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SCOTUS blocks Texas' social media content moderation law in a 5-4 vote, putting the measure on hold while a constitutional challenge proceeds in a lower court — The US Supreme Court blocked a Texas law that critics say would fundamentally transform Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook …
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A group of 26 leading computer experts urge US lawmakers to resist crypto lobbying efforts, calling crypto financial instruments “risky, flawed, and unproven” — Computer scientists and academics target US lawmakers in effort to counter well-financed lobbying efforts
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| Bloomberg: |
Filings and holdings data at the end of April show Fidelity cut the valuation of Instacart by 50%, Reddit by 33%, ByteDance by 13%, and Stripe by 13% — Fidelity Investments cut valuations for several closely held technology companies, including social media platform Reddit and payment software provider Stripe.
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| Ariel Shapiro / The Verge: |
Podcasts hosted on Spotify-owned Megaphone were unavailable for over eight hours on Monday night and early Tuesday morning due to an expired SSL certificate — Podcasts hosted on Megaphone were unavailable on Spotify and other apps for eight hours — Podcast listeners could not access …
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Safari now has an estimated 1B+ users, making it the second browser to pass the milestone, behind Chrome's 3.37B+, but ahead of Edge's 212M+ and Firefox's 179M+ — Browsers can connect you to any place on the internet. It retrieves and renders data to show it nicely on your screen.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok is testing a “clear mode” feature with select users that removes usernames, captions, audio information, and more for distraction-free scrolling — TikTok is testing a new feature that would allow for a distraction-free scrolling experience on the app, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.
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| Financial Times: |
An investigation details NSO's severe financial troubles, after human rights groups documented Pegasus abuses, as executives weigh selling to risky clients — The inside story of the Pegasus spyware maker's perilous financial situation and its way ahead following US blacklisting
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Murena One, a privacy-focused $369 Android smartphone that replaces all Google apps and services with its own custom versions — /e/OS does a lot, but it can't fix the ecosystem — An Android phone without Google. No Google apps, no Google Play Services, no peppy Google Assistant.
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Sources: in a first, Apple will move some iPad production from China to Vietnam, after Shanghai's lockdowns disrupted production for months — TAIPEI — For the first time ever Apple is moving some iPad production out of China and shifting it to Vietnam after strict COVID lockdowns … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
A look at Discord's outsized role in crypto and Web3 communities, as the platform struggles with rampant spam, phishing attacks, scammers, and malware — Rampant spam, phishing attacks, scammers, and malware—Discord has a lot of challenges securing crypto projects. — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers told Microsoft on April 12 about an RCE Windows exploit active in the wild; Microsoft called the flaw critical on May 30 but still hasn't patched it — All supported versions of Windows affected. — A critical code execution zero-day in all supported versions of Windows …
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Microsoft Security …, BetaNews, BleepingComputer, Sophos News, Security Affairs, SiliconANGLE, Candid.Technology, Dark Reading, and SC Media
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Docs detail Russia's efforts to circumvent its own internet censorship, including 236 procurement contracts for VPN tech worth $9.8M since the Ukraine invasion — Russian VPN Spending Since the Invasion of Ukraine — The Russian Federal Treasury has published over 200 official procurement documents … Sponsor Posts
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