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Sources: Apple will launch “Apple One” tiered subscription bundles, with Music, TV+, News+, and a new virtual fitness service, as early as October — Apple Inc. is readying a series of bundles that will let customers subscribe to several of the company's digital services …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Epic has introduced a new direct payment option in Fortnite on iOS and Android to get around app store fees and says it “will pass along the savings to players” — Plus, V-bucks get permanently discounted — Today, Epic announced the Fortnite “mega drop,” …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple, Disney, and others participated in a White House call over the potential WeChat ban, arguing it could undermine their competitiveness in China — Companies including Apple, Disney and Walmart participate in call with White House over action against China's most important app
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| Bloomberg: |
A Weibo survey asking users to choose between WeChat and iPhones drew 1.2M responses, with ~95% saying they would rather give up their devices — - Ban on Chinese apps may render iPhone “electronic trash” — WeChat is instrumental to most China residents' everyday lives
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook officially launches a Voting Information Center on Facebook and Instagram, with state-by-state information on how to register and vote — Eager to avoid a repeat of its disastrous role as a super-spreader of misinformation during the 2016 election cycle, Facebook is getting its ducks in a row.
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Researchers say a now-patched Alexa vulnerability could have been exploited to hand over users' personal data, voice recordings, banking data history, and more — Subdomains belonging to the service were found to be harboring CORS errors and vulnerable to XSS attacks.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft joins Uber in saying it will pull out of California if forced to re-classify drivers as employees — The companies say they can't afford to classify drivers as employees — Lyft said it would shut down operations in California if forced to classify drivers as employees …
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| Chris Strohm / Bloomberg: |
US says it has seized more than 300 cryptocurrency accounts and millions of dollars used by al-Qaeda, Hamas' military wing, and ISIS — The Trump administration dismantled digital campaigns by al-Qaeda and other other terrorist groups that used social media to obtain cryptocurrency for carrying …
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U.S. Department of Justice, CoinDesk, Associated Press, The Verge, Decrypt, Engadget, Reuters, and Cointelegraph. Tweets: @theryanford
| Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: |
NSA and FBI say Russian state sponsored hacker group Fancy Bear is using a previously undisclosed Linux malware called Drovorub for cyber espionage operations — The National Security Agency and the FBI are jointly exposing malware that they say Russian military hackers use in cyber-espionage operations.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel offers a first look at its next-gen Tiger Lake processors and Xe graphics, both of which promise higher performance and lower power consumption — Architecture Day 2020 offers a preview of Intel's future — Intel's Architecture Day 2020 brought a first look at the company's upcoming …
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Tom's Hardware, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, Tom's Hardware, SemiAccurate, Gizmodo, Windows Central, Thurrott, CNET, Ars Technica, Reuters, VentureBeat, AnandTech, AnandTech, PCWorld, Digital Trends, Engadget, Engadget, and CRN. Tweets: @stshank
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
YouTube bans videos containing info obtained through hacking that could interfere with the election and will remove content that encourages meddling in voting — The Google-owned video site will also take down content that encourages meddling in the voting process.| Nathan DiCamillo / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says it will offer fiat loans to US retail customers, backed by as much as 30% of a customer's bitcoin holdings, in 17 states this fall — Coinbase will allow U.S. retail customers to borrow fiat loans against as much as 30% of their bitcoin holdings in the fall, the San Francisco-based exchange announced Wednesday.
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The Coinbase Blog, TechSpot, The Next Web, CryptoSlate, CryptoGlobe, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @coinbase, @ecurrencyhodler, @hhorsley, and @econoar
| Fanny Potkin / Reuters: |
Sources: ByteDance's Indonesian news aggregator app BaBe censored content perceived as critical of the Chinese government between 2018 and mid-2020 — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Chinese tech giant ByteDance censored content it perceived as critical of the Chinese government on its news aggregator app … | Brian J Barth / OneZero : |
A look at how Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs' bet on making Toronto a smart city failed, driven by intense resistance from residents and civic leaders — Alphabet bet big in Toronto. Toronto didn't play along. — October 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke …
Tweets: @dlberes, @ozm, @yeahyeahyasmin, @ozm, @davegershgorn, @longform, @frankpasquale, @joshokane, @kotarski, and @neve_peric. Thanks:@dlberes
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Stream, whose APIs enable product teams to build chat and activity feeds for their applications, raises $15M Series A led by GGV Capital — Earlier this year, the founders of Stream, a five-year-old, 60-person startup with offices in Boulder and Amsterdam, weren't feeling so great about their prospects.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sources: ByteDance has been in talks with India's Reliance for investment in TikTok's India operations since late last month, after India banned the app in June — Chinese giant ByteDance is engaging with India's Reliance Industries Limited, the parent firm of telecom giant Jio Platforms …
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