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| Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
YouTube gives users a “don't recommend channel” option and a way to pick topics of interest for videos showing in Up Next or homepage, now on iOS and Android — No matter how advanced algorithms get, none will understand your YouTube viewing preferences better than you.
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YouTube Blog, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Android Police, XDA Developers, Adweek, SlashGear, Android Authority, The Verge, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and Thurrott
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
ARM confirms that its lead CPU and system architect, Mike Filippo, has joined Apple; Filippo's LinkedIn says he began work in May out of Austin, Texas — Multiple reports have indicated that Apple plans to transition to its own ARM-based processors in Macs starting as early as 2020 …
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Tweets: @elkmovie, @hkitago, @seldo, and @benbajarin
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Shopify says users can now message its 820K+ merchants through Apple's iMessage-based Business Chat service, and adds support for Apple Pay — Apple's Business Chat is no longer an exclusive club for big companies like the Four Seasons Hotel and Burberry. Cupertino is expanding the service …
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| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
San Francisco Pride says Google can still participate in parade after ~100 Googlers petitioned it to drop Google as a sponsor over handling of LGBTQ+ issues — Almost 100 Google employees are urging the organizer of this weekend's San Francisco Pride parade to kick the company out of the celebration …
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Ban Google From Pride, Engadget, Slate, The Verge, Fortune, Silicon Valley Business …, NBC Bay Area, TechCrunch, The Hill, Business Insider, Mercury News, MSPoweruser, Cult of Mac, Mashable, CNET, Newser, and The Next Web
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Less than a week after ransomware victim Riviera City paid ~$600K, another Florida town, Lake City, votes to pay ~$500K in BTC to ransomware hackers — Lake City officials give in and agree to pay nearly $500,000 to ransomware gang. — Less than a week after a first Florida city agreed …
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Tweets: @campuscodi, @michael_kan, @michael_kan, @malwaretechblog, @jeremiahg, @padresj, and @gossithedog
| Wall Street Journal: |
Report: tests of ~10K firmware images from 500+ Huawei telecom devices found 55% had at least one vulnerability, much higher than that of its rivals — Top U.S. officials say research confirms fears of risks, but report stops short of accusing the company of deliberately building flaws into system
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram says it will roll out ads on its Explore page, visible when users tap on Explore posts, starting with an ad for IGTV today — Ads everywhere — Ads are coming to more places on Instagram. Today, the social media platform announced that it'll soon start placing ads within the Explore page …
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| Will Sommer / The Daily Beast: |
Reddit “quarantines” r/The_Donald, which has 750K+ subs, over threats made against cops and public figures; quarantines show a content warning upon visiting sub — Users allegedly threatened law enforcement ordered to find Republican senators in Oregon who went on the lam to duck voting for climate-change bill.
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Tweets: @genepark, @mattyglesias, @kirkegaardemil, @willsommer, @karlbode, @rmac18, and @willsommer
| Karl Bode / VICE: |
In a joint letter, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo tell the Trump administration that proposed Chinese tariffs would harm the game industry and cost gamers $840M — US consumers will pay a total of $840 million more for consoles than they would without Chinese tariffs, the companies warn.
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Regulations.gov, CNET, USA Today, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, GeekWire, TechCrunch, GamesIndustry.biz, Business Insider, GameSpot, VG247, Polygon, and Kotaku
Tweets: @tonygerdeman, @getfandom, @hcheadle, @kifleswing, and @vice
| Reuters: |
Chinese state-sponsored hackers, notably APT10, broke into eight IT service providers including HPE, IBM, and their client networks in a years-long invasion — Eight of the world's biggest technology service providers were hacked by Chinese cyber spies in an elaborate and years-long invasion, Reuters found.
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Tweets: @jc_stubbs, @reuters, @ericgeller, @stevekopack, and @reuters
| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Social media verification scams are rampant because the verification process is opaque and arbitrary; platforms need to rebuild the whole system — Travis Hawley was scrolling through the comments sections of LeBron James's Instagram posts recently when he noticed some postings from other athletes.
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @birdyword, @simonowens, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @anildash, and @taylorlorenz
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
StockX, an online marketplace for sneakers, raises $110M Series C led by DST Global, General Atlantic, and GGV Capital and names Scott Cutler CEO — StockX is one of several online marketplaces that have turned resales of shoes into a big — and highly valued — business.
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FinSMEs, PR Newswire, Glossy, Crunchbase News, TechCrunch, PE Hub Blog, and Forbes
Tweets: @delrey and @cutlerscott
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Twitch launches beta of Subscriber Streams, which will let Twitch streamers who are Twitch Affiliates or Twitch Partners offer subscriber-only streams — A potentially useful tool for big events — Twitch is giving its well-behaved streamers a chance to offer a new …
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Twitch Blog, Engadget, Windows Central, Game Informer, ScreenRant, Kotaku, Dot Esports, SlashGear, and GamesIndustry.biz. Tweets: @twitch
| Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
Candy Crush Saga maker King touts to UK MPs that, of the game's 270M players, 9.2M play for 3-6 hours per day, and 432,000 play for six hours or more — Executive of maker King tells MPs he does not believe there is addiction problem — A top executive at the maker of the multibillion …
Tweets: @gamingthemind and @robaeprice
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Subscription e-book and audiobook service Scribd introduces Snapshots, bite-sized distillations of nonfiction books' key points — Subscription e-book and audiobook service Scribd is unveiling a new content type that it calls a Snapshot — a distillation of a nonfiction book's key points … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Image sharing platform Imgur says it has raised $20M from Coil, a micropayments tool that Imgur will build into its service ahead of a forthcoming premium tier — Meme creators have never gotten their fair share. Remixed and reshared across the web, their jokes props up social networks …
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PR Newswire, BitcoinExchangeGuide, CoinDesk, and The Daily Dot
Tweets: @joshconstine, @balajis, and @alexhern
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU opens formal antitrust investigation of Broadcom for suspected exclusivity practices and seeks an interim order to prevent anti-competitive behavior — The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into US chipmaker Broadcom which it suspects of restricting competition via … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Oppo demos an under-screen selfie camera with a display using a custom transparent material, plans to launch in a commercial phone “in the near future” — Coming to a commercial phone ‘in the near future’ — The past couple of years of smartphone design have been dominated …
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Tweets: @oppomobileindia and @oppo
| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Google says its location history auto-delete tool, which lets users pick either 3 or 18 months of data retention, is rolling out on mobile over next few weeks — On both Android and iOS — Google is now beginning to roll out its location history auto-delete feature after announcing … | Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A look at Facebook's and Twitter's plans to combat disinformation ahead of the Democratic presidential debates on Wednesday and Thursday — Ctrl + N — Silicon Valley will face its first big test of its readiness to fight disinformation in the 2020 campaign when the Democratic presidential debates kick off tonight.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bangalore-based Unacademy, which runs a platform that helps Indian students prepare for exams, raises $50M Series D from Steadview Capital and others — Big money continues to flow in India's growing education market. Bangalore-based Unacademy, which operates an online learning platform …
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