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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Two Democratic senators introduce a bill to strip away social media platforms' Section 230 liability shield if they amplify harmful public health misinformation — A new bill would make Facebook liable for misinformation — As coronavirus cases rise in unvaccinated populations …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Twitter beats with Q2 revenue of $1.19B, up 74% YoY, vs $1.07B est., ad revenue of $1.05B, up 87% YoY, and mDAUs of 206M, up 11% YoY; stock is up 8%+ — - Twitter's revenue growth accelerated and surpassed analysts' expectations. — The social-media company introduced its first subscription service in the quarter.
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google updates its “About This Result” panel with more context about the specific search result, including matching keywords, related terms, and local relevance — Google now list several of the factors it used to rank a result in the about this result section.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
DeepMind says it used AI to create a “transformative” map of human proteins; some compare the potential impact of the work to that of the Human Genome Project — DeepMind plans to release hundreds of millions of protein structures for free — AI research lab DeepMind has created …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Snap Q2: revenue of $982M, up 116% YoY, DAUs up 23% YoY to 293M, and net loss shrunk 53% YoY to $152M; stock is up 13%+ after hours — - Snap on Thursday reported its second-quarter earnings, beating expectations across the board for earnings, revenue and user growth.
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| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Old stories on news sites including WaPo are displaying embedded porn videos after the domain for the defunct video service Vidme was bought by a porn company — Stories on major news sites like ‘The Washington Post,’ and ‘New York Magazine’ currently have porn embedded in them.
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| Nature: |
Arm details PlasticARM, a 32-bit processor built on a flexible substrate, that it says can lead to embedding of low-cost, ultrathin chips into everyday objects — Nearly 50 years ago, Intel created the world's first commercially produced microprocessor—the 4004 (ref. 1), a modest 4-bit CPU …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q2 revenue of $18.5B, up 2% YoY, vs. $17.8B est., Data Center Group revenue of $6.5B, down 9% YoY, while PC unit sales were up 33% YoY — - Intel reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday in CEO Pat Gelsinger's second earnings report at the helm of the American chip giant.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Q&A with Zuckerberg about his vision for the metaverse and its potential to further splinter our sense of shared reality, Biden's comments about Facebook, more — As June came to an end, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees about an ambitious new initiative.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Several major websites and services, including Amazon, Steam, and Airbnb, were down for about an hour on Thursday due to issues with Akamai's Edge DNS service — Update 12:48 p.m. ET: Akamai says it has implemented a fix for the issue. “We have implemented a fix for this issue …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Kaseya says it obtained a universal decryptor for the REvil ransomware and is helping customers recover their data; it is unclear if Kaseya paid the ransom — Remote management software vendor Kaseya said today it obtained a universal decryptor for the REvil ransomware and is now in the process …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter is testing a way to downvote replies on iOS to understand the types of replies users find relevant to a conversation; downvotes won't be public — Last year, Twitter's chief product officer Kayvon Beykpour confirmed that the social network was “exploring” the idea of adding a dislike button to the app.
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Sophos researchers say Discord's own CDN is becoming an increasingly popular malware distribution channel, with much of the malware focused on data theft — Biz insists it's trying as hard as possible to scrub clean its IRC-for-the-2020s — Sophos on Thursday warned that internet instant … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Report: AI startups scored a record $20B in funding in Q2 2021, with 24 companies reaching $1B valuations for the first time, and had 11 IPOs, an all-time high — Watch now. — The pandemic spurred investments in AI across nearly every industry. That's according to CB Insights' AI …
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| Michael Corkery / New York Times: |
Amazon ends use of arbitration for customer disputes, which critics said put consumers at a huge disadvantage; disputes can now be pursued in federal court — Now they will be pursued in federal court, a significant retreat from a strategy that often helps companies avoid liability.
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Loop Returns, whose software enables stores on Shopify to handle online returns, raises $65M Series B led by CRV at a post-money valuation of $340M — Loop Returns, a software company looking to handle the costly and inefficient process of retail/ecommerce returns, has announced the close of a $65 million Series B financing round.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram is testing Limits, which lets users facing a flood of harassment temporarily limit comments and messages from specific groups of followers — Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed the company is testing a new feature called “Limits,” which would give users the ability to temporary lock …
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| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
A look at Facebook's prayers feature and its outreach with faith groups, which Facebook says was given new urgency during the pandemic — Facebook (FB.O) has long sought your attention. In recent weeks, it has started asking for your prayers as well in a new tool now available for U.S. Facebook Groups.| Kate Kaye / Digiday: |
After a delay, Facebook says it is starting a brand safety audit by industry body MRC, set to complete by the end of 2021; Twitter has started the audit process — Pressure from President Joe Biden, regulators and advertisers is building on tech platforms to do more to mitigate extremist, violent and illegal content on their sites.
Tweets: @katekayereports
| Bloomberg: |
Profile of Dan Purcell, founder of Ceartas, a company that helps adult content creators stop piracy when their content gets stolen from sites like OnlyFans — Dan Purcell's transformation into a content protection vigilante began several years ago, with a moment of personal reckoning.| FinSMEs: |
Vestwell raises $70M Series C for its API-based technology that helps employers, particularly small businesses, manage staff retirement plans — Vestwell, a NYC-based API technology platform for workplace savings and investing programs, raised $70m in Series C financing.| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Numerade, which sells subscriptions to short-form STEM videos, raises $26M Series A at a $100M valuation, as it develops an algorithm to offer custom content — Edtech entrepreneurs are using their moment in the sun to rethink the structures and impact of nearly every aspect of modern-day learning … | Sohini Podder / Reuters: |
NoSQL cloud database Couchbase's shares jumped 23% in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a market valuation of $1.2B, after it raised $200M in its IPO — Shares of Couchbase Inc (BASE.O) jumped more than 23% in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday, giving the database software company a market capitalization of nearly $1.2 billion.Sponsor Posts
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