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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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| 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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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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| 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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| 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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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Khatabook, which helps small Indian businesses digitize bookkeeping and accept payments online, raises $100M Series C at a valuation “close to $600M” — Khatabook, a startup that is helping merchants in India digitize their bookkeeping and accept online payments …
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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| Reuters: |
Report: Didi has suspended plans to launch in the UK and Europe for at least a year, amid a regulatory backlash in China over data privacy — China's ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc (DIDI.N) has suspended its plans to launch in Britain and continental Europe, The Telegraph reported on Monday …
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| 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| 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
Tweets: @xor, @restofworld, @mvzelenks, @restofworld, @restofworld, @cengizyar, @dlberes, @varshaabansal, and @restofworld
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
UN-backed initiative Tech Against Terrorism adds the Taliban to its list of terrorist organizations and will alert tech companies when Taliban content is posted — A key UN-backed group that advises the tech industry on dealing with terrorist groups online has added the Afghan Taliban … | Bloomberg: |
ForgeRock, which makes identity management software, has filed for an IPO seeking to raise $100M; sources say it may seek a valuation of $3B-$4B+ — - Share sale would add to year's U.S. software rush to market — San Francisco firm said to have sought up to $4 billion value| 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.| Ben Brody / Protocol: |
As Congress fails to regulate Big Tech, state and local governments move ahead to pass their own laws on privacy, gig work, anticompetitive conduct, and more — Andrew Rigie said it isn't worth waiting around for tech regulation in Washington. — “New York City is a restaurant capital of the world,” Rigie told Protocol.
Tweets: @issielapowsky and @benbrodydc
| 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 … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Pakistan-based Bazaar, which operates a B2B marketplace for merchants and helps them digitize their bookkeeping, raises the country's largest Series A at $30M — A one-year-old startup that is building a business-to-business marketplace for merchants in Pakistan and also helping them digitize …
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| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Tokyo-based CADDi, a B2B ordering and supply service in the manufacturing and procurement industry, raises $73M Series B, sources say at a ~$450M valuation — With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries …
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