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Karissa Bell / Engadget:

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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Jane Croft / Financial Times:

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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Tom Warren / The Verge:

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.

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.

More: Tom's Hardware, VideoCardz.com, and SiliconANGLE

Tweets: @jeskillings and @bobodtech

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 …

More: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Engadget, International Business Times, AppleInsider, Pandaily, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, MacRumors, Reuters, Patently Apple, and Digital Trends

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 …

More: MacRumors, The Economic Times, Neowin, Livemint, Reuters, GSMArena.com, Firstpost Tech, and BGR India

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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

More: PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @berber_jin1, @trengriffin, and @wsj

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 …

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 …

Tweets: @joetidy, @ma_franks, @freda_wa11ace, @theasianfmnst, @womenreadwomen, @monikaplaha, @_jessicadavies, and @annolivarius

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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Sources: WH officials believe NYT's Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their upcoming book Regime Change

Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:

A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

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Manuel Baigorri / Bloomberg:

Bengaluru-based health care app Mojocare, which offers consultations and a marketplace for products, raised a $20.6M Series A led by B Capital

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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

Tweets: @ychernova, @jsadinolfi, @saraheneedleman, and @lisaabramowicz1

Jordan Novet / CNBC:

Zoom reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $1.1B, vs. $1.12B est., Enterprise customers up 18% YoY to 204.1K, and Q3 guidance below estimates; stock drops 8%+

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Brian Heater / TechCrunch:

Apple expands its Self Service Repair offerings to cover the M1 MacBook Air and M1 MacBook Pros; the repair kit is available to rent for $49

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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

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Bloomberg:

CB Insights: VCs invested $257M in crypto auditing and security companies in 2022 so far, up from $185M across 2021, following high-profile crypto bridge hacks

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

Computer Services, which offers payment processing and compliance tools, agrees to be acquired by Centerbridge and Bridgeport for $1.6B in cash

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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:

Ethereum's Merge will introduce new participants, called builders, who gather transactions to be sent for validation, potentially altering its power structure

More: PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @silvermanjacob, @olgakharif, and @olgakharif

Varsha Bansal / Wired:

Police in Delhi, India, who use facial recognition to identify protesters, say they consider 80%+ accuracy a “positive” match, raising concerns among activists

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Bloomberg:

Some neobanks have struggled to uphold lofty promises to consumers as VC funding in the sector declines and traditional banks improve their tech offerings

Kate Park / TechCrunch:

South Korean car-sharing startup Socar falls after its Seoul market debut, from ~$21 to $19.50, giving the company a ~$642M market cap

More: CoinDesk

Financial Times:

South Korean chipmakers, historically reluctant to take sides in the US-China rivalry, are tilting toward the US due to their dependence on Western IP and tech

Tweets: @jessefelder, @crsdavies, @shashidigital, @gerherbert1, and @adam_tooze

Richard Lawler / The Verge:

Twitter tests displaying a label on a user's profile that indicates if the user has verified their phone number, according to researcher Jane Manchun Wong

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Tweets: @marshacollier and @scobleizer

Lora Kolodny / CNBC:

Elon Musk says Tesla will raise the price of FSD from $12K to $15K in September when Tesla rolls out a new beta that lets drivers test features on public roads