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| Katie Collins / CNET: |
The EU toughens its disinformation Code of Practice, covering deepfakes, bots, fake accounts, and more; Meta, Google, TikTok, Twitter, and others have signed up — Katie Collins — Katie a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's European correspondent … | The Markup: |
Analysis: 33 of the top 100 US hospitals used the Meta Pixel tracker, sending data back to Facebook, including details about prescriptions and conditions — Experts say some hospitals' use of an ad tracking tool may violate a federal law protecting health information
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung merges its Pay and Pass apps to create Wallet, letting users organize ID cards, keys, and crypto, rolling out now — Bringing Samsung Pay and Pass under one roof — First, there was Samsung Wallet. Then it became Samsung Pay. Now, because time is a flat circle … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft patches the Follina Windows zero-day, which let hackers execute malicious PowerShell commands and had been exploited by state-backed actors — Microsoft has released security updates with the June 2022 cumulative Windows Updates to address a critical Windows zero-day vulnerability known … | Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Andy Jassy's first year as Amazon CEO, as he seeks to reverse some of Jeff Bezos' aggressive pandemic investments, close physical stores, and more — Amid one of the worst stretches for financial performance in Amazon's history, the new CEO is working to cut back the excesses …
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| Ed Smith / PCGamesN: |
Activision Blizzard says its internal review found that there is “no widespread harassment, or systemic harassment” at the company — Following a series of lawsuits, and claims of misconduct, an internal investigation by Activision concludes there is “no widespead harassment” - at Activision
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers find a link between Indian police and hackers who planted evidence in 2018 on the PCs of human rights activists jailed on terrorism charges — New details connect police in India to a plot to plant evidence on victims' computers that led to their arrest.
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Amnesty International and The Citizen Lab
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| CNN: |
Japan passes an amendment making “online insults” punishable by up to a year in prison, after the suicide of a reality TV star who had faced social media abuse — Tokyo (CNN)Japan's parliament on Monday passed legislation making “online insults” punishable by imprisonment amid …
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| Bloomberg: |
Some Ethereum miners express reservations about the planned shift to a proof-of-stake model, arguing it makes expensive mining equipment useless — The Ethereum mining community is a diverse bunch, geographically and demographically. There's a 28-year-old translator in Ukraine …
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| New York Times: |
A lawsuit and interviews show that up to 12 members and relatives of religious sect Fellowship of Friends worked at Google Developer Studio, which makes videos — A video producer claims he was fired after he complained that an obscure group based in the Sierra foothills dominated a business unit at Google.
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
A look at Twitter's research into its offensive content tweet pop-ups, resulting in a positive change in long-term behavior even though 69% still sent the tweet — This Is What Friction Looks Like — Twitter released some really interesting research last week regarding that sort …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
A summary of the apps that Apple “Sherlocked” at WWDC 2022, like Camo with Continuity Camera, Klarna with Apple Pay Later, and Pillbox with medication tracking — Apple introduced some amazing updates across iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS at the worldwide developer conference (WWDC) last week.| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
In occupied Ukraine, Russia is forcing multiple ISPs to reroute connections through Russian infrastructure, subjecting traffic to censorship and surveillance — In occupied Ukraine, people's internet is being routed to Russia—and subjected to its powerful censorship and surveillance machine.
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| Financial Times: |
China's tech crackdown, combined with a macroeconomic slowdown, has led to mass job cuts at its tech giants and record youth unemployment — Becky Sun has submitted her CV to 80 companies since being dismissed from a midsized Beijing internet group at the start of the year.
Tweets: @rwmcmorrow and @adam_tooze
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
TikTok is less transparent than US platforms about how long it keeps content deleted by users, as US law enforcement agencies increasingly seek to get such data — New! Follow this author to improve your content experience. Got it! … The FBI said it used cell-tower data earlier …
Tweets: @profwoodward, @elizabeth_joh, and @iblametom
| New York Times: |
Internal Kraken comms and interviews with five workers: some staff accuse CEO Jesse Powell of fostering a hateful workplace and dozens are considering quitting — Jesse Powell, who leads the crypto exchange Kraken, has challenged the use of preferred pronouns, debated who can use racial slurs and called American women “brainwashed.”
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Fortune, VICE, The Context, CoinDesk, The Block, Insider, The Verge, and Protocol
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Able, which lets banks and other lenders speed up the processing of documents and data required for commercial loans, comes out of stealth with a $20M Series A — Large banks are stepping up their game when it comes to new services and the technology that underpins them … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
AirSlate, which provides no-code tools for automating business processes, has raised $51.5M at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $185.3M — Proving that workflow automation is a robust sector, AirSlate, which provides no-code tools for automating business processes …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
eBay will launch eBay Live, an interactive live shopping service, in beta this month, starting with a livestream offering a selection of rare trading cards — eBay announced today that it's launching eBay Live, a dedicated shopping platform that gives users a way to purchase products in a live and interactive environment.| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: 50%+ of the areas covered by the FCC's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund had been fully or partially covered by at least one prior US broadband program — Flaws in government programs have left some residents behind — The U.S. government has spent billions of dollars on several rounds …
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