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| Mikael Thalen / The Daily Dot: |
Twitter confirms it inadvertently verified six new accounts after a user pointed them out, says the “inauthentic” accounts are now suspended and badges removed — Six users with fake profile pics were seemingly verified less than one month after being created.
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| Mark Landler / New York Times: |
After England's defeat in Euro 2020, Boris Johnson and others condemn racist abuse of players on social media, with some calling for tougher action by platforms — The social media bigotry, directed at three players who missed penalty kicks in the Euro 2020 final, was condemned by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and most everyone else.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Broadcom is in talks to buy SAS, which sells analytics, business-intelligence and data-management software, in a deal valuing SAS between $15B and $20B — A deal by the chip maker would value closely held SAS in the range of $15 billion to $20 billion
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| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
Senate confirms ex-NSA official Jen Easterly as CISA's director, a role that was vacant since Trump fired Chris Krebs in Nov. for refuting conspiracy theories — The Senate on Monday confirmed President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
SolarWinds patches a remote code execution flaw in its Serv-U product, after Microsoft notified the company that the flaw was being exploited in the wild — SolarWinds is urging customers to patch a Serv-U remote code execution vulnerability exploited in the wild by “a single threat actor” …
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| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
Disney to raise the subscription fees for ESPN+ in the US to $7/mo. and $70/year, from $6/mo. and $60/year; price for a Disney bundle is unchanged at $14/mo. — Disney will raise the monthly and annual fees for ESPN Plus, one of three different subscription-based streaming services it operates in the U.S. …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Warner Bros. to give away 91,000 limited-edition NFTs featuring characters from Space Jam: A New Legacy, the biggest drop of NFTs for a film to date — The loony-tunes world of digital collectibles known as NFTs is now getting actual Looney Tunes. — Warner Bros., in the biggest drop of NFTs …
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| New York Times: |
A look at Facebook's long-term struggles with courting creators, as it falls behind YouTube, TikTok, and other rivals — The social network is aiming to be a destination for creators and their viral memes. But TikTok and YouTube got there first. — SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past 18 months …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
A look at Search Atlas, a tool that lets users compare Google results for the same query from around the world, showing how Google caters to different locales — Search Atlas displays three sets of links—or images—from different countries for any search.| Apoorva Mittal / The Economic Times: |
Bangalore-based Trell, a video e-commerce startup that lets creators sell beauty and other products, raises $45M Series B at a post-money valuation of $120M — Influencer-led social commerce platform Trell has raised $45 million (Rs 335 crore approx.) in a series B funding round from Mirae Asset … | Thad Rueter / Government Technology: |
Mark43, which offers cloud-based records management and dispatch systems to US police departments, raises $101M Series E, as it looks to expand internationally — Even amid calls to “defund the police,” agencies are buying new technology, boosting efficiency and enabling new types of reporting.| Mars W. Mosqueda Jr / DealStreetAsia: |
South Korea's Tridge, a marketplace for buyers and suppliers in the agriculture industry, raises $60M Series C at a $500M valuation, up from $140M in April 2020 — Tridge, a South Korean agrifood digital trading and market intelligence platform, announced raising $60 million …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Research from four US and Canadian universities shows China's Great Firewall blocked ~311K domains, with ~41K seemingly by accident, between Apr. and Dec. 2020 — - Academics tested 534 million domains during a nine-month period between April and December 2020.
Tweets: @mikeelgan and @therecord_media
| Wall Street Journal: |
After Binance froze for over an hour during a cryptocurrency crash on May 19, many users who lost money have had trouble petitioning Binance, which lacks a HQ — The world's largest crypto exchange has no headquarters, making it difficult for disgruntled traders to complain about the May crash
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PYMNTS.com and The Verge
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Ray Ozzie's Blues Wireless, a startup that sells a $49 cellular connectivity chip for IoT devices, raises $22M Series A led by Sequoia Capital and Lachy Groom — Blues Wireless Inc., an “internet of things” chip startup founded by Microsoft's former top software engineer Ray Ozzie …
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FinSMEs, PR Newswire, and GeekWire
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: ByteDance put its offshore IPO plans on hold in March after meeting with Chinese regulators, which asked the company to address security issues — Owner of TikTok video app took different approach from ride-hailing company Didi, which pressed ahead with U.S. listing
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Protocol, Ad Age, Hollywood Reporter, Insider, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, CNBC, Coinspeaker, and Tech in Asia
Tweets: @jasonzweigwsj, @schuldensuehner, @replisamcclain, @lizalinwsj, @jchengwsj, and @jchengwsj
| Bloomberg: |
FCC approves Amazon's request to use “Radar Sensors” to sense motion and “enable contactless sleep tracing functionalities” — - FCC gives Amazon approval to use airwaves for radar sensor — Device could aid ‘management of sleep hygiene,’ company says
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GeekWire, Gizmodo, SlashGear, The Verge, Input, TechHive, Android Central, CNET, KnowTechie, Pocket-lint, Insider, phonearena.com, and PCMag
Tweets: @vickerysec and @stephanie_link
| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
CryptoCompare: cryptocurrency trading volume on top exchanges fell by ~40% from May to June, but June still ranks in the top five months of volume ever recorded — - Trading volumes at the largest exchanges, including Coinbase, Kraken, Binance and Bitstamp, fell more than 40% in June, according to CryptoCompare| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Industrial technology conglomerate Fortive has agreed to acquire ServiceChannel, which makes cloud software for facilities management, for $1.2B in cash — Deal adds to Fortive's software for facilities management and construction cost accounting. — Fortive, the Everett … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Leaker Evan Blass tweets that Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event will be on August 11 and shares renders of new phones, smartwatches, and wireless earbuds — New phones, watches, earbuds, and a date: August 11th — We might now know a lot of what's coming at Samsung's next Galaxy Unpacked event thanks … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils a feature for Android 12 that lets users play a game from the Play Store before it's fully downloaded, available with “minimal developer effort” — On the first day of this year's Games Developer Conference, Google introduced a handful of Android 12-specific features …
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Android Developers Blog, Neowin, BGR, Android Police, XDA Developers, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, and SiliconANGLE
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