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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
House lawmakers introduce five bipartisan bills to limit anticompetitive practices of tech giants like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook — The proposals could reshape the tech industry as we know it — On Friday, House Democrats introduced five new bills meant to chip away at the power …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Google commits to involve UK's competition and privacy regulators in the development of its Privacy Sandbox proposals to replace third-party cookies on Chrome — - Google will give the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority a say in its plans to replace third-party cookies on Chrome.
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Apple provided data of House Democrats after DOJ subpoenaed it during Russia leak probe; Apple notified the lawmakers after a gag order expired this year — The Justice Department seized records from Apple for metadata of House Intelligence Committee members, their aides and family members.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
EA hackers say they used stolen cookies, bought online for $10, to gain access to EA Slack, and then tricked IT support to give login tokens for EA's network — A representative for the hackers explained to Motherboard how the group stole a wealth of data from the game publishing giant. — Joseph Cox
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| Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal: |
McDonald's says hackers breached its operations in some markets, exposing some US business info and delivery customer data in South Korea and Taiwan — Hack exposed some U.S. business information, customer data in South Korea and Taiwan — McDonald's Corp. said hackers stole some data …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple finally adds support for Windows Precision Touchpad drivers in its latest Boot Camp update but only on Intel Macs with a T2 chip — MacBooks running Windows now have much better trackpad support — Apple is finally adding support for Windows Precision Touchpad drivers in its latest Boot Camp update.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Google abandons experiment to hide parts of site URLs in the Chrome address bar, which ran from June 2020 to June 2021 — Google's experiment to hide parts of a site's URL in the Chrome address bar (the Omnibox) has failed and has been removed from the browser earlier this week.
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| Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: |
Some attendees of Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, which had no mask or proof of vaccine requirements for its 12K guests, say they tested positive for COVID-19 — The event had no face mask or proof of vaccine requirements for its roughly 12,000 attendees
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia acquires DeepMap, which is building high-definition maps for autonomous vehicles; DeepMap has raised $91M from investors — Chipmaker Nvidia is acquiring DeepMap, the high-definition mapping startup announced. The company said its mapping IP will help Nvidia's autonomous vehicle technology sector, Nvidia Drive.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Volkswagen says a vendor's security lapse exposed details of 3.3M+ customers spanning 2014 to 2019, including sensitive data of 90K clients in the US and Canada — Volkswagen says more than 3.3 million customers had their information exposed after one of its vendors left a cache of customer data unsecured on the internet.| Ben Brody / Protocol: |
FTC says Amazon has agreed to pay $61.7M+ to settle charges that it failed to pay Flex drivers the full amount of tips they received over two and a half years — Amazon will pay almost $62 million to settle allegations by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it avoided handing over the full pay … | Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
Kepler Communications, which is building a network with 200 satellites aiming to offer internet service outside of the Earth by 2023, raises $60M Series B — - Kepler Communications, a start-up that is building a satellite internet network for service outside of the Earth, raised $60 million in a new round of funding.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: |
NLRB expands its complaint against Google to add three more fired workers who say the company retaliated against them for protesting against its work with CBP — The NLRB is expanding its complaint against Google for allegedly retaliating against employee activists in what could turn out to be a precedent-setting decision.
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| Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
Flyhomes, an end-to-end homebuying service that lets buyers make upfront cash offers for a house, raises $150M Series C — End-to-end homebuying startup Flyhomes has raised $150 million in a Series C round of funding, the company announced Thursday. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily
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YC's decision to remove two of its CEOs who critiqued the accelerator publicly from its program raises questions about how YC moderates its community — A look into how a famed, yet feared, accelerator handles dissent — Community has never felt louder in startupland.
Tweets: @lzsthw, @martinsfp, and @pardesoteric
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Fresha, a beauty and wellness booking service, raises $100M Series C led by General Atlantic, bringing its total raised to $132M — Beauty and wellness businesses have come roaring back to life with the decline of Covid-19 restrictions, and a startup that's built a platform …
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Google plans to change its search algorithm to prevent sites that extort people to remove slanderous content from appearing in search results for people's names — In response to Times articles, the search giant is changing its algorithm, part of a major shift in how Google polices harmful content.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
US DOJ says it seized the servers and domains of SlilPP, a marketplace for stolen login credentials, in a joint operation with Germany, Netherlands, and Romania — The US Department of Justice announced today it seized the servers and domains of SlilPP, a well-known online marketplace …
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