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Visa, Mastercard, eBay, and Stripe say they are exiting Facebook's Libra Association, following PayPal, which announced its withdrawal last week — - EBay, Visa, Mastercard and Stripe announced Friday they will no longer be part of Facebook's libra cryptocurrency project.
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| Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter: |
Apple launches an internal studio, allowing it to own its content; the first series will be Masters of the Air, a follow-up to HBO's Band of Brothers — ‘Masters of the Air,’ which was originally developed for HBO, will be the third story in the WWII saga from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks …
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| U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: |
SEC says it has obtained a temporary restraining order against Telegram's $1.7B TON cryptocurrency ICO — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has filed an emergency action and obtained temporary restraining order against two offshore entities conducting an alleged unregistered …
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| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Hands-on with leaked Google's Pixelbook Go laptop: 8GB-16GB RAM, 64GB-256GB storage, 13.3-inch Full HD/4K display, 3.5mm headphone jack, and 2MP camera — We told you everything there is to know about the Pixelbook Go last month, but now we've got the goods.
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Uber buys grocery delivery startup Cornershop, which operates in Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Canada; Mexico blocked Walmart's acquisition of Cornershop in June — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has acquired a majority stake in the grocery delivery start-up Cornershop for an undisclosed sum …
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
Source: Andy Rubin left Playground Global, the venture firm he founded, in May, with a payout of more than $9M — Android creator Andy Rubin left Google with a $90 million exit package after investigations into sexual misconduct. Now he's out at Playground Global, the venture firm he founded …
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| Danny O'Brien / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
China is now projecting its Internet power abroad using state-sponsored DDoS attacks, malware, client-side filtering and surveillance, economic sanctions, more — Those outside the People's Republic of China (PRC) are accustomed to thinking of the Internet censorship practices of the Chinese state …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
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| Mark Kern / @grummz: |
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Amazon cancels contracts with three delivery firms, after report about shoddy working conditions and fatal accidents at Amazon's subcontracted delivery network — This article is copublished with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.
Tweets: @jasonleopold and @ceodonovan
| Kareem Anderson / OnMSFT.com: |
Mixer co-founder Matt Salsamendi leaves the platform after last week's departure of co-founder James Boehm; VP for Xbox Live and Mixer Mike Ybarra has also left — Despite snagging gaming headliner Ninja to the platform, Mixer is arguably in the midst of a representative evolution …
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Tweets: @mattsalsamendi and @xboxqwik
| Shwanika Narayan / San Francisco Chronicle: |
California AG issues draft rules outlining how businesses should stay compliant with the state's new privacy law due to take effect January 1 — California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released a series of draft regulations Thursday aimed at getting businesses to comply …
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Tweets: @sfchronicle, @privacyproject, and @loki_project
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Twitter releases new Catalyst app for macOS Catalina, now available to download in the Mac App Store — The most notable Catalyst app yet — Twitter's stop-start history of Mac development entered a new era today with the release of yet another all-new app.
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Tweets: @caseynewton, @scottbuscemi, @ow, @markgurman, @chrismessina, and @dcseifert
| 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.
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Morphisec Default Blog, Ars Technica, Tom's Hardware, Windows Central, BGR, PCMag, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, Lifehacker, WinBuzzer, and AppleInsider. Tweets: @threatpost. Thanks:@kyledaustin
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