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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
TikTok outflanked Facebook, focusing on curation and user-made video, but its China ties mean privacy, censorship, and propaganda issues should lead to a US ban — Over the last week, as the idea of banning TikTok in the U.S. has shifted from a fringe idea to a seeming inevitability …
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UK says it will bar telecom companies from purchasing new equipment from Huawei and gives them until 2027 to remove its technology from their 5G networks — British government gives cellular companies until 2027 to remove Chinese firm's technology — LONDON—The British government …
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
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| Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: |
Microsoft issues a patch for a critical “wormable” flaw affecting OSes including Windows 10 and Server; Check Point says the flaw has been in code for 17 years — Microsoft is issuing a patch for a severe and wormable Windows Domain Name System Server vulnerability …
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Wired, Check Point Research, Ars Technica, Microsoft Security …, iTnews, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Dark Reading, Threatpost, The Verge, The Hacker News, Wccftech, Computer Business Review, Slashdot, and MSPoweruser
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify is launching a Trending podcast chart with 50 rising shows, and expanding its Top chart to the 200 most popular shows overall, localized by region — A long-awaited feature — Spotify is revamping its podcast charts today to help listeners find new shows and keep up with what people are enjoying in their area.
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| VICE: |
Report: phones of many politicians in Spain, including the Pres. of the Parliament of Catalonia, were hacked; source: Spain has been an NSO customer since 2015 — The cellphones of several politicians in Spain, including that of the president of one of the countries' autonomous regional parliaments …
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The Guardian, The Guardian, EL PAÍS, BBC, Reuters, Courthouse News Service, Boing Boing, Associated Press, and MediaNama
Tweets: @motherboard and @dianaribaginer
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Play Pass, Android's rival to subscription-based game store Apple Arcade, adds 150 more titles, a $29.99/year pricing option, and expands outside the US — Google Play Pass, the Android alternative to subscription-based game store Apple Arcade, is expanding.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Regulations passed this week in the EU afford App Store devs new protections, such as a 30 day warning before removing an app from store, with some exceptions — App Store developers in the European Union now have more protections afforded to them following the passage of new regulations this week …
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eur-lex.europa.eu, MCV/DEVELOP, GamesIndustry.biz, AppleInsider, iMore, and TheGamer
Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @tapbot_paul, @maryhui, @thelinuxexp, @dhh, @martinlindell, and @dhh
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils Dash Cart, a shopping cart that links to Amazon account, tracks items placed inside, and allows cashierless checkout, first at Amazon's LA store — The Dash Cart is coming to Amazon's LA grocery store later this year — Amazon is expanding its real-world footprint …
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Tweets: @annierpalmer, @mgtalksretail, @jerrycap, @mat, @mcwm, @ebruenig, @ernsthemingwavy, and @trixxy
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Google Cloud debuts Confidential VMs, which keeps data encrypted while in use, and Assured Workloads for Governments, which helps meet compliance requirements — Confidential VMs are the the first product in Google's Confidential Computing portfolio, which will deliver breakthrough technology to encrypt data in use
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Investigation: Google Search displays YouTube videos more prominently than nearly identical videos from Facebook and other sites; sources say this is by design — Facebook and other competitors host the same videos, but engineers have made changes that effectively preference YouTube—owned by Google—over other video sources.
Tweets: @loudmouthjulia, @johnwest, @jennystrasburg, @mhbergen, @benpershing, @wsjtech, and @wsj
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Business giant SAP patches RECON bug, which impacted most of its customers and let hackers create admin accounts on SAP servers — SAP patches bug impacting most of its apps and customer base. — Business giant SAP released a patch today for a major vulnerability that impacts the vast majority of its customers.
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Onapsis, us-cert.cisa.gov, Krebs on Security, CSO, CyberScoop, Computer Business Review, SecurityWeek, wiki.scn.sap.com, cloudpro.co.uk, The Hacker News, Dark Reading, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @cyb3rops, @campuscodi, @onapsis, @cynicalsecurity, and @cyber
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In email to artists, Facebook announces launch of officially licensed music videos on US artist Pages; artists will be enrolled August 1 if they don't opt out — Facebook is preparing to launch officially licensed music videos on its social network in the U.S. next month, in a direct challenge to YouTube.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is in advanced talks to invest $4B in Reliance Industries' Jio Platforms and an announcement could come as soon as the next few weeks — - Announcement could come as soon as the next few weeks — Google on Monday pledged to invest $10 billion in India
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The Next Web, Protocol, Gizchina, CNBC, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Seeking Alpha, Slashdot, The Information, TechCrunch, ZDNet, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @anmolm_, @drrajwantsingh, @nwaohaisu, @orsoraggiante, @sanjaynath, @mhbergen, and @sam_l_shead
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
A look at Mitre Corp., a government-linked skunkworks organization that has been making bleeding edge tech for US agencies for more than six decades — Whether it's an invisible Aston Martin or an exploding pen, whenever James Bond needs a high-tech edge, he heads right for Q and his secretive MI6 lab.
Tweets: @iblametom, @muckrock, @forbestech, @iblametom, @iblametom, @iblametom, @elparece, @iblametom, and @beajammingh
| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
AMD unveils its first line of workstation processors, Ryzen Threadripper Pro, with up to 64 cores, only available in OEM hardware; Lenovo is the launch partner — Last year we spotted that AMD was in the market to hire a new lead product manager for a ‘workstation division’.
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CNET, VentureBeat, PCWorld, Tom's Hardware, Windows Central, and Wccftech
Tweets: @anandtech, @tapbot_paul, and @iancutress
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat says it is testing exploring public content with vertical swipes, similar to TikTok — Snapchat could be gearing up to more directly challenge TikTok. The company confirmed it's testing a new experience that allows users to move through Snapchat's public content with a vertical swiping motion … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Two weeks after India banned TikTok, Bangalore-based short video app Roposo says it's peaking at 500K new users per hour and expects 100M users by August — - India ban helps local apps like Roposo draw millions of users — Indian firms store data in India, cater to local sensibilities
Tweets: @michalzajda and @bloombergquint
| Sean McDonald / Centre for International …: |
When the public focuses on tech instead of a holistic solution to address complex policy issues, like with contact tracing apps, “technology theater” is at work — When the public is focusing on a technology instead of a holistic solution to address complex policy issues, technology theatre is working.
Tweets: @hypervisible, @cigionline, @ruchowdh, @gquaggiotto, @wolfiechristl, @gquaggiotto, @wilbanks, @gerrymcgovern, @evanselinger, and @somtsoi
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Austin-based BigCommerce, which develops online storefronts and other e-commerce tools, files for an IPO and says it had $112.1M in 2019 revenue, up 22% YoY — As expected, BigCommerce has filed to go public. The Austin, Texas, based e-commerce company raised over $200 million while private.| Bloomberg: |
US reverses directive requiring international students take an in-person class to avoid being sent home, following a suit with support from the tech industry — - Deal ends standoff that could have sent thousands back home — Schools can now resume planning for the fall semester| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Kano releases the second-generation model of its $300 “buildable” 2-in-1 Windows 10 tablet aimed at kids, with upgraded CPU and updated design — More of a real laptop, less of a toy — Kano is releasing a second-generation model of its buildable Windows 10 PC …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Massachusetts sues Uber and Lyft, alleging they misclassified drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, following California — 'Uber and Lyft set the rates. They alone set the rules. Drivers are employees' — Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against Uber and Lyft … Sponsor Posts
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