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Sources: TSMC plans to increase prices by ~10% for advanced chips and ~20% for less advanced chips, starting later this year or early next — TSMC to increase prices of most advanced chips by roughly 10%; less advanced chips will cost about 20% more — The world's largest contract chip maker …
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DigiTimes, Nikkei Asia, MacRumors, HotHardware.com News, Laptop Mag, PCWorld, AppleInsider, The Verge, BleepingComputer, PCMag, Tom's Hardware, TechRadar, XDA Developers, Kotaku, phonearena.com, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, Wccftech, iMore, Apple Must, iThinkDifferent, Tom's Guide, Trusted Reviews, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, FrontPageTech.com, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @wellisz, @matthewstoller, @epro, @jonst0kes, @matthewkeyslive, @taralach, and @jchengwsj
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
After White House meeting, Google will spend $10B over five years and train 100K IT and data workers, Apple pledges supply chain security improvements, and more — - The White House hosted a cybersecurity summit with CEOs in sectors ranging from tech to insurance.
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The White House, The Keyword, CSO, The Record, Fortune, MarketWatch, Business Wire, ZDNet, Engadget, The Register, Telecoms.com, Silicon Republic, iThinkDifferent, WinBuzzer, TechRepublic, TechCrunch, Windows Central, fossbytes.com, Beyond Search, OnMSFT.com, ZDNet, Bloomberg, Benzinga, and iClarified
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Internal corporate directory shows Microsoft has hired 15-year AWS veteran Charlie Bell as a corporate VP — - Charlie Bell is listed as a corporate vice president under Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft's human-resources chief — Bell left Amazon recently after 15 years in a top leadership position at Amazon Web Services.
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Protocol, Insider, SiliconANGLE, The Information, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, Windows Central, cloudpro.co.uk, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @quinnypig
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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Reuters, BleepingComputer, govtech.com, Dark Reading, Malwarebytes Labs, AlleyWatch, Softpedia News, The Verge, and Thurrott. Tweets: @campuscodi
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches News Partner Program, which lowers commissions on in-app purchases to 15% for news publishers who participate in Apple News — Apple today is launching a new program that will allow subscription news organizations that participate in the Apple News app and meet certain requirements …
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Apple, Apple Developer, 9to5Mac, Macworld, The Verge, Engadget, MacRumors, Appleosophy, AppleInsider, Pocketnow, iMore, CNBC, CNBC, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @benedictevans, @ronanprice, and @benedictevans
| Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with John Binns, a 21-year-old American living in Turkey, who claims responsibility for the recent T-Mobile hack and says its security is “awful” — A 21-year-old American said he used an unprotected router to access millions of customer records in the mobile carrier's latest breach
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MacRumors, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, New York Post, Reuters, Axios, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, and KnowTechie
| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Netflix is testing games in its Android app in Poland, starting with two existing Stranger Things games — Playing on Netflix's mobile app is new, but the games themselves — two pixelated Stranger Things games — have already been available off Netflix for years.
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Protocol, Engadget, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, MacRumors, PCMag, TechHive, The Verge, Digital Trends, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, Android Central, GameSpot, TechRadar, thegamer.com, The Streamable, Neowin, Pocket-lint, and Polygon
Tweets: @netflixgeeked, @one2escape, and @rereztv
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
A history of Google's messaging apps and how a lack of any kind of top-down messaging leadership has led to a decade and a half of failed messaging platforms — Sixteen years after the launch of Google Talk, Google messaging is still a mess. — Google Talk, Google's first-ever instant messaging platform …
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TechCrunch. Tweets: @pierce, @tomgara, @bmwiernik, @dimatosj, @ugobananas, @anthonyleezhang, @andthemeltdowns, @simonw, @newsycombinator, @cydharrell, @sub8u, @mattcolville, @carnage4life, @jbeda, @apenwarr, @randyshoup, @anildash, @timcohn, and @backlon
| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
UK government says it will move away from EU's GDPR after Brexit, including possibly ending cookie consent popups, and names John Edwards as preferred ICO head — Culture secretary says move could lead to an end to irritating cookie popups and consent requests online
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Snap updates Snapchat's Scan feature, turning it into a visual search engine that identifies many things in the real world, like clothes or dog breeds — Snapchat's camera has to date mostly been associated with sending disappearing messages and goofy AR effects, like a virtual dancing hot dog.| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
A look at the small team behind @twitter and its 200+ corporate accounts, who adopted a more informal tone in late 2018 and use a Google doc with 300 drafts — The tweeters — When Twitter employee Ashley Tyra first heard from a colleague that the company was planning to shutter Fleets …
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| Sujeong Lim / Counterpoint Research: |
Apple Watch active user base crossed 100M globally in Q2, as the smartwatch market grew 27% YoY and the sub-$100 segment grew 547% YoY — - The market grew a healthy 27% YoY, thanks to strong demand for sub-$100 smartwatches. — Samsung and Garmin posted remarkable YoY growth even as Apple maintained its lead.
