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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Activision Blizzard says president J. Allen Brack is leaving the company, replaced by Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra, as the fallout from CA lawsuit continues — Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra will take over as co-leaders — In the last week or so, we've learned about the state of California filing …
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Blizzard News, Activision Blizzard, Protocol, Washington Post, USA Today, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Kotaku, Engadget, Protocol, GamesIndustry.biz, Game Rant, Wccftech, Twinfinite, TechSpot, SlashGear, CNBC, PC Gamer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, New York Times, Axios, Variety, TrueAchievements, VICE, Polygon, GameSpot, Destructoid, dexerto.com, and Video Games Chronicle
| Chong Koh Ping / Wall Street Journal: |
After Chinese state media criticized online gaming as “opium for the mind” in a now-deleted article, Tencent announces stricter rules for young users — Shares of NetEase and Bilibili also suffer steep falls — Shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd. and rivals plummeted Tuesday …
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Tweets: @therealjoshye, @onlyyoontv, @onlyyoontv, @henrysgao, @wsjmarkets, @georgemagnus1, @therealjoshye, @georgemagnus1, @carnage4life, @jchengwsj, @therealjoshye, @michaelxpettis, @therealjoshye, @carnage4life, @georgemagnus1, @arjunkharpal, @davidinglestv, @therealjoshye, @kanghexin, @arjunkharpal, @arjunkharpal, @georgemagnus1, @georgemagnus1, and @henrysgao
| Bloomberg: |
Q&A with SEC chair Gary Gensler on protecting cryptocurrency investors from fraud, regulating the industry, Bitcoin ETFs, and other SEC priorities like GameStop — It's become a parlor game in Washington, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley to figure out where U.S. Securities …
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AppleInsider, CoinDesk, Forbes, Crowdfund Insider, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Protocol, cryptodaily.co.uk, Crypto Briefing, Cryptonews, Insider, Yahoo News, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @apompliano, @garygensler, @mayazi, @jtseo9, @hkanji, @crypto, and @brucefenton
| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Google's Rick Osterloh demos Pixel 6's Tensor SoC, which enables real-time object detection and HDR in videos as well as real-time translation and live captions — We sat down with Google's phone chief, Rick Osterloh, to see what the Pixel 6 has in store. — Alerts
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The Keyword, Barron's Online, Silicon Republic, XDA Developers, RCR Wireless News, TechCrunch, iThinkDifferent, Insider, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @sundarpichai, @deitaone, and @atomicthumbs
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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9to5Google, Wired, HotHardware.com News, XDA Developers, Forbes, Android Central, Android Police, phonearena.com, Pocketnow, TNW, Livemint, Silicon Canals, SamMobile, Telecoms.com, Patently Apple, BGR, TechRadar, BGR India, Firstpost Tech, YouTube, and International Business Times
Tweets: @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @rosterloh, @madebygoogle, @jioriku, @chunkynerd, @iupdate, @iphonedo, @r3dash, @evleaks, @rjeytech, @joemaring1, @lisaeadicicco, @androidpolice, @reneritchie, @lukemiani, @jon_prosser, @zacbowden, and @jasonhowell
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan on monetizing Shorts, content moderation with Content ID, YouTube TV, competing with TikTok, and more — YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan joined Decoder this week to discuss YouTube's new $100 million fund to begin paying creators … | Andrew Kersley / Wired UK: |
Sources: well over 100 UK-based employees at Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery unit have lost their jobs since 2019, as the company scales back its ambitions — Amazon has triggered mass redundancies and transfers as it winds down a huge part of its UK drone delivery business
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CNET, The Verge, New York Post, SlashGear, and DroneDJ
Tweets: @tashabernal, @hkanji, @markdistef, @jamestitcomb, @olifranklin, @sam_l_shead, @andrewkersley, and @rupertmyers
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Spotify is testing Spotify Plus, a low-cost tier that includes ads but doesn't impose limits on track skipping and lets users pick specific songs to play — Spotify Plus is being piloted with a ‘limited number’ of users — Spotify Plus is a new $.99 subscription tier being piloted …
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TNW, mobilesyrup.com, PCMag, TechHive, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Livemint, Tom's Guide, Neowin, TechRadar, Phandroid, iPhone Hacks, TechSpot, KnowTechie, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, MUO, Trusted Reviews, Engadget, iMore, MacRumors, phonearena.com, Mashable, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @shiraovide
| Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
The confusing language in the infrastructure bill's crypto provision suggests that nearly any entity in crypto is a broker and must collect their users' data — The forthcoming Senate draft of Biden's infrastructure bill—a 2,000+ page bill designed to update the United States' roads …
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Washington Post, Tom's Hardware, CoinDesk, banking.senate.gov, Jeremy Rubin, New York Times, Techdirt, Decrypt, Breitbart, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Blockonomi, and Forkast
Tweets: @reptedbudd, @sentoomey, @eff, @opensecretsdc, @hshaban, and @technologypoet
| The Information: |
Facebook confirms it is building a team of AI researchers to study ways of analyzing encrypted data without decrypting it, potentially helping better target ads — Facebook is bulking up a team of artificial intelligence researchers, including a key hire from Microsoft …
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MacRumors. Tweets: @theinformation, @chrisbrogan, @rachelbovard, @alexhern, @mshannahmurphy, @jessicalessin, and @markdistef
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Microsoft tells employees it will require proof of vaccination to enter a Microsoft building in the US starting September, with medical and religious exceptions — The full opening of its US offices will be ‘no earlier’ than October 4th — Microsoft has informed employees that it will require proof …
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Seattle Business Journal, GeekWire, CNET, CNBC, and OnMSFT.com
| Antoine Gara / Forbes: |
How Michael Dell oversaw Dell's expansion after taking it private, growing the company to $75B, by focusing on providing infrastructure to businesses and others — After years battling Silicon Valley skeptics and Wall Street adversaries, Michael Dell has pulled off the deal of the century …
Tweets: @antoinegara, @johnbyrnecso, @antoinegara, @chrishelman, and @danprimack
| Boris Metodiev / Strategy Analytics: |
Xiaomi became Europe's top smartphone vendor in Q2 with 12.7M units shipped, up 67.1% YoY, followed by Samsung with 12M, down 7% YoY, and Apple with 9.6M — According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Europe smartphone shipments grew a strong +14% YoY to 50.1 million units in Q2 2021 …
| Rob Price / Insider: |
UK-based Emojipedia, an encyclopedia for emoji founded in 2013, says it has been acquired by smartphone software company Zedge — - Emojipedia has been acquired by smartphone software company Zedge for an undisclosed amount. — The online emoji encyclopedia was founded in 2013, and has 500 million-plus yearly pageviews.
