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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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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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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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| 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 … | 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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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, coming into effect on Jan. 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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| Michael Crider / Android Police: |
YouTube is testing letting Premium subscribers download videos from its desktop site through October 19 — Downloading content for playback later is most useful on mobile, where your connection quality is determined by your location. But there are plenty of us whose home connection isn't so great either … | David Pierce / Protocol: |
Read-later apps, pioneered by Instapaper and Pocket, are having a resurgence led by Matter, Upnext, and others, which improve discoverability and other features — The internet, as a reading experience, is mostly terrible. The heavy pages riddled with ads and trackers, the unexpected pop-ups …
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| 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 … | 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Biden plans to nominate Cornell law professor and cryptocurrency critic Saule Omarova to run the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — - OCC nominee Omarova favors shifting bank accounts to Fed — She would be first woman to serve as comptroller if confirmed| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Surface Laptop Studio, which starts at $1,600: new hinge offers three modes, under-device pedestal is strange, and screen is very nice — That's one way to put something on a pedestal — Alongside the new Surface Pro 8, Microsoft is introducing an all-new computer: the Surface Laptop Studio.| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Toast shares closed up 56% at $62.51 in its NYSE debut, giving it a market cap of $31B+, after raising ~$870M in its IPO — - Toast priced its IPO at $40 on Tuesday, above the expected price range of $34 to $36. — Annual recurring revenue surged 118% in the second quarter from a year earlier …
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| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Singapore-based Cobo, which provides crypto custody and financial services, raises $40M Series B co-led by DST Global, A&T Capital, and IMO Ventures — Cobo, a Singapore-based crypto asset management platform, raised a $40 million Series B to accelerate the development of decentralized finance as a service (DFaaS).| 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| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
A look at efforts to close the digital divide in states like Arkansas, as a Microsoft study finds around 120M Americans don't have access to high-speed internet — With help from Washington, the 120 million Americans without high-speed internet access have their best shot in a generation at getting it …
Tweets: @bw, @bw, @austincarr, and @austincarr
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Surface Duo 2 with 8.3" 90Hz dual displays, three 12MP rear cameras, Snapdragon 888, 5G, Android 11, curved screen for exterior notifications — 5G, better cameras, and bigger screens — Microsoft has officially announced the new Surface Duo 2, its second attempt at an Android-powered folding phone.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LG is acquiring Israeli startup Cybellum, which detects and assesses vulnerabilities in connected vehicles, for around $240M — LG Electronics, the Korean tech giant that once was a leading player in mobile phones but is now winding down that business, is making an acquisition that points … | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Iron Ox, an autonomous farming startup, raises $53M Series C led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, bringing its total raised to $98M — Iron Ox Inc., an automated farming startup from California, today announced it has raised $53 million in new funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Surface Pro 8 with a 13-inch edge-to-edge 120Hz display, Thunderbolt 4, Surface Slim Pen 2, up to 32GB of RAM, and more — The Surface Pro we've been waiting years for — Microsoft is announcing the Surface Pro 8 today, the biggest upgrade to its Intel-powered Surface Pro lineup since the Surface Pro 3 in 2014.
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