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Laptop Mag, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Android Central, iClarified, 9to5Google, and phonearena.com
| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Researchers say YouTube, which attracts less scrutiny than Facebook or Twitter, is a hard platform to study because video is so difficult to analyze in bulk — While Facebook and Twitter take the brunt of backlashes over misinformation and ‘censorship,’ the Google-owned video giant has often laid low.| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
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YouTube Official Blog. More:
Android Headlines, TechCrunch, Social Media Today, Reclaim The Net, Micky, KnowTechie, MobiHealthNews, ZDNet, and Neowin
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
Adam Mosseri says Instagram plans to more prominently feature photos and videos in search results in the future along with traditional accounts and hashtags — How search works and what it will be able to do next — Instagram plans to more prominently feature photos and videos in search results …
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Instagram. More:
9to5Mac, iThinkDifferent, Social Media Today, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, KnowTechie, and searchenginejournal.com
Tweets: @mosseri and @instagramcomms
| New York Times: |
A look at China's evolving approach to state-sponsored hacking, which borrows from Russia and Iran and increasingly relies on private sector hackers — The state security ministry is recruiting from a vast pool of private-sector hackers who often have their own agendas and sometimes use …
Tweets: @timothys, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @aadilbrar, @paulmozur, @bhweingarten, @paulmozur, @nytimesbusiness, @alfonslopeztena, and @paulmozur
| Ben Feuerherd / New York Post: |
Court filing: a glitch in Palantir's tools let at least four unauthorized FBI employees access data on accused hacker Virgil Griffith from May 2020 to Aug. 2021 — A computer glitch in a secretive software program used by the FBI allowed some unauthorized employees to access private data … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft has promoted Chief Product Officer Panos Panay to executive vice president role and has added him to its senior leadership team — Microsoft Corp. promoted Chief Product Officer Panos Panay to the role of executive vice president and added him to the senior leadership team …
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The Verge, Windows Central, Thurrott, ZDNet, Tom's Hardware, WinBuzzer, XDA Developers, Pocketnow, Neowin, IT PRO, Silicon Republic, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @tomwarren, @bdsams, and @davegershgorn
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
DJ 3LAU launches Royal, which lets users trade shares of song royalty rights as crypto tokens, with $16M in seed funding led by Founders Fund and Paradigm — Paradigm and Founders Fund each invested $7 million, the crypto-savvy DJ told CoinDesk, with Paradigm's Fred Ehrsam joining the board.
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Forbes, TechCrunch, Billboard, Cointelegraph, and The Block
Tweets: @bt, @beaniemaxi, @3lau, @matthuang, @shaughnessy119, and @rabois
| Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
Long-Term Stock Exchange, a Silicon Valley-based rival to NYSE, says Twilio and Asana will list their shares Thursday, the first companies to do so — - Twilio, Asana shares to trade on Long-Term Stock Exchange — CEO Ries says new exchange offers ‘access to ESG investors’| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Reddit CEO responds after calls from users to purge the site of COVID-19 disinformation, saying “dissent is a part of Reddit and the foundation of democracy” — The CEO of Reddit has responded to calls from users to purge the site of disinformation, saying “dissent is a part of Reddit and the foundation of democracy.”
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PCMag, The Hill, Reclaim The Net, Slashdot, TechSpot, and Mashable
Tweets: @brianfagioli, @yoda, and @mjgault
| Reuters: |
DOJ and SEC charged ex-HeadSpin CEO Manish Lachwani with allegedly defrauding investors out of $80M from 2018 to 2020 in an effort to boost HeadSpin's valuation — U.S. authorities on Wednesday charged a co-founder and former chief executive of HeadSpin with defrauding investors …
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U.S. Department of Justice, Axios, U.S. Securities …, and Crowdfund Insider
Tweets: @ilyasu, @scottbelsky, @bgurley, @scmallaby, @energycynic, @sf_sec, @jcoviedo6, @secgov, @corytv, @parismartineau, @jhong, and @reuterslegal
| Insider: |
In an abrupt reversal, OnlyFans suspends its October 1 policy change banning porn after securing “assurances” and aims to provide “a home for all creators” — - OnlyFans is reversing its recent decision to ban porn. — It had planned to prohibit sexually explicit …
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Vox, Protocol, Wired, TIME, dexerto.com, Coinspeaker, Firstpost Tech, and Silicon Canals
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| FinSMEs: |
Utah-based Aumni, which provides a data analytics service for private capital investors, raises $50M Series B led by JP Morgan — Aumni, a Salt Lake City UT-based investment analytics platform, raised $50M in Series B funding. — The round was led by J.P. Morgan with participation …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Copenhagen-based Leapwork, which offers no-code process automation tools for enterprise, raises $62M Series B led by KKR and Salesforce Ventures — Copenhagen-based process automation platform Leapwork has snagged Denmark's largest ever Series B funding round, announcing a $62 million raise co-led …
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