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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail two new local privilege escalation vulnerabilities, one in recent builds of Windows 10 and the preview of Windows 11, and the other in Linux — Both OSes have flaws that allow attackers with a toehold to elevate access. — The world woke up on Tuesday to two new vulnerabilities …
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US-CERT, Qualys Security Blog, and Qualys Security Blog. More:
Thurrott, BleepingComputer, SlashGear, Tech Xplore, TechRadar, ZDNet, BetaNews, and The Register
Tweets: @jonaslyk, @qualys, @sergeybratus, @bad_packets, @jeffmcjunkin, @wdormann, and @gossithedog
| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q2 revenue of $7.34B vs. $7.32B est., up 19% YoY, global paid net additions of 1.54M vs. 1.19M expected; US and Canada region lost 433K subs QoQ — - Netflix reported earnings that missed on the bottom line. — The company's revenue and global paid net subscriber additions beat estimates.
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Netflix - Investors, Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, Financial Times, TechRadar, Coinspeaker, Insider, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @zhugeex, @xpangler, @xpangler, @zsharf, @xpangler, @samro, @jboorstin, @lucas_shaw, and @edmundlee
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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PCMag, HotHardware.com News, Laptop Mag, Android Police, SlashGear, MacRumors, purexbox.com, Android Central, iMore, Tom's Guide, Light Reading, Polygon, MCV/DEVELOP, MSPoweruser, GamesIndustry.biz, The Economic Times, Neowin, TechRadar, iThinkDifferent, Pocket Gamer.biz, and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @mgsiegler, @starfire2258, @labuzamovies, @jaypeters, @nextgenplayer, @pkafka, @sophnar0747, @zhugeex, @zhugeex, @travclark2, and @markgurman
| Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: |
Tumblr starts testing Post+, which allows users to charge their followers a monthly fee in exchange for access to exclusive content, with Tumblr taking a 5% cut — Social platform is the latest to let users earn money from posting — Microblogging stalwart Tumblr on Wednesday began …
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TechCrunch, The Verge, 9to5Mac, and SlashGear
Tweets: @film_girl, @jake_k, @meaghano, @dollydeighton, @iansherr, @mikeelgan, @wongmjane, @nicolasmagand, @martinsfp, and @hushes
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, which operates a repository with 4M+ 3D assets, for an undisclosed sum; Sketchfab reduces its store commission from 30% to 12% — New York-based startup Sketchfab has been acquired by Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine.
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Epic Games, Engadget, Sketchfab Community Blog, UploadVR, Road to VR, and thegamer.com
Tweets: @albn, @hmltn, @balderton, @techstars, @sketchfab, @diregoldfish, @pplux, @jessedamiani, @tinyruin, @iveytron, @nehon_42, @jpwiseuk, @epicnewsroom, and @samuelbass
| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
Apple and Google can do more to screw up the economics of NSO-style mass exploitation, and should be pressured to do so — This week a group of global newspapers is running a series of articles detailing abuses of NSO Group's Pegasus spyware. If you haven't seen any of these articles …
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The Guardian, Threatpost, Slate, 9to5Mac, Tech Monitor, Tech Xplore, and Schneier on Security
| Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times: |
Tweets: @shashj, @justinspratt, @rajrishisinghal, @tonytassell, @benabyad, @sub8u, @arashmassoudi, @kabirtaneja, @karmel80, @johnreedwrites, and @aaschapiro
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Reuters, The Times of Israel, and Washington Post
| BBC: |
EU Commission proposes a new law that would force companies that transfer Bitcoin or other crypto-assets to collect details of recipients and senders — Proposed changes to EU law would force companies that transfer Bitcoin or other crypto-assets to collect details on the recipient and sender.
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European Commission, CNET, Reuters, Tom's Hardware, ZDNet, and Coinspeaker
Tweets: @exiledsurfer, @davidcasamep, and @eu_commission
| Washington Post: |
Top US Catholic Church official resigns after a Catholic media site obtained his alleged Grindr app and phone location data from an undisclosed data broker — The top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after a Catholic media site told the conference it had access …
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The Pillar and CNET
Tweets: @gerritd, @eisingerj, @ariezrawaldman, @geoffreyfowler, @ashk4n, @josefoshea, @byrontau, @emeraldrobinson, @marymargolohan, @karaswisher, @heatherkelly, @stevebellovin, @antoniogm, @niubi, @jimwaterson, @nandoodles, @conorjrogers, @profcarroll, @privacymatters, @vickerysec, @shiraovide, and @caseynewton
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google is shutting down Google Bookmarks on September 30, 2021, and clarifies Starred locations in Google Maps will not be deleted after Bookmarks shuts down — After 16 years of service, Google is about to shut down a service that isn't very well known. On September 30, 2021 “Google Bookmarks” will be closed off for all users.
