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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
YouTube says it is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and blocking all anti-vax content, not just about COVID-19 vaccines — The Google-owned video site previously only banned misinformation about coronavirus vaccines. Facebook made the same change months ago.
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| Reuters: |
Russia arrests Ilya Sachkov, the CEO of cybersecurity company Group-IB, on suspicion of treason and will hold him in custody for two months — Russia has arrested Ilya Sachkov, the chief executive of top Russian cybersecurity company Group IB, on suspicion of state treason and will hold …
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Group-IB, CyberScoop, TechCrunch, Forbes, TASS, Financial Times, The Moscow Times, The Record, Cyberwar Liveuamap, and Bloomberg
| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Internal docs detail Amazon's Astro, including its use of facial recognition and “Sentry” mode; sources who worked on Astro say it is a “privacy nightmare” — Leaked meetings show the robot will heavily rely on facial recognition and user behavior, but sources who worked on Astro say the robot is flawed.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Apple says the “jelly scroll” issue on the 6th-gen iPad mini is normal for LCD screens; the issue isn't noticeable on other latest iPad models with LCD screens — Apple says the issue is caused by normal LCD screen behavior. — Update, 9/28/2021: In response to our inquiry …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Netflix acquires its first game studio, Night School Studio, which was founded by Sean Krankel and Adam Hines in 2014 and is best known for the game Oxenfree — Netflix has acquired its first game studio with the acquisition of Oxenfree creator Night School Studio. The purchase price wasn't disclosed.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Researchers discover a malware operation that has infected 10M+ Android devices in 70+ countries via benign-looking apps, netting $1.5M-$4M per month — - Zimperium discovers GriftHorse, a new Android malware that subscribes users to premium SMS services. — The GriftHorse malware gang …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
AngelList launches AngelList Stack, a set of tools to help founders start and run their companies, including end-to-end incorporation and banking services — AngelList Stack is a new suite of workflow products for founders — AngelList this week launched AngelList Stack …
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AngelList Venture and AngelList Venture
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Internal docs: Facebook was “exploring playdates as a growth lever”, including engaging tweens as they hung out together — It has investigated how to engage young users in response to competition from Snapchat, TikTok; ‘Exploring playdates as a growth lever’
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| Krebs on Security: |
Researcher discloses AirTag Lost Mode vulnerability that enables a phishing attack, and says Apple spent three months investigating and refused basic questions — The new $30 Airtag tracking device from Apple has a feature that allows anyone who finds one of these tiny location beacons …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the FTC is considering strengthening online privacy protections, including for children, in an effort to bypass legislative logjams in Congress — Agency is looking at strengthening rules that govern how digital businesses collect user data — WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission …
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Senate Commerce Committee, The Verge, and 9to5Mac
| TechCrunch: |
Andela, which trains African programmers to work remotely for US companies, raises $200M Series E led by Vision Fund 2 at a $1.5B valuation — Andela, a fully remote company that helps tech companies build remote engineering teams (initially from Africa but now a global market) …
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Wall Street Journal, FinSMEs, TechCabal, Andela, StreetInsider.com, and Rest of World. Tweets: @carnage4life
| Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: |
CFTC fines Kraken $1.25M for illegally offering margined crypto products from June 2020 to July 2021 and not registering as a futures commission merchant — “Margined, leveraged or financed digital asset trading offered to retail U.S. customers must occur on properly registered …
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| South China Morning Post: |
Chinese regulators jointly detail a three-year plan to regulate algorithms and hold companies accountable for misusing them, following draft rules from August — A three-year plan jointly published by nine central government bodies asks local authorities to regulate the use of algorithms … | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Cocoon, which offers a service to help companies and employees manage leave, raises $20M Series A led by Index Ventures — Employee leave benefits are a complicated web of company and government policies, and Cocoon is out to bring clarity and simplicity to both the employer and employee experience.
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| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Ripple Labs says it is starting a $250M fund for NFT creators, exploring new use cases and providing financial, creative, and technical support — - Mintable, mintNFT, VSA Partners will have access to the fund — Projects will be tokenized on the XRP Ledger blockchain| Cherie Hu / Water & Music: |
UK study: ~0.4% of artists generated enough streams in 2020, around 1M/month, to make a living, up from 0.1% in 2015, with 65%-75% of streams from back catalogs — This article is part of Extended Play, our new free weekly briefing built around contextualizing music-industry data.| Reuters: |
Sens. Blackburn and Blumenthal say a Facebook whistleblower will testify at an October 5 Senate hearing on child safety — Two U.S. senators said on Tuesday a Facebook Inc (FB.O) whistleblower will testify at a Senate hearing next week about what one of them called the social media company's “toxic effects” on young users.
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| Dalya Alberge / The Guardian: |
Analysis by Swiss AI company Art Recognition of 148 paintings suggests UK National Gallery's Samson and Delilah by Peter Paul Rubens, bought in 1980, is a fake — Long-held doubts about the authenticity of the National Gallery's masterpiece, bought for £2.5m in 1980, are backed by pioneering technology
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TNW, Telegraph, ARTnews.com, and Slashdot
Tweets: @apdox, @arthistorynews, and @smithsonianmag
| Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg: |
Affirm plans to debut a debit card and allow its customers to buy and sell crypto directly from Affirm savings accounts — - Customers will be able to buy, sell crypto including Bitcoin — 'We won't let you do crazy things,' Affirm's Levchin says — Affirm Holdings Inc. is planning … | Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
Filings: General Catalyst is aiming to raise up to $300M for a fund to buy sales contracts from tech startups, one of the first and largest funds to do so — One of Silicon Valley's largest venture capitalists gets into financial engineering — General Catalyst, one of the largest US venture capital firms …
Tweets: @jstrauss
| Annie Massa / Bloomberg: |
Investment and savings app Betterment raises $100M debt and $60M Series F at a ~$1.3B valuation led by Treasury and says it has around 700,000 clients — Betterment LLC has raised an additional $160 million, pushing the robo-adviser's market value to almost $1.3 billion.
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| Rachel Pannett / Washington Post: |
Russia threatens to block YouTube unless it restores two of RT's German-language channels that it banned for COVID-19 misinformation — Russia has threatened to block YouTube unless the Google-owned video service restores two German-language channels managed by Russia's state media company RT … | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Totango, which offers subscription tools to track and improve customer engagement, raises $100M Series D led by Great Hill Partners — Totango, a company that helps SaaS companies track customer engagement to find and fix user flow errors and friction, announced Wednesday that it has raised $100 million …
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Globes Online and CTech
| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
CNN restricts access to its Facebook Pages in Australia after a ruling that makes news organizations legally liable for comments on their Facebook posts — Company said it wants to avoid liability for user comments following Australian court ruling — CNN said it has restricted access …
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