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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft and OpenAI announce 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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GitHub Copilot, The Register, visualstudiomagazine.com, Michael Tsai, and The Verge
Tweets: @github, @natfriedman, @nickjshearer, @openai, @woutercoekaerts, @sama, @albertwenger, @stevecla, @jaguring1, @nbashaw, @ow, @gdb, @jluan, @perpetualmaniac, @aridavidpaul, @sama, @stroughtonsmith, @satyanadella, @fintanr, @woj_zaremba, @coryzibell, @patrickc, @lpolovets, @kelseyhightower, @kevin_scott, @sarah_edo, @nandodf, @jimstewartson, @rothgar, @jordannovet, @grady_booch, @joepie91, @chriswallace, @marius, @cherthedev, @bloodyowl, @om, @naveen, @t_blom, @markrussinovich, and @adversariel
| 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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Facebook, New York Times, TechCrunch, The Economic Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Engadget, About Facebook, TNW, Ubergizmo, Adweek, Forbes, Variety, and Bloomberg
| Scott Rosenberg / Axios: |
Dismissals of FTC and state AGs suits against Facebook shows the difficulty of making antitrust charges stick and could spur lawmakers to toughen antitrust laws — A federal judge's decisions Monday tossed out antitrust lawsuits against Facebook — and threw cold water on the heated campaign …
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New York Times, Wired, Washington Post, FrontPageTech.com, and National Review
Tweets: @repkenbuck, @leah_nylen, @cnbcnow, @aoifewhite101, @hawleymo, @willoremus, @matthewstoller, @b_fung, @sarahfrier, @leah_nylen, @amyklobuchar, @rachelbovard, @repkenbuck, @justinhendrix, @amyklobuchar, @eric_seufert, @snowden, @willoremus, @rasmus_kleis, @axios, @repkenbuck, @sarafischer, @shiraovide, @hnissenbaum, @gopleader, @davidsegalri, @matthewstoller, @matthewstoller, @matthewstoller, @caseynewton, @megancgraham, @voxdotcom, @jannwolfe, and @brendanbordelon
| New York Times: |
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Android Central, Techdirt, Vanity Fair, NBC News, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @satariano, @iamsean90, @lutherlowe, @tiffanycli, @nicholashirst_, @alecmacgillis, @dmccabe, @nytimes, @craigsilverman, @parmy, @shiraovide, and @shiraovide
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter says it fixed a bug that caused some users to lose access to its “Latest” chronological feed option on its web application — Update: Twitter's Kayvon Beykpour says this is a bug that it's working on fixing. The Twitter Support account says the fix is rolled out.| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
GAO report finds 20 out of 42 federal agencies surveyed use facial recognition tech and sheds light on how deeply the tech is integrated into federal agencies — Black Lives Matter protesters, Jan. 6 rioters and regular travelers are among those targeted by agencies using the tech, including the IRS and the Postal Service
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U.S. Government …, GAO, Nextgov, Defense One, Bloomberg Law, The Daily Dot, and Fortune
| 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 …
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Shopify, PYMNTS.com, Canadian Press, CNBC, BetaKit, International Business Times, ZDNet, iMore, and WebProNews
Tweets: @harleyf, @reckless, @stefanvonimhof, @hchawlah, @kvlly, @callmevlad, @sdw, @chrismessina, @reckless, @snoopeh, @carson, @tobi, @ankurnagpal, @michaeltant3, @reckless, and @carnage4life
| 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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Light Reading, Engadget, Ubergizmo, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, iClarified, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, and AppleInsider
| 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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RestorePrivacy, LinkedIn Newsroom, The Economic Times, Slashdot, Forbes, Pocketnow, iTnews, SiliconANGLE, WeLiveSecurity, HackRead, HotHardware.com News, IT Management, BGR, KnowTechie, Security Affairs, and Android Central
Tweets: @troyhunt, @benlovejoy, @jaycuthrell, @benlovejoy, @blueboxdave, @jgamblin, @ambermac, and @can
| 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. — Update 6/29/2021, 9:00 PM: Western Digital …
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Censys, Engadget, nvd.nist.gov, SlashGear, The Overspill, Techdirt, Michael Tsai, BleepingComputer, The Verge, Gizmodo, ExtremeTech, and HotHardware.com News
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @dangoodin001, @campuscodi, @bergmayer, @hypninfosec, @trycatchhcf, @howelloneill, @dancow, @dabdine, and @dangoodin001
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: amid escalating rivalry, neither Google nor Microsoft are keen to renew a recently expired truce to not use their lobbying firepower against each other — A non-aggression pact forged by their CEOs expired in April, threatening to add fuel to industry's antitrust battles
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Financial Times. Tweets: @rasmus_kleis, @carnage4life, @dinabass, @iansherr, @dwallbank, @next_china, and @tsgiles
| 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.
