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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
TikTok to pull its app from Google Play and App Store in Hong Kong in light of new security law, says it doesn't and wouldn't share info with Chinese government — TikTok said Monday night that it would pull its social video platform out of the Google and Apple app stores in Hong Kong amid …
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Facebook, Telegram, Google, and Twitter say they have suspended requests for user data from Hong Kong police, following a new national security law by China — The social network said it would review the city's punitive new national security law, a rare public questioning of Chinese policy by a large American tech company.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the US is “looking at” banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps amid rising tensions between US and China — - The U.S. is “looking at” banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday.
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| TechCrunch: |
Palantir says it has confidentially filed an S-1 draft registration with the SEC for an IPO — Secretive surveillance startup Palantir said late Monday it has confidentially filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. — Its statement for the secretive …
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| Jessica Toonkel / The Information: |
Sources: Microsoft has expressed interest in acquiring the games division of Warner Bros., publisher of game franchises based on Batman, Harry Potter, others — Microsoft has expressed interest in acquiring the games division of Warner Bros., the publisher behind popular game franchises based on Batman … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
A list of some tech companies the SBA says have received PPP loans of more than $150K; Bird and Index Ventures say they are wrongly listed — Scooter companies, AV startups, LIDAR manufacturers among companies receiving PPP loans — Bird, the beleaguered e-scooter company …
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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
Reframing “tech vs. journalism” discussion as “managers vs. employees” shows why journalists who have called attention to workplace activism have become targets — Last week, the worlds of technology and journalism were transfixed by a conflict that played …
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Beyond Search. Tweets: @caseynewton, @taylorlorenz, @loganlahive, @joshconstine, @kantrowitz, @htsuka, and @cwarzel
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Fraunhofer announces H.266/VVC, a new video compression standard that it says cuts file sizes by ~50% compared to its predecessor without compromising quality — Having engineered the popular music encoding format MPEG-3 before developing the widely-used video formats H.264 (AVC) and H.265 …
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| Tara Seals / Threatpost: |
Researchers say that 14.8% of Android users targeted with malware or adware last year were left with an infected system partition, making removal difficult — A healthy percentage of Android users targeted by mobile malware or mobile adware last year suffered a system partition infection … | Reuters: |
US House Judiciary Committee says the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will testify at a hearing on July 27 related to an antitrust probe — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief executives of Amazon.com (AMZN.O), Apple (AAPL.O), Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) and Facebook (FB.O) … | Anna Wiener / New Yorker: |
An overview of the recent debates surrounding content moderation, online censorship, and Section 230, as well as some proposals for reform — The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated. — On March 7th, Dan Scavino, Donald Trump's director of social media, posted a video to Twitter.
Tweets: @newyorker, @newyorker, @hichamyezza, and @venkatananth
| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SiriusXM is near a deal to buy Stitcher's podcasting unit from Scripps for around $300M — Deal would follow similar moves by Spotify and iHeartMedia to enter podcasting industry — Sirius XM Holdings Inc. is near a deal to buy E.W. Scripps Co. 's Stitcher Inc. podcasting unit …
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Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @donlday, @brianroemmele, and @richlightshed
| Varsha Bansal / WIRED UK: |
India's shutdown of TikTok has dealt a devastating blow to the careers of many influencers as some say it has “erased the last two years of their lives” — TikTok built an influencer base of over a million people in India in less than two years. Now, it's crumbling down| Ilya Banares / Bloomberg: |
Canadian privacy watchdog says Clearview AI will cease offering facial recognition tech in Canada and suspend its contract with RCMP — Canada's privacy watchdog said facial recognition software provider Clearview AI Inc. will no longer offer its services in the country …
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The Next Web, VentureBeat, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Gizmodo, and BetaKit
Tweets: @rmac18 and @ilyaoverseas
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