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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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| 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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| 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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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Microsoft says Bing is not displaying image results for “tank man” on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre due to “accidental human error” — “There are no results for tank man,” the Bing website reads after searching for the term. — Joseph Cox
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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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| 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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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Teams behind Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge unveil a development forum at W3C to standardize and build a unified, more secure foundation for extensions — The teams behind the Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge browsers have banded together to improve extensions …
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WebExtensions Community Group, 9to5Google, Thurrott, XDA Developers, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MUO, and Android Central
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| Bloomberg: |
Investigator says hackers breached Colonial Pipeline through a VPN account whose password has since been discovered inside a batch of leaks on the dark web — - Investigators suspect hackers got password from dark web leak — Colonial CEO hopes U.S. goes after criminal hackers abroad
Tweets: @williamturton and @evacide
| 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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| 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.| 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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| Christopher Bing / Reuters: |
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Tweets: @c_c_krebs, @tvietor08, @barbmcquade, @kevincollier, and @jaynordlinger
| 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, rivaling the biggest naming rights deals in pro 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, Crypto Briefing, thegamer.com, dexerto.com, Bitcoinist.com, The Block, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @tsm, @scottlincicome, @goldenboyftw, and @kellen_browning
| Bloomberg: |
Snowflake CEO says diversity shouldn't “override” merit in hiring decisions, claiming other CEOs feel the same way but are reluctant to say so publicly — - CEO Frank Slootman seeks ‘moderated’ approach on diversity — Cloud software maker went public in biggest 2020 U.S. IPO
Tweets: @nicolewong, @base10, @harisevugan, @danprimack, @danprimack, @asteadwesley, @antoniogm, @tientzuo, and @oduneweniyi
| 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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Tweets: @pewresearch, @bskorup, @karlbode, @johngramlich, and @lrainie
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