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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Tim Cook's claim in an internal email that the banned app in Hong Kong “was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence” doesn't add up — I've seen a copy of Cook's company-wide memo, and the copy reproduced here is accurate.
| Wall Street Journal: |
Google removed a game from the Play store that allowed players to role-play as Hong Kong protesters, says it violated rules related to “sensitive events” — HKmap.live raised concerns of endangering law enforcement and residents; ‘The Revolution of Our Times,’ violated rules related to sensitive events,' Google says
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Apple removes app from the App Store that tracked Hong Kong police and protests after pressure from China, says it “violates our guidelines and local laws” — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple removed an app late Wednesday that enabled protesters in Hong Kong to track the police …
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| Mark Kern / @grummz: |
[Thread] Former World of Warcraft developer lead denounces Blizzard, says Chinese investment in game companies is silencing voices for freedom and democracy — This hurts. But until Blizzard reverses their decision on @blitzchungHS I am giving up playing Classic WoW, which I helped make and helped convince Blizzard to relaunch. There will be no Mark of Kern guild after all. Let me explain why I am #BoycottBlizzard
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| Lauren Strapagiel / BuzzFeed News: |
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| Verna Yu / The Guardian: |
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| Charles Duhigg / New Yorker: |
A deep dive into Amazon's enormous growth over the past decade as it tries to maintain its lean management culture and prepares to fend off regulators — Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
RigUp, a marketplace for on-demand services and skilled labor in the energy industry, raises $300M Series D led by a16z, report says at a valuation of $1.9B — Austin is hot this month, and we're not just talking about the temperature. — Two days ago, we wrote about AI startup SparkCognition's $100 million Series C.
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Wall Street Journal, Andreessen Horowitz, SiliconANGLE, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @davidgeorge83. Thanks:@bayareawriter
| Elizabeth Montalbano / Threatpost: |
Researchers identify zero-day vulnerability in iTunes for Windows, now patched, that was exploited by attackers to deliver BitPaymer/iEncrypt ransomware — Bad actors are actively targeting a vulnerability in the Windows version of Apple iTunes to deliver BitPaymer/iEncrypt ransomware.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest says its use of AI to identify and hide content that displays or encourages self-injury reduced reports of self-harm content by 88% — Today's World Mental Health Day, a day for global mental health education, awareness, and advocacy against social stigma first celebrated in 1992 …
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Engadget, Facebook, Mashable, BetaKit, Digital Trends, and CNET. Tweets: @epro. Thanks:@jamiefavazza
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Lattice, an employee performance and engagement management platform, raises $25M Series C at a valuation of around $200M, six months after a $15M Series B — The secretive New York-based hedge fund Tiger Global Management has led a $25 million Series C investment in Lattice …
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FinSMEs. Tweets: @jaltma, @shasta, @ycombinator, @kateclarktweets, @erondu, @ryaneshea, and @latticehq
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: workers in India and Romania review clips captured by customers' Amazon Cloud Cams, which are then used to train AI algorithms to detect threats — In a promotional video, Amazon.com Inc. says its Cloud Cam home security camera provides “everything you need to monitor your home, day or night.”
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Digital Trends, AppleInsider, CNET, GeekWire, SlashGear, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, Android Central, Mashable, Gizmodo, KnowTechie, and Telegraph
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple adds a new option in iOS 13.2 beta that allows users to delete their Siri and Dictation history and opt out of sharing audio recordings — Today's iOS 13.2 beta introduces a new option that allows iPhone and iPad users to delete their Siri and Dictation history and opt out of sharing audio recordings …
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9to5Mac, Thurrott, The Verge, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, SlashGear, and Engadget
Tweets: @benbajarin, @panzer, @panzer, and @therickwilson
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Grammarly, which provides AI-based grammar and spell-checking tools, raises $90M led by General Catalyst at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $200M — While attention continues to be focused on the rise and growing sophistication of voice-based interfaces …
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Axios, Bloomberg, PR Newswire, Axios, EdSurge, MarTech Today, Thurrott, FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @pragmatechh, @apptopia, @alex, @ingridlunden, @tonyromm, and @jonrussell
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Facebook launches PyTorch 1.3, the latest version of its open-source deep learning library with quantization and support for use of Google Cloud TPUs — Facebook today released the latest version of its deep learning library PyTorch with quantization and Google Cloud TPU support for speedier training of machine learning models.
Tweets: @kifleswing
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