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US sanctions four companies, including NSO Group, that sell spyware or hacking tools, adding them to a list of entities engaging in “malicious cyber activities” — The US government has sanctioned today four companies that develop and sell spyware and other hacking tools, the US Department of Commerce announced today.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram brings back support for Twitter card previews after removing the feature in 2012 — Instagram is bringing back support for Twitter Card previews starting today. Now when users share an Instagram link on Twitter, a preview of the post will be shown in the tweet.
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Protocol, MobileSyrup, XDA Developers, 9to5Mac, PetaPixel, TalkAndroid.com, and Mashable
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down on November 15; Thomas Dohmke, who became chief product officer in August, will take over as CEO — GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down from his role on November 15 to become the Chairman Emeritus of the Microsoft-owned service.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta announces new Facebook creator tools, including custom subscription links that use its native payments system to bypass Apple and Google's IAP cut — The change is specifically about circumventing Apple's 30 percent tax, according to Zuckerberg — Facebook has found a way to skirt Apple's 30 percent tax on in-app transactions.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
CISA creates a catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities, including in Apple and Google products, and orders federal agencies to patch within timeframes — The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has established today a public catalog of vulnerabilities known to be exploited …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
A look at the booming market for bots that steal 2FA codes, often using SMS services like Twilio, to break into Coinbase, Amazon, PayPal, and bank accounts — The bots convincingly and effortlessly help hackers break into Coinbase, Amazon, PayPal, and bank accounts. — Joseph Cox
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| New York Times: |
Google is aggressively pursuing a major cloud computing and AI contract with the Pentagon, three years after employee outcry ended similar work on Project Maven — Three years ago, the company walked away from a Defense Department project after employees objected to it.
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Coinbase confirms it is testing Coinbase One, a subscription service that internal docs show could feature zero trading fees and prioritized phone support — Quick Take — Coinbase is testing out a new subscription service, dubbed Coinbase One — The service would give users access to more features such as zero-fee trading
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| New York Times: |
Meta plans to shut down Facebook's decade-old facial recognition system this month, deleting the face scan data of 1B+ users following legal and regulatory woes — Saying it wants “to find the right balance” with the technology, the social network will delete the face scan data of more than one billion users.
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| Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: |
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
EA beats in Q2 with revenue of $1.83B vs. $1.75B est., net income of $294M, up from $185M YoY, net bookings of $1.85B vs. $910M in Q2 2020 — Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google News will return to Spain “early next year” following a change to Spain's copyright laws that will let Google negotiate fees with individual publishers — Spain has changed its copyright law in accordance with EU legislation — Who should get paid when big tech platforms aggregate news stories?
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, Techdirt, Search Engine Land, Engadget, Android Central, and CNET
Tweets: @mattbrittin, @lilyraynyc, @pedrodias, @googleeurope, and @googlenews
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Qualcomm Q4: revenue of $9.3B, up 43% YoY, net income of $2.9B, up 75%, chip revenue of $7.7B, up 56%, and FY 2021 revenue of $33.5B, up 55%; stock up 5%+ — The company saw solid revenue growth across handsets, RF front-end, IoT and automotive. — Qualcomm published better …
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Reuters, Bloomberg, Qualcomm, and Investing.com
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Take-Two Interactive Q2: revenue of $858.2M, up 2% YoY, net bookings of $984.9M, up 3%; GTA V has sold 155M+ copies and generated $6B+ in revenue since 2013 — Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.
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Bloomberg, GamesIndustry.biz, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, and Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.. Tweets: @shinobi602
| Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: |
A joint probe by Australia and UK's Information Commissioners finds Clearview AI collected data on 3B+ people by indiscriminately scraping info from the web — Despite uncovering Clearview AI's intrusive practices, Australia's Information Commissioner conceded that the number of Australians …
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Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. More:
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| Paulina Duran / Reuters: |
Australia's largest bank Commonwealth Bank to become the country's first to offer customers crypto services, including cryptocurrency trading via its app — Commonwealth Bank of Australia will become the country's first to offer retail clients crypto services, Australia's largest bank said on Wednesday …
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Tweets: @cbanewsroom, @commbank, @nytimesbusiness, @chainalysis, and @raphschoen
| Michael Bellusci / CoinDesk: |
CB Insights: global VC funding of crypto and blockchain hit a record $6.5B in Q3 across 286 deals; US startups raised $2.97B, followed by Asia with $1.4B — Global venture capital funding into cryptocurrency and blockchain reached an all-time high of $6.5 billion in the third quarter of 2021 … Thanks:@keithswiader
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Tencent announces cloud operating system Orca and three new chips, one each for AI, video processing, and high-performance networks — Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) touted progress in semiconductor chip development and investment on Wednesday, offering a rare public glimpse of its R&D initiatives.| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
The criminal group behind BlackMatter ransomware announces plans to shut down the operation, citing “pressure from the authorities” — The criminal group behind the BlackMatter ransomware have announced plans today to shut down their operation, citing pressure from local authorities.
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BleepingComputer, Security Affairs, HackRead, TechCrunch, cybernews.com, and Graham Cluley
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Roku misses with Q3 revenue of $680M vs. $683.4 est., up 51% YoY, 56.4M active accounts, up 23% YoY and 1.3M QoQ, 18B streaming hours, up 21%; stock down 8%+ — - In its shareholder letter, the company said the slowdown is a result of “global supply chain disruptions that have impacted the U.S. TV market.”
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Roku, ZDNet, Barron's Online, The Wrap, Deadline, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter
| Reuters: |
Chinese central bank official says some 140M people opened wallets for digital yuan as of October and used it for around $9.7B in transactions — Some 140 million people had opened “wallets” for China's new digital yuan as of October and used it for transactions totalling around 62 billion yuan …
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Bloomberg, Coinspeaker, Cointelegraph, and Crypto Briefing
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Notable, which makes RPA-based tools to speed up health care administrative tasks, raises a $100M Series B led by Iconiq Growth at a $600M valuation — Timing is everything in healthcare — yet too often diagnoses, treatments and procedures are held up by paperwork, administrative red tape between patients …
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| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Faze Technologies, which wants to launch a Cricket NFT marketplace and build “the metaverse for cricket”, raises a $17.4M seed led by Tiger Global — Tiger Global led a $17.4 million seed round for Faze Technologies, the company announced Wednesday.Sponsor Posts
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