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Apple delays the rollout of recently announced child safety features, says it will take more time to collect feedback from stakeholders and make improvements — Last month, Apple announced a handful of new child safety features that proved to be controversial, including CSAM detection features for iCloud Photos.
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| Carrie Mihalcik / CNET: |
#AppleToo publishes an open letter to Tim Cook, asking for transparent and fair compensation, reinvestigation of discrimination and harassment cases, and more — Among the requests in the open letter are transparent compensation and a reinvestigation of reports of discrimination and harassment.
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
GoDaddy says it gave Texas Right to Life, an abortion “whistleblower” website, 24 hours to find a new hosting provider before cutting off service — To protest Texas' new abortion law, activists said, they pranked a website set up by the state's largest anti-abortion group.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Texas Right to Life tip site went offline briefly before returning with new provider Digital Ocean, which also has rules against violating people's privacy — GoDaddy gave website “24 hours to move to a different provider.” — The Texas Right to Life group will have to find a new hosting provider …
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Facebook apologizes after its AI recommendation feature categorized a video of Black men as “about Primates”; Facebook disabled the feature and is investigating — Facebook called it “an unacceptable error.” The company has struggled with other issues related to race.
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Lyft and Uber say they will cover legal fees for drivers who are sued under Texas' new abortion law for transporting women to abortion clinics — - Lyft and Uber said Friday they would cover legal fees for drivers on their respective platforms who are sued under Texas' restrictive abortion law that went into effect this week.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Interview with Dom Hofmann on how and why he created Loot, the communities, creativity, and NFT speculation it spawned, and the future of the project — Loot (and Vine) creator Dom Hofmann on creating an open-source, decentralized game / financial asset / art project / metaverse (?)
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| Malique Morris / The Information: |
CB Insights: investment in e-commerce software startups reached $12.4B in H1 2021, up 51% from all of 2020, with investment in online payments startups up 172% — Spurred by record levels of online shopping, investors have rushed to back e-commerce software companies this year.| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Source: Google has temporarily locked an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts, as the Taliban seeks to acquire former officials' emails — Google has temporarily locked down an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts, according to a person familiar with the matter …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
NYU study: from Aug. 2020 to Jan. 2021, news publishers known for putting out misinfo got six times more engagement on Facebook than trustworthy news sources — Right-leaning pages also produce more misinformation, the forthcoming study found. — A new study of user behavior on Facebook around …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SEC has launched a probe into the developer behind Uniswap; Uniswap delisted dozens of stock offering tokens in July, citing regulatory pressure — SEC probe comes amid heightened scrutiny of fast-growing decentralized markets — WASHINGTON—The Securities and Exchange Commission …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Indian e-commerce retailer Snapdeal is considering an IPO in Mumbai that could raise about $400M and value the company at about $2.5B — - E-commerce platform could be valued at $2.5 billion in listing — Startup talking with advisers for potential offering as 2022
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| The Verge: |
Apple's updated rules allowing web signup links appear to apply only to apps that don't make much money for Apple, like Netflix and Spotify — It's for apps that don't make Apple any money anyways — While vocal app developers accused Apple last week of spinning a lawsuit settlement …
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