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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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Sony faces a UK class action lawsuit, seeking up to £5B, over claims it breached competition laws by overcharging PlayStation customers, covering 8.9M gamers — Company is being sued over allegations it overcharged millions of customers — Sony PlayStation is being sued …
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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.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to begin manufacturing the iPhone 14 in India about two months after its release, shortening the production gap between India and China — 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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Sources: as Instacart plans an IPO, its Q2 revenue rose 39% YoY to $621M, orders increased 25% YoY to 60M+, and order volume rose 21% YoY to $7.1B — Grocery-delivery platform is one of the few Silicon Valley startups headed for a public listing soon — Instacart orders and revenue grew … | Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
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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| Monika Plaha / BBC: |
An investigation uncovered a now-deleted subreddit where users were sharing, trading, and selling explicit images and private details of women without consent — Women are facing threats and blackmail from a mob of anonymous strangers after their personal details, intimate photos and videos …
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| Reuters: |
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 …
Tweets: @reuters, @reuters, @thetwatrises, @styx666official, and @reuters
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
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
Tweets: @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, and @lorenzofb
| 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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