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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Shortly after Basecamp debuted its email service, Hey, it says its next iOS app update was rejected because Apple wasn't getting its cut of subscription revenue — Right around the time the team at Basecamp was launching their Hey email service to the public on Monday, Zach Waugh …
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| Aaron Holmes / Business Insider: |
Google cracks down on The Federalist and ZeroHedge for violating policies on race-related content and may permanently suspend their access to Google Ads revenue — - Google is cracking down on two right-wing outlets, ZeroHedge and The Federalist, for violating its policies on race-related content.
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NBC News, The Verge, The Hill, Techdirt, TechCrunch, Axios, Forbes, Variety, Adweek, and CNBC
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
The European Commission opens two antitrust investigations into Apple's App Store and Apple Pay practices — Both investigations begin today — The European Commission is opening two antitrust investigations into Apple's App Store and Apple Pay practices today.
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European Commission, European Commission, Vox, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Financial Times, New York Times, VentureBeat, Financial Times, ZDNet, Yahoo Finance, TheStreet, MacDailyNews, Thurrott, Appleosophy, PYMNTS.com, TechRepublic, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Hill, BBC, Telecoms.com, Gizmodo, MediaNama, SiliconANGLE, and The Guardian
| Washington Post: |
CIA report: security was so lax at the time of the Vault 7 breach that if WikiLeaks hadn't published its trove, CIA may have never known they were compromised — The theft of top-secret computer hacking tools from the CIA in 2016 was the result of a workplace culture in which the agency's …
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Ars Technica, NBC News, CyberScoop, MIT Technology Review, The Daily Dot, New York Times, Federal Computer Week, Computer Business Review, and Threatpost
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| Bloomberg: |
Being a Black CEO in Silicon Valley can be humiliating, from being advised to have a white wingman in meetings, to being judged on a different rubric by VCs — Will Hayes has grown accustomed to an awkward start to business meetings. On numerous occasions, venture capitalists would confuse Hayes … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Boston Dynamics says Spot, its quadruped robot, is now available to businesses in the US as part of a developer kit for $74,500 — Boston Dynamics today opened commercial sales of Spot, its quadruped robot that can climb stairs and traverse rough terrain. Businesses can purchase …
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Boston Dynamics, Fox News, TechCrunch, Engadget, Wired, ZDNet, PCMag, Global Nerdy, TechSpot, SlashGear, and Gizmodo
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers disclose 19 flaws in a TCP/IP library, first released in 1997, found in many IoT products; patches are available but unlikely to be widely applied — Security researchers disclose 19 vulnerabilities impacting a TCP/IP library found at the base of many IoT products.
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Wired, JSOF, US-CERT, Dark Reading, The Hacker News, ITworld.com, Forescout, and infosecurity-magazine.com
Tweets: @mikedecesare, @campuscodi, @a_greenberg, @campuscodi, and @reverseics
| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Graphika report details a Russia-based influence campaign, known as Secondary Infektion, that ran over 6 years and 300 sites, but failed to win a large audience — Group known as Secondary Infektion used multiple languages, burner accounts to circumvent attempts to detect it
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Wired, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Forbes, Graphika, and WBMA-TV
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says it is deploying AI-powered software called Distance Assistant in warehouses that tells workers if they are too close to colleagues — - Workers failing to keep safe distance will be circled in red — Robotics engineer likens technology to highway speed checkers
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The Amazon Blog, GeekWire, CNBC, Gizmodo, The Next Web, and Business Insider
Tweets: @siddhss5, @aaronmiri, @hypervisible, and @amazonnews
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
ConsenSys launches a pilot “staking-as-a-service” tool, with customers including Binance, ahead of proof-of-stake tech being rolled out with Ethereum 2.0 — Ethereum development house ConsenSys is being backed by heavy hitters like Binance and Huobi to test its new …
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ConsenSys, ihodl.com, Decrypt, BitcoinExchangeGuide, and The Block
Tweets: @coindesk, @vladzamfir, @thevladcostea, and @sightpm
| BBC: |
Report finds 11% of people under 25 use Instagram for news compared with 12% for Twitter, predicts Instagram will overtake Twitter next year as a news source — Photo-sharing app Instagram is set to overtake Twitter as a news source, research suggests. — The 2020 Reuters Institute Digital …
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Reuters Institute, Washington Post, Nieman Lab, inews.co.uk, The Guardian, The Guardian, The Irish News, independent, and Digital Trends
