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| Zach Baron / GQ: |
An interview and profile of Tim Cook on running Apple, succeeding Steve Jobs, being an outsider, creativity, avoiding smartphone addiction, rivals, and more — As Apple CEO, he has defied his skeptics and refashioned the world's most creative company on his own exacting terms.
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
After an uproar, the Arbitrum Foundation plans to break up a controversial governance package into separate votes, including on its 750M ARB token allocation — Arbitrum will hold a standalone vote on its 750 million token allocation. — Join the most important conversation in crypto …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Western Digital reports a network breach and says the hacker obtained internal data but the full scope is unknown; some systems are offline including My Cloud — Western Digital announced today that its network has been breached and an unauthorized party gained access to multiple company systems.
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Business Wire, TechCrunch, The Record, Security Affairs, Android Police, SiliconANGLE, HotHardware, Tech Monitor, Cybersecurity Dive, Reuters, PCMag, PetaPixel, Security Boulevard, Neowin, The Register, HackRead, SecurityWeek, The Hacker News, gHacks Technology News, Help Net Security, and TechRadar. Mastodon:
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
The Tor Project partners with VPN maker Mullvad to launch the Mullvad browser, available on Windows, macOS, and Linux, seeking to reduce a user's “fingerprint” — The Tor Project, the organization behind the anonymous network and browser, is helping launch a privacy-focused browser that's …
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PCMag, Tor Project blog, Mullvad VPN, Wired, gHacks Technology News, HackRead, and Slashdot
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@sethforprivacy, @mullvadnet, @mullvadnet, @mullvadnet, and @torproject
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google Search adds new travel features, including a “price guarantee” tool for flights and a way to browse hotels in a swipeable story format — Google announced today that it's introducing three new Search features to make it easier for users to research hotels …
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The Keyword, Android Authority, CNET, 9to5Google, Bloomberg, USA Today, Neowin, Techlusive, BigTechWire, and PhocusWire
| CNN: |
Source: soon after Pinduoduo's app updated to remove backdoor exploits, most of the team working on them was moved to work on Temu, which is a top app in the US — It is one of China's most popular shopping apps, selling clothing, groceries and just about everything else under the sun to more than 750 million users a month.
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BBC, InfoRiskToday.com, International Business Times, Techaeris, and Fox News
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@zichenwanghere, @dalperovitch, @bhaskark_la, @mrbcyber, @oneangryitguy, and @cnn
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Twitter updates the description of all blue checkmarks to say “This account is verified because it's subscribed to Twitter Blue or is a legacy verified account” — On Sunday, Twitter did something different: It updated the language in the description of verified users …
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The Verge, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Forbes, Phandroid, gHacks Technology News, Cointelegraph, Mashable, MakeUseOf, Engadget, Comic Book, Deadline, Techlusive, and Dexerto
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Larry Madowo. Mastodon:
@AnarchoNinaWrites …, @mimsical@mastodon.social, @mmasnick@mastodon.social, @webmink@meshed.cloud, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @lauren@mastodon …, @ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org, @mmasnick@mastodon.social, and @mmasnick@mastodon.social
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@robdenbleyker, @oalexanderdk, @mayavada, @hankgreen, @seanburkeshow, @timsweeneyepic, @jsamditis, @rufustsuperfly, @racheltobac, @chrismessina, @nirmaltv, @oalexanderdk, @kevinokeefe, @kenklippenstein, @wongmjane, @samuelaadams, @getwired, @cwarzel, @hasanthehun, @mc_of_a, and @mountain_goats
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
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@elonmusk, @elonmusk, @mattbinder, @cb_doge, @nicoleperlroth, @mattbinder, @shayan86, @micsolana, @elonmusk, @washingtonpost, @isabelledotjpeg, @oliverdarcy, @mattyglesias, @ruthbenghiat, @robtornoe, @drewharwell, @kenroth, @genepark, @donmoyn, @loudmouthjulia, @wongmjane, @mollyjongfast, @notabigjerk, and @wilson__valdez
| Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance: |
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@Green_Footballs … and @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
| Bloomberg: |
One year after Rishi Sunak pledged to make the UK a crypto-friendly hub, UK crypto executives say banks are increasingly unwilling to support crypto companies — Edouard Daunizeau's crypto company SavingBlocks has an office in East London's technology hub and more than 200 customers testing its services.
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Cointelegraph, Inside Bitcoins, Bitcoinist.com, Decrypt, Crypto Daily, Blockworks, crypto.news, CryptoPotato, CryptoGlobe, and PYMNTS.com
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@emilyjnicolle, @ingridlunden, @smdiehl, and @smtuffy
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
In a referendum, 89% of Parisians voted against keeping shared e-scooters in the city; Lime, Dott, and Tier will have to pull their fleets out by September 1 — In a major blow to shared micromobility companies Lime, Dott and Tier, Paris has voted to ban rental e-scooters from their streets.
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LinkedIn:
Hedi Mardisoo. Tweets:
@populismupdates, @news_by_nick, @catherine_lucey, @parismarx, and @ryangirdusky
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Unlike modern capable-but-boring laptops, Framework's repairable, sustainable, and upgradeable models are exciting, reminiscent of the early 2000s computing era — It's not often that I get too excited about new laptops these days. Modern laptops are extremely capable devices, with few glaring flaws.| Financial Times: |
Comparing OpenAI's ChatGPT, for in-depth replies, and Google's Bard, for natural dialog, on summarizing an article, telling a joke, picking stocks, and more — We ask the generative AI systems from OpenAI and Google to pick stocks, tell jokes and imagine the Xi-Putin summit| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Documents: Google is reducing fitness classes, tape, staplers, and the frequency of laptop replacements, with non-engineers getting Chromebooks by default — - In a rare companywide memo from CFO Ruth Porat, Google kicked off “multi-year” employee service cuts.Sponsor Posts
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