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European Commission proposes legislation mandating USB-C charging for mobile devices, citing electronic waste; Apple is the main holdout from using USB-C — LONDON (AP) — The European Union unveiled plans Thursday that would require smartphone makers to adopt a single charging method for mobile devices.
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| Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: |
Sen. Marsha Blackburn says WSJ's Facebook Files whistleblower has turned over documents and plans to reveal their identity “at some point down the line” — Happy Thursday and welcome to The Technology 202! Below: Meet “Help Desk,” a new initiative our colleagues are launching …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
WSJ's Facebook Files, which uses Facebook's own data and research to highlight its impact on users, is Facebook's biggest crisis since Cambridge Analytica — How the company found itself in its biggest crisis since Cambridge Analytica — A week ago, the Wall Street Journal began to publish …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer says he will step down next year and shift into a part-time adviser role; Andrew Bosworth will become CTO — - Veteran executive ‘Schrep’ will shift to senior fellow role — Hardware boss Andrew Bosworth will be promoted to CTO role
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| Washington Post: |
Researchers: despite Apple's ATT changes, at least three popular iOS apps are sending identifying info to third-parties even when users opt-out of tracking — On your iPhone, you can now tap a button that says, “Ask app not to track.” But behind the scenes, some apps keep snooping anyway.
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| The Verge: |
Tim Sweeney says Apple told Epic that it will not consider reinstating Epic's developer account until all legal appeals have concluded, likely years from now — Epic CEO Tim Sweeney revealed the conversation in a series of tweets — Fortnite will not be returning to the iOS App Store any time soon …
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| Ben Bajarin / Creative Strategies: |
Analysis: Apple Silicon averaged 19% GPU gains YoY for the past five years, and A15 grew 52%; since iPhone 5s, performance has grown 133% every four years — For years now, Apple's tight integration of its products and Apple Silicon have evolved in lockstep.
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Leaked email: Tim Cook says recent leakers of info about Apple products and internal meetings “do not belong here” and the company is tracking them down — The CEO says the company is doing everything in its power to track down workers — Tim Cook sent an email …
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| Nandita Bose / Reuters: |
Draft memo shows the US and EU plan to work more closely in regulating Big Tech companies, including in areas such as hate speech and algorithmic amplification — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and European Union plan to take a more unified approach to limit the growing market power …
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Twitter plans to stop tweets from disappearing when the timeline auto-refreshes, in a series of updates over the next two months — address a longstanding complaint people have had with its mobile app. If you use the software frequently, you may have noticed tweets will sometimes disappear …
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| Jay Greene / Washington Post: |
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill requiring Amazon and other employers to disclose the use of productivity quotas and more, starting January 1 — Gov. Gavin Newsom says the new law, which targeted Amazon, will protect workers and give them “the dignity, respect and safety they deserve.”
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Industry groups representing Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter sue Texas over a law that lets residents sue social networks that ban them for their political views — Technology trade groups that represent Facebook, Google's YouTube and Twitter are suing Texas to stop a new state law that cracks …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Discord is testing Watch Together, a feature that lets members broadcast YouTube videos, after Google forced the shutdown of two popular music bots on Discord — Discord music returns, kind of — Discord is starting to test YouTube integration, just weeks after Google-owned YouTube forced two popular Discord music bots offline.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Researchers say an Exchange Autodiscover bug can be used to obtain Windows users' domain and app credentials; Microsoft is investigating — Security researchers have discovered a design flaw in a feature of the Microsoft Exchange email server that can be abused to harvest Windows domain and app credentials from users across the world.
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Despite passing a tough hate speech law, researchers say social networks in Germany are flooded with hate speech and harassment ahead of an election on Sept. 26 — Scrolling through her social media feed, Laura Dornheim is regularly stopped cold by a new blast of abuse aimed at her … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
New York-based Ocrolus, which offers automated tools for businesses to process documents, raises $80M Series C at a $500M+ valuation led by Fin VC — If you've ever had to take out a loan, you know just how many documents are involved in the approval process. — It's a lot.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Chinese AR glasses maker Nreal raises $100M, source says at a $700M valuation, to develop its Nreal Light glasses that connect with smartphones — - Chinese augmented reality (AR) glasses maker Nreal has raised $100 million to fund international expansion, valuing the company at $700 million.| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
Apple releases StoreKit 2 alongside iOS 15, letting developers quickly access a user's purchase history, letting users request a refund in-app, and more — Refunds and subscription management — As part of this week's launch of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and watchOS 8, Apple also introduced StoreKit 2 … | Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal: |
US federal judge orders Facebook to hand over records on posts removed for promoting violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar — Federal judge rules social-media company must hand over information about posts removed for promoting violence against Rohingya Muslims
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| Jack Kennedy / Silicon Republic: |
Chinese autonomous driving startup Momenta raises $300M from GM, following $500M Series C in March; Momenta has a license for detailed geographic data in China — US car giant General Motors (GM) is to invest $300m in Chinese self-driving start-up Momenta, Reuters has reported.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Facebook details the types of posts that get demoted in News Feed, such as clickbait and spam, but stops short of saying exactly how a demotion works — A high-level look at what gets suppressed by Facebook's algorithm — The way that Facebook controls its News Feed is often controversial and largely opaque to the outside world.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Remitly, which lets users send and receive money across borders, raises $300M+ in its IPO at a valuation of nearly $7B — Remitly will be valued at nearly $7 billion when it goes public on Thursday. — The Seattle company priced shares at $43 on Wednesday evening …
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| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
Poll of 2,016 US voters: 80% say the government should do “everything it can” to curb tech giants; 84% are “very nervous” about impact of social media on kids — Survey indicates broad support for stronger U.S. regulations over use of data, wariness of social media's effects on children| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Vyne, which works with merchants to build open banking payment services, raises $15.5M seed from Hearst and others — Open banking — a new approach to payments and other financial services that disrupts traditional card-based infrastructure by linking directly into banks — is having a moment.
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| James Spiro / CTech: |
Blue White Robotics, which “retrofits” existing farming infrastructure with autonomous systems, raises $37M Series B, bringing its total raised to $60M — The company ‘retrofits’ existing infrastructure in farming operations with autonomous algorithms
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FinSMEs, Globes Online, and Blue White Robotics
| Martha Muir / Financial Times: |
Researchers: as social networks clamp down on disinformation, Russia has begun spreading propaganda in comments sections on news outlets, such as Daily Mail — Online sites test new methods as social media platforms try to scrub their platforms of propagandaSponsor Posts
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