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A Facebook user shares a video of an alleged “Meta Quest Pro” VR headset, claiming Meta left the device, labeled “engineering sample”, in a hotel room — A prototype of Meta's VR headset has surfaced — Images and, later, a video of a “Meta Quest Pro” virtual reality …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: the US government plans more curbs on US shipments to China of chipmaking tools and chips for AI, affecting Lam Research, Applied Materials, and others — The Biden administration plans next month to broaden curbs on U.S shipments to China of semiconductors used for artificial intelligence …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers discover Shikitega, a strain of Linux malware that uses polymorphic encoding and abuses legitimate cloud services to infect servers and IoT devices — With polymorphic encoding and a multistage infection chain, Shikitega is hard to detect. — Researchers this week unveiled …
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| Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Binance-linked crypto exchange WazirX says India's Enforcement Directorate has “unfrozen” or restarted its bank account; the ED raided its office on August 5 — The account was frozen in relation to the “illegal loan apps” scam investigation, which has come under the national spotlight.
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| Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes: |
At Code, CEOs and politicians voiced concerns about TikTok's power, rapid growth, and surveillance potential, as some called for the app to be banned altogether — At the Code Conference in LA, tech and media CEOs and politicians all expressed concerns about the Chinese-owned app — as a competitor, and as a national security risk.
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Report: ransomware gangs are using intermittent encryption, where files are partly encrypted, to evade detection tools looking for intense file I/O operations — A growing number of ransomware groups are adopting a new tactic that helps them encrypt their victims' systems faster while reducing … | Manya Saini / Reuters: |
The US SEC plans to add an Office of Crypto Assets to review company filings involving crypto assets, providing “greater and more specialized support” — The U.S. securities regulator will set up two new offices to deal with filings related to crypto assets and the life sciences sector, the agency said on Friday.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Starbucks announces Starbucks Odyssey, a loyalty program and NFT community built on the Polygon blockchain, launching broadly sometime in 2023 — Starbucks is today officially introducing Starbucks Odyssey, launching later this year — the coffee chain's first foray into building with web3 technology.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Amazon is projected to spend ~$15B on programming including sports in 2022, ahead of Netflix's $13.6B, Disney+'s $9.5B, and Apple's $6B — Good afternoon from Los Angeles. I am headed to Singapore and Seoul at the end of the month. If there is anyone I should meet while I am there …
Tweets: @lucas_shaw, @lucas_shaw, and @astaniscia86
| Nicholas Megaw / Financial Times: |
Wall Street firms are gaining ground in the talent war as hiring freezes impact Silicon Valley and computer engineers move from big tech and crypto to finance — Computer engineers are returning to finance after a reversal of fortune in the war for talent — After years of fighting …
Tweets: @hkanji and @carlquintanilla
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
In an interview, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan details the company's decision to rebrand Zoom Chat as Team Chat, seeking to better compete with Slack, Teams, and others — It's nice to be synonymous with a product category. But Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says that expanding on its video-calling ubiquity is both an opportunity and a challenge.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku updates its $30 Roku Express streaming player, launches the $130 Roku Wireless Bass subwoofer, and details Roku OS 11.5, including a short-form content hub — Roku unveiled a software update to its streaming operating system — OS 11.5 — that among other features will introduce …
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