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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iPhone 13 review: excellent cameras and battery life, more base storage, but front camera is unchanged, refresh rate is standard, and iPhone 12 cases don't fit — So are bigger cameras — What, really, do you want out of a new phone? — Assuming you're starting with a good foundation …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple iPhone 13 Pro review: incredible cameras, improved battery, and high refresh display, but front camera is average, no USB-C, and Cinematic Mode is limited — The iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max are phones designed for people who care about the details. The improvements over last year's iPhones …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: last month Zuckerberg agreed to show users positive stories about Facebook via News Feed; Facebook says it ran only a small test with labeled posts — Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, has signed off on an effort to show users pro-Facebook stories and to distance himself from scandals.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Facebook's Oversight Board wants the company to explain its “cross-check” system, which reportedly lets celebrities, politicians, and others break its rules — pushing Facebook to provide more information on its controversial “cross-check” system, following a report that the company …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Following WSJ's investigation series, Facebook says it has spent over $13B on safety and security since the 2016 election and 40K employees work on these issues — - Company now has more than 40,000 safety and security employees — Facebook responds after critical series of newspaper stories
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| Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal: |
Google says it will buy St. John's Terminal, a 1.3M square foot office building it is leasing on Manhattan's West Side, for $2.1B in Q1 2022 — Manhattan deal is priciest sale of a U.S. office building since pandemic began — Google said it is buying a Manhattan office building for $2.1 billion … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 15.1 beta lets users store their verifiable health records, including COVID-19 vaccination cards and test results, in the Health app — The iOS 15.1 beta that was introduced today allows iPhone users to upload their COVID-19 vaccination status to the Health app and then generate a vaccination card in Apple Wallet.
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Tweets: @mattcassinelli, @brandonbutch, @tylerg39, @julipuli, and @rklau
| Washington Post: |
Sources: FBI refrained from sharing a ransomware decryptor with businesses for almost three weeks, as it carried out an operation to disrupt the REvil gang — The FBI refrained for almost three weeks from helping to unlock the computers of hundreds of businesses and institutions hobbled …
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iTnews, CNET, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Security Boulevard, CRN, The Register, and The Hill
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
macOS is susceptible to running arbitrary code when a user opens a malicious .inetloc file, and Apple's first attempt to silently fix the issue failed — Security researchers disclosed today a new vulnerability in Apple's macOS Finder, which makes it possible for attackers to run arbitrary commands …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is working with UCLA and Biogen to identify depression, cognitive decline, and other issues using sensor data, such as typing behavior and sleep — Company is working with UCLA, Biogen to see if sensitive data like facial expressions, typing metrics could signal mental-health concerns
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| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Shareholders allege Facebook conditioned its $5B Cambridge Analytica settlement on the FTC dropping plans to sue and depose Zuckerberg — The company allegedly agreed to overpay on the original $106 million penalty so its CEO and COO could avoid deposition and personal liability.| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at Amazon's flagship BFI4 warehouse, located in Kent, WA and capable of processing over 1M items/day, which is run almost entirely by software — At BFI4 outside Seattle, the retailer uses algorithms and robots to ship more than a million packages a day—vastly changing the jobs of humans in the process.
Tweets: @mattmday
| Ari Notis / Kotaku: |
Blizzard's chief legal officer Claire Hart leaves Activision Blizzard amid a series of high-level departures — Claire Hart, who had been the company's top lawyer for three years, resigned Friday — Blizzard Entertainment's chief legal officer, Claire Hart, has resigned from the embattled company.
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PC Gamer, The Verge, The Register, dexerto.com, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Game Rant, GamesIndustry.biz, and GamingBolt. Tweets: @lucidshitposts
| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Facebook announces the Portal Go, a $199 10" portable device, and a new $349 Portal+ device with a 14" tilting display and stereo speakers, shipping October 19 — Facebook's Portal devices have proven surprisingly popular over the past year, largely due to the pandemic and our dependence on video calls.
