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Apple and Google remove jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's app that coordinated protest voting, bowing to Russian pressure on the eve of an election — The app, from the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, vanished from online stores as polls opened in the parliamentary election it was designed to sway.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google to bring an Android 11 feature that auto-resets permissions granted to apps that haven't been used in months, to phones running Android 6 and above — Resetting an app's permissions if it hasn't been used in a while — Android 11's auto-resetting permissions …
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Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines — Company documents show antivaccine activists undermined the CEO's ambition to support the rollout by flooding the site …
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| Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg: |
Sources: US probe into Binance expands to include CFTC's review of alleged insider trading and market manipulation, following criminal probes by DOJ and the IRS — - CFTC examining whether crypto exchange exploited customers — Binance has said it has strict policies to prevent misconduct
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Cameo launches Cameo Calls, a native experience in the app for fans to video chat with influencers and celebrities for up to 15 minutes — If you really want to video chat tonight with William Hung of retro American Idol fame... got twenty bucks to spare? Yesterday, Cameo launched …
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| Emily Olsen / MobiHealthNews: |
Report: Commure, which provides APIs for vendors and startups to build healthcare apps, raised $500M over two rounds of funding, valuing the company at $3.5B — Human Capital and Greenoaks Capital led the latest round, according to Insider's reporting. — Healthcare software company Commure … | New York Times: |
Recording from a global Apple all-hands shows Tim Cook addressed questions about pay equity and Texas' abortion law but some staff say they were disappointed — Hundreds of current and former Apple workers are complaining about their work environment, a rarity for the once tight-lipped company.
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| Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: |
Amazon says it has closed 3,000 seller accounts backed by about 600 Chinese brands for review fraud — The closures did not negatively impact the overall growth of Chinese online merchants on Amazon, according to a senior company executive Amazon kicked off an extensive clean-up campaign in May …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
GitLab files for a US IPO and says its revenue in the latest quarter grew 69% to $58.1M, while net losses grew to $40.2M from $9.4M a year ago — - GitLab, which was valued at $6 billion in a secondary share sale late last year, filed its IPO prospectus on Friday.
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
CEO of Exodus Intelligence, which provides info on 0-day bugs and tools to exploit them, says India used its Windows 0-day research to spy on China and Pakistan — A U.S. company's tech was abused by the Indian government, amidst warnings Americans are contributing to a spyware industry already under fire for being out of control.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
General Motors says it is building direct relationships with chip manufacturers to address shortages, following production halts at six assembly plants — General Motors Co (GM.N) Chief Executive Mary Barra said Friday the largest U.S. automaker plans to make changes in its supply chain … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Biden administration is preparing many actions to disrupt ransomware payments, including sanctions on some crypto wallets and exchanges next week — Biden administration hopes to disrupt digital finance infrastructure that facilitates ransomware cyberattacks, a threat traced to RussiaSponsor Posts
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