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Senators grilled Facebook exec Antigone Davis at a hearing about Instagram's impact on teens and were frustrated by her reticence to answer questions directly — Last night, Facebook published two annotated slide decks in an attempt to contextualize the documents that the Wall Street Journal published …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft details Office 2021 features and pricing ahead of Oct. 5 release: Office Home and Student will cost $150 and Office Home and Business will cost $250 — Microsoft is launching Office 2021 on October 5th, and the company is finally detailing the features and pricing today.
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| Matt Novak / Gizmodo: |
Slack says the service is down for many users worldwide since late Thursday afternoon due to a DNS issue — The workplace messaging app might not be restored until 5 p.m. ET on Friday for some people. — Alerts — It's not just you. Slack has been down for many people worldwide since …
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Clubhouse announces several features, including Clips, letting listeners snip 30 seconds of audio, and Replay, which lets hosts record a room — Clubhouse announced today that it is unveiling four new features: Clips, Replay, Universal Search and spatial audio for Android (which already exists on iOS).
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
A look at the rise of employee dissent at Apple, including pushback against returning to the office, fighting for pay equity, and increasing leaks — On June 14th, 2021, Apple's remote work advocacy group sent an anonymous email to Tim Cook. — “We all agree that we are here at Apple …
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A look at the $12B location data industry, including how collectors, aggregators, and marketplaces monetize user data — A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people's movements — Companies that you likely have never heard of are hawking access to the location history on your mobile phone.| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Founder of DeFi staking protocol Compound begs and issues threats to users, asking them to voluntarily return $90M after mistakenly sending them the money — - About $90 million has mistakenly gone out to users of popular DeFi staking protocol Compound and the founder is begging users to voluntary return the tokens.
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Zoom says it no longer plans to acquire cloud-based call center software maker Five9, following the FCC's review of the $14.7B deal on national security grounds — - Zoom's attempted acquisition of cloud contact center software maker failed to win sufficient approval from Five9 shareholders.
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South Korean ISP sues Netflix over costs for traffic surge from hit shows, after a court said Netflix should “reasonably” pay ISPs for network usage — South Korean Internet service provider SK Broadband has sued Netflix (NFLX.O) to pay for costs from increased network traffic … | Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
TikTok launches Top Moments, an NFT collection featuring six “culturally significant TikTok videos” from creators including Lil Nas X — TikTok is launching a non-fungible token (NFT) collection that will see its top content creators partner with top NFT creators.
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Retailer Neiman Marcus says it notified 4.6M customers that their personal info, including credit card numbers, may have been exposed in a May 2020 data breach — The retailer told 4.6 million customers their personal information including names and credit card data may have been affected
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| Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: |
Facebook to update pre-campaign audience estimates to be less specific, showing a range instead of a number, after backlash for overestimating audience numbers — Pre-campaign reach estimates on Facebook are about to get less precise - on purpose. — In the coming weeks … Sponsor Posts
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