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Microsoft debuts Microsoft 365 updates, including tools for developers to integrate deeper into Teams, Graph updates, and Outlook message extensions on the web — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — Microsoft today announced a number …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft, an investor in OpenAI, says it's now using the GPT-3 model in its low-code Power Apps service to translate natural language text into code — Unlike in other years, this year's Microsoft Build developer conference is not packed with huge surprises — but there's one announcement …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says the next Windows 10 release will include support for Linux GUI apps — Microsoft's Build 2021 event doesn't have a whole lot of Windows-specific news, but there are some tidbits of potential interest to Windows developers, especially those wanting to run Linux apps on Windows.
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google says it's rolling out its Fuchsia OS to first-gen Nest Hubs as an update, replacing Cast OS; the new OS will not change any functionality of the device — Google's long-in-development, from-scratch operating system, Fuchsia, is now running on real Made by Google devices, namely, the first-generation Nest Hub.
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| Matt Stroud / The Verge: |
Chicago PD constantly surveilled a man after its predictive policing system said he'd be involved in a shooting, but not whether he'd be the shooter or victim — ROBERT MCDANIEL'S TROUBLES — began with a knock on the door. It was a weekday in mid-2013, as he made lunch …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
DC attorney general sues Amazon on antitrust grounds, claiming the company's practices have unfairly raised prices for consumers and suppressed innovation — Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced Tuesday he's suing Amazon on antitrust grounds, claiming the company's practices …
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| Haroon Siddique / The Guardian: |
European court of human rights rules that GCHQ's bulk interception of online communications violated the right to privacy — Judgment follows legal challenge begun in 2013 after Edward Snowden's whistleblowing revelations — GCHQ's methods for bulk interception of online communications violated …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
ARM unveils Cortex-X2 CPU, which it says offers 30% more performance than current high-end Android phones, and Mali-G710 for Chromebooks and high-end phones — first new chip architecture in a decade, it's ready to show the CPU designs that will take advantage of those improvements. The company has
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Big Sur 11.4 fixes a bug that let malware capture screenshots and camera footage using other apps' permissions; researchers found ~400 instances of the malware — It's time to update your Apple Mac again, as malware that secretly takes screenshots has been spotted exploiting a serious weakness in macOS security.
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| Josh Constine / Josh Constine's PressClub: |
Poparazzi, which hit #1 on App Store, is a new photo-sharing app that bans selfies, focuses on sharing photos of friends, and has no follower counts or comments — The future of social is multiplayer — Hyping up your friends is actually a lot more fun than self-glorification.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Weeks after announcing plans to shutdown Azure Blockchain, Microsoft debuts Azure Confidential Ledger, adding a layer of security and scalability to blockchain — Microsoft is launching a preview of is Azure Confidential Ledger service, its new Blockchain-based secure ledger.| Nick Statt / Protocol: |
On final day of the Epic vs Apple trial, many topics were revisited including how to define the market in question; judge could now take months to reach verdict — Epic v. Apple came to a close on Monday with a series of contentious back-and-forth debates in place of traditional closing arguments.
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| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Messari: transactions on decentralized exchanges totaled $122B in April vs. <$1B a year earlier; Uniswap had volume of $36.6B in April vs. $110B at Coinbase — Decentralized markets such as Uniswap account for a growing share of cryptocurrency trading — Coinbase Global Inc. … | Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Report: Amazon's ad revenue is 2.4x larger than the combined revenue of Snap, Twitter, Roku, and Pinterest, and is growing 1.7x as quickly — - The major growth in Amazon's advertising unit means its revenue contribution is now 2.4 times larger than Snap, Twitter, Roku and Pinterest combined … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Airbyte, which is building an open source data integration platform, raises $26M Series A led by Benchmark and plans to charge for a hosted version eventually — One of the major issues facing companies these days isn't finding relevant data, so much as moving it to where it's needed.
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Germany's antitrust regulator says it will conduct an in-depth analysis of Google's data processing terms, since Google enjoys a “strategic advantage” — - Company is latest tech giant targeted under tough new powers — Facebook, Amazon activities are under similar scrutiny| Washington Post: |
In a first, DHS will issue mandatory rules regulating cybersecurity for pipelines, initially to require incident reporting, after Colonial's ransomware attack — Two directives will seek oversight of the industry after a ransomware attack upended gas availability in the southeast U.S. for 11 days.| Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
Material Security, which provides email security through integration with identity-protection products like Okta, raises $40M, bringing its total raised to $66M — Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Resolve, a “buy now, pay later” billing service for business purchases, raises $60M led by Initialized Capital — Buy now, pay later is everywhere these days, mostly focused on the consumer. — Resolve — a San Francisco-based startup in the space specializing in “buy now … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian startup FarEye, whose software helps companies track and optimize their logistics operations, raises $100M Series E, bringing its total raised to ~$153M — FarEye, an Indian SaaS startup that helps firms globally optimize their supply chain and logistics operations …
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| Rory Mir / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Redditors on the archivist subreddit r/DataHoarder rally to keep Sci-Hub, which shares scientific articles for free, alive amid publisher's efforts to censor — Major publishers want to censor research-sharing resource Sci-Hub from the internet, but archivists are quickly responding to make that impossible.
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Microsoft, Accenture, GitHub, ThoughtWorks, and Linux Foundation launch the Green Software Foundation, aiming to make software engineering more sustainable — Microsoft is still working to go fully — carbon negative by the end of the decade, but effectively grappling with climate change isn't just one company's responsibility.
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| Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups: |
France-based Matera, which provides residential property management software, raises €35M Series B led by Mubadala Capital — Matera, an emerging leader in the residential property management industry, has announced a €35 million Series B funding round led by Mubadala Capital … | Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Whatnot, a livestreaming service for buying and selling collectibles, raises $50M Series B led by Y Combinator Continuity, after its $20M Series A in March — Whatnot exists with one primary goal in mind: to give people a place to buy and sell collectibles (like Pokémon cards … Thanks:@erinmfirst
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Oracle announces its first Arm-based compute offering, including an Arm option on its free tier, and commits to support Arm-based app development — The new OCI Ampere A1 instances are priced at one cent per core hour. — Oracle on Tuesday announced that its first Arm-based compute offering …
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Facebook says it partnered with Microsoft to launch the PyTorch Enterprise Support Program, helping companies use the open source ML library PyTorch — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — Facebook today announced the launch of the PyTorch Enterprise Support Program …
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