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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Trump signs an executive order to block all transactions with ByteDance and WeChat starting Sept. 20, just 5 days after Microsoft's deadline to acquire TikTok — Microsoft is currently in talks to acquire the company — President Trump has signed a new executive order …
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| Financial Times: |
As it pursues TikTok, a look at how Microsoft laid roots in China in the 1990s and nurtured China's future tech leaders, including ByteDance's Zhang Yiming — The US tech company hopes its connections will help it navigate storm safely — More than two decades of efforts by Microsoft …
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Wired, VentureBeat, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, Reuters, Morning Brew, and Android Headlines
Tweets: @harrymccracken and @yuanfenyang
| Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider: |
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| Amanda Macias / CNBC: |
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Facebook slams Apple's App Store policies, launches Facebook Gaming on iOS without the app's mini games feature to pass the App Store's strict approval policies — Facebook is not happy with the months of rejections it has faced — Facebook is joining Microsoft in condemning Apple's App Store policies today.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @gruber, @timsweeneyepic, @macrumors, @maddox, @kmega4, @parkerortolani, @pierce, @tomwarren, @mrbadbit, @tomwarren, @onejarednewman, @vicious696, @jamiemoranuk, @gruber, @willsmith, and @artemr
| Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: |
US government contractor Anomaly Six collects and sells location data from hundreds of millions of phones globally via an SDK that is embedded in 500+ apps — Anomaly Six has ties to military, intelligence agencies and draws location data from more than 500 apps with hundreds of millions of users
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Android Authority, Android Headlines, The Mac Observer, and Android Central
Tweets: @willoremus, @profcarroll, @shenaz10, @tombrierjr, @slpng_giants, and @mirandacgreen
| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Internal docs: Facebook removed “strikes” so that at least 2 conservative pages, from PragerU and Diamond & Silk, dodged penalties under misinformation policies — Facebook has allowed conservative news outlets and personalities to repeatedly spread false information without facing … | BuzzFeed News: |
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| New York Times: |
Former staff at therapy-by-text app Talkspace say the company provided burner phones to write fake app reviews and doesn't adequately respect client privacy — The therapy-by-text company made burner phones available for fake reviews and doesn't adequately respect client privacy, former employees say.
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OneZero . Tweets: @kashhill, @kashhill, @rob_t_firefly, @byrnehobart, @galvinalmanza, @celineorelse, @kashhill, @jilliancyork, @kashhill, @aaschapiro, @kashhill, @hbwhbwhbw, @iwillleavenow, @kashhill, @marypcbuk, and @reedabelson
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Reddit says it is investigating after hackers deface more than a dozen subreddits, including some with millions of subscribers, to post pro-Trump messages — Hackers took control and defaced several large subreddits to post pro-Trump content. — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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Ars Technica, ZDNet, CNET, The Verge, The Daily Dot, Mashable, and Dark Reading
Tweets: @jason_koebler and @shanewatch
| Adrianne Jeffries / The Markup: |
Leaked docs: Alphabet trains staff not to use certain terms in writing like “market”, “barriers to entry”, and “network effects”, to avoid antitrust issues — The Markup obtained internal documents that coach new employees to avoid creating “very real legal risks” …
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The Verge, Input, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @kevinakwok, @gartenberg, @puiwingtam, @lucasmtny, @matthewstoller, @demandprogress, @nongaap, @malcolmmoore, @sharpshoot, @kidkapital, @eringriffith, @dhh, @jeffjarvis, @somospostpc, @nikillinit, and @anshelsag. Thanks:@lutherlowe
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Qualcomm patches 6 security flaws in a Snapdragon DSP used in most Android phones, which allowed attackers to take over a phone without needing user interaction — Several security vulnerabilities found in Qualcomm's Snapdragon chip Digital Signal Processor (DSP) chip could allow attackers …
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Check Point Software, SiliconANGLE, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Headlines, TechRadar, and CNET
Tweets: @checkpointsw and @adam_k_levin
| Troy Hunt: |
Troy Hunt says he will be open sourcing the Have I Been Pwned code base — Let me just cut straight to it: I'm going to open source the Have I Been Pwned code base. The decision has been a while coming and it took a failed M&A process to get here, but the code will be turned over to the public …
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Threatpost, The Verge, Engadget, BetaNews, and TechRadar
Tweets: @snubs, @troyhunt, @stephenpadams, @campuscodi, and @rohit11
| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Facebook says it removed one of the largest public QAnon conspiracy groups, with ~200K members, after repeated violations of its hate speech and other policies — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook said on Thursday it had removed one of the largest public groups devoted to the QAnon web …
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BBC, Business Insider, Variety, and Gizmodo
| Axios: |
Report: average congressional district now has about 400 high-tech startups employing around 3.4K workers, with average annual wages of ~$79K — The technology sector increasingly underpins the U.S. economy, with signs of its growth becoming more woven into local economies far outside iconic innovation hubs … | Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg: |
Online property brokerage Beike, backed by Tencent and SoftBank, files for a US IPO, aiming to raise $2B in the largest US IPO by a Chinese company since 2018 — - China online property platform is backed by Tencent, SoftBank — Beike will be largest U.S. IPO by a Chinese firm since 2018Sponsor Posts
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