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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says hackers accessed the DM inbox for up to 36 of the 130 high profile accounts targeted in last week's attack — Last week's hack of over 100 very high-profile Twitter accounts did in fact expose the direct messages of many of those accounts, the company admitted today …
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Tweets: @twittersupport, @sethweathers, @leokelion, @briannawu, @zackwhittaker, @kfile, @twittersupport, and @thekarami
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Jack Dorsey says Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including through a subscription model — Washington (CNN Business)Twitter (TWTR) is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday.
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TechCrunch. Tweets: @elanazak, @emzanotti, @mattnavarra, @aynrandpaulryan, @lachlan, @gelliottmorris, and @twitterir
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Twitter misses Q2 expectations with revenue of $683M, down 19% YoY, but reports 186M mDAUs, up 34% YoY, and ad revenue of $562M, down 23% YoY; stock up 8%+ — - Twitter reported second-quarter earnings Thursday that missed analyst expectations on revenue, but showed strong growth in users.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook now allows Messenger Rooms users to live broadcast video calls with up to 50 participants — - Facebook announced a new feature that will allow users to live broadcast video calls with up to 50 participants. — The ability to live broadcast Messenger Rooms calls could pose another threat …
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About Facebook, About Facebook, Engadget, Reuters, Windows Central, Mashable, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @db
| BuzzFeed News: |
An inside look at internal strife and dissent within Facebook, as employees warn the company is “hurting people at scale” and reckon with what they've built — On July 1, Max Wang, a Boston-based software engineer who was leaving Facebook after more than seven years …
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| Eli Blumenthal / CNET: |
AT&T says its low-band 5G network is now available to 205M people, joining T-Mobile as a nationwide 5G network — The carrier is also adding 5G access to its cheapest unlimited plan. — AT&T's 5G network crossed an important milestone Thursday, with the telecom giant announcing …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Plex launches 80+ free live TV channels across news, sports, film, classic TV, comedy, anime, and more categories, accessible by both free users and subscribers — Streaming media platform Plex announced today it's further expanding into live TV with the addition of over 80 free live TV channels accessible … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Corning announces Gorilla Glass Victus, says it can resist a six-foot drop and has twice the scratch resistance of the previous version — Samsung will be the first to feature the new glass — Your next Samsung Galaxy or iPhone may soon include the toughest gadget glass Corning has ever created.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: to save TikTok, ByteDance and investors are considering options like selling just TikTok's US business or splitting off ByteDance's international arm — - Venture investors urge Zhang to sell a majority stake in app — Time is running short to avoid a crackdown from U.S. officials
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
TikTok says it is launching a new $200M creators fund to pay creators directly for their content — The first major monetization effort from the company — As TikTok continues to grow in popularity and its personalities become mainstream celebrities in their own right …
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| Bill Ready / The Keyword: |
Google Shopping goes commission-free for retailers and adds support for third-party providers, starting with PayPal and Shopify — Over the past few months, we've made significant changes to help businesses reach more consumers and help people find the best products, prices and places to buy online.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook can now simulate the actions of bad actors using AI-powered bots let loose in a parallel version of Facebook that researchers can then study — Bad bots roam free in a parallel version of Facebook — Facebook's engineers have developed a new method to help them identify …
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| ETtech: |
Sources: as JioMart gains steam in India, Amazon is in talks to buy a 9.9% stake in its parent Reliance Retail — JioMart, the e-commerce venture of Reliance's retail arm, was launched in May and poses a formidable challenge to Amazon's local unit and Walmart's Flipkart.| Lawfare: |
An overview of how COVID-19 contact tracing technology has fared around the world, as contact tracing apps retreat from the spotlight in the US — In May of this year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged the United Kingdom would develop a “world beating” track and trace system by June 1 to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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9to5Mac and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @jacob_r_schulz, @carnage4life, @hypervisible, @caparsons, @ruskin147, and @lawfareblog
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nvidia expressed interest about a potential deal for ARM as SoftBank explores a sale; Apple declined to pursue a bid after being approached by SoftBank — - SoftBank also approached Apple to gauge its interest in Arm — Japanese group bought U.K. chip designer for $32 billion| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
NY legislature passes a bill pausing use of facial recognition and other biometric ID tech in schools until 2022, the first such regulation in the US if signed — The New York legislature today passed a moratorium banning the use of facial recognition and other forms of biometric identification in schools until 2022.| Wall Street Journal: |
Some startups that took investments from Amazon or had discussions about one say the company used info it received in the process to launch competing products — Some companies regret sharing information with tech giant and its Alexa Fund; ‘we may have been naive’
Tweets: @oliviasolon and @danamattioli
| Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News: |
Personal info of 200K+ Instacart users is being sold on the dark web, including names and last 4 digits of credit card numbers; Instacart denies a data breach — The personal information of what could be hundreds of thousands of Instacart customers is being sold on the dark web.| Peter Aldhous / BuzzFeed News: |
Hackers attacked GEDmatch servers and caused over 1M of its profiles to be opted-in for searching by law enforcement, which were previously opted-out — First GEDmatch, the DNA database that helped identify the Golden State Killer, was hacked. Then email addresses from its users were used …
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Techdirt and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @blmohr, @webdevlaw, @campuscodi, @paldhous, @zackwhittaker, @tomasekeli, and @dguido
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Pandora expands interactive voice ads in beta for more listeners and advertisers and allows free users to unlock on-demand music search with their voice — Pandora is expanding the scope of its interactive voice-based advertising today, launching the service in beta for more listeners …
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The Verge and TechCrunch
| Bryan Walsh / Axios: |
Facebook VP of AI Jerome Pesenti says OpenAI's GPT-3 can “easily output toxic language that propagates harmful biases”, as some critics point out issues of bias — While GPT-3 has earned ecstatic reviews from many experts for its capabilities, some critics have pointed out clear issues around bias.
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The Next Web, Wired, and Bloomberg
| Microsoft: |
Microsoft Q4: revenue up 13% YoY to $38B, net income of $11.2B, down 15% YoY, Intelligent Cloud revenue of $13.4B, up 17%, and Azure revenue up 47% — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30, 2020, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:
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GeekWire, The Verge, Light Reading, Cloud Computing News, TrueAchievements, and CNBC
Tweets: @futterish and @zhugeex
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Facebook to pay $650M to settle a facial recognition suit in Illinois, after judge says the original settlement of $550M did not adequately punish the company — Facebook has agreed to pay a total of $650 million in a landmark class action lawsuit over the company's unauthorized use of facial recognition, a new court filing shows.| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
As investors become skeptical about self-driving tech, startups can compete by focusing on commercializing the least demanding applications of self-driving tech — Slow progress is forcing self-driving startups to tighten their belts. — Progress on self-driving technology has been slower …
Tweets: @samabuelsamid and @binarybits
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Quantexa, which uses big data intelligence for risk analysis and investigations, raises $64.7M Series C led by Evolution Equity Partners — The wider field of cyber security — not just defending networks, but identifying fraudulent activity — has seen a big boost in activity in the last few months, and that's no surprise.
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FinSMEs, VentureBeat, and Tech.eu
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
CyCognito, which helps identify and eliminate critical security risks in an organization's IT ecosystem, raises $30M Series B, bringing its total raised to $53M — CyCognito, which helps identify and eliminate the critical security risks in an organization's IT ecosystem …
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