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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook says it will stop accepting new political ads a week before the US presidential election, as part of steps to protect against election interference — Striking a compromise to prevent election misinformation — Facebook will stop taking new political advertising in the United States …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Facebook says it will limit message forwarding on Messenger to five people or groups at a time to tackle the spread of misinformation — The social network said it would block new political ads in late October, among other measures, to reduce misinformation and interference.
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| Josh Gerstein / Politico: |
Federal appeals court rules the NSA's mass surveillance program was possibly unconstitutional and the program's “bulk collection” of metadata was illegal — The National Security Agency program that swept up details on billions of Americans' phone calls was illegal and possibly unconstitutional …
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Apple invests in world's largest onshore wind turbines in Denmark and advances clean energy efforts in Germany to expand renewable energy footprint in Europe — World's largest onshore wind turbines in Denmark and new clean energy efforts in Germany advance Apple's new 2030 carbon neutral goal
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Federal judges in Chicago rejected three government “geofence warrant” requests, concluding the requests violated 4th Amendment probable cause requirements — Two federal magistrate judges in three separate opinions have ruled that a geofence warrant violates …
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China emphasizes its right to approve or block the sale of technology abroad, confirming it will play a critical role in the sale of TikTok's US operations — - Ministry says new rules aren't targeted at any company — The assertion jeopardizes negotiations to buy TikTok U.S.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces Adaptive Noise Cancellation for true wireless earbuds, which automatically adjusts sound in real time based on how they fit users' ears — They'll automatically adjust the sound based on how they fit you — Qualcomm is today announcing Adaptive Noise Cancellation …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel announces 11th-generation Tiger Lake CPUs for laptops, with integrated Xe graphics, Thunderbolt 4 support, Wi-Fi 6, and more, coming this fall — The ‘best processor for thin-&-light’ laptops — Intel has officially announced its first 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors for laptops …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
In an about face, Facebook bans a BJP politician in India for violating its hate speech policies, after reports its lobbying exec Ankhi Das defended his posts — T. Raja Singh is a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Robinhood is under SEC investigation for failing to fully disclose selling clients' orders to high-speed trading firms, with a potential $10M+ fine — Company could have to pay a fine exceeding $10 million if it agrees to settle — Robinhood Markets Inc. faces a civil fraud investigation …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Facebook expands its data portability tool, which lets users transfer photos and videos to other services, to support Dropbox and Koofr — Facebook's photo and video portability tool has added support for two more third party services for users to send data via encrypted transfer — namely …
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| Wallace Witkowski / MarketWatch: |
CrowdStrike beats Q2 FY 2021 estimates with total revenue of $199M, up 84% YoY, and subscription revenue of $184.3M, up 89% YoY, as ARR rose 87% YoY to $790.6M — CEO George Kurtz says hackers attempted more breaches in the first half of 2020 than in all of 2019
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Cloudera reported Q2 FY 2021 total revenue of $214.3M, up 9% YoY, with subscription revenue of $191.5M, up 17% YoY, and ARR of $739M, up 12% YoY — Cloudera had 1,007 customers who exceeded $100,000 of annual recurring revenue (ARR) and 172 customers had ARR of more than $1 million.| The Daily Beast: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook is developing internal forums with “strong moderation” after an internal pro-police post from a staffer stirred outrage — “I don't believe people working here should have to be confronted with divisive conversations while they're trying to work …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China is planning new policies to develop third-generation semiconductors through 2025, including R&D, education, and financing for the chip industry — - New five-year plan will include backing for next-gen chips — Beijing has already pledged $1.4 trillion of tech investments| Monica Alleven / FierceWireless: |
FCC says Verizon, Dish, Charter, and Comcast were the 4 highest bidders in a ~$4.6B 3.5GHz band auction; Dish secured the most 3.5GHz licenses with nearly 5,500 — As widely expected, Verizon showed up at the auction of 3.5 GHz Priority Access Licenses (PALs) in a big way …
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Tweets: @mikeddano, @fcc, @suemarek, @fcc, @ajitpaifcc, @saschasegan, and @robpegoraro
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's introduces “Your Topics” to Facebook Watch, allowing users to tailor the feed to include content that they explicitly indicate they want to see — Facebook's video destination, Facebook Watch, is introducing a new feature called “Your Topics” that will allow you to tailor … | Jackson Ryan / CNET: |
Researchers unveil Engage, a proof-of-concept, battery-free handheld gaming device that couples Game Boy emulation with “intermittent computing” techniques — Solar energy and mechanical triggers power the Engage, a console at the cutting edge of computer engineering.| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
DHS mandates US agencies have vulnerability disclosure programs within six months that will expand to cover all internet-accessible systems within two years — Out of scores of federal civilian agencies, only a handful of them have official programs to work with outside security researchers …
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Tweets: @martenmickos and @ericgeller
| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
How UK game studio Mediatonic created Fall Guys, which generated an estimated $130M revenue in its first month and has been downloaded ~7M times on Steam — Foto: Mediatonic “Fall Guys” launched on August 4, and hit 7 million Steam downloads less than a month later.
Tweets: @shonaghosh and @shonaghosh
| Rita El Khoury / Android Police: |
Google is rolling out an update to Google Assistant that adds simple Siri-like in-app shortcuts with an Explore tab to find them — Haven't you always wished Google Assistant could do more with the apps on your phone? Not just launch them, but open specific sections or perform certain actions inside them?
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