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Dropbox launches a password manager, a secure vault for storing documents like birth certificates, a backup service, and a family plan — The company announced a bunch of new updates today — Dropbox is launching a bunch of new features today, many of which are security-focused …
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Work in Progress, PCWorld, Android Central, 9to5Mac, Android Police, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, ZDNet, CNET, and Engadget
| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Bose is shutting down its AR program, saying its technology couldn't be commercialized as planned, with current AR apps ceasing to function within 30 days — Bose has become the latest company to throw in the towel on immersive computing, shutting down its ambitious Bose AR program.| Frank Jordans / Associated Press: |
Germany launches a COVID-19 contact tracing app on iOS and Android, saying it cost €20M to develop and will require €2.5M- €3.5M per month to operate — BERLIN (AP) — Germany launched a coronavirus tracing app Tuesday that officials say is so secure even government ministers can use it.
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Reuters, New York Times, Startseite, Wccftech, MacRumors, EURACTIV.com, Telecoms.com, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @codepo8, @kenroth, @wirereporter, @ap_europe, and @wirereporter
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Gmail on Android and iOS now lets you join a Meet video call by simply clicking an event link in an email, without needing the standalone Meet app — Google today announced a deeper integration between Gmail on mobile and its Meet video conferencing service.
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The Verge, Android Police, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q4 revenue of $10.44B, down 6% YoY, missing expectations of $10.65B, cloud and on-premises license revenue fell 22% to $1.96B — - Revenue declined more than the company had predicted in the quarter — The company won business from video-calling software provider Zoom in the quarter.
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PR Newswire, ZDNet, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, Barron's Online, and TheStreet
Tweets: @jordannovet, @lamonicabuzz, @jordannovet, and @danielnewmanuv
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Nearly a week after its removal from Google's Play Store, Chinese TikTok clone Zynn has been removed from Apple's App Store following claims of stolen videos — The app was taken off Google's Play Store last week following reports of plagiarism — Zynn, the Chinese video sharing app that's …
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TechCrunch, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, and Mashable
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Sources: SoftBank plans to sell up to two-thirds of its T-Mobile stake, worth around $20B, early next week — - SoftBank plans to sell up to two-thirds of its stake in T-Mobile early next week, sources told CNBC's David Faber Tuesday. — The transaction would represent as much as $20 billion.| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: in letters, Facebook and Google signaled they'd dispatch their CEOs to testify to Congress at antitrust hearing provided other tech giants' CEOs went — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai signaled they are open to testifying to Congress as part …
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Bloomberg, NBC News, Politico, and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @midwincharles, @ccieby30, @chrismessina, and @voxdotcom
| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Gallup/Knight poll: nearly two-thirds in US support Section 230 in principle; 85% favored removing intentionally misleading health information from social media — (Reuters) - Most Americans do not trust social media companies to make the right decisions about what should be allowed on their platforms …
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Multichannel News, CNET, and Adweek
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Smart calendar startup Clockwise raises $18M Series B as it looks to expand its tool to Microsoft Office 365 and other services — Smart calendar startup Clockwise today announced it has raised $18 million, with plans to grow its workforce and expand to other platforms, including Microsoft Office 365.| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
LA-based security startup Open Raven raises $15M, four months after emerging from stealth, to expand its tool that maps and monitors data flows within companies — Open Raven, the Los Angeles-based security startup founded by a team of cybersecurity veterans from CrowdStrike and SourceClear … | Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
The EU has agreed on a set of technical specifications for interoperability of contract tracing apps across European nations — More European countries are launching contact tracing apps in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19. But at the moment, those apps do not work across borders.
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European Commission, Public Health, TechCrunch, and Reuters
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