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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to livestream the September 10 iPhone event on YouTube, marking the first time that Apple will live stream one of its keynotes on Google's platform — Over the last several years, Apple has gradually been expanding the ways people can tune into its various keynotes.
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| Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: |
Leaked documents show MIT Media Lab hid the extent of Jeffrey Epstein's fundraising role, which also involved helping raise $7.5M through donors like Bill Gates — New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein's status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions …
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| Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: |
[Thread] Apple's response to Project Zero downplays exploits against an oppressed minority, discounts the risk of other targets, and ends in unseemly marketese — Apple's response to the worst known iOS attack in history should be graded somewhere between “disappointing” and “disgusting”. First off, disputing Google's correct use of “indiscriminate” when describing a watering hole attack smacks of “it's ok, it didn't hit white people.” https://twitter.com/...
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| Fred Sainz / Apple: |
Apple accuses Google's Project Zero of stoking fear by creating a “false impression of mass exploitation”, says the sophisticated attack was narrowly focused — Last week, Google published a blog about vulnerabilities that Apple fixed for iOS users in February.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Google confirms it has received a civil-investigative demand from the DOJ, requesting records related to prior antitrust investigations — Google said Friday that the Justice Department has requested records related to its prior antitrust investigations, marking the tech giant's …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
New York attorney general is leading a multi-state investigation into Facebook for possible antitrust violations — New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced Friday she is launching a multistate investigation into Facebook for possible antitrust violations.
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NY State Attorney General, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, USA Today, Reuters, Social Media Today, MSPoweruser, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, The Guardian, The Verge, Quartz, Adweek, Vox, Tubefilter, Tom's Guide, AdExchanger, SiliconANGLE, WinBuzzer, KnowTechie, Business Insider, Telecoms.com, Cult of Mac, CCN Markets, ResearchBuzz, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Variety, PYMNTS.com, CNET, TechSpot, Mashable, Fortune, Vanity Fair, Inquirer, Fast Company, WRAL TechWire, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @dhh, @superwuster, @jamesvgrimaldi, @asherschechter, @democraticags, and @jason_kint
| Will Oremus / OneZero: |
Twitter says the average user with the algorithmic timeline follows 10%-15% more accounts than those who have reverted to the old reverse-chronological timeline — The algorithm hasn't fixed harassment, but it did remedy something else — t's hard to remember now, but there was a time …
Tweets: @medium, @_harshilshah, @campuscodi, and @willoremus
| Leticia Miranda / BuzzFeed News: |
Orthodox Jews from a community in Brooklyn, many of whom lack formal degrees, are making millions from selling on Amazon, balancing traditions and modernity — A community of Orthodox Jews prospers by selling products on Amazon — and keeping one foot in modernity and one foot out.
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| Angela Lashbrook / OneZero: |
Amazon has done little to improve Goodreads, which has basically remained a list-making app with design flaws and features that don't help avid readers — Despite Amazon's innovation elsewhere, Goodreads has stagnated for 12 years, and its problems are endless| Justin Sherman / Wired: |
When Cold War analogies are misapplied to emerging technologies like AI, the debate about how such technologies should be regulated gets distorted — Opinion: Politicians and pundits' fixation with flawed Cold War metaphors have produced overly combative policies on emerging tech.
Tweets: @wired, @nonstrategic, @mojiferous, @lil_aphasia, and @wmdgirl
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Court filing: ICE seeks a warrant to compel Apple and Google to provide info on users of Obsidian 4 gun scope app, which has been downloaded 10K+ times — Own a rifle? Got a scope to go with it? The government might soon know who you are, where you live and how to reach you.
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CNET, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Engadget, Boing Boing, The Daily Dot, MacRumors, Digital Trends, MacDailyNews, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @iblametom, @80thchriscreek, @libertytarian, @yigsstarhouse, @iblametom, and @iblametom
| Harish Jonnalagadda / Android Central: |
Qualcomm says its mid-range Snapdragon 600 and 700 series chipsets in 2020 will feature an integrated 5G modem, lowering the barrier for 5G adoption — Qualcomm is putting a 5G modem in Snapdragon 600 and 700 series chipsets. — What you need to know — Qualcomm plans to integrate …
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Qualcomm and The Verge
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