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Emojipedia, Daring Fireball, and ACCESSWIRE
Tweets: @jeremyburge, @jeremyburge, and @emojipedia
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter partners with Reuters and the AP, who will provide context and highlight links from trusted sources for Trends, Moments, Search, and more — Twitter announced today it's partnering with news organizations The Associated Press (AP) and Reuters to expand its efforts focused …
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Twitter, The Verge, The Hill, Reuters, Reclaim The Net, SlashGear, Input, and Associated Press
Tweets: @twittersafety, @stone1atlanta, @chrizap, @shiringhaffary, @anthonycwalker, @jason_kint, @larakate, and @niketa
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
After Chinese regulators halted its IPO, Alibaba's Ant Group reports Q1 profit fell to $2.1B, down 37% from the previous quarter — Ant Group Co.'s profit fell to $2.1 billion in the March quarter after Chinese regulators thwarted its record initial public offering and told it to overhaul its sprawling operation.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Citizen launches Protect, a $20/month service that offers access to a Citizen operator and other features, after a 100,000-user beta test — After months of testing with upwards of 100,000 beta testers, Citizen today is launching its premium Protect offering for all users.
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CITIZEN, Engadget, Reuters, PCMag, USA Today, The Verge, Vox, and CNN
Tweets: @eculliford and @eculliford
| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
A bipartisan Senate investigation finds that, despite years of warnings, many US government agencies have not established effective cybersecurity programs — Several major federal agencies continue to fail to address recurring cybersecurity vulnerabilities or implement basic standards …
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Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, The Hill, Engadget, CBS News, CyberScoop, FedScoop, Plain Dealer, Washington Post, and NBC News. Tweets: @ron_miller
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers were able to quickly circumvent security protections of a laptop that followed virtually all NIST recommendations, including TPM and UEFI SecureBoot — Sometimes, locking down a laptop with the latest defenses isn't enough. — Let's say you're a large company that has just shipped … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rapyd, which offers APIs to add financial services like payments, raises $300M Series E led by Target Global, sources say at a $8.75B valuation — Neobanks, other financial startups, and the basic concept of “finance anywhere” are seeing huge gains at the moment, and today …
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FinLedger, FinSMEs, PR Newswire, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, Finextra, Tech.eu, Rapyd, EU-Startups, and Crunchbase News
| Dmitry Smilyanets / The Record: |
Interview with BlackMatter, a new ransomware group that only targets companies with $100M+ revenue and says it will avoid certain industries like healthcare — Editor's Note: In July, a new ransomware gang started posting advertisements on various cybercrime forums announcing that it was seeking …
Tweets: @chainalysis, @smdiehl, @dcuthbert, and @therecord_media
| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Apple makes Magic Keyboard with Touch ID available as a standalone product for $149; the keyboard is only compatible with Apple silicon Macs — Apple has made the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, which previously was only available with the purchase of the new 24-inch iMac, available for purchase individually for $179.
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9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, mobilesyrup.com, Macworld, AppleInsider, Engadget, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Appleosophy, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, TechSpot, Six Colors, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, Wccftech, MacDailyNews, iMore, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @reneritchie, @michaelsteeber, @_inside, @samifathi_, and @davezatz
| Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: |
China's top state propaganda outlets jointly call for limits on the role of algorithms in content distribution to help improve “culture and art reviews” — The policy guidelines mark the latest effort by Beijing to align online content with the state's agenda and to rein in the role …
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Forkast and Tech in Asia
| Laurel Deppen / GeekWire: |
Hootsuite says it has acquired Montreal-based conversational AI startup Heyday, which offers a unified messaging platform for retailers, for ~$48M — Hootsuite, the Vancouver, B.C.-based social media management platform, announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Heyday, a conversational AI platform, for about $48 million USD.
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BetaKit, Globe and Mail, GlobeNewswire News Room, and The Logic
| Yael Eisenstat / Washington Post: |
A former Facebook elections integrity head criticizes it for using preemptive non-disparagement clauses to silence employees, shutting avenues for transparency — Non-disparagement clauses can keep former employees from discussing the company — Since the Jan. 6 insurrection …
Tweets: @yaeleisenstat, @yaeleisenstat, @yaeleisenstat, and @justinhendrix
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