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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
An independent audit commissioned by Facebook harshly criticizes the company, arguing that some of its decisions were “significant setbacks for civil rights” — An independent audit faulted the social network for allowing hate speech and disinformation to thrive — potentially posing a threat to the November elections.
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| Washington Post: |
Facebook says it removed 100+ Pages and accounts linked to felon Roger Stone, as well as some linked to Brazil's Bolsonaro, for coordinated inauthentic behavior — The longtime Trump friend and former campaign adviser used fake accounts and other deceptive tactics to manipulate public debate, the company said
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Sources describe stories of young, inexperienced investors on Robinhood engaging in riskier trades at far higher volumes than customers of other brokerages — Its users buy and sell the riskiest financial products and do so more frequently than customers at other retail brokerage firms …
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Fortune. Tweets: @bluff_capital, @nytimes, @garrytan, @nathanielpopper, @felixsalmon, @chafkin, @kashhill, @id4ro, @hkanji, and @nathanielpopper
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Microsoft announces Together Mode for Teams, which overlays group call participants onto the same virtual background, and adds meeting transcripts and more — As the pandemic continues to reshape office work, Microsoft is adding new features to Teams that aim to make video calls more human …
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Microsoft 365 Blog, The Verge, Microsoft Teams Blog, TechCrunch, Protocol, VentureBeat, PCWorld, Tech.pinions, Microsoft, Digital Trends, Windows Central, Thurrott, ZDNet, Fast Company, OnMSFT.com, OnMSFT.com, and CNET
Tweets: @tomwarren, @satyanadella, @tomwarren, @usefyi, @marypcbuk, and @microsoft
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google releases Android 11 Beta 2 for Pixel phones, says Android 11 has reached platform stability and all app APIs and behaviors have been finalized — Google today launched Android 11 Beta 2, or the sixth preview of its next mobile OS version. Beta 2 marks Android 11's Platform Stability milestone …
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9to5Google, The Verge, Android Developers, 9to5Google, Android Police, SlashGear, 9to5Google, Android Police, XDA Developers, Droid Life, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @epro
| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
A slide from a YouTube video posted by Google for its Smart Home Summit suggests Android 11 will launch on September 8; the date fits with Google's timeline — Android 11 appears to have a launch date set, according to a video published by Google for the recent “Hey Google” Smart Home Summit.
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PhoneArena, 9to5Google, 9to5Google, BGR, Android Headlines, ExtremeTech, The Verge, Liliputing, Trusted Reviews, Android Authority, Gotta Be Mobile, Droid Life, and Neowin. Tweets: @rdrv3
| Chuong Nguyen / Digital Trends: |
Intel details the Thunderbolt 4 standard coming to laptops later this year: USB4 compatibility, multi-monitor support, and data transfers of up to 40Gbps — Intel has detailed some of the biggest features coming to the next generation of its port protocol, known as Thunderbolt 4 …
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Engadget, Intel Newsroom, CNET, 9to5Mac, Laptop Mag, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, iMore, The Verge, Ars Technica, Neowin, TechSpot, and Thurrott
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
| Bloomberg: |
TikTok users are joining in the “Dogecoin Challenge”, driving up the cryptocurrency's market cap by 40% to $500M in a day, as many pitch fanciful price targets — - Dogecoin surges thanks to the latest TikTok challenge — ‘Stay Safe. Be Smart,’ Dogecoin Twitter tells investors
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Cointelegraph, Gizmodo, CoinDesk, NewsBTC, coinspeaker.com, The Daily Hodl, and The Block
Tweets: @dogecoin, @_dfazo_, @austintateiii, @melt_dem, @kable_10, @treeofben, and @thestalwart
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Oversight Board says it won't be operational until “late fall”, likely after the US presidential election — Facebook has announced that the limp “Oversight Board” intended to help make difficult content and policy decisions will not launch until “late fall,” which is to say, almost certainly after the election.
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Digital Information World, CNBC, Forbes, Digital Trends, and Engadget
Tweets: @oversightboard, @oversightboard, @dicktofel, @jeffjarvis, @scepticgeek, @bgrueskin, @carolecadwalla, @can, @lauraolin, and @jeffjarvis
| Bloomberg: |
Google says it has shut down Isolated Region, a major new cloud service project for China, and isn't weighing other options to offer its cloud platform in China — - ‘Isolated Region’ said to be shelved over tensions, pandemic — Cloud providers racing to isolate data for companies, nations| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 865 Plus processor, designed to boost gaming, AI, and graphics performance by ~10%, expected to ship in phones in Q3 — 10 percent more power than the original Snapdragon 865 — Qualcomm has announced a refreshed version of its flagship Snapdragon 865 processor called …
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Qualcomm, AnandTech, SiliconANGLE, ExtremeTech, Ars Technica, PCWorld, SlashGear, Android Headlines, Engadget, CNET, TechSpot, Android Beat, Thurrott, Liliputing, Android Police, 9to5Google, and ZDNet
| Bloomberg Law: |
Coinbase hires Paul Grewal, VP and deputy general counsel for Facebook, as its chief legal officer — Listen — Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase raided Facebook Inc. for one of its top in-house lawyers on Tuesday, hiring Paul Grewal to serve as its new chief legal officer.