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| Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard: |
Twitch and NMPA reach deal after tensions over takedown notices; sources: deal doesn't include music licenses, and Twitch will warn users before suspending them — Twitch and the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) have reached a long-awaited agreement focused on building …
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Variety, Game Developer, PC Gamer, Dot Esports, The Verge, GameSpot, and Tubefilter. Tweets: @devolore
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Treasury Department sanctions cryptocurrency exchange Suex for helping facilitate and launder transactions from at least eight ransomware variants — - The U.S. Treasury Department announced Tuesday it will sanction a cryptocurrency exchange for its alleged role in laundering ransoms for cyberattacks.
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| Corin Faife / The Markup: |
Analysis: Facebook appears to be adding code to interfere with automated data collection of News Feed posts by researchers, such as NYU's Ad Observatory — The tweak, which targets the code in accessibility features for visually impaired users, drew ire from researchers and those who monitor the platform
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Engadget. Tweets: @themarkup, @jared_w_smith, @juliaangwin, @justinhendrix, @anthony, @mattblaze, @themarkup, @hardin, @juliaangwin, @joeosborne, and @themarkup
| Ranjan Roy / Margins: |
How Reddit's business model change, hiring of COO Jen Wong, and UX tweaks after raising $200M in 2017 laid the foundations for this year's meme stock mania — “You may be interested in....” … Reddit is probably the social platform that has brought me the most uncomplicated joy over the past decade (Note 1).
Tweets: @ranjanxroy and @thekendallbaker
| James Rubin / CoinDesk: |
Blockdaemon, which offers blockchain staking infrastructure, raises $155M Series B led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $1.26B valuation — Blockdaemon has raised $155 million in a Series B capital round at a valuation of $1.3 billion, the provider of blockchain staking infrastructure said Tuesday.
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| Tory Newmyer / Washington Post: |
SEC's Gary Gensler says stablecoins are a risk to consumers, like “poker chips at the casino”, and equates crypto boom to “wildcat banking” in the 1830s — The top Wall Street regulator described the digital assets frequently pegged to the U.S. dollar as a danger to consumers
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Source: ahead of its NYSE debut, Toast prices its IPO at $40 per share, above its original $30-$33 range, which would give it a market cap of ~$20B — - Toast priced its IPO at $40 a share, after previously raising its price range to as high as $36. — The company, which sells technology … | Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Genesis Digital Assets raises $431M led by Paradigm with NYDIG and FTX among investors, to expand its bitcoin mining in North America and the Nordic region — Paradigm led the funding round, which included other venture heavyweights. — Genesis Digital Assets raised $431 million to expand …
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The Block, GlobeNewswire News Room, and Bitcoin Magazine
| Freedom House: |
Report finds global internet freedom has declined for the 11th consecutive year including in the US, tech giants clashed with governments over data, and more — In the high-stakes battle between states and technology companies, the rights of internet users have become the main casualties.
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Washington Post, Freedom House, and The Guardian
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| Harry Baker / UploadVR: |
Netflix releases Eden Unearthed, a free VR game for Oculus Quest that appears to be related to a Netflix anime series — Netflix has released a VR game called Eden Unearthed on App Lab for Oculus Quest, available now for free. — The release has come as a surprise, with very little … | Andrius Sytas / Reuters: |
Lithuanian government recommends ditching Chinese phones after finding Xiaomi devices with censorship capabilities that can be activated remotely — Lithuania's Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones … | AlleyWatch: |
Pager, a virtual healthcare platform for helping patients from initial triage to follow-up care, raises $70M Series C, as a mix of equity and debt — The pandemic has defined the future of virtual healthcare as the importance of providing unfettered access to essential healthcare services grew dramatically …
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| Garrison Wells / FierceHealthcare: |
eVisit, a SaaS startup helping hospitals and health care systems provide telehealth services, raises $45M Series B led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management — eVisit has closed on $45 million in Series B financing that it plans to use to expand its virtual care platform for large health systems.
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