of the freedom their operations have had in the city — New national-security law means authorities can ask companies to delete users or their content — HONG KONG—U.S. technology titans face …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
The Wild Wild Web, a shoot-first, aim-later era of tech strategy, is coming to an end, and a less willfully naïve, self-policing ethos is taking its place — The internet is changing, and the freewheeling, anything-goes culture of social media is being replaced by something more accountable.
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| Washington Post: |
Some advertisers participating in the ad boycott remain unimpressed with Facebook's promises to better police hate speech, as negotiations continue — More than 750 advertisers are boycotting Facebook, asking for better policing of hateful content. Facebook's concessions so far haven't won them over.
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Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @mims, @kylegriffin1, @karaswisher, @wsjbusiness, @mims, @stevedaniels27, @deborahblum, @moonalice, @newday, @slpng_giants, @atharproject, @stopfundinghate, @matthewkeyslive, and @iainlevine
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
India's e-commerce policy draft seeks creation of an e-commerce regulator, mandates government access to online companies' source codes and algorithms, more — - Plan comes amid calls to reduce dominance of global giants — E-Commerce regulator to be named to ensure fair competition
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The Economic Times, MediaNama, and The New Indian Express
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Indian ISPs start restoring access to DuckDuckGo after blocking the service via their DNS servers starting July 1; it is unclear why the service was blocked — Following the Indian ban of almost 60 Chinese apps including TikTok and Weibo, many people living in the country now report … | Greg Thomson / Decrypt: |
Voice, a blockchain-based social media site on EOS that rewards users with tokens for posting “quality content”, is now open for the public to browse — After months of delays, and a $150 million cash injection, the EOS-based Voice platform is now open for viewing. — EOS — In brief:
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India's TikTok ban resulted in a surge in popularity for Indian apps like Roposo, Mitron, and Chingari; Roposo says it has added 22M users in 48 hours — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian tech and entertainment firms are looking to capitalise on sudden opportunities arising from a government ban …
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