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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
In January, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man's arrest for a crime he did not commit, in what may be the first known case of its kind — In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man's arrest for a crime he did not commit.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google says it will auto-delete location and search data by default for new users after 18 months, as part of a broader expansion of its privacy options — A compromise between privacy and ad-targeting data — On Wednesday, Google announced broad changes in its default data practices for new users …
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The Keyword, New York Times, Vox, NBC News, Android Police, XDA Developers, CNET, The Irish Times, VentureBeat, BBC, TechCrunch, Protocol, 9to5Google, Social Media Today, Tom's Guide, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Central, MSPoweruser, Neowin, Pocketnow, Bloomberg, CNBC, Silicon Republic, Axios, and Android Headlines
Tweets: @sundarpichai, @lutherlowe, @sensherrodbrown, @pierce, @googleuk, @chrismaddern, @caseynewton, @backlon, and @pierce
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Sources: Facebook's head of trust and safety policy admits to a “trust deficit” on a call with 200+ advertisers, as the company tries to stem an ad boycott — Social media group hit by mass boycotts over political content moderation — Facebook has admitted to having a … | Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Ben & Jerry's, Eddie Bauer, and Magnolia Pictures join Patagonia, REI, and others suspending Facebook ads in July to protest amplification of hate speech — Eddie Bauer, Magnolia Pictures, Ben & Jerry's and others have suspended campaigns over the platform's content moderation practices.
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Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, Digital Trends, Newser, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @benandjerrys, @colorofchange, @andrewrking_eu, @rstoddard, @megancgraham, @wajahatali, and @mattnavarra
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Slack launches Connect, letting up to 20 organizations communicate in a single Slack channel, currently available to paying customers — Slack today announced the launch of Connect, a way for up to 20 organizations to communicate in a single Slack channel.
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The Verge, Slack, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Engadget, ZDNet, TheStreet, Neowin, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @epro
| Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
Olympus exits the camera business after 84 years to focus on medical devices, selling its camera unit to private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners — Under pressure from U.S. shareholder ValueAct Capital, Tokyo company to sell unit to private-equity firm Japan Industrial Partners
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The Verge, Daring Fireball, The Next Web, Bloomberg, and Engadget
Tweets: @wsj, @paulpage, and @dcseifert
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Senate Republicans introduce a bill to end “warrant-proof” encryption, forcing tech companies to work with law enforcement, citing apps like WhatsApp — The proposed legislation is Congress' latest attempt to weaken encryption from tech giants.
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United States Senate Committee …, ZDNet, Techdirt, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, Cult of Mac, CNBC, Threatpost, The Daily Dot, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, SecurityWeek, 9to5Mac, KnowTechie, Android Central, and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @wcathcart, @patrickbeuth, @foxcahn, @alex, @mikeisaac, and @ow
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Review of email app Superhuman: elegant, detailed interface but you have to live with its fixed hotkeys, inconsistent filtering, and the steep $30/month price — $30 per month is too much for a Gmail app — Superhuman is one of the most in-demand startups right now …
Tweets: @caseynewton, @joshuabaer, @mg, @harrymccracken, @tonyromm, @oliversmitheu, @dcseifert, @jmalcoun, @aaronklein, and @frank_thelen
| John Koetsier / Forbes: |
Apple's Identifier for Advertisers, critical to tracking mobile ad spend, will become opt-in with iOS 14, a privacy boon for users and a big loss for marketers — That tremor in the Force you felt yesterday probably wasn't shock at being able to text your car keys in Apple's new iOS 14 or do real-time offline translation with Siri.
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The Next Web, Wired, Decrypt, CNET, Adweek, The Mac Observer, AdExchanger, VoIPWatch, and The Next Web
Tweets: @drbarnard, @carnage4life, @antoniogm, @benedictevans, and @counternotions
| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Fleetsmith, which makes enterprise management and security products for Apple devices, says it has been acquired by Apple — Mobile Device Management is at the heart of every Apple enterprise customer's network stack. Up until now, Apple has generally relied on third party companies …
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Fleetsmith Blog, TechCrunch, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, CNBC, MacRumors, Apple Must, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, MacDailyNews, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @fleetsmithhq, @reneritchie, @benbajarin, and @caro_milanesi
| Bloomberg: |
Central Bank of Brazil tells Mastercard and Visa to stop payments via WhatsApp in the country to evaluate risks and regulations — - Central bank wants to assess risks to country's payment system — Lawyer says suspension is an unusual move by the bank| Los Angeles Times: |
An in-depth look at the systemic diversity issues that plague Silicon Valley giants and VCs, effectively shutting Black and Latino people out of the industry — It seemed like tech was turning a corner. — For years, the industry's giants had resisted calls to disclose workforce diversity data …
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CNN. Tweets: @jmbooyah, @jmbooyah, @jeffbercovici, @jeffbercovici, @jeffbercovici, @jmbooyah, @lenny_mendonca, @jmbooyah, @jmbooyah, @latimes, @jeffbercovici, @latimes, @latimes, @qmatteoq, @bradsmi, and @sbanjo
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Trump's campaign has discussed moving away from Facebook and Twitter, potentially to platforms like Parler, following disputes with both platforms — Amid disputes with Facebook and Twitter, the president's team mulls whether to push supporters toward a different platform or put more emphasis on its own campaign app
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @kevinroose, @jesselehrich, @wexler, @yamiche, and @keachhagey
| Kyle Daly / Axios: |
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Jumbo, which lets users easily manage their online privacy and mass-delete old posts, raises $8M Series A and releases a major app update — A year after its initial release, Jumbo has two important pieces of news to announce. First, the company has released a major update of its app that protects your privacy on online services.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's NPE Team tests Forecast, an app fostering a community around making crowdsourced predictions about world events using in-app points, now invite-only — Forecast, a new project from Facebook's internal R&D group, NPE Team, is launching today to build a community around predictions.
