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Sources: Apple plans to fund original, exclusive podcasts and has reached out to media companies, in a bid to compete with Spotify — - Tech giant looks to use exclusives to compete with Spotify — Company has recently added new Podcasts Mac app, web interface
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Highlights from the Senate hearing with Facebook's David Marcus on the proposed Libra cryptocurrency, and what was left unanswered — Facebook will only build its own Calibra cryptocurrency wallet into Messenger and Whatsapp, and will refuse to embed competing wallets … | Elizabeth Schulze / CNBC: |
Swiss regulator that Facebook's David Marcus said would oversee privacy protections for Libra says it hasn't heard from those behind the proposed cryptocurrency — KEY POINTS — David Marcus, the head of Facebook's digital currency project, said during a hearing in the U.S. Senate …
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| Bloomberg: |
Meredith Whittaker, who helped lead employee protests at Google over its military and AI work, and sexual harassment policies, is leaving the company — Meredith Whittaker, who helped lead employee protests at Google over the search giant's military work, artificial intelligence and policies, is leaving the company.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Trump threatens to “take a look” at Google for alleged China ties, in a tweet that cited claims Peter Thiel made at a conference and repeated on Fox News — President Trump on Tuesday appeared to threaten that his administration would “take a look” at Google … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple says it is sending out another silent update for macOS to fix a webcam vulnerability affecting apps using Zoom's tech including RingCentral and Zhumu — RingCentral and Zhumu are now patched — Apple informed us that it has sent out a silent security update to Macs to remove software …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Sprint says hackers had access to customers' names, billing, device details, and more via Samsung's website, fails to disclose the number affected — Hackers had access to customer info such as names, billing, device details, and more. — US mobile network operator Sprint said hackers broke … | VICE: |
Inside a lawsuit against Girls Do Porn, one of Pornhub's popular channels, which 22 women allege post videos without proper consent, leading to doxxing and more — Pornhub is hosting videos that have been viewed hundreds of millions of times. The women in them say they thought the videos …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Newsletter platform Substack raises $15.3M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, says Substack newsletters now have 50,000 paying subscribers — Andreessen Horowitz is betting that there's still a big opportunity in newsletters — the venture capital firm is leading a $15.3 million Series A in Substack.| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon faces a full-blown EU antitrust probe within days; Qualcomm could face a second hefty EU penalty as soon as next week for underpricing chips — - EU to escalate investigation targeting Marketplace platform — Qualcomm also set to face further EU fine in coming days
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| Eric Peckham / TechCrunch: |
Patreon, which helps content creators manage paid membership communities for fans, raises $60M Series D led by Glade Brook Capital — Patreon, the San Francisco-based platform that helps over 100,000 online content creators manage paid membership communities for their most dedicated fans, has raised $60 million in Series D funding.| Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: |
Finix, a payments infrastructure platform that lets companies own and control their payment processing, raises $17.5M Series A led by Bain Capital — In the U.S., electronic payments is a highly regulated business whose esoteric ins and outs can make your eyes glaze over.
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PR Newswire, Finix, Crunchbase News, FinSMEs, and Crowdfund Insider
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Uber open sources Plato, a tool for developing and testing conversational AI across many deep learning frameworks including TensorFlow and PyTorch — Designing conversational AI isn't as Sysiphean as it sounds. Tools like Google's Dialogflow, Microsoft's Bot Framework …
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Uber Engineering Blog and PYMNTS.com
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Facebook introduces a scam ads reporting tool in the UK and donates £3M to Citizens Advice for Scams Action, a dedicated online anti-scam service — Social media firm to investigate users' complaints and take down violating posts — Fresh efforts to tackle scam adverts across Facebook …
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Tweets: @claerb, @moneysavingexp, @bbcbreakfast, @1br0wn, and @tvpcyber_fraud
| Jeff Stone / CyberScoop: |
Ukrainian hacker Mikhail Rytikov, sought by the US since 2013 for running a dark web network used by criminals at scale, arrested in Ukraine with US and UK help — Ukrainian police have arrested an accused cybercriminal who allegedly facilitated a web hosting scheme that made it possible …
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| Angel Krasimirov / Reuters: |
Bulgaria says hackers stole millions of taxpayers' financial data in June; an expert says nearly all adult citizens' personal records may have been compromised — SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's finance minister apologized to the country on Tuesday after admitting hackers had stolen millions …
Tweets: @jc_stubbs
| Robert Lee Hotz / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the Apollo 11's guidance computer, the first digital general-purpose, multitasking, interactive portable computer, with about 145K lines of code — The moon landing was one of the most important moments in the history of computing, laying the foundations of much of our digital world
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Tweets: @waynesadin, @wsj, @econoscribe, @johnmurawski, and @dnvolz
| Kate McKenna / CBC News: |
Study of 3,800 young people over four years: high levels of social media usage showed an increase in depressive symptoms, while playing video games did not — Study examined mental-health implications of high levels of screen time — Screen time — and social media in particular …
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CNN, CNET, Fortune, and research.chusj.org
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook makes its first changes to Workplace pricing, raising the premium tier by $1/person/month and introducing a new $8 Workplace Enterprise tier — Three years into its life with 2 million paying users signed up, Workplace — Facebook's platform for businesses and and other organizations …
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| Isabelle Kirkwood / BetaKit: |
Montréal-based startup Landr, which develops AI-powered audio mastering software, raises ~$20M Series B from Sony Innovation Fund, Warner Music, others — Landr, an AI-powered audio mastering software startup based in Montréal, has raised a $26 million Series B. Sony Innovation Fund …
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| Palko Karasz / New York Times: |
EU's satellite navigation program, named Galileo and billed as a more reliable alternative to GPS, has mostly been down since last Thursday — LONDON — When the European Union introduced its own satellite navigation program, it billed the service as more robust, precise and reliable than GPS … | Nour Al Ali / Bloomberg: |
London-based payments startup SumUp secures a $371M loan from Goldman, Bain Capital, and others to fuel an international expansion — - SumUp to increase growth, acquire new merchants in its markets — London-based company has clients including U.K. black cabs
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PYMNTS.com and Tech.eu
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