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| Kara Swisher / New York Times: |
Interview with Rep. Cicilline on his bipartisan package taking on Big Tech, Apple's DOJ subpoena, Facebook's platform lock-in, and acquisition and merger reform — Representative David Cicilline's bipartisan package takes aim at tech companies and would be the biggest antitrust reform in decades.
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| Mercury News: |
California launches a digital vaccine verification system built using the open-source SMART Health Card Framework, with QR codes to show COVID-19 vaccine status — Vaccinated Californians now have a new way to show they are inoculated against the coronavirus without carrying around a flimsy paper card.
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| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Andreessen Horowitz's Future doesn't compete with journalism because it offers up essays, not reporting, limiting its potential to promote tech-positive views — I've been dragging my feet on writing about Andreessen Horowitz's much-anticipated new publication, which the firm revealed Tuesday.
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| Financial Times: |
South Korea has become a global center for digital sex crimes as cases of illegal filming and distribution of images rose to 7,000 in 2020, up 70% from 2019 — South Korea's cutting edge technology has abetted a wave of digital sex crimes targeting young women and girls.
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| Todd Feathers / VICE: |
Some US unemployment applicants say facial recognition models used by ID verification service ID.me are failing to identify them, locking them out of benefits — ID.me's CEO says unemployment fraud is costing taxpayers $400 billion, but his own company is denying claims because of problems with its tech, users say.
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| Reuters: |
PayPal will increase US sellers' costs to 3.49% plus $0.49 per transaction on its payment products starting Aug. 2, up from 2.9% plus $0.30 on most transactions — NEW YORK (Reuters) -PayPal Holdings Inc will lift merchant costs for its branded payment products while cutting those for behind …
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| Juan José Relmucao / Rest of World: |
How an Argentinian govt. program that issued netbooks to 4M low-income students from 2011 to 2015 helped indirectly create a new generation of teen musicians — Working-class teens turned junked machines into musical instruments. — • BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
YouTube says it is rolling out picture-in-picture support for YouTube Premium users on iOS and plans to launch the feature for all iOS users in the US — After a long wait, YouTube for iOS is officially gaining picture-in-picture support, allowing all users, non-premium and premium subscribers …
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
How Roku beat larger companies by focusing on distribution, as it pivots to focus on original programming with plans to spend $1B on content next year — - Roku has out-executed larger companies and leaned on an unusual corporate culture to gain a $45 billion valuation.
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Vanity Fair, The Streamable, and Forbes
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Inside Genesis Market, an invite-only service where cybercriminals can source cookies lifted from hacked computers, as happened with the recent EA breach — A representative for the hackers who breached EA said they bought the cookie from a site called Genesis Market. — Joseph Cox| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Facebook says it will update its community standards to clarify how it treats satirical content as a result of recommendations from the Oversight Board — will update its community standards to clarify how it treats satirical content as a result of recommendations from the Oversight Board.| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft and at least a dozen startups are testing nonconducting liquids to cool servers in data centers, where almost half of the power is used for cooling — All those videos, emails, bank statements, photos, shopping carts, airline reservations, and so, so, so much more sluicing around …
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