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Microsoft says hackers working for Russia, China, and Iran have recently escalated their attacks on people and orgs involved in the US presidential election — Hackers working for Russia, China and Iran have recently escalated their attacks around the U.S. presidential race as Election Day looms, Microsoft says.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook is piloting Campus, a section specifically designed for college students to interact with peers at their school, at 30 universities around the US — A place for college students to talk about school — Facebook is getting back to its roots today with the launch of a new product called Campus …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Duo review: has thin, beautiful hardware, good battery life, and runs two apps at once well, but software is too buggy and the camera is bad — All the right ideas — but spoiled by buggy software and a bad camera — Microsoft's Surface Duo aspires to be something different from any other gadget you've used.
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Twitter expands election misinfo policies, prohibiting misleading claims about results, “inciting unlawful conduct” to prevent peaceful transfer of power, more — Washington (CNN Business)Twitter announced Thursday that it is expanding its policies against election-related misinformation …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Apple Music's 3.4.0 beta APK contains a reference to Apple One, likely the name of the rumored Apple subscription bundle — Back in June, our colleagues at 9to5Mac discovered in the iOS 13.5 beta that Apple was planning to bundle their services into a single subscription.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
A Bluetooth vulnerability in standards 4.0 through 5.0 lets attackers gain access to authentication services; patch is not yet available — All devices using the Bluetooth standard 4.0 through 5.0 are vulnerable. Patches not immediately available. — The organizations behind … | Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who left Twitch for an exclusive deal with Mixer last August, is back on Twitch, exclusively, in a multiyear deal with the site — He's got an exclusive, multiyear deal — Ninja's back on Twitch, exclusively, in a multiyear deal with the site.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will remove any Autocomplete suggestions that endorse or oppose a candidate or a party, or make a claim about voting or the electoral process — Ahead of the U.S. presidential election, Google says it's taken a number of steps to improve the quality of information …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Google unveils Android 11 Go Edition, which supports phones with 2GB of RAM, up from 1.5GB before, and says it can launch apps 20% faster than Android Go 10 — Now that Android 11 has dropped, Google has unveiled Android 11 Go Edition with the aim of speeding up entry-level smartphones.| Oliver Haslam / iMore: |
Epic says Apple is disabling Sign In with Apple for Fortnite on Sept. 11 and impacted users should update their account email address and password now — What you need to know — Epic has tweeted to warn users that Apple is going to block Sign in with Apple for Fortnite.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Portland, Oregon unanimously adopted ordinances banning the use of facial recognition tech by city agencies, including the police, and by private businesses — The Portland, Oregon City Council today unanimously voted to adopt two of the strongest bans of facial recognition technologies …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
TikTok reveals how it uses machine learning to maximize user engagement and says it's studying how to break filter bubbles that can boost misinfo and hoaxes — TikTok Wednesday revealed some of the elusive workings of the prized algorithm that keeps hundreds of millions of users worldwide hooked on the viral video app.
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| Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
Sources: to allocate shares in its public listing, Unity is considering using a process similar to the Dutch auction Google used during its IPO — Video game software company will price offering after seeing bids from investors — Unity, which sells software to create video games … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q1 revenue of $9.37B, rising 2% YoY and beating analyst estimates of $9.19B, with cloud services division revenue of $6.95B — - Oracle increased revenue in the quarter and topped estimates after sales declined in the prior period. — President Trump said last month that Oracle could … | Reuters: |
Chainalysis: cryptocurrency transfers of under $10,000 to and from Africa jumped more than 55% in a year to reach $316M in June — LAGOS/LONDON (Reuters) - Four months ago, Abolaji Odunjo made a fundamental change to his business selling mobile phones in a bustling street market in Lagos: He started paying his suppliers in bitcoin.
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Some US states are increasingly calling on National Guard's cybersecurity experts to help election officials in short staffed rural areas or small jurisdictions — Warren County in North Carolina has only three full-time staff members, and none of them are computer specialists.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Bose announces $279 QuietComfort Earbuds, with 11 levels of noise cancellation, and $179 Sports Earbuds, both available on September 29th, with preorders today — The QuietComfort Earbuds offer 11 levels of noise cancellation — Bose is ready to reenter the competitive true wireless earbuds market with two new products.
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| Paddy Baker / CoinDesk: |
Square announces Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance, a non-profit which invites crypto companies to pool and share their patents — Jack Dorsey's payment company is inviting other cryptocurrency firms to join its “alliance” to pool patents and preserve the industry's open-source spirit.
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Orchard, which enables virtual home buying and selling, raises $69M Series C led by Revolution Growth, bringing its total raised to $138M — Orchard has raised $69 million in venture capital to continue the development of its machine learning technology that aims to make buying a home less complicated.
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| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
Amazon hires Peter Marquez, an ex-director of space policy at WH's National Security Council in Bush and Obama administrations, as head of space policy at AWS — - Amazon recently hired Peter Marquez as its first-ever head of space policy at Amazon Web Services.
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