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| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Facebook says it has further cracked down on QAnon, removing 790 Groups and restricting another 1,950 Groups, 440 Pages, and over 10,000 Instagram accounts — The social network also said it was restricting another 1,950 groups, 440 pages on Facebook and more than 10,000 accounts on Instagram related to the conspiracy group.
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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
How the “domestic aesthetics” of Instagram repackage QAnon for the masses with little visible pushback from the platform — A blush-colored square filled with the all-caps advice SHOW UP EVERY DAY FOR SOMETHING YOU BELIEVE IN belongs to one of the least remarkable categories …
Tweets: @kevinroose, @adriennelaf, and @ruchosharma
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple becomes the first US company to reach a $2T market cap during intraday trading, two years after reaching $1T — Just two years after becoming the first U.S. company to reach a $1 trillion market capitalization, Apple has officially doubled its value to $2 trillion.
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| New York Times: |
Stocks of Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Facebook rose a combined 37% in the first seven months of 2020, while all the other S&P 500 stocks fell 6% — As the economy contracts and many companies struggle to survive, the biggest tech companies are amassing wealth and influence in ways unseen in decades.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Zoom says it is adding support for Amazon Echo Show, Facebook Portal, and Google Nest Hub Max later this year — Zoom from even more places — Zoom is expanding to a variety of new devices later this year, with the company announcing that the Amazon Echo Show, Facebook Portal …
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Zoom Blog, The Keyword, GlobeNewswire, USA Today, About Facebook, The Next Web, TechCrunch, CNET, The Next Web, XDA Developers, Android Authority, International Business Times, Thurrott, Android Police, TechSpot, Engadget, CNET, TalkAndroid.com, TheStreet, Liliputing, Voicebot.ai, Digital Trends, Mashable, Pocket-lint, VoIPWatch, MSPoweruser, Neowin, Cisco Blogs, TechHive, VentureBeat, OnMSFT.com, and Axios
Tweets: @robleathern, @privacymatters, @sriramk, @brianmcc, and @reckless
| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Facebook and Ankhi Das, its top lobbying exec in India, face questions from employees over moderation, with calls to denounce “anti-Muslim bigotry” — NEW DELHI/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) and its top lobbying executive in India, Ankhi Das … | Committee to Protect Journalists: |
Ankhi Das, a top Facebook exec in India, filed a criminal complaint against journalist Awesh Tiwari for sharing a WSJ article critical of Das on Facebook — Facebook regional director Ankhi Das should withdraw her criminal complaint against journalist Awesh Tiwari, and respect citizens' rights …
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Tweets: @caseynewton, @saketgokhale, @jason_kint, @digiphile, @rmac18, and @matthewstoller
| The Guardian: |
Avaaz: sites spreading health misinfo had ~500M views on Facebook in April; top 10 such sites had almost four times the views of top 10 reputable health sites — Research findings undermine firm's claims it is cracking down on inaccurate news — Websites spreading misinformation …
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Tweets: @justiceputnam, @hypervisible, @woelken, @avaaz, @baphometx, @andrewlegon, @tariqkrim, @karaswisher, @bbctrending, and @lizzadwoskin
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter successfully stopped the second “Plandemic” video from going viral, likely due to widespread announcements about its premier — The trick is getting the hucksters to announce a premiere date — One of the more hopeful developments at tech platforms … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Netflix confirms it's been testing a “Shuffle Play” feature, which will randomly play content based on what a user watches or saves to a list, since July — One variant is called Shuffle Play, and you might already see it — Does your Netflix home screen — you know …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Airbnb said it submitted its draft S-1 for an IPO to the SEC on Wednesday — - Airbnb on Wednesday announced that it has submitted a draft registration to the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. — Airbnb on Wednesday announced that it has submitted …
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Tweets: @shenlucinda, @cnbcdisruptors, @livcarville, @jamestitcomb, @jyarow, and @om
| Wall Street Journal: |
Trump expresses support for Oracle's TikTok bid, calling Larry Ellison “a tremendous guy” and Oracle “a great company”; Ellison has held a fundraiser for Trump — Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is Trump supporter, hosted fundraiser for the president
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TechCrunch, New York Times, CNBC, Techdirt, Bloomberg, Nikkei Asian Review, BBC, Coinspeaker, Reuters, Mashable, Fortune, CCN.com, International Business Times, GSMArena.com, Adweek, Pocket Gamer.biz, Protocol, and Music Ally
Tweets: @financialtimes, @sherman4949, @mollywood, @kevinroose, and @sarahfrier
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers say a new P2P botnet FritzFrog is using advanced measures to infect millions of SSH servers around the world — Botnet is hard to detect and with no centralized control server, harder to take down. — Researchers have found what they believe is a previously undiscovered botnet …
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Guardicore, BleepingComputer, Threatpost, Dark Reading, ZDNet, Security Affairs, and The Hacker News. Tweets: @adam_k_levin
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram rolls out “suggested posts”, appearing when users reach the end of their feed, offering related content unlike Explore feed's adjacent content — You thought you were done — Instagram is expanding its feed today with the launch of “suggested posts.”
