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Sources: Tim Cook, Satya Nadella, and Andy Jassy plan to attend a meeting with Joe Biden on Wednesday to discuss efforts to improve cybersecurity — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella plan to attend a White House meeting with President Joe Biden …
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Tweets: @chuckreynolds and @agentkyle
| The Citizen Lab: |
Investigation details ForcedEntry, an iMessage “zero-click” attack used by NSO Group that circumvents iOS 14's BlastDoor, likely used by the Bahraini government — Summary & Key Findings — We identified nine Bahraini activists whose iPhones were successfully hacked …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram says it is retiring the swipe-up link feature, which lets users visit external links by swiping up, in favor of tappable stickers, starting August 30 — The swipe-up will be no more. Instagram is planning to retire the feature, which allows people to visit external webpages by swiping up …
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Forbes, iThinkDifferent, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Firstpost Tech, KnowTechie, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, Benzinga, BGR India, Ubergizmo, MobileSyrup, and Social Media Today
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Ramp, which provides corporate cards and spend management software, raises $300M Series C at a $3.9B valuation, up from $1.6B after raising $115M in April — Less than five months after raising $115 million, spend management startup Ramp announced today it has raised $300 million …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook is testing bringing voice and video calling back to the main Facebook app in the US, reducing the need to jump between Facebook and Messenger — - New test will bring Messenger technology back into Facebook — Facebook Inc. is bringing voice and video calling …
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Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @kurtwagner8, @zerohedge, and @mattnavarra
| New York Times: |
Apple and Google call on the White House to oppose a South Korean bill, set to face a vote this week, that would mandate multiple payment systems for IAPs — A proposal in the South Korean legislature is an early test of how forcefully the Biden administration will defend the companies abroad while trying to trim their power at home.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers find 1,000+ web apps, from Ford, American Airlines, and others, mistakenly exposed 38M records stored on Microsoft's Power Apps service — Misconfigured Power Apps from Microsoft led to more than a thousand web apps accessible to anyone who found them.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 review: water resistant with an improved screen feel and multitasking, but terrible under-screen camera, expensive, and heavy — As good as foldables get, but is that good enough? — The Galaxy Z Fold 3 is the best possible case Samsung can make for a phone that unfolds into a small tablet.| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Poly Network says it has now recovered all of $610M in cryptocurrencies it lost to a hacker, and is in the process of returning them to their rightful owners — One of the most unusual cryptocurrency heists in recent memory has come to a close. On Monday, Poly Network …
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| Android Developers Blog: |
Google says it will make app ratings on the Play Store more personalized by localizing by users' country from November 2021 and device type from early 2022 — Ratings and reviews are important. They provide valuable quantitative and qualitative feedback on your users' reported experience …
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| Charles Riley / CNN: |
Brian Chesky says Airbnb will provide free housing for 20,000 Afghan refugees without specifying for how long — London (CNN Business)Airbnb has pledged to provide free housing for 20,000 Afghan refugees. — CEO Brian Chesky said Tuesday that the program would begin immediately, and that Airbnb would pay for the stays.| Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: |
Substack begins accepting bitcoin as payment for subscriptions, initially for a few crypto publications, using payments processor OpenNode — Substack has more than 500,000 paid subscribers, but Bitcoin payments will first be available to “a select group of crypto-focused publications.”
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Cryptocurrency companies are moving mining hardware out of China post-crackdown, with US-based Bit Digital trying to send 20K+ mining rigs to Canada and the US — Miners face high costs, other hurdles in removing their machines after Chinese crackdown — When China vowed to crack …
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| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
SpaceX says it has now shipped 100K Starlink terminals to customers, and has launched more than 1,700 satellites since its first in November 2019 — Elon Musk's Starlink project, which aims to provide global broadband connectivity via a constellation of satellites, has shipped 100,000 terminals to customers.| Coco Liu / Bloomberg: |
Chinese e-commerce company Pinduoduo reports $3.6B in Q2 revenue, up 89% YoY, as net income reaches $370M, and pledges $1.5B towards developing agriculture — - Revenue missed estimates even as it turned profitable — Pinduoduo's annual buyers reach 849.9 million in June quarter
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| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Bungalow, a marketplace for residential real estate that offers tools for landlords, raises $75M at a $600M+ valuation led by Deer Park Road Management — - Coatue, Khosla, Founders Fund bet on residential marketplace — Initially a roommate-finder, firm expanded into family rentals| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung says it will hire 40,000 employees over the next three years in a $205B expansion, led by Samsung Electronics and Biologics — - Samsung Electronics and Biologics will lead spending plans — Samsung outlines expansion days after Jay Y. Lee wins freedom| Erin Woo / New York Times: |
TikTok partners with Shopify to launch a pilot program letting merchants add a shopping tab to their profiles and link to products in their posts — TikTok and Shopify, the e-commerce platform, said on Tuesday that they were working together to add the ability for consumers to shop directly in the TikTok app for the first time.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify says all US-based podcasters using Anchor can sell subscriptions to episodes available on RSS and Spotify, expanding internationally later — Plus new price tiers and email addresses — Spotify is broadening the number of people who can offer subscription podcasts and have their shows play on its service.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Urbint, which uses AI to detect threats to critical infrastructure, raises $60M Series C led by Energize Ventures, bringing its total raised to $109M — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now!
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| Josh Scott / BetaKit: |
Blockstream, which offers Bitcoin infrastructure and apps, raises $210M Series B at a $3.2B valuation and will acquire Israeli mining manufacturer Spondoolies — With years invested in building its sidechain-based settlement network, Blockstream has raised significant funding to continue … | Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: |
A look at the decade long struggle to bring the script of Tulu, an Indian language, into Unicode, and the problem of keeping languages alive in the digital age — For 10 years, experts have tried to bring Tulu to smartphones. But they can't agree on how. — • BENGALURU, INDIA
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