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| Nick Clegg / About Facebook: |
In response to Oversight Board ruling, Facebook suspends Trump's accounts until January 7, 2023, and says it will then reconsider suspension if conditions allow — Last month, the Oversight Board upheld Facebook's suspension of former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts following …
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| Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain: |
Facebook's two-year Trump timeout, ending just before an election season, feels like punishment in name only, out of sync with claims of fomenting civil unrest — The company must not consider Donald Trump a true threat … Facebook finally acted on the Facebook Oversight Board's ruling on whether or not to ban Donald Trump.| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on a new iPad Pro with MagSafe charging and a glass back, for release in 2022, and a redesigned iPad Mini for release later in 2021 — - Company plans Mini redesign and thinner entry-level tablet — Apple's tablet sales jumped 79% in first three months of 2021
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
EU and UK regulators coordinate to open antitrust investigations into Facebook's classified ad service Marketplace; UK is also probing Facebook Dating — Investigations into classified-ads service Marketplace ramp up regulatory scrutiny on the company in Europe
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
A 2007 email between Steve Jobs and then Apple SVP of Software Engineering, approving 3rd party iPhone apps and an App Store, surfaces among Epic trial docs — An email has been going around the internet as a part of a release of documents related to Apple's App Store based suit brought by Epic Games.
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| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Jack Dorsey says Square is considering the development of a bitcoin hardware wallet — Square is considering the development of a bitcoin hardware wallet, according to Jack Dorsey, CEO of the payments firm. — Such a product launch isn't a done deal, according to Dorsey, who previewed the concept in a Friday Twitter thread.
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Tweets: @jack, @rjwile, @susanlitv, @katienotopoulos, and @_pgauthier
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Microsoft's Bing is not displaying image results for “tank man” when connecting from US IP addresses, on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre — “There are no results for tank man,” the Bing website reads after searching for the term. — Joseph Cox
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| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Nigeria announces it will block access to Twitter, after the site deleted tweets of President Buhari making threats to the southeastern part of the country — The Nigerian government via its Ministry of Information and Culture today announced its decision to suspend the activities of social media platform Twitter in the country.
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Tweets: @fmicnigeria, @koviebiakolo, @mrmacaronii, @arunpudur, and @martinsfp
| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
Biden issues an order banning US investment in 59 Chinese tech companies that aid surveillance, substantially expanding on an earlier order issued by Trump — The new order includes firms engaged in making and deploying the surveillance technology used against Muslim minorities and dissidents around the globe.
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| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Sources: Facebook plans to launch Bulletin, its Substack clone, at the end of June; it will live outside Facebook in part to evade Apple and Google's 30% fees — Facebook wants to launch its newsletter product later this month. But it doesn't want controversial writers using it — just the ones it's recruiting.| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Crypto exchange FTX to spend $210M over 10 years to rename the professional e-sports team TSM as TSM FTX, in one of the biggest naming rights deals in e-sports — The deal between TSM, which fields competitive video game teams, and the Hong Kong-based FTX exchange, rivals the kinds …
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PR Newswire, Decrypt, Dot Esports, CoinDesk, dexerto.com, thegamer.com, Bitcoinist.com, and The Block
Tweets: @tsm, @scottlincicome, @goldenboyftw, and @kellen_browning
| Wall Street Journal: |
Director of FBI says it is investigating ~100 types of ransomware, many tracing back to Russia, and compares the challenge of this wave of cyberattacks to 9/11 — Christopher Wray points to Russian hackers, calls for coordinated fight across U.S. society — FBI Director Christopher Wray …
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INKY Blog, PYMNTS.com, HotHardware.com News, CNN, BleepingComputer, ZDNet, CyberScoop, Newser, Politico, Internet Governance Project, and Reuters
Tweets: @campuscodi, @sgurman, @amy_siskind, @ericgarland, and @anthony
| Christopher Bing / Reuters: |
| Andrew Perrin / Pew Research Center: |
Survey: since 2019, US smartphone ownership increased from 81% to 85% and broadband subscriptions rose from 73% to 77%; 30% of users report connectivity issues — Smartphone ownership and home broadband adoption are up slightly since 2019. And 30% of Americans say they at least sometimes …
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9to5Mac, phonearena.com, TechSpot, and CNET
Tweets: @pewresearch, @bskorup, @karlbode, @johngramlich, @lrainie, and @pewresearch
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok adds a new section to its privacy policy saying the app may collect biometric data such as faceprints and voiceprints from its users' content in the US — A change to TikTok's U.S. privacy policy on Wednesday introduced a new section that says the social video app …
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The White House, Input, Slashdot, SlashGear, Techaeris, Gizmodo, Pocketnow, Insider, 9to5Mac, KnowTechie, BGR, Pixel Envy, The Verge, and Tubefilter
Tweets: @tamaleaver, @thedarktangent, @serenatalkstech, @ai6yrham, @armano, @woodyatpch, @daviduberti, and @iwillleavenow
| Politico: |
AWS hired at least 66 former US government officials since 2018; AWS employee says such hires give the company a “leg up” in winning government contracts — Amazon Web Services is snapping up former government officials who can help them gain access to lucrative federal contracts.
Tweets: @crewcrew, @_jack_poulson, @dlippman, @dlippman, @benjaminnorton, @gdebenedetti, and @dlippman
| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Apple insults developers by denying the value apps bring to iOS and ignoring the part marketing and developer reputation play in attracting people to apps — Apple's leaders continue to deny developers of two obvious truths: — That our apps provide substantial value to iOS beyond the purchase commissions collected by Apple.
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Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @marcoarment, @keleftheriou, @alexhern, @chrismlacy, @dangillmor, and @davewiner
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