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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan charged with attempting to conceal the 2016 data breach, which exposed details of 57M drivers and users, from FTC officials — Joe Sullivan, who led Uber's security team through the company's most tumultuous period, was fired by the company's newly installed chief executive in 2017.
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
An appeals court blocked an order requiring Uber and Lyft to classify drivers as employees, averting an expected shutdown of their services in California — The companies, under legal pressure to reclassify their drivers as employees, said they would halt rides unless an appeals court gives them permission to continue.
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| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
A trade body representing NYT, WaPo, WSJ, and other publishers asks Apple for improved deal terms for digital subscriptions sold through the App Store — The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are among companies seeking more favorable terms in Apple's app store
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| DL Cade / PetaPixel: |
Latest update to Lightroom for iOS inadvertently wiped users' photos and presets not synced to the cloud; Adobe says there is no way to get them back — This morning, multiple readers wrote in to alert us to a major Adobe gaff. It seems the latest update to the Lightroom app for iPhone …
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| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Airbnb announces a global party ban at its listings and an occupancy cap of 16 people, saying some users took “bar and club behavior to homes” during COVID-19 — - Home-sharing platform Airbnb has introduced a global ban on parties as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook confirms Mark Zuckerberg testified before FTC this week, as part of the agency's antitrust probe — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week testified at a Federal Trade Commission investigative hearing related to the federal agency's antitrust investigation into the tech company, the company confirmed to CNBC on Thursday.
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Sources: Apple quietly acquired Israeli AR and computer vision startup Camerai over a year ago for several tens of millions of dollars — The AR and computer vision company was purchased a year and a half ago, an example of the tech giant's strategy of silently buying up small tech companies
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Pachyderm, an open source service on Kubernetes that helps manage data for AI, raises $16M Series B led by Microsoft's M12 — Pachyderm Inc., a San Francisco startup that provides a data science platform for easing artificial intelligence development, today disclosed that it has closed …
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| South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba posts quarterly revenue of $21.8B, up 34% YoY, and profit of $6.7B, up 124% YoY, on the back of its online retail and cloud computing businesses — Revenue hit US$21.8 billion in the June quarter, up 34 per cent from a year ago, on the back of its China online retail …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google fixed a Gmail bug, which could have let attackers send spoofed emails, months after being alerted by a researcher, and seven hours after she went public — Attackers could have sent spoofed emails mimicking any Gmail or G Suite customer. — Google has patched on Wednesday … | John Kruzel / The Hill: |
DOJ asks US Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that found Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking his critics on Twitter — The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that found President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking his critics on Twitter.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A look at contact-tracing app Aura, which was a required download for students at a Michigan college and has faced criticism for its privacy and security issues — And students have no way to opt out — Schools and universities across the United States are split on whether to open for the fall semester …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: the Open Technology Fund is suing the US Agency for Global Media, helmed by a new Trump-appointed CEO, for withholding $20M in Congressional funds — The Open Technology Fund (OTF) is suing the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) over roughly $20 million in congressionally appropriated funds …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
TikTok says it removed 380,000 videos and 64,000 comments, and banned 1,300+ users, in the US since the beginning of the year for breaking hate speech rules — TikTok is the latest social media platform to peel back the curtain on its efforts to fight hate speech.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google's Pixel Buds get a new transcribe mode to translate long speeches, Attention Alerts to alert users of important events happening around them, and more — There's also a bass boost mode — Google is adding a number of new features to its Pixel Buds today.
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The Keyword, XDA Developers, Android Police, Android Authority, Neowin, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Engadget, and Android Headlines. Tweets: @suka_hiroaki
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Crypto lending and borrowing service BlockFi raises $50M Series C led by Morgan Creek Digital, bringing its total raised to around $160M — Financial services company BlockFi landed $50 million in Series C funding to develop products for cryptocurrencies. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily
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The Pomp Letter, The Block, Crypto Interest Accounts, and BitcoinExchangeGuide. Tweets: @founderflori
| Sujeong Lim / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartwatch revenue grew 20% YoY in H1 2020, despite COVID-19 and shipments remaining flat; Apple accounted for 51.4% of revenue, up from 43.2% in H1 2019 — Seoul, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Beijing, London, Buenos Aires, San Diego — The top three brands contributed more than 69% of the total market revenue in H1 2020.
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AppleInsider, ZDNet, MacRumors, PhoneArena, Forbes, Apple Must, and SamMobile
| Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
Police in NYC and Miami have reportedly used facial recognition software to arrest people who allegedly committed crimes during Black Lives Matter protests — Cops' use of the tech among the list of things protesters are demonstrating against. — Law enforcement in several cities …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, and more Google services were hit by widespread disruption globally for a few hours Thursday — A number of Google services including Gmail, Drive, Docs, Meet, Groups, Chat, Keep and Voice are experiencing service disruptions, the company is reporting on its G Suite Status Dashboard.Sponsor Posts
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