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TechCrunch, Android Authority, Search Engine Watch, Social Media Today, Android Central, Engadget, CNN, and CNET
Tweets: @dariuszdziuk, @walldo, @dariuszdziuk, @chriswelch, @bradmccarty, @rdrv3, @ashleyrcarman, and @kaysha
| Benedict Evans: |
With ~1B active iPhones and an est. ~500M weekly active App Store users, it's time for Apple to play by new rules, and legal fights in EU and US might make it — I write a weekly newsletter around tech and media, picking the 10-20 pieces of news that actually mattered and explaining what they mean … | Pew Research Center: |
Survey: 73% of US adults say it is very or somewhat likely social media sites intentionally censor political views; 90% of Republicans and 59% Democrats agree — Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to say major tech companies favor the views of liberals over conservatives.
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Tweets: @pewinternet, @pewresearch, @noahpinion, @binarybits, @profcarroll, and @johngramlich
| David Shayer / TidBITS: |
Ex-Apple engineer details working with a US Department of Energy contractor in 2005 on a customized “top secret” iPod, likely to build a stealth Geiger counter — It was a gray day in late 2005. I was sitting at my desk, writing code for the next year's iPod.| Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg: |
Inside a ransomware attack at University of California at San Francisco as it rushes to research a COVID-19 vaccine, leading to a 116 bitcoin (~$1.14M) payment — Transcripts reveal University of California at San Francisco's weeklong negotiation to free its ransomware-locked servers.
Tweets: @carolmassar, @bw, and @bw
| Kyle Daly / Axios: |
Twitter says it has locked or suspended 47% more accounts in H2 2019 for breaking its rules than in H1 2019, due to better human oversight, policies, and tools — Twitter nearly doubled its enforcement actions against accounts engaging in abuse and harassment and saw government requests …
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Twitter, TechCrunch, CNET, and Social Media Today
| Paul Ford / Wired: |
How low-code database services like Airtable, a category often sneered at by professional programmers, let non-programmers create community databases — When people build a database to manage reading lists or feed their neighbors, that's coding—and culture. — It's a normal afternoon in July.
Tweets: @backchnnl, @codeorg, @wired, and @rozzie
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Profile of Color of Change, a civil rights group pushing Big Tech on issues of race that has gone from 1.7M members in May to 8M today — It felt hot in Brandi Collins-Dexter's attic, but nerves may have had something to do with it. — It was late June, and she was sitting in front of her computer …
Tweets: @birnbaum_e, @issielapowsky, @issielapowsky, @brandingbrandi, @colorofchange, and @protocol. Thanks:@birnbaum_e
| Nick Romeo / New Yorker: |
How Americans can draw upon European thinkers, like Dutch politician Marietje Schaake, to address issues of antitrust, Big Tech, and democratic governance — Last October, a couple of days before joining Stanford University as the international policy director at the Cyber Policy Center … | Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Chinese AI company SenseTime, blacklisted by Trump last year, says it saw its revenue surge 147% to $720M in 2019 and expects an 80% revenue growth in 2020 — - World's largest AI startup SenseTime sees business boom — SenseTime is said to expect 80% revenue growth this year
Tweets: @luluyilun and @retogregori
| Jared Council / Wall Street Journal: |
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