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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans a modest iPhone update, with a smaller notch, faster refresh rate, and camera upgrades, including ProRes recording and video Portrait mode — - Company plans video Portrait mode and higher-quality recording — New models to include smaller display cutout and faster chip
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The Verge, FrontPageTech.com, Pocketnow, Appleosophy, MacRumors, Barron's Online, TechSpot, Macworld, iPhone Hacks, Wccftech, SlashGear, The Mac Observer, Laptop Mag, iPhone in Canada Blog, iThinkDifferent, Insider, KnowTechie, GameSpot, mobilesyrup.com, Redmond Pie, NBC Bay Area, Cult of Mac, Daring Fireball, BGR, ZDNet, Tom's Guide, Pocket-lint, HotHardware.com News, MSPoweruser, TechRadar, Gizmodo, and CNET
Tweets: @markgurman, @joannastern, and @kevincate
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google will let under 18s delist photos by request, restrict ad targeting of children based on age, gender, or interests, and more — As part of a new series of protections for kids under 18 — Google will no longer allow ad targeting of children based on their age, gender …
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The Keyword, New York Times, Reuters, The Information, TechCrunch, phonearena.com, SlashGear, Neowin, CNET, KnowTechie, searchenginejournal.com, 9to5Google, and Mashable
Tweets: @webdevlaw and @lilyraynyc
| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
Group behind Poly Network, a cross-chain protocol used for DeFi applications, says a hacker has stolen $611M; one researcher blames the attack on a crypto flaw — Quick Take — Cross-chain protocol Poly Network has been hacked for $611 million. — The team behind the protocol … | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Coinbase reports $2.23B in Q2 revenue, vs $1.78B est., and net profit of $1.6B, up nearly 4,900% YoY, following volatile stretch of cryptocurrency trading — - In Q2, Coinbase brought in $2.23 billion of revenue vs. $1.78 billion expected by Refinitiv. — It also reported a profit per share of $6.42.
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Coinbase, TechCrunch, New York Times, CoinDesk, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, CoinDesk, Bloomberg, The Block, Finbold, ZDNet, Decrypt, TheStreet, MarketWatch, Barron's Online, Benzinga, Investing.com, Bitcoin Magazine, and Financial Times
Tweets: @scottmelker, @jeffjohnroberts, and @jeffjohnroberts
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI debuts a private beta for Codex, an API for turning natural language into code of one of over a dozen coding languages; Codex powers GitHub's Copilot — Watch now. — OpenAI today released OpenAI Codex, its AI system that translates natural language into code, through an API in private beta.
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OpenAI, The Verge, Axios, SiliconANGLE, Futurism, ZDNet, and MarkTechPost
Tweets: @maccaw, @kylebrussell, @varunmayya, and @blader
| New York Times: |
Inside the rift between the White House and Facebook over vaccine misinformation, as the administration grew frustrated with Facebook's lack of transparency — Frustrations grew behind the scenes among top leaders on both sides, potentially hurting the government's efforts to overcome the pandemic.
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New York Times and Vanity Fair
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Senate sends $1T infrastructure bill to the House after a 69-30 vote; the bill contains a controversial cryptocurrency tax provision critics see as too broad — The bill contains a broad definition of “broker” for crypto tax reporting requirements that lawmakers and industry advocates sought to change over the past week.
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The Information, Washington Post, Bitcoin News, The Verge, Politico, Crowdfund Insider, Light Reading, CoinDesk, WRAL TechWire, Associated Press, NBC News, Cointelegraph, Axios, Financial Times, CNBC, CNET, The Block, and CyberScoop
Tweets: @reptomemmer, @jakesherman, @senlummis, @brian_armstrong, @kaitlancollins, @potus, @apompliano, and @peterbakernyt
| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Facebook says it has removed a network of accounts from Russia linked to a UK marketing firm that pushed anti-vaccine content using Planet of the Apes memes — Facebook (FB.O) said on Tuesday it had removed a network of accounts from Russia that it linked to a marketing firm which aimed …
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About Facebook, BBC, Adweek, Facebook, CNET, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, The Daily Beast, inews.co.uk, Associated Press, Yahoo News, and Engadget
Tweets: @ngleicher, @arawnsley, @arawnsley, @dankostecki, @noupside, and @benimmo
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Microsoft will now require admin rights before Windows users can access the Point and Print feature, to mitigate a security flaw it has already tried to patch — Microsoft has released today a security update that will change the default behavior of the “Point and Print” …
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Microsoft Security …, Krebs on Security, Windows Central, Microsoft Support, OnMSFT.com, Digital Trends, MSPoweruser, and Neowin
Tweets: @msftsecresponse and @ajohnsocyber
| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
LaunchDarkly, a feature management service for developers with IBM and Atlassian among its 2k+ customers, raises $200M Series D at a $3B post-money valuation — When Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal first met in an advanced math class at Harvey Mudd, one of the country's top engineering colleges …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Venmo will let credit cardholders automatically buy cryptocurrency with the cash back they earn and says there will be no associated transaction fees — PayPal-owned Venmo is expanding its support for cryptocurrency with today's launch of a new feature that will allow users …
