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| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Amazon announces Luna cloud gaming service, going live in October for $5.99/month, with a gamepad and support for Fire TV, PC, Mac, iOS, and later for Android — Spoiler: It's not a native iOS app. — 4m ago — Luna is what happens when you take the subscription model of Prime Video … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple confirms it had acquired cross-platform podcast app Scout FM, which created podcast stations for users based on listening history, before shutting it down — - Company acquired Scout FM earlier this year in podcasting push — Acquisition continues rapid pace of Apple deals this year
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Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Apple Must, The Mac Observer, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors
Tweets: @gartenberg and @brianroemmele
| Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
Former director at Facebook, Tim Kendall, told Congress Facebook “took a page from Big Tobacco's playbook, working to make our offering addictive at the outset” — “At worst, I fear we are pushing ourselves to the brink of a civil war,” he added.
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House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Business Insider, and Slashdot
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
The European Commission says it will appeal the July 2020 ruling that reversed the original $15B fine against Apple and Ireland over State Aid and taxes — It's not over until it's over for Apple and its ongoing tax headache in Europe. Today the European Commission announced that it plans …
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Tweets: @vestager, @bobbymcdonagh1, @meme_ec, and @conoraon
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Ring unveils Always Home Cam, an autonomous drone that can fly around inside a house, expected to cost $249.99 when it starts shipping next year — The Always Home Cam is an ambitious new home security device — Ring latest home security camera is taking flight, literally.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says its test to prompt users to read articles before retweeting was a success, with users opening articles 40% more and sometimes opting not to retweet — Twitter's experiment to get people to actually read the content they're sharing is going so well the company plans to expand it to the platform at large “very soon.”
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon announces redesigned spherical Echo devices, including $99 Echo, $60 Echo Dot with Clock, and $50 Echo Dot, with on-board speech analysis — Amazon just unveiled an all-new Echo with a revamped design. It comes in three colors and features a spherical design.
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Tweets: @benfoxrubin, @amazonnews_in, @stshank, @llsethj, @jaduino, @dcseifert, @russellholly, @amazonnews, @bxchen, @patrickmcgee_, @markgurman, @onegarzon, @joannastern, and @rogerwcheng
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: ahead of public market debut on Sept. 30, Palantir has told investors that its shares could start trading at $10 apiece, valuing the company ~$22B — Bankers have told investors stock could start trading at around $10, sources say — Palantir Technologies Inc. is expected to fetch … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google to issue new guidelines emphasizing that developers must use Google's own billing service for in-app purchases and subscriptions in Play Store — - Google and Apple's 30% cut of purchases is under scrutiny — Google to update developer rules to emphasize requirement| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
Facebook says it removed 200+ accounts Thursday that were associated with US election interference in the past, “including those involved in DC leaks in 2016” — Facebook on Thursday removed over 200 phony accounts and dozens of pages that originated in Russia and pumped …
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About Facebook, Graphika, Engadget, DFRLab, The Daily Beast, The Hill, Bloomberg, and MediaNama
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| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
A group of about 25 experts say they have formed the Real Facebook Oversight Board, a group to analyze and critique Facebook's content moderation decisions — Some of Facebook's most vocal critics are tired of waiting for its independent oversight board — so they're starting their own.
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The Verge and Breitbart
Tweets: @rmac18, @carolecadwalla, @davegershgorn, @caseynewton, @charlesarthur, @justinhendrix, @oliviasolon, and @jason_kint. Thanks:@william_fitz
| Andrew Martin / Bloomberg: |
CISA: a hacker accessed the network of an unnamed US federal agency using valid credentials for multiple users' Microsoft 365 accounts and domain admin accounts — An unnamed U.S. federal agency was hit with a cyber-attack after a hacker used valid access credentials, authorities said on Thursday.
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us-cert.cisa.gov, FedScoop, ZDNet, Threatpost, Security Affairs, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @ericgeller and @kimzetter
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple is now letting customers return only the band, instead of the entire Watch, if they bought a Watch with an ill-fitting Solo Loop band — Apple has reversed course and created an online band-only return method for customers who purchased an Apple Watch Series 6 or Apple Watch SE …
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Ars Technica, Appleosophy, International Business Times, Engadget, Tom's Guide, The Verge, and SlashGear
Tweets: @michaelsteeber, @hodapp, and @jon_prosser
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook outlines new rules for its internal Workplace, including banning profile pictures that promote specific political candidates or causes — - Facebook on Thursday outlined its new set of rules for employee communications within Workplace, the company's internal social network.
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Mother Jones and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @lizzadwoskin, @kevinroose, @shallowbrigade, @sharonodea, @dispositive, @intelwire, @rmac18, @tysonbrody, @pinboard, @pareene, @slpng_giants, @dseetharaman, @zkarlinn, @mattyglesias, @william_fitz, @juliacarriew, @emilybell, @pareene, @cwarzel, @mralancooper, @mattstephens, @mattlargey, @ericajoy, @jason, @sivavaid, @mattgertz, @rashadrobinson, @craigsilverman, @cwarzel, and @sal19. Thanks:@sal19
| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Amazon says it monitors internal listservs to gather feedback at scale, after an AWS employee claimed the listservs are being monitored for labor organizing — An Amazon spokesperson confirmed that the company monitors dozens of internal listservs but said that the program did not exist for the purposes that the employee described.| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Hootsuite says it will terminate its ICE contract after disagreements within the company spilled over into public view when an employee tweeted about the deal — After disagreements within the company spilled over into public controversy, Hootsuite says it won't go forward with a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.| BuzzFeed News: |
Clearview AI SEC filing revealed $8.6M in equity sales from undisclosed investors and identified two previously unknown board members — Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI — which has built a database of more than 3 billion images taken from Facebook, Instagram …
Tweets: @rmac18, @bri_sacks, @levynews, and @rmac18
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Justice Department asks a federal judge to allow the government to bar Apple and Google from offering WeChat for download in US app stores pending an appeal — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge in San Francisco early on Friday to allow the government …
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