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NewsBTC, The Information, Mashable, SFGATE, and VICE
Tweets: @thestalwart, @mayazi, @sama, @alexhern, @alexhern, @whet, @alexhern, @timmaughan, @martinkl, @shvandrew, @jamie_jk, @generalising, @originalspin, @smdiehl, @bradstone, @wsfoxley, @ketanj0, @thestalwart, @autismcapital, @prestonjbyrne, @mecee, @ellenhuet, @dcurtis, @thestalwart, @shiraovide, @dubikan, @internetofshit, @boomereng, @robpegoraro, @counternotions, and @profcarroll
| Catie Keck / The Verge: |
Senator Warren asks the FTC for a “broad and meticulous review” of Amazon's MGM acquisition, citing Amazon's anticompetitive history and growing monopoly power — Warren argues the deal could hurt consumers — Senator Elizabeth Warren is calling on the Federal Trade Commission … | 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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Neeva and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @ramaswmysridhar, @neeva, @neeva, @mhbergen, @fastcotech, @harrymccracken, and @reidhoffman. Thanks:@technologizer
| Tarush Bhalla / Livemint: |
Quizizz, which helps teachers create gamified quizzes and interactive lessons that generate instant student feedback, raises $31.5M Series B led by Tiger Global — Education startup Quizizz has raised $31.5 million as a part of its ongoing Series B round led by US investment firm Tiger Global Management …
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Entrackr, The Economic Times, TechCrunch, Inc42 Media, and Tech in Asia
| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Outbrain files for an IPO aiming to raise over $100M, says it had $767M in revenue last year, $4.4M in net income, and funnels ads to 7,000+ websites like CNN — Outbrain, one of the top purveyors of clickbait ads, filed on Tuesday to raise at least $100 million through an initial public offering …
Tweets: @haje, @quinnypig, and @caseynewton
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Windows 11 will feature a new Dynamic Refresh Rate, designed to save laptop battery life and boost refresh rates when they're really needed — This feature looks like it's designed for a future Surface tablet — Microsoft is introducing a new Dynamic Refresh Rate (DRR) …
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Laptop Mag, Tom's Guide, Tom's Hardware, mobilesyrup.com, TechSpot, CNBC, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @tomwarren
| 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.
Tweets: @wildpalmsltd, @nycdsatechwg, @greenlining, @mattwallaert, @richardjnieva, @sharatibken, @aprilaser, and @mehrsabaradaran
| 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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AppleInsider, SC Media, and iThinkDifferent
Tweets: @theinformation, @quinnypig, @asemota, @bzamayo, @amir, @lapcatsoftware, @lapcatsoftware, @backlon, @benedictevans, @gloeckler, and @alexeheath
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
TCGplayer, an online marketplace for trading card games, raises $35M from Vista Credit Partners to expand into collectibles such as sports cards and comic books — Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out.| 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.| 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 …
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Good e-Reader, SlashGear, CNET, Gizmodo, and phonearena.com
Tweets: @dcseifert, @readingshanahan, and @dcseifert
| 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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BGR India, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, Neowin, and iThinkDifferent
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