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Apple revises App Store guidelines, clarifying rules for in-app purchases from certain categories of apps and iOS 14 features including App Clips and widgets — Apple today is releasing updated App Store Guidelines with the goal of clarifying how it will approach new technologies …
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Microsoft says Apple's App Store changes still create a bad experience for gamers, who want a catalog app and not to “be forced to download over 100 apps” — The tech giant will allow game streaming services from Microsoft's Xbox team, Sony, Google and Nvidia.
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Apple's revised App Store guidelines now say game streaming services are permitted but games offered by them must be available as individual App Store downloads — In a series of new App Store rules promulgated to developers on Friday, Apple will allow services like Microsoft Xcloud …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: China would prefer to see TikTok shut down in the US as it believes a forced sale would make China appear weak in the face of pressure from Washington — (Reuters) - Beijing opposes a forced sale of TikTok's U.S. operations by its Chinese owner ByteDance, and would prefer …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Newly uncovered emails from 2016 show Peter Thiel hosted a dinner in the summer of that year with one of the most influential white nationalists in the US — The venture capitalist and Facebook board member staked his reputation on a Trump presidency. Now what does he have to show for it?
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industries unveils a military drone that can fly autonomously, form a data-sharing swarm, and track people, missiles, equipment using AI — Anduril Industries' Palmer Luckey warns of an “AI arms race” and embraces the defense sector while much of Silicon Valley shuns it.
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| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Profile of the note-taking startup Roam Research, which has raised $9M at $200M valuation from Patrick and John Collison, True Ventures, Lux Capital, others — The shift to remote work has buoyed the valuations of several startups making productivity tools.
Tweets: @kylebrussell, @youfoundanisha, @jgulden, @patel0phone, @kateclarktweets, @nickcammarata, @jbenton, @amir, @alex, @josuegio, @caseynewton, @kevinrose, @alex, @jmj, @roamhacker, @sumanthr, @mg, @rstephens, @conaw, @csvoss, @mdudas, @azeem, and @tomlyonsbiz
| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
A month after the launch of TikTok's $200M fund, some creators are complaining about the low payouts and lack of transparency in how payouts are calculated — Users say the platform's new Creator Fund is opaque and riddled with problems. The company says it's listening.
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| Jay Greene / Washington Post: |
Profile of AWS' CEO Andy Jassy who joined Amazon in 1997 and is seen as a likely successor to Jeff Bezos — Andy Jassy, the leader of Amazon's cloud computing business, is now the clear heir apparent to Jeff Bezos after the announced retirement of the retail operations chief.
Tweets: @karaswisher and @quinnypig
| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri says the company needs to “make our case as strongly as we can” against Apple's planned changes to IDFA tracking in iOS 14 — - Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said the company will push back on a planned change to Apple's iPhone operating system that would impact …
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| New York Times: |
Experts discuss worst-case scenarios for election night, from coordinated social media disinfo campaigns to ransomware targeting voter registration systems — We asked security experts to tell us what keeps them up at night — and what to do about it. — Election night, by now …
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
| David Jeans / Forbes: |
Source: NS8, a startup designed to protect online transactions, lays off ~240 staff amid SEC fraud investigation; CEO abruptly departed last week — Updated: Just months after raising over $100 million from venture capital investors, fraud prevention startup NS8 laid off hundreds of employees …
Tweets: @alexrkonrad, @hjbosch21, and @shaig
| Brian Armstrong / @brian_armstrong: |
[Thread] Coinbase CEO details how Apple's App Store restrictions, like blocking the ability to access decentralized finance apps, stifle innovation in crypto — In the wake of other companies struggling with Apple's App Store restrictions, I want to share a bit about Coinbase's own struggle here.
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