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Android Police, ZDNet, Android Headlines, Android Police, Search Engine Land, Gizmodo, MacRumors, and SlashGear
Tweets: @killedbygoogle, @ra, and @pinboard
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Samsung announces its next Galaxy Unpacked event will be held virtually on August 11, where it is expected to unveil new foldables — Samsung just sent out invites for its next Unpacked event. There are those companies that like to sneak hints into their invites — and then there's Samsung.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google Maps expands its crowdedness predictions to 10K+ transit agencies in 100 countries, and will show how crowded individual carriages are in NYC and Sydney — Expanding to ‘over 10,000 transit agencies in 100 countries’ — Google is expanding the number of cities where Maps offers information about public transport crowding.
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, Search Engine Roundtable, and CNBC
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Byju's acquires Epic, a reading service for kids with a presence across 90% of elementary schools in the US, for $500M — Byju's said on Wednesday it has acquired California-headquartered reading platform Epic for $500 million, the latest in a series of moves from India's most valuable startup …
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Entrackr, Bloomberg, DealStreetAsia, The Economic Times, VentureBeat, and Tech in Asia
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Spanish police have arrested UK citizen Joseph O'Connor at the US' request over his alleged involvement in last year's hack of high-profile Twitter accounts — Authorities are still cracking down on participants in the July 2020 — Twitter celebrity hacks. Spanish National Police have
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U.S. Department of Justice, The Record, The Hill, Agence France-Presse, and Reuters
Tweets: @briankrebs and @shanvav
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Zoom says Zoom Apps and its virtual events service Zoom Events are now generally available, with 50 apps available at launch, including Asana and Dropbox Spaces — The video communications giant said the updates are designed to offer users a greater degree of collaboration …
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9to5Mac, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, and Zoom Blog
| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Instagram is testing a new feature called Collab in India and the UK that lets users invite a public account as a collaborator on a post or a Reel — Bengaluru: With collaborations being a major part of how people create content on Instagram, the Facebook-owned platform is now making it easier … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Chrome 92 for iOS enables Face ID and Touch ID protection of Incognito tabs, “Full Page” screenshot support, and more — Google is rolling out Chrome 92 for iOS today with a number of new user-facing features and tweaks. — Chrome 92 rolling out: Android Toolbar shortcut … | Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Crypto derivatives exchange FTX raises $900M from SoftBank, Sequoia, and others, valuing it at $18B; CryptoCompare: FTX handles $10B+/day in trades on average — Investors include SoftBank, Sequoia Capital and Daniel Loeb's Third Point hedge fund — Cryptocurrency exchange FTX has raised money … | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Core Scientific, which says it is the biggest bitcoin mining company in the US, says it will go public via SPAC at a valuation of around $4.3B — - Cryptocurrency mining operator Core Scientific is listing on the Nasdaq through a merger with Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp.
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The Block and Cointelegraph
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Instagram is rolling out a new feature that lets users control “sensitive content” in the Explore tab, with settings to “Allow”, “Limit”, and “Limit Even More” — Instagram's Explore tab can feel like the Wild West at times.
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Instagram, PCMag, phonearena.com, CNN, Trusted Reviews, BGR India, SlashGear, and iMore
| The Information: |
Sources: Bolt, which offers a one-click checkout service, is raising a $333M Series D at a post-money valuation of $4B, nearly five times its December valuation — Bolt, a San Francisco-based startup that offers software for online shopping, is raising $333 million in Series D funding … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Armenia-based Sololearn, which offers an app to learn coding, raises $24M, following a $1.2M Series A in 2016, and says it is adding more than 300K users/mo. — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Armenia-based Sololearn has raised $24 million …
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TechCrunch and Silicon Canals
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Argo AI says it plans launch up to 1,000 autonomous vehicles on Lyft's network in some US cities over the next five years, starting with Miami later this year — Autonomous vehicle technology startup Argo AI and its backer and customer Ford plan to launch up to 1,000 self-driving vehicles …
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The Verge, Ars Technica, Engadget, Tech Xplore, SlashGear, CNBC, and Reuters
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube says it will test a new feature that will allow viewers to shop for products directly from livestream videos, starting with a few creators and brands — YouTube will begin pilot testing a new feature that will allow viewers to shop for products directly from livestream videos.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ethos, which integrates with third-party insurance underwriters to offer life insurance, raises $100M from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a valuation of $2.7B+ — More than half of the U.S. population has stayed away from considering life insurance because they believe it's probably too expensive … | 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.
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TechCrunch, gHacks Technology News, Pocket-lint, and Appleosophy
| Packy McCormick / Not Boring: |
A look at Axie Infinity, a Pokémon-like blockchain-based game in which people buy digital pets as NFTs; the game generated $12.2M revenue in June, $79M+ in July — Welcome to the 1,267 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Monday! Join 61,505 smart, curious folks by subscribing here:| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Soldo, which develops an automated expense management system for businesses, raises $180M Series C led by Temasek, with Accel and others participating — Expense management has long been a pain point for employees and accounting departments: for many, tracking and parsing how money is spent …
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FinSMEs, Silicon Republic, Tech.eu, Soldo, Crowdfund Insider, The Irish Times, and Finextra
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