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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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| 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, Michael Tsai, MacRumors, Engadget, Pocketnow, Appleosophy, The Verge, iMore, Apple Must, CNBC, CNBC, AppleInsider, and The Mac Observer
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| 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, The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Reuters, ZDNet, Tom's Guide, Axios, New York Post, TechSpot, phonearena.com, Mashable, KnowTechie, iDownloadBlog.com, and Slashdot
| 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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Android Authority, Android Police, MobileSyrup, Protocol, Engadget, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, Video Games Chronicle, Android Headlines, BGR, XDA Developers, The Verge, Input, Cord Cutters News, MacRumors, Droid Life, TechHive, thegamer.com, The Streamable, Android Central, Neowin, iPhone Hacks, GameSpot, TechRadar, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Digital Trends, TechSpot, and Polygon
Tweets: @netflixgeeked, @stevemoser, @tzm_tmt, @exbeegames, @aaronlerch, @rereztv, and @one2escape
| 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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GeekWire, Insider, Protocol, Seattle Business Journal, The Information, SiliconANGLE, Channel Futures, Windows Central, Bloomberg, and IT PRO. Tweets: @quinnypig
| 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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| 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.
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Android Police, Mashable, Social Media Today, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @michaelmiraflor, @wolfmetric, @mattnavarra, and @alexeheath
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
YouTube is implementing picture-in-picture functionality on its iOS app, starting with a testing window for Premium subscribers through October 31 — YouTube is making good on its promise to — bring picture-in-picture viewing to iOS users. TechCrunch
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| 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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| 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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| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
YouTube says it has removed over 1M videos related to COVID misinformation since Feb. 2020 and removes 10M videos per quarter, most of which have <10 views — But the 1 million coronavirus-related takedowns since the start of the pandemic are difficult to put in context, because of YouTube's gigantic scale.
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Tweets: @marklittlenews, @mhbergen, @noupside, @annaedge4, @deemadigan, and @katieharbath
| 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, MacDailyNews, TechSpot, MacRumors, 9to5Google, phonearena.com, Android Central, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, GSMArena.com, and iClarified. Tweets: @counterpointtr
| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
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 — Royal, a non-fungible token (NFT) investment platform focused on music, has announced a $16 million seed-stage fundraise.
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CoinDesk, Forbes, TechCrunch, Billboard, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @rabois, @bt, @shaughnessy119, @beaniemaxi, @3lau, @unidentifiedta1, and @matthuang
| 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 …
Tweets: @mcely, @venkatananth, and @kurtwagner8
| 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, The Record, CSO, Reuters, Fortune, ZDNet, BleepingComputer, iThinkDifferent, TechRepublic, MarketWatch, Windows Central, fossbytes.com, WinBuzzer, TechCrunch, Business Wire, Telecoms.com, Silicon Republic, Beyond Search, OnMSFT.com, The Register, Thurrott, and Engadget
| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Workstream, which helps SMBs hire frontline and deskless workers by using text messages, raises $48M Series B co-led by Mary Meeker's BOND and Coatue — It isn't only tech giants that are struggling to fill open roles with talented individuals, it's your local Jamba Juice, too.| 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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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
VMware reports Q2 revenue of $3.14B, up 9% YoY, vs estimates of $3.1B, Subscription and SaaS revenue of $776M, up 23% YoY, is on track for Dell spin-off in Nov. — The virtualization company published results slightly ahead of expectations, with strong growth in multi-cloud …
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SiliconANGLE, Barron's Online, Business Wire, and SDxCentral
| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
Logitech's livestreaming software company Streamlabs rolls out a monthly tipping service for use on Twitch, YouTube, or Facebook, and says it won't take a cut — With zero subscription fees — Streamlabs, the popular livestreaming software company owned by Logitech, is rolling out a … | 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 … | 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: @mrbcyber, @paulmozur, @aadilbrar, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @timothys, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @bhweingarten, @nytimesbusiness, and @alfonslopeztena
| Eric J. Savitz / Barron's Online: |
HP misses with Q3 revenue of $15.3B, up 7% YoY but below $15.9B estimates, Personal Systems revenue of $10.4B, flat YoY, Printing revenue of $4.9B, up 24% YoY — HP Inc. posted mixed results for its latest quarter, with better-than-expected profits offset by a substantial top-line miss …
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Wall Street Journal, HP - Home, ZDNet, Bloomberg, CNN, Dow Jones Newswires, Investing.com, and Yahoo Finance. Tweets: @barronsonline
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