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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is delaying return to office deadline by at least a month to October amid rising COVID cases, will give employees a month's notice before return — - The iPhone maker is now eyeing an October return for workers — Covid-19 variants continue to spread across many countries
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Vox, The Verge, New York Times, Silicon Valley Business …, Gizmodo, Reuters, Thurrott, The Hill, CNET, MacRumors, CNBC, Protocol, New York Post, PCMag, Apple Must, Gizchina, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, iMore, TechSpot, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iPhone Hacks, Insider, iThinkDifferent, Engadget, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, AppleTrack, Mashable, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @amydiehl, @sesmith, @engineering_bae, @seldo, @gruber, and @jeffnolan
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Amnesty International researchers published a toolkit to help anyone scan their iPhone and Android devices for evidence of compromise by NSO's Pegasus spyware — Over the weekend, an international consortium of news outlets reported that several authoritarian governments — including Mexico …
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GitHub, Amnesty International, The Independent, Macworld, Washington Post, The Economic Times, Six Colors, cloudpro.co.uk, KnowTechie, BBC, CNET, Pixel Envy, MediaNama, Cult of Mac, TNW, fossbytes.com, 9to5Mac, phonearena.com, iPhone Hacks, iMore, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and The Register
| Washington Post: |
Phone numbers belonging to ten prime ministers, three presidents, and a king were among the list of 50K potential NSO targets, leaked to Amnesty International — Spies for centuries have trained their sights on those who shape destinies of nations: presidents, prime ministers, kings.
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| Nina Lakhani / The Guardian: |
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| Dave Gershgorn / The Verge: |
DuckDuckGo launches a new Email Protection service that forwards emails from a free “@duck.com” address to users' regular inbox after scanning them for trackers — This is your chance to get an ‘@duck.com’ email address — DuckDuckGo is launching a new email privacy service meant …
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Spread Privacy, BetaNews, Engadget, Thurrott, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @duckduckgo, @martinsfp, and @fleming77
| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Sources: a group of Facebook data scientists asked for resources to measure COVID misinfo on Facebook at the start of the pandemic, but execs denied the request — The company doesn't know some specifics about how falsehoods about Covid-19 and vaccines for the virus spread on its social network.
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Ars Technica, TIME, The Hill, BBC, Platformer, CNET, and NBC News
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| Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Forbes: |
BlockFi CEO confirms it received an order from the New Jersey Bureau of Securities to stop accepting new Interest Accounts; existing users won't be impacted — I write about how digital assets are going to change the world — According to a draft press release from the New Jersey Office …
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Reuters, The Block, Bitcoin News, Protos, CryptoSlate, Crypto Briefing, Coinspeaker, Forkast, Cointelegraph, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Cryptonews, CoinDesk, and Decrypt
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter begins rolling out a preview of a revamped TweetDeck in the US, Canada, and Australia, featuring an option for wider columns, an Explore column, more — Twitter is beginning to test a completely redesigned version of TweetDeck, the company announced today.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
YouTube acquires India-based social commerce startup Simsim, sources say for over $70M; Simsim raised $17M to date and was last valued at $50.1M — YouTube has acquired social commerce startup Simsim, the Google-owned firm said on Tuesday. Neither of the firms disclosed the terms of the deal … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Square launches Square Banking, which offers savings, checking, and loan services to Square merchants — Building on the success of the Square Debit Card and Square Capital, the company is launching Square Banking, a combination of savings, checking and loan services for Square merchants.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Titan, an investing app with ~30,000 users and ~$500M in assets under management, raises $58M Series B led by a16z, valuing the startup at $450M — Titan, a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at the new generation of “everyday investors,” …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
US, EU, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, and NATO blame China for cyberattacks, including the massive attack on Microsoft's Exchange Servers in March — The U.S., NATO and other allies are collectively calling out China for malicious cyberattacks, including a March attack that exploited a flaw in Microsoft's Exchange Server.
