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Adam Mosseri says Facebook is “proactively” removing content from its platforms that promotes or represents the Taliban — A Facebook Inc. executive said the company is “proactively” removing content from its platforms that promotes the Taliban as the group seizes power in Afghanistan.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
As the Taliban uses WhatsApp to coordinate and spread messages, the service's end-to-end encryption makes banning the group difficult — The Taliban are using the Facebook-owned chat app to spread messages to Afghan citizens as they take over the country. — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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T-Mobile confirms hackers gained access to its systems, following reports that sensitive data, including SSNs, for over 100M people was for sale on the dark web — “We have determined that unauthorized access to some T-Mobile data occurred.” — Joseph Cox
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
OnlyFans begins promoting OFTV, a free safe-for-work app available on iOS and Android with 800+ videos, as it prepares to raise new funding — The most common question customers ask Tim Stokely, the chief executive officer of OnlyFans, is why he doesn't have an app.
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Researcher finds a terrorist watchlist of 1.9M people, including “no-fly” records, on an unsecured Elasticsearch cluster; DHS later took the server offline — A secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 million records, including classified “no-fly” records was exposed on the internet.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google's new $449 Pixel 5a review: IP67 water resistance, big 4,680mAh battery, and top-class camera, but limited availability and only three years of updates — Smart updates and a lower price — Google is revealing a phone this year where it's pulling out all the stops and going big on a cutting-edge …
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Tinder says it will bring its optional ID Verification feature, which has been available in Japan since 2019, to all members globally “in the coming quarters” — The feature has been active in Japan since 2019 — Tinder said on Monday that it will make its ID Verification feature available …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Vienna-based crypto trading platform Bitpanda raises $263M led by Valar Ventures at a $4.1B valuation, up from $1.2B five months ago — - Cryptocurrency trading platform Bitpanda raised $263 million in a fresh round of funding valuing the company at $4.1 billion.
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| Christian Shepherd / Financial Times: |
Shares in Alibaba, Tencent, and JD fall after China's antitrust watchdog announces a ban on unfair competitive practices, including exploiting user data — Shares of country's big tech companies slide as crackdown on sector intensifies — China will ban its internet platforms from a wide array …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Brex, which offers credit cards tailored to startups, acquires Weav, a developer of a universal API for commerce platforms, for $50M — Fintech Brex first partnered with Weav, a developer of a universal API for commerce platforms, last summer. — In March, Brex launched Instant Payouts …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Travel booking app Hopper raises $170M Series G at a $3.5B+ valuation, after raising $170M Series F in March 2021, bringing its total raised to nearly $600M — Travel tech company Hopper has raised a $175 million Series G, the company said today. That's nearly the same amount it raised …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers find a bug in the ThroughTek Kalay SDK, which connects over 83M IoT devices with apps, that lets attackers access audio and video streams — A vulnerability in the Kalay platform leaves countless IoT devices susceptible to hackers. — A VULNERABILITY IS lurking in numerous types …
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| Samantha Hissong / Rolling Stone: |
TikTok partners with Audius, a music streaming service built on Ethereum, to let users upload their music as TikTok Sounds — It's the blockchain-powered Audius, rather than Spotify or Apple Music, that will let artists share their sounds into TikTok in one click
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Microsoft hires former Uber product chief Manik Gupta as corporate vice president for Teams Consumer, Skype, and GroupMe — Tech Moves covers notable hires, promotions and personnel changes in the Pacific NW tech community. Submissions: tips@geekwire.com| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Bluesky, the decentralized social media initiative unveiled by Twitter in 2019, will be led by Jay Graber, a former startup founder and cryptocurrency dev — Bluesky, the decentralized social media initiative unveiled by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at the end of 2019, has a project lead, according to a Monday announcement.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
A look at Amazon's plans to expand its ad business by monetizing podcasts, after spending $350M+ buying rights to podcasts over the last 12 months — Amazon.com Inc. announced earlier this summer that it had acquired distribution rights to SmartLess, a popular podcast hosted by actors Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft invests in IT and cloud security startup Rubrik to sell anti-ransomware tools; source: investment was in the low tens of millions at a ~$4B valuation — 'You don't have to pay the bad guys,' Rubrik CEO Says. — Microsoft Corp. is investing in software startup Rubrik Inc … | Reema Al Othman / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund raised its stake in Activision Blizzard by 13% to 37.9M shares, worth $3.6B, in Q2, despite workplace controversy — Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund kept buying Activision Blizzard Inc.'s stock last quarter, a commitment that may be tested …
Tweets: @kylebrussell
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce announces deeper integration between its services and Slack, including Sales Cloud and Tableau, following the close of its Slack acquisition — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now!
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