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Mark Zuckerberg Tells Joe Rogan That Running Facebook Sucks, Metaverse Is Better — “It's almost like everyday you wake up and you're punched in the stomach,” the billionaire CEO told Rogan. — Matthew Gault — On Thursday, two men famous for running gigantic platforms that host disinformation … | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
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Sources: the US DOJ is in the early stages of drafting a potential antitrust complaint against Apple but has not decided whether or when to sue the company — Justice Department lawyers are in the early stages of drafting a potential antitrust complaint against Apple, according to a person … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google brings back the original Google Duo icon and name as a shortcut to Google Meet in Android's app launcher, in an attempt to mitigate user confusion — In an amusing turn of events today that's most likely a bug, an update to Google Meet (which was previously the Duo app) on Android brings back the Google Duo icon.| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Twilio says hackers accessed the accounts of 93 users of its 2FA app Authy as part of its recent breach, effectively letting the attackers generate login codes — U.S. messaging giant Twilio has confirmed hackers also compromised the accounts of some Authy users as part of a wider breach of Twilio's systems.| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
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Nvidia says it is dealing with excess inventory of RTX 3000-series GPUs ahead of its next-gen RTX 4000 series release, signaling that the GPU shortage is over — Nvidia says that “excess inventory” is dragging down its balance sheet. — How quickly things change: A year ago … | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Netflix plans to charge $7-$9/month for its ad-supported tier in the US, with ~4 minutes of ads/hour, and may launch it in 2022 in a half dozen markets — Netflix Inc. is considering pricing its new advertising-supported tier at $7 to $9 a month, half as much as its current … | David Ingram / NBC News: |
California's AG says Sephora agreed to pay $1.2M for failing to tell customers that it was selling their data, marking the start of CCPA privacy law enforcement — SAN FRANCISCO — California has its first significant settlement under the state's sweeping online privacy law, and it's not with a tech company.| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Some Google staff say they are getting a lot of COVID-19 exposure notifications after returning to office; unvaccinated staff ask Google to drop vaccine mandate — - Google employees say they've been receiving a deluge of Covid exposure notifications since being asked to return to offices.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
IRCTC, which has a monopoly on online train ticket booking in India, scraps plans to monetize customer data following uproar when its plans were uncovered — Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), a state-run firm with a monopoly on online booking of train tickets … | Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
TikTok has cut jobs in its US advertising department as part of a restructuring, offering affected employees the chance to find roles in other units — TikTok has cut employees from its U.S. ad department as part of a restructuring of the unit, as the fast-growing social media app responds … | New York Times: |
US and China announce a deal to share audits of US-listed Chinese companies like Alibaba; US says it is preparing to begin audits in Hong Kong by mid-September — The agreement could prevent Chinese companies from having to depart U.S. stock exchanges, but U.S. officials remain wary of whether China will fulfill its terms.| Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
Jack Dorsey tweets that his “biggest regret” is that Twitter became a company, saying the service should be “a protocol” not owned by a state or another company — Twitter (TWTR.N) founder and former chief executive Jack Dorsey tweeted Thursday that he regrets the social media platform became a company.
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