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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says a virtual event, titled “Unleashed”, will be held on October 18 at 10am PT, where new MacBook Pros with M1X are expected — Apple today announced that it will be holding a special event on Monday, October 18 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple will likely cut its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by 10M units, due to shortage of Broadcom and Texas Instruments parts — Apple Inc. is likely to slash its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by as many as 10 million units because of prolonged chip shortages …
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TNW, Reuters, Livemint, Softpedia News, ZDNet, AppleInsider, MacRumors, MACお宝 …, Benzinga, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iThinkDifferent, iTnews, MarketWatch, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Barron's Online, TechRadar, phonearena.com, MacDailyNews, BBC, Pocketnow, iMore, The Verge, 9to5Mac, and Insider
Tweets: @htsfhickey and @davemcclure
| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
The Intercept publishes Facebook's secret blacklist of ~4,000 “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” that users are barred from speaking favorably about — To ward off accusations that it helps terrorists spread propaganda, Facebook has for many years barred users …
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| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase announces it will let users buy, sell, and showcase Ethereum-based NFTs by the end of the year — Coinbase is joining the non-fungible token (NFT) arms race. — The U.S. crypto exchange is launching “Coinbase NFT,” a marketplace that will allow its users to buy …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung announces its Galaxy Unpacked Part 2 event will be held virtually on October 20 at 7am PT — Who's left? — Samsung has just sent out invitations for an event it is holding online on Wednesday, October 20th at 7AM PT / 10AM ET. It's called “Galaxy Unpacked Part 2,” … | Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Stripe begins hiring a crypto team to “build the future of Web3 payments”, three years after ending bitcoin support — Payments company Stripe has begun assembling a crypto engineering team to chart its future in digital assets. — The team - described in LinkedIn posts and job listings …
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Bitcoin Magazine, Cointelegraph, cryptodaily.co.uk, Crypto Briefing, Decrypt, and The Block
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
1Password launches Psst!, which lets users share login credentials with just a link — Even those who don't have a 1Password account. — Password sharing in the workplace and at home is a common practice, but doing so securely can be tricky. 1Password aims to address that with its new feature …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Waze announces a “Drive with Headspace” feature, letting users choose from five “moods” and an accompanying custom Spotify playlist with content from Headspace — Daily commutes to the office can be exhausting and, depending on the amount of traffic you're dealing with, very stressful.
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Digital Trends, Android Headlines, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, MSPoweruser, Engadget, and MobileSyrup. Tweets: @glassruss
| Ellen Cushing / The Atlantic: |
Slack has changed corporate culture, acting as a Trojan horse that flattens the communication hierarchy, largely to the benefit of employees — In 2014, the executives at a brand-new start-up called Andela made a decision whose consequences they would only understand much later.
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One Degree. Tweets: @beccarosen, @patcaldwell, @paulbisceglio, @bernstein, @theatlantic, @yappelbaum, @andersen, @tomgara, @dkthomp, @timothynoah1, @johnghendy, @tabir, @cwarzel, @kantrowitz, and @caseynewton
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Atomic, which offers payroll APIs for consumers to connect their income to services such as neobanks, raises a $22M Series A led by Innovation Capital — Fintech startup Atomic announced this morning that it has closed a $22 million Series A. Core Innovation Capital led the round, which saw participation from preceding investors.| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
Frances Haugen's lawyer says the SEC has been communicating with her lawyers, but experts say her allegations don't resemble a typical securities fraud case — Whistleblower allegations don't resemble a typical securities-fraud case, but the pressure to investigate is strong
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Washington Post, Input, The Hill, and OneZero
Tweets: @franceshaugen, @donie, @jason_kint, @fightextremism, @wexler, @omidyarnetwork, @anupamchander, @senblumenthal, @davidamichaels, and @paulwsj
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Microsoft says it mitigated a 2.4Tbps DDoS attack on an Azure customer at the end of August, breaking AWS' record of mitigating a 2.3Tbps attack in Feb. 2020 — Microsoft said its Azure cloud service mitigated a 2.4 terabytes per second (Tbps) distributed denial of service attack this year …
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Azure Cloud Computing Services. More:
The Register, The Verge, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, MobileSyrup, WeLiveSecurity, TechSpot, The Hacker News, HackRead, MUO, OnMSFT.com, WinBuzzer, SecurityWeek, MSPoweruser, Windows Central, cybernews.com, Security Affairs, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @profwoodward, @tomwarren, @da_667, and @campuscodi
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Mexico City-based buy now, pay later startup Nelo raises a $20M Series A led by Two Sigma Ventures and says it's used by over 100 merchants — Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has been making headlines all over the place this year — from Square's planned acquisition of Afterpay to Affirm going public.| Julie Weed / New York Times: |
In 2020, the Seattle region was the top US market for large office space leased by tech companies, due in part to a deep talent pool and undeveloped land — Despite an overall decline in office leasing in the United States, technology companies gobbled up more space in the Seattle area than they had the previous year.
Tweets: @nytimes, @nytimestech, and @stevecase
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
FourFront, a startup creating fictional storylines with actors on TikTok, says it aims to build an interconnected TikTok “universe” and has raised a $1.5M seed — Every popular social media platform has opened up a new type of storytelling to a new generation of users …
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Fast Company, Insider, and New York Post
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