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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 …
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| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more — “It's almost like everyday you wake up and you're punched in the stomach,” the billionaire CEO told Rogan. — Matthew Gault
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| TIME: |
An interview with Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko; some current and former Twitter employees suggest some of his allegations are misleading or overblown — Peiter Zatko, the Twitter whistle-blower, is a black belt in jiu-jitsu. The day before his complaint against the social media company …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Kaspersky details how the North Korean APT Kimsuky is using a multi-stage validation scheme to ensure their malware is only downloaded by specific targets — The North Korean ‘Kimsuky’ threat actors are going to great lengths to ensure that their malicious payloads are only downloaded …
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| Reuters: |
Facebook agrees in principle to settle a lawsuit alleging it violated consumer privacy laws by sharing user data with 3rd parties, including Cambridge Analytica — Meta Platforms Inc's Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages … | 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.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Shuffles, Pinterest's invite-only collage-making iOS app that launched in late July, is going viral on TikTok; Sensor Tower estimates the app has ~338K installs — Collage-style video “mood boards” are going viral on TikTok — and so is the app making them possible.| 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 … | Daniel Alvarenga / Rolling Stone: |
El Salvador appears to be heading deeper into an economic crisis with funding sources drying up, one year after it adopted bitcoin as legal tender — It's been a year since El Salvador adopted bitcoin as currency — things are not going well — SIX DAYS BEFORE El Salvador's Bitcoin Law went into effect …
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| 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.| 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.
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