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The Coinbase Blog, CoinDesk, The Block, Reuters, LAW.com, Fortune, and Business Insider
Tweets: @coinbase and @jeffjohnroberts
| Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed News: |
Nandini Jammi, one half of pressure group Sleeping Giants, which has targeted Breitbart, Facebook, and others, leaves over disagreements with Matt Rivitz — Since 2016, copywriter Matt Rivitz and marketer Nandini Jammi have run Sleeping Giants, a social media campaign group that has pressured companies … | April Glaser / NBC News: |
Report: US DOD and federal law enforcement have thousands of previously unreported contracts with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Dell, IBM, HP, and Facebook — Over the past two years, thousands of tech company employees have taken a stand: they do not want their labor and technical expertise …
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Tech Inquiry. Tweets: @aprilaser, @histoftech, @sunhahong, @gleemie, @aprilaser, @evan_greer, @aprilaser, @tech_inquiry, @aprilaser, @leapingrobot, @sallyshin, and @cfarivar
| Apple: |
Apple expands its Independent Repair Provider Program to hundreds of new locations in the US and opens up to businesses in Europe and Canada — Independent Repair Provider Program also opens to businesses across Europe and Canada — Apple is expanding its Independent Repair Provider Program …
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Engadget, iFixit News, Neowin, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, MSPoweruser, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon will require US marketplace sellers to display their business name and address on public profiles in September, already a rule in Europe, Japan, Mexico — - Amazon informed U.S. sellers on Wednesday that it will soon require them to disclose their business name and address on their public profile.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Prescription delivery service Truepill raises $25M Series B from Sound Ventures, Initialized Capital, and others to expand into telehealth — Truepill, a digital pharmacy that enables health care organizations to deliver prescriptions directly to customers' doors, has raised $25 million in a series B round of funding.
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Forbes, San Francisco Business Journal, TechCrunch, and Crunchbase News
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Boston-based Notarize, a service that lets users sign and notarize official documents digitally, raises $35M Series C led by Camber Creek — Notarize, a platform that enables consumers and businesses to sign and notarize official documents digitally, has raised $35 million in a series C round of funding.| Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: |
Reports: nearly 70,000 tech startup employees worldwide have lost jobs since March, including over 25,500 in the San Francisco region — Layoffs among tech startups reflect economic fallout of Covid-19 — Technology startups have been laying off tens of thousands of workers to cope … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A job listing suggested Twitter is working on a new “subscription platform” under a team codenamed “Gryphon”, although most details remain unclear — A mysterious new Twitter subscription team, codenamed ‘Gryphon’ — Twitter appears to be working on a subscription platform for its social networking service.
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Twitter Careers, CNBC, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Mashable, CNET, Social Media Today, Fortune, TheStreet, The Desk, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, and Neowin
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Linux distribution company SUSE acquires Rancher Labs, which develops Kubernetes container management software, sources say for $600M-$700M — - SUSE, a Linux distribution company controlled by private equity firm EQT, has agreed to acquire Rancher Labs, a start-up with technology …
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Channel Futures, Rancher Labs, cloudpro.co.uk, TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business …, Computer Business Review, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @tonicskies and @jordannovet
| Julie Zhu / Reuters: |
Sources: Alibaba's fintech subsidiary Ant Group is planning an IPO in Hong Kong as soon as this year, targeting a $200B+ valuation — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Ant Group, the fintech arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, plans a Hong Kong float as soon as this year and targets a valuation … | Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
Unc0ver team files a DMCA notice against developer Coolstar for their Chimera13 jailbreak, which GitHub then removed; Coolstar files a DMCA counter-notice — Jailbreaking tools are generally protected from copyright infringement claims through a DMCA exemption. This week, however, GitHub removed the Chimera13 jailbreak code.
Tweets: @cstar_ow, @campuscodi, and @chr1s_0x1
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Microsoft Teams vs. Slack: Teams is a part of Microsoft's vision to build an OS for the cloud whereas Slack is building an enterprise social network via Connect — On November 2, 2016, Microsoft announced Teams at a special event in New York City. Slack decided to mark the occasion:
Tweets: @ldignan and @scottehartley
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Slack says it is acquiring Rimeto, a four-year-old startup that provides employee directories, and will leave it as a standalone service — Slack is getting into the corporate directory business through an acquisition the publicly-traded collaboration company says it will operate as its first additional standalone app.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify can now make custom workout playlists based on answers to a questionnaire; the playlists can be as long as two hours and include both podcasts and music — Soundtrack Your Workout launches today — Spotify knows people are changing up their workout routines during the pandemic … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Fire TV adds live content from Sling TV, YouTube TV, and Hulu + Live TV — Amazon is upgrading its Fire TV's live TV experience through new integrations with several live TV streaming services, including Sling TV, YouTube TV, and Hulu + Live TV. Live content from these services … | Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins starts streaming on YouTube, following the surprise closure of Microsoft's Mixer — A short detour — One of the biggest names in streaming is heading to YouTube. Today, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins started streaming on Google's platform …
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New York Times, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, OnMSFT.com, Polygon, and OnMSFT.com
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