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Facebook says it is seeking the recusal of FTC chair Lina Khan in the agency's deliberations over a new antitrust case, following a similar move by Amazon — Social-media giant follows Amazon in citing Lina Khan's tech criticisms, congressional work to question her impartiality| 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
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Facebook employees detail a clash over CrowdTangle, a tool that showed high engagement with right-wing media, which was moved under the Integrity team in April — Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users' high engagement levels with right-wing media sources.| 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, rivaling 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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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
An Ugly Truth attributes many of Facebook's scandals to its capitalist origins, while arguably the biggest scandals extend from it impacting human psychology — Three ways of looking at a Facebook scandal — I. The CSO and The Wire — As the second season of the great 2000s crime drama … | Telegraph: |
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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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| Reuters: |
Twitter says governments made 361 demands to remove content from 199 verified accounts of journalists and news outlets in H2 2020, up 26% from H1 — Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) saw a surge in demands over the course of last year from governments around the world to take down content posted … | 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 …
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Sources: Alibaba and Tencent are separately working on plans to open their services to each other, as China's crackdown makes keeping barriers more difficult — Mounting regulatory pressure could bring about a major shift in how China's tech giants operate| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India has indefinitely banned Mastercard from issuing new debit, credit, or prepaid cards over noncompliance with local data storage rules — Reserve Bank of India has indefinitely barred Mastercard from issuing new debit, credit, or prepaid cards to customers in the South Asian market over noncompliance with local data storage rules.
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| Bloomberg: |
European Central Bank says it will begin a 24-month “investigation phase” that could lead to the creation of a digital euro by around 2025 — - Process will take 24 months before decision on adoption taken — ECB says infrastructure would use far less energy than Bitcoin
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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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| Catie Keck / The Verge: |
Netflix launches two tools for parents: a Top 10 row for age-restricted profiles and a bi-weekly Kids Recap Email to give insights into watching habits — Just like on regular Netflix — Netflix is launching two new tools this week that should help make finding age-appropriate content … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Microsoft fixes 13 critical flaws, four of which are under active attack, and updates a fix for the “PrintNightmare” RCE flaw impacting Windows Print Spooler — Microsoft today released updates to patch at least 116 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software.| Albert Fox Cahn / Wired: |
How Twitter's rules make verification difficult for activists, with stricter requirements than for journalists, potentially reducing their credibility — A new program makes getting a blue checkmark too easy for ‘journalists’—and far too difficult for activists. — I NEVER CALLED myself a journalist until Twitter made me.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
DevRev, which is building APIs to give developers insights into their customers, raises $50M seed from Mayfield Fund, Khosla Ventures, and others — Today a new software company from two former Nutanix executives called DevRev emerged from stealth with a $50 million seed round from Mayfield Fund …
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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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The Intercept, The Verge, GeekWire, and Wall Street Journal
| Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
Internal documents: Amazon considered building an Alexa-powered, GPS-enabled wearable device for kids aged 4-12 as part of its 2020 product roadmap — - Gadget would give kids aged 4 to 12 access to movies, games — Company is also exploring a ‘Magic Band’ wearable with Disney| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Chicago-based investing app M1 Finance raises $150M Series E led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 at a $1.45B valuation, following $75M Series D in March 2021 — Just over four months after announcing a $75 million Series D, M1 Finance today is announcing a new $150 million Series E round of funding led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Railsbank, which develops APIs for banking, credit products and payment cards, raises $70M led by Anthos Capital; CEO says the company is “near unicorn” status — Financial services-as-a-service — where entities like neobanks, retailers and others can create and sell …
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altfi.com, FinSMEs, Crowdfund Insider, Tech.eu, Finextra, and Silicon Canals
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Castor, which develops software to run clinical trials, raises $45M Series B, bringing its total raised to $65M — Castor is on a mission to make every clinical trial faster and patient-focused. The clinical trial software company announced Wednesday it raised $45 million in Series B funding …
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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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The Verge, Sentropy, and GameSpot
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