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PayPal Newsroom, ZDNet, MUO, Bitcoin News, SlashGear, Finextra, Neowin, TechSpot, Coinspeaker, and PYMNTS.com
| Frank Konkel / Nextgov: |
Source: the NSA awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10B to AWS; Microsoft has filed a bid protest with the GAO in response — Much of the NSA's most prized intelligence data may be moving to the cloud. — The National Security Agency has awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth …
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The Hill, Seattle Business Journal, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @quinnypig, @patrickmoorhead, @frank_konkel, and @teedubya
| Danielle Kaye / Reuters: |
According to an internal Google pay calculator, staff who choose to work from home will likely get a pay cut, especially those who commuted over long distances — Google employees based in the same office before the pandemic could see different changes in pay if they switch to working from home permanently …
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iTnews, CBC News, The Independent, The Hill, The Times, Tech Times, New York Post, TechSpot, and Neowin
Tweets: @h_thoreson, @perrymetzger, and @reutersbiz
| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
NortonLifeLock says that it will merge with Avast in a cash and stock deal worth between $8.1B and $8.6B — The two companies said they will create a “new, industry-leading consumer Cyber Safety business.” — Antivirus vendor NortonLifeLock this afternoon said it will merge … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
BitMEX announces a $100M settlement with the CFTC and FinCEN over shortcomings in its anti-money laundering and know-your-customer oversight systems — Crypto derivatives trading platform BitMEX announced Tuesday it had reached a settlement on civil charges with U.S. authorities.
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BitMEX Blog, CFTC, Reuters, The Hill, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Blockworks, U.Today, Decrypt, Bitcoinist.com, Bloomberg, The Block, Cointelegraph, Crowdfund Insider, and Crypto Briefing
Tweets: @cftc, @ahcastor, @bitmex, and @cointelegraph
| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Helium, a P2P 5G wireless network startup, raises $111M in an a16z-led token sale, says it has 116K+ wireless hotspots in 11K cities with 500K more back-ordered — - Napster's Shawn Fanning co-founded Helium with Amir Haleem — Ribbit, Alameda, Multicoin among participants in the round
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Andreessen Horowitz, Decrypt, FinSMEs, Blockworks, WebWire, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, and The Block
| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Amazon says it will pay up to $1,000 in damages for dangerous goods sold by third-party merchants starting September 1 in the US — More than half of products sold on the platform come from third parties and are not vetted by ecommerce giant — Amazon will start directly paying compensation …
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Tweets: @bl_advisor, @mattmday, @amazon_policy, @shiraovide, and @dharmeshmehta
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia says Omniverse, which it calls a “metaverse for engineers”, now has 50K+ users, and it will be opened up to millions of users of 3D modeling app Blender — Watch now. — Nvidia has billed its Omniverse as a “metaverse for engineers,” and it has grown to more than 50,000 users.
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XDA Developers, The Verge, The Official NVIDIA Blog, Animation World Network, NVIDIA, and ZDNet. Tweets: @jaycuthrell
| The Information: |
Sources: FTC is reviewing Uber's partnership with delivery startup Gopuff on anti-competitive grounds, as well as its purchase of alcohol delivery firm Drizly — The Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing a partnership struck in May between Uber and Gopuff that allows people to order items …
Tweets: @carnage4life and @db
| TJ Denzer / Shacknews: |
Unity reports Q2 revenue of $273.6M, up 48% YoY, and says it will acquire remote desktop and streaming company Parsec for ~$320M — Unity boasted a massive increase in revenue year-over-year and has raised its guidance as a result. — As fiscal quarters close and companies report earnings results …
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SiliconANGLE, Unity Technologies, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, San Francisco Business Journal, VentureBeat, MarketWatch, and Gamasutra
Tweets: @glassbottommeg, @boxerbk, @unity3d, @parsecteam, @unity3d, @parsecteam, and @parsecteam
| Davey Alba / New York Times: |
Twitter suspends Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for seven days over vaccine misinfo, saying it is her fourth strike and another offense could lead to permanent ban — Twitter on Tuesday suspended Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, from its service for seven days …
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CNN and VICE
Tweets: @latenightseth, @molly_knight, @jeffveillette, @zaleskiluke, @dataeditor, @mmpadellan, @briannawu, @daveyalba, and @russbengtson
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple publishes a CSAM FAQ to address misconceptions and concerns about photo scanning — Apple has responded to misconceptions and concerns about its photo scanning announcements by publishing a CSAM FAQ - answering frequently asked questions about the features.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Protocol, Schneier on Security, and iMore
Tweets: @jonathanmayer, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @da_667, @elizableu, and @gsuberland
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Analysis of tweets about Euro 2020, including racist abuse towards England players: 99% of accounts suspended were not anonymous and most abuse came from the UK — In February this year, we outlined the steps we have been taking to combat racist abuse on Twitter.| David Jeans / Forbes: |
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