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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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| 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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The Verge, Microsoft 365 Blog, Microsoft Teams Blog, TechCrunch, Protocol, VentureBeat, PCWorld, Tech.pinions, Microsoft, Digital Trends, Fast Company, Windows Central, OnMSFT.com, OnMSFT.com, Thurrott, CNET, and ZDNet
Tweets: @tomwarren, @usefyi, @tomwarren, @marypcbuk, @satyanadella, and @microsoft
| 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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About Facebook, BuzzFeed News, DFRLab, Graphika, Bloomberg, ZDNet, DFRLab, CNN, International Business Times, Social Media Today, Business Insider, Mashable, and Reuters
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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: @nathanielpopper, @bluff_capital, @felixsalmon, @chafkin, @kashhill, @id4ro, @nytimes, @hkanji, @garrytan, and @nathanielpopper
| 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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Android Developers Blog, 9to5Google, The Verge, Android Developers, 9to5Google, Droid Life, 9to5Google, Android Police, XDA Developers, Droid Life, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @epro
| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Apple says it remains “committed to the future of Thunderbolt and will support it in Macs with Apple silicon” — Apple silicon will still work with Intel's port standard — Apple is moving away from Intel's chipsets in favor of its new, custom-designed ARM chips …
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TechCrunch, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Pixel Envy, iDownloadBlog.com, Digital Trends, MacDailyNews, and Slashdot
Tweets: @glennf and @dcseifert
| 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, The Verge, Intel Newsroom, 9to5Mac, Laptop Mag, CNET, iMore, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Neowin, TechSpot, and Thurrott
| 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, CoinDesk, Gizmodo, coinspeaker.com, NewsBTC, 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, 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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| 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, @aprilaser, @evan_greer, @aprilaser, @histoftech, @tech_inquiry, @aprilaser, @leapingrobot, @sallyshin, @sunhahong, @cfarivar, and @gleemie
| 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.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Sensor Tower: of the ~910K users that signed up for Quibi's 3-month free trial in April, only 8%, ~72K, converted to a paid subscription after the trial ended — The struggling streaming video platform has a not-so-great conversion rate — Streaming service Quibi only managed to convert … | 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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| 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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The Register, Engadget, Neowin, TechSpot, MSPoweruser, iPhone in Canada Blog, and MacRumors
| 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.
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HousingWire and Notarize Blog
| 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, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Mashable, CNET, TheStreet, The Desk, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Social Media Today, Fortune, and Digital Trends
| 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 …
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| 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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Rancher Labs, Channel Futures, Cloud Pro, Silicon Valley Business …, Computer Business Review, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @tonicskies and @jordannovet
| 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.
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Slack, TechCrunch, ZDNet, UPI, Business Insider, MarketWatch, TheStreet, and MSPoweruser. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| 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 — Apple's iOS devices are part of a closed ecosystem that doesn't allow much tinkering and keeps unvetted apps out.
Tweets: @cstar_ow, @campuscodi, and @chr1s_0x1
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tinder begins testing video chat in the US and other select markets, with a retroactive ratings system for moderation to help avoid nudity and hate speech — Tinder announced this morning it will begin to test video chat in its mobile dating app with some members in select worldwide markets …
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The Verge, Daily Mail, Tinder Newsroom, Refinery29, CNET, Engadget, PhoneArena, Neowin, and Android Police
| 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 …
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Spotify, TechCrunch, Engadget, POPSUGAR Fitness, Men's Health, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, Lifehacker, and Gizmodo
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