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Internal email: Amazon asks its employees to delete TikTok from any devices that “access Amazon email” by Friday, citing “security risks” — TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has been under scrutiny as a potential national security threat.
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Sources: Facebook is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its network in the days leading up to the US election in November — Facebook Inc. is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its social network in the days leading up to the U.S. election in November …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple Silicon Macs to include 13-inch MacBook Pro this year, MacBook Air this year or Q1 2021, and 14.1-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models in 2021 — At last month's WWDC, Apple officially announced that its Mac computers will be transitioned from Intel x86 to homegrown Apple Silicon chips.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
An issue with Facebook SDK, which lasted for about 3 hours, crashed iOS apps for TikTok, Spotify, Tinder, Pinterest, and others that use Facebook Login — The issue has now been resolved and apps are working once more — A number of popular apps and services including Spotify, Pinterest …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Report: Apple is making thousands of semitransparent lenses for its AR headset at a Foxconn factory as part of engineering validation test stage of the product — Apple and Foxconn have reached a key milestone in the development of Apple's long-rumored augmented reality headset …
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| Gideon Lewis-Kraus / New Yorker: |
A deep look at the rift between some prominent Silicon Valley figures and increasingly critical media, based on the case of Slate Star Codex vs. The NYT — How a controversial rationalist blogger became a mascot and martyr in a struggle against the New York Times.
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| Bharath Manjesh / Reuters: |
Rackspace, a cloud services company which went private in 2016 after a $4.3B buyout by Apollo Global, once again files for a US IPO — (Reuters) - Cloud services firm Rackspace Technology Inc, owned by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, filed for a U.S. initial public offering on Friday.
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France to introduce a controversial nationwide age verification system for pornography websites — Macron made the protection of children against adult content online a high-profile issue. — PARIS — The French Parliament unanimously agreed on Thursday to introduce a nationwide age verification system … | David Shepardson / Reuters: |
US is finalizing a federal contract ban for any company that uses products from Chinese companies Huawei, Hikvision, Hytera, Dahua, and ZTE — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to finalize regulations this week that will bar the U.S. government from buying goods or services …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Gartner and IDC see YoY growth in Q2 PC shipments, 2.8% and 11.2% respectively, with both firms seeing the gains as short-term, driven by work-from-home demands — After years of bad news, PC shipments saw growth in 2019, only to have the coronavirus pandemic cut the celebration short in Q1 2020.
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| Rob Picheta / CNN: |
Instagram will expand its policies on hate speech worldwide to include posts that advertise or promote conversion therapy — What Instagram is doing differently during coronavirus crisis — London (CNN Business)Instagram will ban any content that promotes conversion therapy …
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A state appeals court ruled that Bitfinex must face lawsuit claims by New York state that it hid the loss of $800M commingled client and corporate funds — - Crypto exchange argued state had no authority to pursue case — Court said stablecoin Tether is a security or a commodity
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Epic Games releases an iOS app, called Live Link Face, enabling the recording of facial expressions directly into the Unreal Engine — Using Apple's ARKit and the iPhone's TrueDepth camera — A newly released iOS app from Epic Games lets developers record facial expressions …
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