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A detailed look at how Facebook and Instagram for iOS open links with a custom in-app browser, letting Meta track every interaction including entering passwords — The iOS Instagram and Facebook app render all third party links and ads within their app using a custom in-app browser.
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Google agrees to pay $42.7M to settle a court case with Australia's ACCC over misleading some Android users about the collection of personal location data — The tech giant kept track of some Android phone owners even when their location history was set to ‘off’
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn rolls out new features to court creators, including a clickable link on images and videos, text post templates, and the option to mix images and videos — LinkedIn announced today that it's rolling out new features for creators that are designed to make it easier to share visual content on the social network.
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| Andrew Rummer / The Block: |
Dutch authorities arrest a suspected Tornado Cash developer in Amsterdam, two days after the US sanctioned the crypto mixing service — - Dutch authorities arrested a developer suspected of involvement in Tornado Cash on Wednesday, two days after the US government sanctioned the crypto mixing service.
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| Bloomberg: |
Samsung's Jay Y. Lee, who spent 18 months in prison for bribery, wins a pardon from South Korea's President, letting him regain his company leadership role — Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee won a presidential pardon from graft charges, allowing him to formally take the helm …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google appears to be testing letting users launch cloud games from Stadia, Amazon's Luna, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Nvidia's GeForce Now from search results — See where you can play games instantly, then do so — Friction is the mind-killer when it comes to cloud gaming.
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| Sarah Donaldson / Wall Street Journal: |
A California bill targeting social media companies for features that could addict minors dies in legislature, after Meta, Twitter, and Snap lobbied against it — Measure, which would have allowed lawsuits against companies like Facebook, Snapchat and Tiktok for allegedly causing addiction, was killed without a public vote
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| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
Sources: SK Hynix plans to pick a US site for its chip packaging plant that would qualify for CHIPS Act funding by Q1 2023 and hit mass production by 2025-2026 — South Korea's SK Hynix aims to select a U.S. site for its advanced chip packaging plant and break ground there around the first quarter …
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| Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg: |
Some companies are hiring B2B influencers, mostly on LinkedIn, to pitch to other companies; LinkedIn says 11M+ users have enabled “creator mode” as of July 2022 — Bernard Marr, 49, who has degrees in business, engineering, and information technology, is interested in topics … | Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is telling its assemblers to make 90M of the newest iPhones, on par with last year, despite deteriorating projections for the smartphone market — Apple Inc. has asked suppliers to build at least as many of its next-generation iPhones this year as in 2021 …
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| Megha Paul / Tech.eu: |
Frankfurt-based AAA games studio Gunzilla Games has raised $46M led by Republic Capital and plans to handle in-game item trading using NFTs in an upcoming title — The German startup will use the new funding to build their new platform, GunZ, to enable players to own their in-game possessions
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| Jason Nelson / Decrypt: |
Mailchimp is suspending the accounts of crypto-related creators and media outlets, telling some that crypto content conflicts with its Acceptable Use Policy — The email marketing platform Mailchimp has been suspending the accounts of crypto-related content creators and media outlets this week.
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