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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
In leaked audio from open meetings in July, Mark Zuckerberg talks about Facebook's challenges and potential breakup, politics, competitors, content moderators — In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
What to expect from Microsoft's event on October 2: Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3, an ARM-based Surface, and at least a teaser of a dual-screen device — Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3, and some mysterious new hardware — Microsoft is holding a big Surface hardware event in New York City on Wednesday, October 2nd.
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Former Yahoo engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into the accounts of about 6,000 Yahoo users in search of sexual photos and videos — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A former Yahoo software engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into the accounts of some 6,000 Yahoo users in search of sexual photos and videos.
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| Brent Rose / The Verge: |
GoPro Hero8 Black review: doesn't require special housing for mounts, has even better image stabilization, but the camera gets hot while recording — Let's start with the body. Since the Hero 5, GoPro cameras have been waterproof up to 33 feet without the need of an additional housing …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Block.one settles with the SEC for $24M in penalties for conducting an unregistered securities sale; Block.one had raised ~$4.1B via ICO over a one-year period — EOS maker Block.One must pay $24 million in penalties for conducting an unregistered securities sale, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Appeals court upholds FCC's 2017 repeal of net neutrality, but also rules the FCC can't stop states from setting their own regulations — But the 200-page ruling says the FCC can't stop states from setting their own regulations — A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Confiant: a bug in Webkit has allowed 1B+ malicious ads to exploit code that's redirected users to hostile websites, affecting primarily iOS and macOS users — Flaw rendered ad-sandboxing protections “entirely useless,” researchers say. — Attackers have bombarded the Internet …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Sony drops the price of PlayStation Now by 50% to $10 per month or $25 per quarter in the US, with similar cuts in Japan, EU, and UK — Facing new competition for consumers' entertainment spending, Sony is slashing the price of the PlayStation Now game-subscription service …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pandora unveils a revamped mobile app with a new For You tab that recommends music, podcasts, and more — Pandora is doubling down on personalization and revamping its app in order to better compete with rivals like Spotify and Apple Music. Today, the company is introducing a new mobile experience … | Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
Microsoft now lets OneDrive users expand 1TB storage in 200GB increments and launches OneDrive Personal Vault, to protect folders using 2FA, available globally — Microsoft announced two major features for OneDrive back in June: Personal Vault and expandable storage. Both of the features are launching worldwide today.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rapyd, which helps companies integrate payment and related services into their platforms, raises $100M led by Oak HC/FT, sources say at a ~$1B valuation — The digital payments market is forecast to balloon to $3 trillion by 2023, and today a startup that lets businesses implement not just payments …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU top court rules that active consent is needed for non-essential cookies, like tracking cookies for targeted ads, rendering pre-checked consent boxes illegal — Europe's top court has ruled that pre-checked consent boxes for dropping cookies are not legally valid.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Armor: over 500 US schools and colleges have been hit by ransomware in 2019, with 100 schools across fifteen school districts attacked in the last two weeks — Fifteen US school districts, accounting for 100 schools, were hit in the past two weeks alone. — In the first nine months of the year … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Airbnb is planning a direct stock listing for its planned 2020 IPO, following successful listings from Spotify and Slack — - Spotify and Slack have opted for similar path to public market — Hot IPOs of this year, like Uber, Lyft have had a chilly debut| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Collaborative presentation software startup Pitch launches in private beta and raises $30M Series B led by Thrive Capital — The software industry is no spring chicken, and that fact that brought us to an interesting moment in technology: some of the biggest legacy apps — ubiquitous as they may be …
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| Alex Davies / Wired: |
UPS says its drone service is the first of its kind to be recognized by the FAA as a commercial airline, but each new site it operates in must be approved — The FAA has granted a Part 135 certification for the logistics giant's drone business, propelling the little fliers closer to a commercial future.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitter is rolling out a filter that moves unwanted DMs containing questionable language or spam to an “additional messages” folder on Android, iOS, and the web — Twitter is quickly acting on plans to filter potentially offensive direct messages. It's rolling out the filter to all users on Android, iOS and the web.
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TechCrunch, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Mashable, iMore, Social Media Today, Neowin, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @twittersupport
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft rolls out its Azure-based Windows Virtual Desktop globally, with a WVD client app available for Windows, Android, Mac, iOS, and HTML 5 — Microsoft is rolling out its Azure-based Windows Virtual Desktop service and readying some new capabilities around Teams support and MSIX App Attach which could make it even more useful.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, Inquirer, VentureBeat, WinBuzzer, Redmond, Computer Business Review, SiliconANGLE, CRN, Microsoft Azure Cloud …, OnMSFT.com, Windows Central, and Neowin
Tweets: @microsoft365, @markhachman, @maryjofoley, and @sjvn
| Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane: |
Uber is testing a safety feature to let passengers record and send audio to the company if they are “uncomfortable” during a ride — Uber is testing “Record Audio” in case the rider is uncomfortable with the ride https://twitter.com/...| Rob Pegoraro / The Atlantic: |
Momentum behind tech companies posting transparency reports has faded, with some like Charter stopping the practice as others like Amazon make them more opaque — TikTok can tell you a lot about internet culture, but the massively popular Chinese-owned social-media app doesn't seem to know much about Hong Kong protests.
Tweets: @theatlantic and @eff
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