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New York Times, South China Morning Post, NPR, consilium.europa.eu, U.S. Department of Justice, CyberCrime & Doing Time, New York Times, The Record, NATO, Neowin, New York Post, BBC, The Hacker News, MediaNama, and news.com.au
Tweets: @nakashimae, @nicoleperlroth, @shanvav, @billbirtles, @nytimesbusiness, @repcolinallred, @nicoleperlroth, @dojnatsec, @dnvolz, @keithjkrach, @datadrivenmd, @quicktake, @senblumenthal, @cisagov, @dalperovitch, @dod_policy, @tom_fowdy, @tom_fowdy, @realpnavarro, @benjamint0001, @axios, @tomhfh, @dnvolz, @kevincollier, @stuartklau, @ericgeller, and @gossithedog
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
OpenSea, one of the largest marketplaces for NFTs, raises $100M Series B led by a16z at a $1.5B valuation; OpenSea had $160M in digital asset sales in June — The NFT venue has crossed into the rarefied air of crypto unicorns. — OpenSea, one of the largest digital art marketplaces …
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TechCrunch, OpenSea Blog, SiliconANGLE, Blockworks, VentureBeat, FinSMEs, Coinspeaker, Fast Company, The Block, Crypto Briefing, Forbes, and Decrypt. Tweets: @katie_haun
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Mural, which offers a whiteboard-like digital environment for users to collaborate, raises $50M Series C, valuing it at $2B+, says it's tripled ARR in last year — This morning Mural, a startup that builds digital collaboration software with a focus on visual presentation …
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| Keith Barry / Consumer Reports: |
Videos of Tesla customers using Full Self-Driving beta 9, rolled out to select users, show a system that seems dangerous for users to be testing on public roads — Consumer Reports' car safety experts worry that Tesla continues to use vehicle owners as beta testers for its new features, putting others on the road at risk
Tweets: @giacaglia, @giacaglia, @giacaglia, @giacaglia, @giacaglia, @giacaglia, @giacaglia, @giacaglia, @pomeranian99, and @pomeranian99
| GOV.UK: |
UK proposes new pro-competition rules for digital economy, including allowing its Digital Markets Unit to suspend, block, and reverse decisions by tech giants — Digital firms with deep-rooted market power to be subject to mandatory code to drive up competition
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MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, iMore, phonearena.com, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @dcms, @oliverdowden, and @technation
| Jordyn Holman / Bloomberg: |
Fabric, which helps companies build their own e-commerce sites, raises $100M, source says at a valuation of $850M — - Funding gives the platform developer a value of $850 million — Fabric, a startup specializing in e-commerce platform development, raised $100 million in new funding … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: AT&T is in discussions to sell Xandr to Indian ad tech company InMobi; the mismanaged ad unit has annual revenue of ~$300-$380M and losses of $50-$90M — AT&T is in discussions to sell its ad unit to Indian ad tech giant InMobi, sources tell Axios.
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Ad Age. Tweets: @sarafischer, @aripap, @loupas, @awolk, @loudmouthjulia, @reckless, and @karlbode
| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
China calls out 145 apps, including those from Amazon and ByteDance, alleging that they illegally collected user info, and gives them until July 26 to stop — The 145 named apps have until July 26 to take corrective measures or face punishment, the Ministry of Information Technology (MIIT) … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Substack is funding the launch of podcast network Booksmart, which will start with five podcasts; subscribers will get extra content for $7/month or $70/year — Substack is funding the launch of a new podcast network called Booksmart Studios, executives tell Axios.| Bloomberg: |
White House official says Biden will name Jonathan Kanter, a long-time foe of Google, as the DOJ's antitrust chief — - Kanter has represented Microsoft, Yelp in anti-Google push — Biden's appointments signal aggressive antitrust agenda — President Joe Biden plans …
Tweets: @willoremus
| noyb.eu: |
Austria's top court asks CJEU if Facebook “undermines” GDPR by confusing consent with an alleged “contract” to deliver targeted ads, after Max Schrems' request — BREAKING: Austrian Supreme Court asks CJEU if Facebook “undermines” the GDPR by confusing ‘consent’ with an alleged ‘contract’.
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Reuters, Light Reading, and Enterprise Times
Tweets: @maxschrems, @noybeu, @fborgesius, @tysonbarker, @malteengeler, @robocarmen, @johnnyryan, @jason_kint, @profcarroll, and @vmanancourt
| Globe and Mail: |
Ottawa used facial recognition on ~2.95M travelers at Toronto's Pearson airport between July and Dec. 2016, experts say with no public discussion in advance — In an effort to identify potential deportees, the federal government quietly tested facial recognition technology on millions …
Tweets: @lex_is and @moore_oliver
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Uber expands grocery delivery service to more than 400 US cities and towns, including SF, NYC, and DC, partly fueled by a partnership with Albertsons Companies — announced the first major expansion of its — grocery delivery service in the US. The company is more than doubling the number … | Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg: |
Venmo says it is ditching its global social feed, making it so users can no longer see payments between people they don't know — - App, owned by PayPal, is removing its global transactions feed — For years, Venmo has faced criticism for its privacy controls
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