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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Twitter announces changes to clamp down on US election misinfo, like blocking retweets of misleading content from candidates and accounts with 100K+ followers — Move is latest escalation of anti-misinformation measures in run-up to presidential vote — Twitter will block retweets and …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it will let managers approve permanent remote work for employees, and all employees can work from home for less than 50% of their working week — Microsoft employees will also be able to relocate — Microsoft is allowing its employees to work from home permanently.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Report: Apple to announce 4 new iPhones, including $699 5.4" iPhone 12 Mini, MagSafe branded wireless chargers and iPhone case, and $99 HomePod mini on Oct. 13 — Alongside claims we'll see a new HomePod mini this year — A new leak has provided extensive details about what Apple could announce at its October 13th event.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple Silicon Macs will launch as part of a separate Apple event in November, not on October 13 — - Company to unveil widest array of phones, sizes in its history — Over-ear headphones, smaller HomePod, new Macs in the works — Apple Inc. is set to embrace 5G …
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| Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: |
Sources: Microsoft's Phil Spencer told employees that Game Pass will absolutely be on iOS and iPadOS in 2021 via a “direct browser-based solution” — - Microsoft last month officially added a key feature to Game Pass, its Netflix-style subscription library of Xbox games …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Katzenberg pitched Apple, WarnerMedia, and Facebook about buying Quibi, but so far had no takers; Quibi has between 400K and 500K subscribers now — Six months after launching his revolutionary video-streaming service, Quibi, Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg is looking for a buyer.
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| Noorie Malik / Yelp: |
Yelp introduces Business Accused of Racist Behavior, a new alert to caution users about businesses that may be associated with overtly racist actions — At Yelp, we value diversity, inclusion and belonging, both internally and on our platform, which means we have a zero tolerance policy to racism.
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| Bloomberg: |
Google is testing features to turn YouTube into a shopping destination, where creators can tag and track featured products for users to buy directly on the site — - Some creators asked to track products for e-commerce catalog — YouTube tests integration with Shopify for creator merchandise
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
A look at the growing tensions between tech investors, company managers, and activist employees, as companies try to limit workplace discussion on social issues — In the left-learning tech industry, “Don't talk politics” is the diplomatic way to say “Don't be liberal”
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Margins. Tweets: @nitashatiku, @sambowne, @hypervisible, @geoffreyfowler, @micsolana, @jonst0kes, and @arrington
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
A group of seven central banks, including the Federal Reserve, detail how a digital currency should be designed, including its principles and core features — A group of seven central banks and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) have published a comprehensive report on digital currency, detailing how it should be designed.
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| Bloomberg: |
Some Robinhood users say someone sold their investments and withdrew funds; Robinhood says users' personal email accounts were compromised, not its systems — - Brokerage says systems not breached, criminals targeted emails — The SEC has reached out to customers in response to complaints
Tweets: @awealthofcs and @quicktake
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: AMD is in advanced talks to buy rival chip maker Xilinx for more than $30B in a deal that could be finalized as early as next week — Deal that could be worth more than $30 billion would mark the latest big tie-up in the rapidly consolidating industry
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| Noam Scheiber / New York Times: |
Labor Board accuses Google contractor HCL of violating employees' labor rights by refusing to negotiate with a union and retaliating by shipping work to Poland — The complaint says the contractor, HCL, refused to negotiate with the union and retaliated by shipping work to Poland.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has banned TikTok, citing circulation of videos that it deemed “immoral and indecent” — Pakistan has banned popular short video app TikTok in the nation, citing circulation of videos that it deemed “immoral and indecent.”
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Reuters, CNET, Reuters, iMore, Android Police, Engadget, Nikkei Asia, MediaNama, Neowin, and Adweek. Tweets: @campuscodi
| Sam Curry: |
A group of researchers describe how they've uncovered 55 vulnerabilities as part of Apple bug bounty program in the past 3 months and received ~$288K so far — Between the period of July 6th to October 6th myself, Brett Buerhaus, Ben Sadeghipour, Samuel Erb, and Tanner Barnes worked together and hacked on the Apple bug bounty program.
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| Bloomberg: |
The pandemic has forced some European countries to confront their weak internet infrastructure, which rising hospital admissions and home working have exposed — - Pandemic reveals weaknesses in region's broadband networks — Governments start to engage with industry to spur investment| Ira Boudway / Bloomberg: |
Waymo says it will open its fully driverless ride-hailing service in suburban Phoenix to the public — Waymo said Thursday that it is opening its fully driverless ride-hailing service in suburban Phoenix to the public. Alphabet Inc.'s self-driving car unit began ferrying a select group …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Grid AI, which helps AI researchers and engineers scale their models to match workloads needed for enterprise use, raises $18.6M Series A led by Index Ventures — Grid AI, a startup founded by the inventor of the popular open-source PyTorch Lightning project, William Falcon … | Brian Fung / CNN: |
Report: misinfo spreaders have evaded Facebook's content review systems by reposting against different-colored backgrounds, changing fonts, or cropping images — (CNN Business)With less than four weeks to go before a pivotal US election, Facebook has sought to reassure the public it has learned from its 2016 mistakes.| Nallur Sethuraman / Reuters: |
Report: Amazon has invested $95.51M in its Indian payments unit ahead of the festive season sales that start on October 17 — BENGALURU (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O has invested 7 billion rupees ($95.51 million) in its Indian payments unit, ahead of the festive season, data from business intelligence firm Tofler showed.
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| Phil Harvey / Light Reading: |
DOD awards $600M to AT&T, Ericsson, Nokia, and others for 5G experiments at five US military test sites; tests will include pilots for 5G-enabled AR/VR — The Department of Defense today announced it is awarding some $600 million to more than a dozen companies for “5G experimentation” at five military test sites.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S20 FE review: 120Hz screen stands out in a $699 device but the fingerprint sensor is too slow and the experience is muddled by Samsung's One UI — All the essentials for $699 — The new Samsung Galaxy S20 FE is the fourth phone in the S line this year.
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| Stephen O'Grady / Redmonk: |
Cloud development lacks integration between different tools, resulting in developers having to borrow time from writing code to managing environments — When the iPhone was first introduced in January of 2007, it took the world by storm. The first device to compress - successfully …
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