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Apple says allowing users to download apps directly onto their iPhones without having to use the App Store would harm customers by damaging privacy and security — Company says allowing users to download software onto their iPhones without using the App Store jeopardizes protections
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| Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: |
Apple's head of user privacy says sideloading is actually “eliminating choice” and would negate technical and policy defenses — Recently there have been growing calls for Apple to allow third-party app stores for the iOS and iPadOS platforms, which would enable a process known as …
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The Verge, Computerworld, Softpedia News, MacRumors, Livemint, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Wccftech, Neowin, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, phonearena.com, iMore, and The Economic Times
Tweets: @kaler and @ryan_browne_
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Morning Consult poll of 2,000 US voters: 53% at least somewhat support Congress' Big Tech antitrust bills; 44% rank tech regulation as their lowest priority — - A new poll commissioned by tech industry-funded group shows 53% of voters favor at least some tech regulation.
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CNBC, Chamber of Progress, Washington Post, Gizchina, Chamber of Progress, and PYMNTS.com
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| Reuters: |
DOJ says it has seized 36 Iranian media websites and sites for groups affiliated with Iran that are linked to Iranian disinformation for violating US sanctions — The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it seized 36 Iranian-linked websites, many of them associated with either disinformation activities …
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CNN, U.S. Department of Justice, PressTV, Bloomberg, Washington Post, RT, New York Times, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Voice of America, The Hill, Al Jazeera, Axios, Engadget, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Associated Press, Mediaite, Insider, VICE, MediaNama, and BBC
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Analysis: bitcoin's hashrate, or the power needed to mine it, has nearly halved from 168,000 PH/s on May 15 to 86,000 PH/s on June 23, as its price falls — Quick Take — Bitcoin hashrate has declined by nearly 50% in over a month, according to The Block Research.| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Bitmain, the largest producer of crypto mining equipment, suspends sales of machines for spot delivery globally, as top-tier rig prices drop ~75% since April — - Bitmain takes step to help prop up second-hand prices — Cost of a top-tier rig plunged by about 75% since April| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Twitter opens applications to test Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows for a small number of users, who will keep 97% of revenue after the IAP cut if making <$50K — Users initially keep 97 percent of their revenue — Twitter is opening applications for a limited test of its Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces features.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Ohio-based Lower, which offers online home financing services, raises $100M Series A led by Accel, its first external funding round in its seven-year history — Lower, an Ohio-based home finance platform, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel.
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft has become the second public US company to reach a $2T market value, after Apple did in August 2020 and two years after hitting its first $1T in value — - Shares of the software giant have gained 19% so far this year — Only Apple and Saudi Aramco had hit $2 trillion in value
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Tweets: @kirkrooster, @bdsams, @livemint, @livemint, @blockchainblitz, and @seattletimes
| Mark Nottingham / mnot's blog: |
How recent actions against Big Tech in the US, UK, and EU could inadvertently lead to more fragmentation and ossification of the internet — A big change in how the Internet is defined - and who defines it - is underway. — For a while now, it's been apparent that Internet and Web standards have stagnated at the ‘top’ of the stack.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
International coalition of consumer groups, digital and civil rights organizations, and data protection experts call for ban on “surveillance-based advertising” — An international coalition of consumer protection, digital and civil rights organizations and data protection experts … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
EA says it will buy Warner Bros. Games' Playdemic mobile games studio, known for one of the top mobile games “Golf Clash”, for $1.4B in cash — Founded in 2010, Playdemic is known for “Golf Clash,” which lets players compete with each other around the world in real time.
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ir.ea.com, Engadget, Reuters, Axios, The Hollywood Reporter, and Gamasutra. Tweets: @quinnypig
| Rebecca Ratcliffe / The Guardian: |
Rights Group Global Witness study finds Facebook is promoting content that incites violence against Myanmar's coup protesters and amplifies junta misinformation — Posts ranging from wanted posters to death threats remain online for months, breaching platform's own standards
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Washington Post, Global Witness, and KrASIA
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Privacy browser Brave launches a non-tracking search engine in beta, at search.brave.com, to offer an “all in one” alternative to Google Search and Chrome — Pro-privacy browser Brave, which has been testing its own brand search engine for several months — operating a waitlist where brave …
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Brave Browser, CNET, International Business Times, Windows Central, Decrypt, ZDNet, PCMag, Android Police, BGR, Blockonomi, Android Headlines, iMore, 9to5Mac, Cointelegraph, XDA Developers, SlashGear, The Register, TestingCatalog, BleepingComputer, Daring Fireball, The Record, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, CoinDesk, Protocol, and Engadget
Tweets: @brave, @bcrypt, @s8mb, and @chrismessina
| Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: |
Kuaishou now has 1B monthly active users globally, joining rivals ByteDance and Tencent, including on its Kwai and Snack Video apps — China's No 2 short video-sharing app operator joins rival ByteDance and Tencent as internet platforms with 1 billion monthly active users Kuaishou's tally covers …
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| Cam Wilson / Crikey: |
Australia's controversial Online Security Bill is about to become law, expanding the eSafety Commissioner's ability to censor the internet — The controversial Online Safety Bill will give broad censorship powers to the eSafety commissioner, and experts warn that it could harm those it purports to save.
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iTnews, Paul Fletcher MP, ZDNet, Bloomberg, InnovationAus, Commonwealth of Australia, and iTnews
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| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
Paris-based Kaiko, which provides cryptocurrency market data and research, raises $24M Series A to expand analysis of the Asian market — The Paris-based institutional data firm plans to open an Asian office in either Hong Kong or Singapore later this year.| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Facebook says it is working on visual search for Instagram shopping to help users find info on products in images, and Shops is coming to WhatsApp, Marketplace — Facebook is working on visual search technology for Instagram as it doubles down on shopping features throughout its platform.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Vercel, which develops the popular open-source Next.js React framework, raises $102M Series C led by Bedrock Capital at a $1.1B valuation — Vercel, the company behind the popular open-source Next.js React framework, today announced that it has raised a $102 million Series C funding round led by Bedrock Capital.
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google, shifting to a hybrid workplace, debuts a Work Location Tool for staff to apply for an office move or to become fully remote and see how salaries change — Google on Tuesday rolled out a tool for its employees to request office changes or apply to become fully remote workers … | Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Tim Berners-Lee defends his decision to auction an NFT representing the web's source code, comparing it to the sale of an autographed book or a speaking tour — Creator of the world wide web says digital asset is ‘totally aligned with the values of the web’| Faseeh Mangi / Bloomberg: |
Pakistan outlines plans to double its IT industry in two years using new tech zones, after missing out on tech booms that lifted India and the Philippines — - New tech zones may double IT industry to $6 billion in 2 years — Pakistan has huge youth population, world's No. 3 gig economy| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Boston-based Drata, which uses automation to help companies obtain SOC 2 compliance for secure cloud data storage, raises $25M Series A led by GGV Capital — Security compliance is precisely three things: incredibly boring, time consuming, and entirely necessary to run a business in the modern age.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Ant Group is in talks with Chinese state-owned companies to create a credit scoring company that will put Ant's vast data under Chinese control — The fintech giant is in discussions to start a new credit-scoring business with Chinese state-owned enterprises
Tweets: @jingyanghk, @lingling_wei, and @joshchin
| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Aircall, which offers a cloud-based call center and CRM service, raises $120M led by Goldman Sachs Group's asset management arm at a $1B+ valuation — Call center software company Aircall is valued at more than $1 billion in a new funding round. — The company raised $120 million …
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