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Microsoft and Open AI build GitHub Copilot, an AI-based tool to recommend code to software developers in almost any programming language — - GitHub, GitHub's parent company Microsoft and OpenAI have teamed up to deliver a tool that comes up with source code for programmers to use as they work.
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| Bloomberg: |
Worldcoin, cofounded by Sam Altman, raises $25M, plans a cryptocurrency belonging to all people on earth, and is making a device to ID recipients via iris scan — Sam Altman has a new startup that intends to give a special type of cryptocurrency to every person on earth.| Madeleine Hodson / PrivacySharks: |
Data on 700M LinkedIn users for sale on a forum, with info like names, addresses, inferred salary; LinkedIn says it seems some of the data is from other sources — Things are not looking good for LinkedIn right now. Just two months after a jaw-dropping 500 million profiles from the networking site …
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9to5Mac, RestorePrivacy, HotHardware.com News, Pocketnow, Silicon Republic, Threatpost, WeLiveSecurity, Security Affairs, TechRadar, Android Central, Tom's Guide, Input, Softpedia News, Windows Central, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @jaycuthrell, @benlovejoy, @blueboxdave, @benlovejoy, @jgamblin, @ambermac, and @can
| New York Times: |
The mounting legal and regulatory scrutiny of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google has led to a growing demand for lawyers who work in corporate competition law — Not since the government sued to break up Microsoft in the late 1990s has there been greater demand for people who know the ins and outs of corporate competition law.| Scott Rosenberg / Axios: |
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Facebook unveils Bulletin, its Substack newsletter competitor, but is not yet accepting signups and says it won't take a cut of creators' revenue “at launch” — Facebook won't take a cut ‘at launch’ — Facebook is getting into the subscription newsletter game.
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| The Information: |
Source: Apple is on track to spend ~$300M on Google Cloud storage services in 2021, up ~50% from 2020, dwarfing ByteDance, Spotify, and other large customers — Apple executives have taken swipes at Google in the past over its privacy practices. But the iPhone maker trusts Google enough …
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, fossbytes.com, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, iMore, Wccftech, and iClarified
Tweets: @quinnypig and @backlon
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Shopify drops Shopify App Store's cut to 0% on devs' first $1M in revenue, says app developer partners earned $233M in 2020, more than 2018 and 2019 combined — Following similar moves by Apple, Google, and more recently Amazon, among others, e-commerce platform Shopify announced today it's … | Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
T-Mobile is letting owners of eSIM-compatible iPhones try out its cell network with a 30-day free trial just by installing an app; no billing info is required — Owners of newer iPhones can start a free 30-day trial just by downloading an app thanks to eSIM
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
After hackers wiped many of Western Digital's My Book Live devices, a look at the code suggests the manufacturer had removed authentication code — Western Digital removed code that would have prevented the wiping of petabytes of data. — Last week's mass-wiping of Western Digital …
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Censys, HotHardware.com News, Michael Tsai, and AppleInsider
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram says it is running a small test that lets any user share links in their Stories through a sticker — Now with a linking sticker — Instagram has always limited who can post swipe-up links to their stories, but today, the company is starting a new test that could widen that ability.
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Gizmodo, iThinkDifferent, Engadget, Neowin, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, iMore, and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @sippinsocialtea
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Neeva, a $4.95/month ad-free search engine from two ex-Google executives, launches after raising $77.5M — Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan helped turn Google into an ad giant. Now they're starting over with a service whose only customers are its users. — A new search engine?
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Orum, which provides an API to help financial institutions move money in real time, raises $56M Series B, bringing its total raised to $82M+ — Orum, which aims to speed up the amount of time it takes to transfer money between banks, announced today it has raised $56 million in a Series B round of funding.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a website for people struggling with food insecurity, aggregating 90K places offering free food support, a Google Maps locator tool, and more — Google today is launching a new suite of resources for people struggling with food insecurity across the U.S. The project includes …
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The Keyword, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Engadget, fossbytes.com, MUO, and govtech.com. Tweets: @google
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces a redesign for Office and says Windows 11 version will have a native 64-bit Arm version and support for 64-bit add-ins — A cleaner Office experience and Arm improvements — Microsoft is announcing that the next version of Office for Windows 11 will have a native 64-bit Arm version …
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Windows Central, CNN, cloudpro.co.uk, Tom's Guide, PCMag, WinBuzzer, Gizchina, and TechRadar
Tweets: @sbisson and @marypcbuk
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says all Play Store developer accounts will need to enable 2-Step Verification, provide an address, and verify their contact details later this year — To improve developer security on the Play Store, Google is requiring those that develop for Android to abide by 2-Step Verification …
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Tweets: @xdadevelopers and @androiddev
| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources and docs: as part of contracts, Amazon has made 80+ deals for stakes in suppliers, often at below-market prices, a sign of how it leverages its power — Certain suppliers are asked to give Amazon the right to buy shares at potentially lower-than-market rates as part of their contract
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Ars Technica, PYMNTS.com, and Engadget
Tweets: @matthewstoller, @wsj, @davecbenoit, @jesselehrich, and @danamattioli
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Studies have found that certain neighborhoods across the US that were redlined in the past are the same areas without fast home internet service today — Communities that couldn't get mortgage loans in the 1940s are the same areas without fast home internet service today. There's no easy fix.| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
NHTSA says it will require that companies like Tesla and Waymo report incidents involving driver-assistance and automated systems within one day — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said companies must report incidents within one day of learning of a crash.
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Tweets: @lizadixon, @davidzipper, @transposcout, and @faizsays
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
DevOps company JFrog acquires Vdoo, which develops AI-based security tools for IoT and connected devices, for $300M — JFrog, the company best known for a platform that helps developers continuously manage software delivery and updates, is making a deal to help it expand its presence …
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SiliconANGLE, Globes Online, CTech, Silicon Valley Business …, DEVCLASS, VentureBeat, and CRN
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases the first Windows 11 preview, available to Insiders, with major updates included except Teams integration and Android app support — The next version of Windows is available for testing — Microsoft is releasing its first Windows 11 preview build today.| Reuters: |
TP ICAP, the world's largest interdealer broker, says it is launching a cryptocurrency trading platform with Fidelity Investments and Standard Chartered — TP ICAP (TCAPI.L), the world's biggest interdealer broker, is launching a cryptocurrency trading platform with Fidelity Investments … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Accel announces fifteenth early-stage US fund at $650M, seventh early-stage European and Israeli fund at $650M, and sixth global growth stage fund at $1.75B — Accel announced Tuesday the close of three new funds totaling $3.05 billion, money that it will be using to back early-stage startups … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Amazon debuts Reading Sidekick, which reads physical and digital books aloud from a catalog of over 700, for Kids Plus on Fire tablets and Echo devices — Reading Sidekick is available on Echo devices starting today — Amazon has announced a new feature for its Kids Plus service … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
Source: enterprise AI company DataRobot has raised ~$250M in new funding led by Altimeter Capital Management and Tiger Global at a ~$6B pre-money valuation — DataRobot, a Boston-based enterprise AI company, has quietly raised around $250 million in new funding led by existing investors … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Forum Brands, which provides market intelligence for e-commerce acquisitions, raises $27M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners — The number of startups acquiring e-commerce businesses, especially those operating on Amazon, to grow and scale is increasing as more people than ever are shopping online.Thanks:@vscpr
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Microsoft says it will grow its legal and corporate affairs staff by 20% this year in anticipation of a multiyear wave of increased tech regulation globally — Microsoft plans to increase its legal and corporate affairs unit by 20 percent in the coming fiscal year as it prepares for what it sees …
Tweets: @ron_miller and @inafried
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