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| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Facebook says it has further cracked down on QAnon, removing 790 Groups and restricting another 1,950 Groups, 440 Pages, and over 10,000 Instagram accounts — The social network also said it was restricting another 1,950 groups, 440 pages on Facebook and more than 10,000 accounts on Instagram related to the conspiracy group.
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| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
Facebook removes over 980 Groups, 520 Pages, and 160 ads for “US-based militia organizations” and those that identify as Antifa — Facebook has taken down or restricted more than 10,000 groups, pages and Instagram accounts associated with QAnon, in the latest effort …
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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
How the “domestic aesthetics” of Instagram repackage QAnon for the masses with little visible pushback from the platform — A blush-colored square filled with the all-caps advice SHOW UP EVERY DAY FOR SOMETHING YOU BELIEVE IN belongs to one of the least remarkable categories …
Tweets: @kevinroose, @adriennelaf, and @ruchosharma
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple becomes the first US company to reach a $2T market cap during intraday trading, two years after reaching $1T — Just two years after becoming the first U.S. company to reach a $1 trillion market capitalization, Apple has officially doubled its value to $2 trillion.
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| New York Times: |
Stocks of Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Facebook rose a combined 37% in the first seven months of 2020, while all the other S&P 500 stocks fell 6% — As the economy contracts and many companies struggle to survive, the biggest tech companies are amassing wealth and influence in ways unseen in decades.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Zoom says it is adding support for Amazon Echo Show, Facebook Portal, and Google Nest Hub Max later this year — Zoom from even more places — Zoom is expanding to a variety of new devices later this year, with the company announcing that the Amazon Echo Show, Facebook Portal …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Netflix confirms it's been testing a “Shuffle Play” feature, which will randomly play content based on what a user watches or saves to a list, since July — One variant is called Shuffle Play, and you might already see it — Does your Netflix home screen — you know …
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| Committee to Protect Journalists: |
Ankhi Das, a top Facebook exec in India, filed a criminal complaint against journalist Awesh Tiwari for sharing a WSJ article critical of Das on Facebook — Facebook regional director Ankhi Das should withdraw her criminal complaint against journalist Awesh Tiwari, and respect citizens' rights …
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| The Guardian: |
Avaaz: sites spreading health misinfo had ~500M views on Facebook in April; top 10 such sites had almost four times the views of top 10 reputable health sites — Research findings undermine firm's claims it is cracking down on inaccurate news — Websites spreading misinformation …
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Tweets: @justiceputnam, @hypervisible, @woelken, @avaaz, @baphometx, @andrewlegon, @tariqkrim, and @karaswisher
| Wall Street Journal: |
Trump expresses support for Oracle's TikTok bid, calling Larry Ellison “a tremendous guy” and Oracle “a great company”; Ellison has held a fundraiser for Trump — Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is Trump supporter, hosted fundraiser for the president
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Airbnb said it submitted its draft S-1 for an IPO to the SEC on Wednesday — - Airbnb on Wednesday announced that it has submitted a draft registration to the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. — Airbnb on Wednesday announced that it has submitted …
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Tweets: @shenlucinda, @livcarville, @jamestitcomb, @om, and @cnbcdisruptors
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers say a new P2P botnet FritzFrog is using advanced measures to infect millions of SSH servers around the world — Botnet is hard to detect and with no centralized control server, harder to take down. — Researchers have found what they believe is a previously undiscovered botnet …
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Guardicore, BleepingComputer, Threatpost, BankInfoSecurity, Dark Reading, ZDNet, Security Affairs, The Hacker News, and Help Net Security. Tweets: @adam_k_levin
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA and the FBI have identified new RAT malware BLINDINGCAN, attributed to NK-sponsored Lazarus Group, and say it can remove itself from compromised systems — U.S. government agencies today published a malware analysis report exposing information on a remote access trojan (RAT) …
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CISA, CyberScoop, and ZDNet
| Benedict Evans: |
With ~1B active iPhones and an est. ~500M weekly active App Store users, it's time for Apple to play by new rules, and legal fights in EU and US might make it — I write a weekly newsletter around tech and media, picking the 10-20 pieces of news that actually mattered and explaining what they mean … | Ed Sealover / Denver Business Journal: |
Palantir lists Denver as its headquarters on its website, after Alex Karp said in a May interview that Palantir was considering moving out of Silicon Valley — Palantir Technologies Inc., a $20 billion data-analysis software firm that sells its products to governments to help them track everything …
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Tweets: @kantrowitz, @kfury, @ross, @anand_murthy, @andrew__reed, @jmj, @carnage4life, @shaig, and @mdudas
| Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg: |
Inside a ransomware attack at University of California at San Francisco as it rushes to research a COVID-19 vaccine, leading to a 116 bitcoin (~$1.14M) payment — Transcripts reveal University of California at San Francisco's weeklong negotiation to free its ransomware-locked servers.
Tweets: @carolmassar and @bw
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram rolls out “suggested posts”, appearing when users reach the end of their feed, offering related content unlike Explore feed's adjacent content — You thought you were done — Instagram is expanding its feed today with the launch of “suggested posts.”
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TechCrunch, Android Headlines, Android Authority, Android Central, Search Engine Watch, Engadget, Social Media Today, and CNN
Tweets: @chriswelch, @walldo, @bradmccarty, @dariuszdziuk, @rdrv3, @ashleyrcarman, and @kaysha
| Pew Research Center: |
Survey: 73% of US adults say it is very or somewhat likely social media sites intentionally censor political views; 90% of Republicans and 59% Democrats agree — Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to say major tech companies favor the views of liberals over conservatives.
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Tweets: @pewinternet, @binarybits, @pewresearch, @profcarroll, and @johngramlich
| David Shayer / TidBITS: |
Ex-Apple engineer details working with a US Department of Energy contractor in 2005 on a customized “top secret” iPod, likely to build a stealth Geiger counter — It was a gray day in late 2005. I was sitting at my desk, writing code for the next year's iPod.
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Tweets: @tfadell, @brianweeden, @sam_l_shead, and @simonw
| Paul Ford / Wired: |
How low-code database services like Airtable, a category often sneered at by professional programmers, let non-programmers create community databases — When people build a database to manage reading lists or feed their neighbors, that's coding—and culture. — It's a normal afternoon in July.
Tweets: @backchnnl, @codeorg, @wired, and @rozzie
| Kyle Daly / Axios: |
Twitter says it has locked or suspended 47% more accounts in H2 2019 for breaking its rules than in H1 2019, due to better human oversight, policies, and tools — Twitter nearly doubled its enforcement actions against accounts engaging in abuse and harassment and saw government requests …
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Taiwan accused China-linked hackers of infiltrating Taiwanese companies that provide info services to government bodies, to steal citizens' personal data — - Groups likely backed by Beijing, cybersecurity official says — Efforts to access systems have been ongoing for ‘long time’
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