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Android 13 begins rolling out today to Google's Pixel phones, earlier in the year than the previous two Android annual updates — Google's major OS update is a little early this year — This year's major Android update, Android 13, is officially releasing today for Google's Pixel phones, the search giant has announced.
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a16z invests in Adam Neumann's residential real estate management startup Flow, sources say ~$350M at a $1B+ valuation, the firm's largest-ever individual check — WeWork's founder is back with a billion-dollar venture. — WeWork's founder is going residential
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple sets a return-to-office deadline for September 5; employees will come in Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third day determined by individual teams — Apple Inc. has set a Sept. 5 deadline for corporate employees to be in the office at least three days a week after delaying …
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| New York Times: |
A look at the rise of digital productivity monitoring for white collar jobs in the US, sometimes used to assign workers scores, determine pay, and more — Across industries and incomes, more employees are being tracked, recorded and ranked. What is gained, companies say, is efficiency and accountability.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Zoom pushes an update to fix a flaw, found by Patrick Wardle, in its Mac app's auto-update feature that could let attackers run code with root access — The flaw could let a hacker take over your system — Zoom has issued a patch for a bug on macOS that could allow a hacker to take control …
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| Bloomberg: |
A judge orders Twitter to give Elon Musk documents from a former Twitter executive Musk said was a key witness but denies Musk's similar request for 21 others — Twitter Inc. was ordered to hand over files from its former consumer product head to Elon Musk on spam and bot accounts the billionaire … | Reuters: |
Walmart partners with Paramount to include the $4.99/month ad-supported tier of the Paramount+ streaming service as part of its Walmart+ subscription — U.S. retailer Walmart Inc (WMT.N) on Monday struck a deal with Paramount Global (PARA.O) to offer Paramount+ streaming service to the subscribers …
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| Lucy Harley-McKeown / The Block: |
Galaxy Digital terminates its $1.2B acquisition of crypto custodian BitGo, announced in May 2021, after the service failed to provide audited statements — - Galaxy Digital announced on Monday that it would terminate its deal with crypto custodian BitGo, which had been announced in May 2021.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has laid off about 100 recruiter contractors in a rare move in the past week as part of a push to rein in hiring and spending — Apple Inc. laid off many of its contract-based recruiters in the past week, part of a push to rein in the tech giant's hiring and spending, according to people with knowledge of the matter.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Snap says its Snapchat+ subscription, launched in June, now has 1M+ users globally and adds features, including priority Story replies to celebs — It's not going to make much of a dent to offset Snap's stalling ad business, but the company is touting that it has signed up more than 1 million subscribers …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
TikTok rolls out a text-to-image “AI greenscreen”, letting users create a basic background for videos from a text prompt — The app's ‘AI greenscreen’ filter shows text-to-image has gone mainstream — Text-to-image AI systems are booming in both ability and popularity right now …
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| Antoine Gara / Financial Times: |
Filing: Elliott Management sold all of its 10M shares in Twitter in Q2 amid Musk's takeover bid; the hedge fund had no common stock in Twitter as of June 30 — Activist investor held 10mn shares as they rallied on news of Tesla founder's $44bn takeover — The activist hedge fund Elliott …
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