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Tile accused Apple of acting anti-competitively at a House antitrust hearing on Friday, while Sonos testified against Google, and PopSockets against Amazon — BOULDER, Colo. — Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google took a public lashing at a congressional hearing here Friday …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
FBI seizes the domain of WeLeakInfo, a site offering usernames and passwords from data breaches for sale; WeLeakInfo claims to have 12B+ usernames and passwords — Site aggregated 12 billion usernames and passwords from over 10,000 breaches. — On Wednesday, police in the Netherlands …
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Sources: Spotify in early talks to buy The Ringer, founded by Bill Simmons, which has a podcast network that had revenue of $15M+ in 2018 — The Ringer, founded in 2016 by former ESPN commentator Bill Simmons, has over 30 podcasts — Spotify Technology SA SPOT -2.31% is in talks to buy sports …
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| Samuel Stolton / EURACTIV.com: |
Leaked white paper: European Commission is considering a 3-5 year ban on the use of facial recognition technology by private or public actors in public spaces — Languages: Ελλην ικά … The European Commission is considering measures to impose …
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
The latest panic that the EU may force Apple to abandon Lightning is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of both the EC's intent and how charging works — It's all about chargers, and Apple already makes them — You might have read headlines today about how the EU is looking to force Apple to ditch the Lightning cable.| New York Times: |
In a Q&A, Joe Biden says Section 230 should be immediately revoked for Facebook and other platforms and that Zuckerberg should be submitted to civil liability — The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Airbnb to tie metrics like guest safety to employee bonuses, says it has created dedicated teams to serve all “stakeholders”, which include hosts and guests — Ahead of plans to go public, home-sharing platform emphasizes serving ‘stakeholders’ that include hosts, guests, investors, employees
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Sources: Eaze, an on-demand pot delivery startup with $166M in funding, raises $15M bridge round, amid struggles with cash and a pivot to selling its own brands — The Uber of pot is almost out of cash — The first cannabis startup to raise big money in Silicon Valley is in danger of burning out.
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| Amy Chozick / New York Times: |
Profile of Adam Mosseri, who sees Project Daisy, which will eliminate public display of Instagram Likes later this year, as a way to “depressurize the app” — Adam Mosseri, chieftain of Instagram, wants to keep the platform a safe, special space. That means learning from the mistakes of its parent company: Facebook.
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| Usman Pirzada / Wccftech: |
Report: Intel CPU supply shortages are expected to persist through the end of 2020, giving a likely boost to AMD market share — DigiTimes, Taiwan's biggest publication and one of the more reliable sources of information as far as the PC triumvirate are concerned has just published …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Massachusetts Superior Court orders Facebook to turn over data about tens of thousands of apps from ~400 developers company said it suspended last September — A Massachusetts judge has ordered Facebook to turn over data about thousands of apps that may have mishandled its users' personal information … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
BT, the biggest ISP in the UK, partners with Google to offer a free Stadia Premiere Edition with some of its broadband plans — A boost for Stadia game streaming in Europe — BT is partnering with Google to launch broadband plans in the UK that come with access to the Stadia cloud gaming service.
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Sources: some FBI officials were stunned by AG Barr's use of the Pensacola case to rebuke Apple as they believe Apple had already provided ample assistance — Attorney general's earlier service, telecom experience shaped his views; some bureau officials were stunned by his rebuke of Apple over Pensacola shooter's iPhones
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