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CFTC fines blockchain protocol bZeroX and its team $250K for illegal off-exchange digital asset trading and files a civil action against its successor, Ooki Dao — The commission said bZeroX offered illegal, off-exchange trading of digital assets, and has also filed a civil action against the Ooki Dao.
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Apple signs a multiyear NFL deal to have Apple Music replace Pepsi as the main sponsor for the Super Bowl halftime show; sources say the NFL was seeking ~$50M — Apple's pursuit of an N.F.L. media package has broadened to include a sponsorship of one of TV's most-watched events.
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Apple releases iOS 16.0.2 to fix repeated copy and paste prompts, a bug that caused cameras in iPhone 14 Pro models to shake in some third-party apps, and more — Apple today released iOS 16..2, addressing a number of bugs that iPhone 14 owners have been experiencing since …
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| Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired: |
A look at anti-pornography “accountability apps” used by churches and parents; two apps exploited Android's accessibility permissions to track users' every move — Churches are using invasive phone-monitoring tech to discourage “sinful” behavior. Some software is seeing more than congregants realize.
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
London-based Hadean, which helps game developers scale their infrastructure to support multiplayer, raised a $30M Series A led by Molten Ventures — Hadean, a U.K.-based distributed, spatial computing startup that's setting out to build the infrastructure for the burgeoning metaverse …
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An investigation based on nearly 160K Roskomnadzor documents details Russia's expansive surveillance and censorship apparatus, which helps Putin maintain power — Four days into the war in Ukraine, Russia's expansive surveillance and censorship apparatus was already hard at work.
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| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
In 70+ lawsuits against Meta, Snap, TikTok, and Google, parents are making product liability claims, blaming algorithms for kids' mental health issues, and more — A 16-year-old girl in Utah becomes so obsessed with her body image after getting hooked on Instagram that she develops anorexia and bulimia.
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| TechCrunch: |
Twitter informs some users that due to a bug, the company didn't close all of their active logged-in sessions on Android and iOS after their password was reset — Weeks after Twitter's ex-security chief accused the company of cybersecurity mismanagement, Twitter has now informed its users …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Fitbit plans to require a Google account for its new devices and features starting in 2023; Fitbit account users can keep using them “until at least early 2025” — With the launch of Fitbit's latest devices, “Fitbit by Google” branding was introduced.| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he's confident regulators will approve the company's $69B Activision Blizzard purchase, citing several recent Sony acquisitions — Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said he's confident the company can gain regulatory approval …
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| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Some civil rights groups say they have seen little action from Meta, Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube to bolster election policies ahead of the 2022 US midterms — For months, civil rights groups have unsuccessfully pleaded with Big Tech companies to bolster their election policies| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Ookla says global download and upload speeds for SpaceX's Starlink dropped from Q1 2022 to Q2 2022, amid network congestion problems due to soaring popularity — Median download speeds for Starlink users in the US reached only 62.53Mbps during the second quarter, a significant decrease from 90.55Mbps in Q1, according to Ookla.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with AOL founder Steve Case on his prediction that tech companies will flourish in the US heartland, the current investment slowdown, J.D. Vance, and more — Steve Case, founder of AOL, predicts the dominance of tech companies on the coasts will give way to a flourishing of startups from smaller cities.
Tweets: @joemckendrick, @stevenlevy, and @tedleonsis
| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba Cloud, the third-largest public cloud provider with an estimated 9.5% market share in 2021, commits $1B to boost overseas alliances over three years — Alibaba is known for its sprawling e-commerce empire, but like Amazon, cloud service has been a big driver of its revenues in recent years.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
DocuSign hires Google executive Allan Thygesen as CEO, starting on October 10; Dan Springer, the company's CEO for the past five years, stepped down in June — DocuSign shares rose almost 5% in extended trading after the electronic signature software maker announced it has hired an Alphabet executive …
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DocuSign, Inc., Investor's Business Daily, Benzinga, MarketWatch, SiliconANGLE, Silicon Valley Business …, TechCrunch, and LinkedIn. Tweets: @mhbergen. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
A look at the quiet success of AirPods, of which Apple sold an estimated ~120M pairs in 2021, showing how big a business its upcoming niche VR headset could be — Sometime next year, Tim Cook will appear before the Apple Inc. faithful and unveil the company's next major computing platform …
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