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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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| 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Plex launches 80+ free live TV channels accessible by both free users and subscribers with news, sports, film, classic TV, comedy, anime, and more — Streaming media platform Plex announced today it's further expanding into live TV with the addition of over 80 free live TV channels accessible by free users and subscribers alike.| 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 — - Twitter reported second-quarter earnings Thursday that missed analyst expectations on revenue, but showed strong growth in users.
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| 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.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
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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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| 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| 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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| 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 model — 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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TechCrunch, Android Authority, Gizmodo, XDA Developers, USA Today, CNET, SamMobile, Wired, Engadget, TechPP, and Mashable. Tweets: @calebwatney
| 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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| 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.| 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.| 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 and advertisers …
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| Lawfare: |
An overview of how COVID-19 contact tracing technology has fared in the US and 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” …
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9to5Mac. Tweets: @jacob_r_schulz, @carnage4life, @hypervisible, @caparsons, @ruskin147, and @lawfareblog
| 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
| 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, @tomasekeli, @campuscodi, @paldhous, @zackwhittaker, and @dguido
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Cybersecurity startup CyCognito raises $30M Series B led by Accel, bringing its total raised to $53M — CyCognito, which helps identify and eliminate the critical security risks in an organization's IT ecosystem, secured a $30 million round of Series B funding to expand its unique approach to assessing risk.
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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| 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.| 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, Tech.eu, and VentureBeat
| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Talkdesk, which develops cloud-based customer service software, raises $143M from investors including Franklin Templeton, at a $3B+ valuation — Talkdesk Inc., which makes cloud-based customer service software, has raised $143 million in a new funding round that pegs its valuation at more than $3 billion …
Tweets: @gilliantan and @hkanji
| 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
| Katy Smith / Columbus CEO: |
Ohio-based Branch Insurance, whose tech helps customers bundle home and auto insurance online by just providing name and address, raises $24M Series A — Katy Smith Editor, Columbus CEO @ceo_editor — Columbus-based Branch Insurance is ready to expand nationally.
Tweets: @quinnypig and @joshconstine
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is testing a new design for Pages with the removal of the Like button and Like counts while keeping follower counts, which reflect a Page's true reach — Facebook is testing a new design for Facebook Pages that will, among other things, remove the “Like” count … | Bloomberg: |
Tencent-backed online healthcare startup Waterdrop is preparing for an IPO, seeking a valuation of ~$4B, with US among potential listing venues — - Bank of America, Goldman Sachs are working on share sale plans — Waterdrop is considering U.S. among potential listing venues
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