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Google announces an in-person Pixel hardware event for October 6 at 10am ET in Brooklyn, where the company will detail the Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, and Pixel Watch — Google this morning announced that it will be hosting its Pixel hardware event on Thursday, October 6.
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google confirms the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro will run on a new “Tensor G2” SoC — Ahead of October's Pixel 7 launch event, Google has confirmed that their next series of phone will run on the second-generation “Tensor G2” chip. — Last year, the “Google Tensor” …
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Meta announces its Connect conference will be held virtually on October 11, when it is expected to debut its high-end Quest Pro standalone VR headset — Meta Connect is on for October 11th, 2022 as a one-day virtual event with announcements outlining the company's next steps in VR and AR.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
Signal appoints former Google manager Meredith Whittaker as its first president, to guide strategy, communications, and policy; she plans to focus on donations — Meredith Whittaker, the former Google manager, is Signal's first president. She is out to convince users to pay for the free app.| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the US with 600,000+ students, says a ransomware attack over the weekend disrupted its operations — The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack that is causing ongoing technical disruptions.
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Sources: amid lockdowns, Chinese staff and suppliers provided more complex work for the iPhone 14 than past models even as Apple tries to cut reliance on China — Apple is taking small steps toward India. But the production of its latest phone, set for introduction on Wednesday, shows how difficult it will be to make big changes.| Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
Tencent plans to invest €200M in Ubisoft to increase its direct stake from 4.5% to 9.99% at an implied €80 per share, alongside another €100M in the company — Tencent Holdings Ltd is set to more than double its stake in Ubisoft Entertainment SA, providing an injection of cash …
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| Peter Frontini / Reuters: |
Brazil orders Apple to stop selling iPhones without a charger and fines the company ~$2.38M, citing “deliberate” consumer discrimination; Apple plans to appeal — Brazil's government on Tuesday ordered Apple Inc (AAPL.O) to stop selling iPhones without a battery charger in the country …
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Tweets: @business, @cullend, @newsynick, and @mistrgill
| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
Internal memo: Instagram plans to eventually eliminate its existing Shopping page and will test a simpler and less personalized page over the next few months — Instagram is planning to drastically scale back its shopping features, the company told Instagram staffers on Tuesday …
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Tweets: @chrismessina, @sylviavarnham, @modestproposal1, @knowledge_vital, @mattnavarra, and @richlightshed
| Mark Bergen / The Verge: |
A book excerpt details how YouTube's love affair with PewDiePie soured in 2017, before he stopped pushing boundaries and signed a livestreaming deal in 2020 — The Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit focused on antisemitism, received an unusual invitation from YouTube in early 2017: come meet our biggest influencer.| Bloomberg: |
Twitter tells Judge McCormick that Peiter Zatko never raised spam concerns until he filed his whistleblower complaint and “started parroting” Musk's allegations — A lawyer for Twitter Inc. said a whistle-blower who claims the company responded inadequately to spam and bot accounts …
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The trial of former Uber Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan, over allegedly covering up a 2016 data breach and paying off the hackers, begins this week — Joe Sullivan, Uber's former chief of security, faces criminal charges for his handling of a 2016 security breach.
Tweets: @nicoleperlroth, @kashhill, @jtrevorhughes, @arekfurt, @josephmenn, @chasemadar, and @ericnewcomer
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google updates Chrome to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Mojo runtime libraries, its sixth Chrome zero-day patch in 2022 — Google has released Chrome 105.0.5195.102 for Windows, Mac, and Linux users to address a single high-severity security flaw … | Cindy Cohn / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Peter Eckersley, who worked at EFF for 12 years, including as its chief computer scientist, and founded the free Let's Encrypt certificate authority, dies at 43 — With deep sadness, EFF mourns the loss of our friend, the technologist, activist, and cybersecurity expert Peter Eckersley.
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| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
The US Department of Commerce releases its plan for dispensing the $50B CHIPS Act: ~$28B for grants and loans, $10B for expanded manufacturing, and $11B for R&D — The Commerce Department issued guidelines for companies angling to receive federal funding aimed at bolstering the domestic semiconductor industry.
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Tweets: @bobbyscott, @secraimondo, @tculpan, @scottlincicome, @secraimondo, and @jesselee46
| Lauren Hirsch / New York Times: |
CVS Health plans to acquire Signify Health, which offers analytics and tech to help 10,000 doctors provide in-home health care to 2.5M US patients, for ~$8B — The deal for Signify Health, which has a network of doctors who make home visits, would cement the drugstore chain's move away from its traditional roots.
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Tweets: @stacyfmitchell and @saralsirota
| Politico: |
Russia is scrambling to buy semiconductors, transformers, transistors, and other tech parts for weapons, many of which are sanctioned, for its Ukraine war — It's the microchips that look set to get Vladimir Putin in the end. Six months into its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is being throttled …
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Chinese government tenders show research institutions, such as Tsinghua University, rely on Nvidia's and AMD's AI chips, whose export the US has now restricted — High-profile universities and state-run research institutes in China have been relying on a U.S. computing chip to power … Sponsor Posts
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