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NPE Blog, CNET, Social Media Today, TechSpot, and Ubergizmo
| Judd Legum / Popular Information: |
Despite teaming with Science Feedback last year, Facebook has made climate disinformation ineligible for fact-checking by deeming it “opinion” — This is a special joint edition of Popular Information and HEATED, a climate newsletter by journalist Emily Atkin.
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E&E News. Tweets: @samesmail, @monteiro, @laurendw, @emorwee, @pitchaya, @tvietor08, @emorwee, @robpegoraro, @juddlegum, @jayrosen_nyu, @aaron_strauss, @emorwee, @rockominn, @juddlegum, @juddlegum, @cwarzel, @jason_kint, @juddlegum, @juddlegum, @bergopolis, @juddlegum, @juddlegum, @hbadventure, and @juddlegum
| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Black Amazon employees, many working in warehouses, urge Jeff Bezos to match his rhetoric on racial justice with actions to address “systemic” racial bias — From racist graffiti to missed promotions, employees say a “systemic pattern of racial bias” permeates the company.
Tweets: @kyweise, @kyweise, @teamcoworker, @kyweise, @staceynycdc, @kyweise, and @kyweise
| Aaron Gordon / VICE: |
Former JUMP employees blame the bikeshare company's downfall on Uber applying a software business mentality to a transportation business after acquiring it — One morning at the end of May, Mark Miretsky awoke in his San Francisco apartment and groggily browsed his phone. There was no rush to get up.
Tweets: @a_w_gordon, @luke_metro, @moorepants, @carnage4life, @counternotions, @vice, @nickhasthoughts, and @a_w_gordon
| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Sources say DOJ and a coalition of state attorneys general are considering an antitrust investigation into Apple's App Store, following a similar EU probe — The Justice Department and a coalition of state attorneys general are taking the first steps toward launching an antitrust probe of Apple …
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CNET, iMore, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocket-lint, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1, @politico, @politico, and @politico
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Twitter permanently suspends @DDoSecrets account for violating distribution of hacked data policy after it shared links to data stolen from US law enforcement — Twitter said DDoSecrets account leaked and promoted BlueLeaks, a huge collection of files stolen from more than 200 US police departments and fusion training centers.
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Gizmodo, The Verge, CyberScoop, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @dangoodin001, @dangoodin001, @dellcam, @dangillmor, @samred, @gregghoush, and @dellcam
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
After WWDC, the performance of Apple's silicon chips for Mac remains a mystery, with speed and efficiency claims not yet substantiated through benchmarks — There were canned demos but no benchmarks or comparisons — For years, Apple has steadily revealed how the ARM-based chips …
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AppleInsider, PCWorld, Mashable, Input, MacRumors, iMore, 9to5Mac, The Mac Security Blog, OneZero , and Micky
Tweets: @cordingly, @ridiculous_fish, @stevesi, @alexisgallagher, @dcseifert, @terhechte, @jmfd, @oluseyisonaiya, @siracusa, and @stroughtonsmith
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources and documents detail a months-long cyberstalking and harassment campaign by members of eBay's security team against those behind the ECommerceBytes blog — Security employees allegedly orchestrated deliveries of live cockroaches, pornographic videos and a mask of a bloody pig's head
Tweets: @harrymccracken, @arawnsley, @harrymccracken, @danprimack, @teddyschleifer, and @shiraovide
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
ClickUp, which offers subscription tools for task management and more, raises $35M Series A led by Craft Ventures — The productivity software space is filled with niche startups designing premium tools with very particular customers in mind. On the flip side a growing class of startups …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
watchOS 7 drops support for Force Touch, a hardware feature that has been available on every Apple Watch model for revealing hidden menus and more — watchOS 7 adds a variety of new features, such as sleep tracking and new workout types, but it also drops support for one key feature.
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Apple Developer, AppleInsider, Gotta Be Mobile, MacStories, iPhone in Canada Blog, International Business Times, Cord Cutters News, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @folletto, @bzamayo, @andrewm497, @rafahari, @seb_astian_c, @davidhodge, and @apollozac
| gvnshtn: |
An inside account of the security practices at Maersk leading up to and after the notPetya malware attack in 2017 and lessons learned from the recovery efforts — Maersk is the world's largest integrated shipping and container logistics company. I was massively privileged (no pun intended) …
Tweets: @briankrebs and @divinetechygirl
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