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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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European Commission, Reuters, The Guardian, BBC, CNBC, 9to5Mac, The Irish Times, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Register, Patently Apple, Reuters, FOSS Patents, Neowin, Fortune, iMore, Silicon Republic, The Irish Times, Engadget, TheStreet, and Tech Xplore
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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The Ring Blog, Washington Post, New York Times, Engadget, Wired, CNBC, TechRadar, BuzzFeed News, Bloomberg, and BBC
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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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| 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 … | 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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The Amazon Blog, Amazon.com, Inc., Axios, and CNET
Tweets: @benfoxrubin, @amazonnews_in, @stshank, @llsethj, @jaduino, @dcseifert, @russellholly, @amazonnews, @bxchen, @patrickmcgee_, @markgurman, @onegarzon, @joannastern, and @rogerwcheng
| 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
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Bloomberg and SlashGear
Tweets: @markgurman, @business, @campuscodi, @jamestitcomb, and @stroughtonsmith
| 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
| 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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| 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
| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Chinese startup Showmac Tech, which makes eSIMs for Xiaomi IoT devices, raises $15M Series A+ led by Addor Capital — Connectivity is vital to a future managed and shaped by smart hardware, and Chinese startup Showmac Tech is proposing eSIMs as the infrastructure solution for seamless …
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