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| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
Mozilla's analysis says Facebook's justifications for cutting off access to researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory project “simply do not hold water” — The company says privacy concerns forced it to block access for a team of academics. Whose privacy, exactly?
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple is reportedly considering using on-device hashing algorithms to match photos with known child abuse material, a potentially problematic practice — Apple is reportedly set to announce new photo identification features that will use hashing algorithms to match the content of photos …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon delays its return to offices from September 3 to January 3, 2022 — Amazon told employees Thursday that it will delay its timeline for returning to regular work in the office until early next year. — The new date: Jan. 3, 2022. Previously, Amazon had expected employees …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Microsoft announces “Super Duper Secure Mode” for its Edge desktop browser, which disables V8's JIT, allowing for security features like Arbitrary Code Guard — Microsoft said today it plans to run an experiment in its Edge web browser where it will intentionally disable … | Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Scammers are abusing Instagram's protections against self-harm and impersonation to purposefully target and ban Instagram accounts, some charging $60 per ban — An underground industry is abusing Instagram's mechanisms for removing self-injury and impersonating content to censor and harass people.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Nintendo misses in Q1 with $1.09B operating profit, down 17.3% YoY, on $2.94B revenue, down 9.9% YoY, as Switch sales decline by 21.7% YoY to 4.45M units — It was not exactly a normal quarter this time in 2020 — Nintendo has released its earnings for the April-June quarter … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google refreshes its Nest lineup, including its video doorbell and indoor-only camera, with a unified design language and lower prices — A whole new lineup of cameras for Nest smart homes — Google has announced a new line of home security cameras and a video doorbell under its Nest brand.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok says it is testing TikTok Stories; source says Stories are available in a handful of markets outside the US — Twitter may have shut down its Stories features known as Fleets, but the Stories format will continue to invade other social platforms. TikTok today confirmed it's piloting …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Yelp will let businesses list their vaccination policies, including if customers must show proof of vaccination, wear masks, or if all staff are vaccinated — Including details on staff and customer vaccinations — Yelp will let businesses share their policies on COVID-19 vaccinations, the company announced today.
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Ethereum's “London” hard fork has been activated, with changes to how transaction fees are calculated to decrease volatility, among other fixes — - Ethereum's “London” hard fork has just activated, and it's a major change. — One of the changes alters the way transaction fees … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian digital bank Jupiter raises $45M Series B, led by Brazil-based Nubank, Global Founders, Sequoia, and Matrix Partners India, at a $300M+ valuation — Industry veteran Jitendra Gupta's neobank for consumers in India — Jupiter — has raised $45 million in a new financing round …
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Entrackr, PYMNTS.com, FinLedger, The Economic Times, The Economic Times, Crowdfund Insider, and Finextra
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| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Senators Lummis, Wyden, Toomey propose amendment to infrastructure bill excluding crypto developers, miners, node operators, others from the “broker” definition — A trio of U.S. senators is proposing a legislative exclusion for crypto companies, including miners and software developers … | John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
Researchers studying 300,000 YouTube viewers from 2016-2019 suggest that radicalization via algorithm is not widespread; most stick to their ideological corners — Tracking user behavior shows that most people don't go down radical rabbit holes. — We've all seen it happen … | Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
DHS unveils the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative to combat ransomware and cyberattacks, in partnership with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others — Creation of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative follows high-profile cyberattacks on critical U.S. infrastructure
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm offers to buy Veoneer, which develops advanced driver-assistance systems for autonomous vehicles, for $4.6B, topping Magna's $3.8B bid from last month — - Veoneer would give Qualcomm lift in driver-assistance tech — Magna unlikely to try to top Qualcomm bid, analysts say
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Qualcomm, Forbes, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Barron's Online, and Reuters
| Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: |
Xiaomi was the top brand in global smartphone sales volume in June, although its lead could fade once Samsung's production recovers from Vietnam's COVID-19 wave — • This is the first time ever, in June 2021, Xiaomi has become the number one brand in global monthly smartphone sales (sell-through) volumes
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Android Authority, Wccftech, Neowin, SlashGear, phonearena.com, Notebookcheck.net, Android Central, and Phandroid
| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Apple places female engineering program manager on administrative leave after she tweeted about sexism in the office — Ashley Gjøvik says the employee relations team implied she should stay off Slack pending an ongoing investigation — Apple has placed senior engineering program …
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MacDailyNews, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fox News, and iMore
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Source: ByteDance has laid off hundreds of employees working on its online education businesses, following China's crackdown on the sector — - It's shutting one service while pivoting others to comply — China's new online tutoring curbs include a ban on profits| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Indian startup MindTickle, which offers tools to improve sales staff, raises $100M Series E led by SoftBank at a $1.2B valuation, bringing total raised to $281M — So-called sales readiness technology provider MindTickle Inc. is running with the unicorns today after landing a $100 million Series E round of funding.
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The Economic Times and VentureBeat
| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Cryptocurrency analytics firm Messari raises $21M Series A led by Point72 Ventures with Kraken Ventures, Gemini Frontier Fund, and Coinbase among investors — Point72 Ventures,, the venture capital firm of billionaire Steve Cohen, whose unconventional style helped inspire the hit television show Billions …
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CoinDesk, The Defiant, Bloomberg, and PR Newswire
Tweets: @delrayman, @forbescrypto, and @kidkrypt0
| Sara Castellanos / Wall Street Journal: |
Verizon is using an AI model to analyze variables on the ground like trees, buildings, and bridges to find optimal spots to place thousands of 5G transmitters — The carrier uses an AI model to crunch through variables on the ground like trees, buildings and bridges to find the optimal spots to place thousands of 5G transmitters
Tweets: @wsjtech
| Chris McGreal / The Guardian: |
Report: 25 oil and gas organizations spent $9.5M+ on 25K+ Facebook ads in 2020, seen 431M+ times, potentially undermining Facebook's ban on oil and gas misinfo — Thinktank InfluenceMap accuses petroleum giants of gaming Facebook to promote oil and gas as part of climate-crisis solution
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influencemap.org, CNN, New York Times, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @influencemap, @influencemap, @angeladewan, and @influencemap
| Khari Johnson / Wired: |
New study says encouraging consensus among data labelers from diverse backgrounds can lead to better AI for detecting misogyny and harassment on social media — Misogyny on the internet too often slips through the filters of content moderators. A new method hopes to inject more nuance into the process.| Andrea Navarro / Bloomberg: |
Crehana, a Latin American online learning service, raises $70M led by General Atlantic and says its user base jumped from 1.2M to 5M in 2020 — - Crehana learning platform operates across Latin America — Startup plans to launch Brazil office in October with proceeds
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