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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple and Goldman Sachs are working on a “buy now, pay later” service to let consumers pay for any Apple Pay purchase in installments, to rival Affirm — - Service to let users pay off any Apple Pay purchase over time — Fresh partnership with Apple could boost Goldman consumer push
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
REvil's infrastructure and websites are offline, including its data leak sites, less than two weeks after attacking 1,500+ businesses with ransomware via Kaseya — The infrastructure and websites for the REvil ransomware operation have mysteriously gone offline as of last night.| Shannon Vavra / The Daily Beast: |
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
The current version of Apple's Weather app won't show 69 degrees, rounding a degree, potentially due to sourcing data in Celsius and converting to Fahrenheit — It's not so nice — If you're an iPhone user, the weather is always a particularly nice 70 degrees. Or 68 degrees.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces a $99 MagSafe Battery Pack for the iPhone 12 lineup, with a total capacity of 1460mAh, arriving July 19 — Apple today released the MagSafe Battery Pack accessory for iPhone 12 models. Many months after the iPhone 12 series was unveiled, Apple has quietly released …
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| Telegraph: |
Excerpt from An Ugly Truth: from Jan. 2014 to Aug. 2015, Facebook fired 52 staffers for exploiting access to user data, prompting an overhaul of data governance — In an exclusive extract, Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang reveal how an ethos of openness meant private information could be misused
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| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Facebook is rolling out the ability for Group administrators to designate “group experts”, partly in an effort to help Facebook combat misinformation — The social network has been trying to combat misinformation by elevating authoritative sources.
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| The Information: |
In April, Amazon acquired over a dozen staff from Facebook to boost its own low earth orbit satellite internet efforts; Amazon paid Facebook to seal agreement — Amazon has acquired a team of more than a dozen wireless internet experts from Facebook in an effort to boost its multibillion-dollar effort …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Discord buys Sentropy, which emerged from stealth last summer with AI-powered moderation software to fight online abuse and $13M in funding — The online chat platform Discord is buying Sentropy, a company that makes AI-powered software to detect and remove online harassment and hate.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Inside the World Wide Web Consortium as members debate the future of online privacy, with browsers' engineers often at odds with companies that rely on tracking — James Rosewell could see his company's future was in jeopardy. — It was January 2020, and Google had just announced key details … | Gaspard Sebag / Bloomberg: |
France fines Google $593M for failing to comply with a 2020 order to negotiate in good faith with publishers for displaying article snippets in Google News — - Tech giant penalized for not agreeing deal with publishers — Fine is the second biggest French antitrust penalty so far
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| New York Times: |
Two GOP lawmakers are pointing to previously unreleased emails to allege that Amazon unfairly used its influence in competing for Pentagon's JEDI cloud contract — Newly released emails show particular praise of Amazon among top Defense Department officials during the Trump administration …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Microsoft says the attacks targeting SolarWinds Serv-U software with a now-patched RCE exploit are the work of Chinese hacking group DEV-0322 — Microsoft said today that the recent wave of attacks that have targeted SolarWinds file transfer servers are the work of a Chinese hacking group …
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| TechCrunch: |
Business intelligence service ZoomInfo says it will acquire Chorus.AI, which makes AI-based software to analyze sales calls, for $575M — ZoomInfo announced this morning it intends to acquire conversational sales intelligence tool Chorus.AI for $575 million.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Ring says opt-in end-to-end encryption for video streams is available to all US users and is rolling out globally — It's available now in the US — Ring's end-to-end encryption for video streams is leaving technical preview, is now available to US users, and is currently rolling out globally … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has asked suppliers to build up to 90M next-generation iPhones this year, up 20% YoY; this year's update will be more incremental than iPhone 12 — - Company targets 90 million shipments of this year's new models — Iterative iPhone upgrade to boost chips, cameras and displays| Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Broadcom is no longer in talks to buy SAS after the founders of SAS had a change of heart and decided not to sell to Broadcom — A deal by the chip maker would have valued closely held SAS in the range of $15 billion to $20 billion — Talks for Broadcom Inc. to buy SAS Institute Inc …
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CRN, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Silicon Valley Business …, Tech Xplore, and WRAL TechWire. Tweets: @jasonlk
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Google will now take a 15% cut on the first $3M in sales for “newly signed games” on Stadia from October through the end of 2023 — Platform will take 15 percent cut on first $3 million in sales for new titles. — As part of a Stadia keynote presentation today …
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The Verge, YouTube, mobilesyrup.com, MCV/DEVELOP, Android Central, Gamasutra, Phandroid, Engadget, and VentureBeat
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| The Guardian: |
London Met Police says it seized ~£180M in bitcoin while investigating international money laundering, after seizing £114M of cryptocurrencies last month — Seizure in London follows confiscation of £114m of the cryptocurrency in June — Metropolitan police detectives … | Kaya Yurieff / The Information: |
Substack to launch Substack Grow next month, a free six-session course over Zoom to help writers build a following and earn their first $1,000 — The top 10 publishers on Substack bring in more than $20 million a year in subscriptions, underpinning the newsletter platform's revenue growth.| Mark Landler / New York Times: |
After England's defeat in Euro 2020, Boris Johnson and others condemn racist abuse of players on social media, with some calling for tougher action by platforms — The social media bigotry, directed at three players who missed penalty kicks in the Euro 2020 final, was condemned by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and most everyone else.
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Financial Times, Sky News, and Politico
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Remote, which develops HR tools for global workforces, raises $150M Series B at a $1B+ valuation led by Accel — New York-based Remote raised a $150 million Series B at a valuation of more than $1 billion as it looks to make hiring anywhere easier for companies.| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
AttackIQ, which provides a breach and attack simulation system to help businesses validate their cyber defenses, raises $44M Series C to expand internationally — AttackIQ, a cybersecurity startup that provides organizations with breach and attack simulation solutions …
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Help Net Security, SecurityWeek, and AttackIQ
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