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Instagram is internally testing Candid Challenges, a BeReal-like feature that gives users two minutes to take and share a photo at a different time each day — Instagram is testing a new feature called Candid Challenges, which bears a striking resemblance to BeReal, a photo sharing app popular among …
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Microsoft is putting more ads in Outlook for iOS and Android for users of its free services; ads appear at the top of inbox and look like real emails — Free users can avoid most of them by using Focused Inbox — Microsoft has started putting more ads in Outlook mobile for iOS and Android in recent months.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Xiaolang Zhang, a former Apple employee accused of stealing Apple's car project trade secrets, pleads guilty and faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250K fine — - Xiaolang Zhang, a former Apple employee who was accused of stealing computer files with trade secrets about Apple's secretive car division … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Intel will bring “chiplet” packaging to its Meteor Lake chips in 2023 and Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake chips slated for 2024, to better compete with Apple silicon — For decades, you could test a computer chip's mettle by how small and tightly packed its electronic circuitry was.| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in Q2 Instacart's revenue rose 39% YoY to $621M, orders increased 25% YoY to 60M+, and order volume rose 21% YoY to $7.1B, as the company plans its IPO — Grocery-delivery platform is one of the few Silicon Valley startups headed for a public listing soon| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to begin manufacturing the iPhone 14 in India about two months after its China release, shortening the production gap between the two countries — Apple Inc. plans to begin manufacturing the iPhone 14 in India about two months after the product's initial release out of China …
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A look at video streaming sites thriving on misinformation and hate speech, such as BitChute, with 514M visits in 2021, and Odysee with 292M, per Similarweb — BitChute and Odysee serve up conspiracies, racism and graphic violence to millions of viewers. Taking advantage of Big Tech …
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Hands-on with Pretty Good Phone Privacy, a data service for Android that aims to give users an additional layer of privacy when using mobile phone networks — Pretty Good Phone Privacy, or PGPP, is a novel new system that attempts to separate your phone usage from your identity. — Joseph Cox
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
LockBit ransomware's leak sites suffer a DDoS attack after it claimed responsibility for breaching Entrust in June; LockBit blames Entrust for the DDoS attack — The LockBit ransomware operation's data leak sites have been shut down over the weekend due to a DDoS attack telling them to remove Entrust's allegedly stolen data.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
eBay plans to acquire online trading card marketplace TCGplayer for up to $295M; TCGplayer, which employs 600+, will operate independently — eBay is acquiring TCGplayer, an online marketplace for collectible trading card games, in a deal valued up to $295 million, the company announced on Monday.
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Elon Musk subpoenas former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, ahead of his trial with Twitter set to begin on October 17 in the Delaware Court of Chancery — Dorsey joins the battle — As Twitter and Elon Musk prepare for their October 17th trial date in the Delaware Court of Chancery to argue …
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| Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: |
Dealogic: the IPO market in 2022 is the lowest since 2009; companies have raised $5.1B in IPOs this year so far, compared to $100B+ at the same time last year — Inflation, rising interest rates and Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent shock waves through the stock market, putting a freeze on the IPO pipeline
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