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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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GOV.UK, BBC, New York Times, New York Times, The Verge, Sky News, South China Morning Post, Fortune, New York Times, The Guardian, CircleID, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, CCN.com, Neowin, CNN, TalkAndroid.com, Digital Trends, Observer, Politico, Wccftech, Silicon Republic, International Business Times, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Reuters, Bloomberg, and CNBC
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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, Microsoft Security …, Ars Technica, iTnews, Gizmodo, Dark Reading, Threatpost, The Verge, The Hacker News, Wccftech, Computer Business Review, and Slashdot
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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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| 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, MCV/DEVELOP, GamesIndustry.biz, AppleInsider, iMore, and TheGamer
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| 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.| 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.
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| 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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| 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.
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Daily Mail and AdNews
Tweets: @loudmouthjulia, @johnwest, @jennystrasburg, @mhbergen, @benpershing, @wsjtech, and @wsj
| 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
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Tweets: @josheidelson and @amandaorson
| 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
| 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, Krebs on Security, Oracle, CyberScoop, Computer Business Review, CSO, SecurityWeek, wiki.scn.sap.com, and cloudpro.co.uk
Tweets: @cyb3rops, @onapsis, @cynicalsecurity, @campuscodi, and @cyber
| 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, NDTV Gadgets 360, PCMag, TechRadar.com, Forbes, Phoronix, cinema5D, HotHardware, HotHardware, ZDNet, PCWorld, Tom's Hardware, Windows Central, Digital Trends, and Wccftech
Tweets: @anandtech, @tapbot_paul, and @iancutress
| 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
| Frank Konkel / Nextgov: |
US House Oversight subcommittee chair for national security sends letters to Apple and Google seeking assurances on the risks of apps made by foreign entities — Rep. Stephen Lynch seeks commitments from the tech giants to be more transparent about applications on their stores.| 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, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @anmolm_, @drrajwantsingh, @orsoraggiante, @sanjaynath, @nwaohaisu, @mhbergen, and @sam_l_shead
| 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 … | 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.| 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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TechCrunch, 9to5Google, IT Management, CSO, Dark Reading, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, AnandTech, SiliconANGLE, and TechRepublic
Tweets: @gregde, @rakyll, @lizthegrey, @campuscodi, and @gcpcloud
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