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OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely blames banks, including BNY Mellon, Metro Bank, JPMorgan, for its porn ban, but says Mastercard's rules had no bearing on the ban — Tim Stokely says Bank of New York Mellon ‘flagged and rejected’ all interbank wires linked to website
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| Sinéad Baker / Insider: |
In an abrupt reversal, OnlyFans suspends the October 1 policy change banning porn after securing “assurances” to support its creators — OnlyFans has reversed its decision to ban sexually-explicit conduct after widespread backlash. — It said in a statement on Wednesday …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Microsoft says that Xbox Cloud Gaming will expand beyond PC and mobile to its Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox One consoles this holiday season — - Microsoft said its Xbox Cloud Gaming service will arrive on console this holiday. — Cloud gaming lets people stream games over the internet rather than install them locally.
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Tweets: @samuelofc, @samuelofc, @nibellion, @xboxwire, and @starfire2258
| Axios: |
California expands lawsuit against Activision Blizzard to include temp workers and says the game maker interfered with investigation by shredding pertinent docs — California has expanded its anti-discrimination lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, adding temporary workers to the female full …
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Tweets: @stephentotilo, @blizzjess, and @futterish
| Washington Post: |
A look at Vaccine Talk, a tightly moderated Facebook group for vaccine skeptics with ~70K members that aims to change their minds with evidence-based info — As social media giants struggle to crack down on false claims about covid, ordinary users are finding ways to reach vaccine skeptics — and win them over.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi reports Q2 revenue rose 64% YoY to $13.56B, as net income rose 80% YoY to $1.28B, and says it will buy autonomous driving startup Deepmotion for ~$77.3M — Xiaomi reported a second-quarter net income of $1.28 billion on revenue of $13.56 billion following the Chinese technology giant's strong surge …
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Researchers: Trump tweets with fact-check labels spread further on Twitter than those without; tweets blocked by Twitter remained popular on Facebook and Reddit — Twitter blocked and labeled some Donald Trump's claims of election fraud in the run-up and aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook's David Marcus says Novi digital wallet is “ready now”, but will wait for the Diem currency, and it is “definitely looking at” building NFT features — Social network is ‘definitely looking’ at digital assets as part of push into financial products, executive says
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Study details how people use hashtags, video effects, and music on TikTok to promote hate against Asians, women, Muslims, Jews, and Black and LGBTQ people — Despite pledges to crack down on hatred, TikTok is still trafficking in short-form videos that promote white supremacy and anti-Black racism … | Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
Interview with CISA Director Jen Easterly on attack prevention, hiring new staff, improving CISA's ability to scan federal networks for malicious code, and more — U.S. cybersecurity officials have scrambled to respond to one major hacking incident after another over the past nine months … | Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times: |
FBI says a man phished thousands of iCloud accounts via an email scam where he impersonated customer support, stealing 620K photos and 9K videos until mid-2018 — A Los Angeles County man broke into thousands of Apple iCloud accounts and collected more than 620,000 private photos and videos …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Cerebras Systems claims its hardware can now run a neural network with 120 trillion parameters, targeting a nascent market for massive NLP AI algorithms — Cerebras says its technology can run a neural network with 120 trillion connections—a hundred times what's achievable today.
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| Sean Michael Kerner / TechCrunch: |
Hunters, a cybersecurity startup that builds tech known as extended threat detection and response (XDR), raises $30M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners — With the growing volume of ransomware and supply chain security attacks, there is a need for organizations to more rapidly detect threats.| The Economic Times: |
Indian e-commerce logistics company Delhivery acquires Bengaluru-based Spoton Logistics, sources say for $300M in cash, ahead of a planned IPO — Though financial details weren't disclosed, people familiar with the Delhivery-Spoton deal say it is an all-cash deal worth $300 million.
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| Sascha Segan / PCMag: |
Testing of carriers across the US shows T-Mobile with a commanding lead in 5G, winning speed tests in 24 cities and rural regions to AT&T's eight, Verizon's two — For our 12th annual test, we drove more than 10,000 miles, speed-testing AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon 4G and 5G in cities, towns, and rural regions all over the US.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
As studios lean into simultaneous theater and streaming releases, high-quality pirated versions of movies are hitting piracy sites within hours of their release — Bootlegging and sharing high-quality digital copies of movies is easier than ever, as studios leaned harder into streaming during pandemic
Tweets: @willicaroline and @techdeals_16
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Interview with Discord CEO Jason Citron, who says user numbers doubled and revenue tripled to $130M in 2020, and Discord is developing its own in-house games — Chief executive Jason Citron is looking to broaden the appeal of the popular chat platform — First came the gamers, then came the offers for his business.
Tweets: @chrisrsword and @davidtallon
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
After being fired as co-head of Google's Ethical AI group, Margaret Mitchell will join Hugging Face, an AI startup that aims to make algorithms fair — Former co-head of Ethical AI group will join Hugging Face to create tools for AI fairness — The former co-head of Google's Ethical AI research group …
Tweets: @dinabass, @mmitchell_ai, and @timnitgebru
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Groovy Bot, which lets Discord users play music from YouTube videos and other services, is shutting down Aug. 30 after YouTube sent a cease-and-desist notice — Google gave the Groovy Bot owners seven days to comply — Google-owned YouTube is starting to crack down on Discord music bots.
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PCMag and PC Gamer
Tweets: @whambamcamm_, @crtrlndn, @tomwarren, @crillfactor, @phlashdark, @onion_mu, and @stockmktnewz
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Following Open AI's GPT-3, startups in China, South Korea, Israel, and Germany are building general purpose AI language tools for non-English languages — Startups in Germany, China, Israel, and elsewhere are following the path blazed by GPT-3—with local twists. — The AI Database →
Tweets: @willknight and @ilparone
| Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: |
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