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Facebook says it is seeking the recusal of FTC chair Lina Khan in the agency's deliberations over a new antitrust case, following a similar move by Amazon — Social-media giant follows Amazon in citing Lina Khan's tech criticisms, congressional work to question her impartiality| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has asked suppliers to build up to 90M next-generation iPhones this year, up 20% YoY; this year's update will be more incremental than iPhone 12 — - Company targets 90 million shipments of this year's new models — Iterative iPhone upgrade to boost chips, cameras and displays
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Facebook employees detail a clash over CrowdTangle, a tool that showed high engagement with right-wing media, which was moved under the Integrity team in April — Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users' high engagement levels with right-wing media sources.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple and Goldman Sachs are working on a “buy now, pay later” service to let consumers pay for any Apple Pay purchase in installments, rivaling Affirm — - Service to let users pay off any Apple Pay purchase over time — Fresh partnership with Apple could boost Goldman consumer push
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
An Ugly Truth attributes many of Facebook's scandals to its capitalist origins, while arguably the biggest scandals extend from it impacting human psychology — Three ways of looking at a Facebook scandal — I. The CSO and The Wire — As the second season of the great 2000s crime drama … | Telegraph: |
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Sources: Alibaba and Tencent are separately working on plans to open their services to each other, as China's crackdown makes keeping barriers more difficult — Mounting regulatory pressure could bring about a major shift in how China's tech giants operate| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Inside the World Wide Web Consortium as members debate the future of online privacy, with browsers' engineers often at odds with companies that rely on tracking — James Rosewell could see his company's future was in jeopardy. — It was January 2020, and Google had just announced key details … | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Microsoft says the attacks targeting SolarWinds Serv-U software with a now-patched RCE exploit are the work of Chinese hacking group DEV-0322 — Microsoft said today that the recent wave of attacks that have targeted SolarWinds file transfer servers are the work of a Chinese hacking group …
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| The Information: |
In April, Amazon acquired over a dozen staff from Facebook to boost its own low earth orbit satellite internet efforts; Amazon paid Facebook to seal agreement — Amazon has acquired a team of more than a dozen wireless internet experts from Facebook in an effort to boost its multibillion-dollar effort …
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The Verge, mobilesyrup.com, Finbold, Engadget, Protocol, SiliconANGLE, and Insider
Tweets: @sylviavarnham, @lauramandaro, @jessicalessin, @bysarahkrouse, @quinnypig, @nickwingfield, @stephennellis, @thekenyeung, and @amir
| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Facebook is rolling out the ability for Group administrators to designate “group experts”, partly in an effort to help Facebook combat misinformation — The social network has been trying to combat misinformation by elevating authoritative sources.
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About Facebook, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Verge, Beyond Search, SiliconANGLE, Facebook, Gizmodo, Search Engine Journal, and Adweek
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| Reuters: |
Twitter says governments made 361 demands to remove content from 199 verified accounts of journalists and news outlets in H2 2020, up 26% from H1 — Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) saw a surge in demands over the course of last year from governments around the world to take down content posted … | Bloomberg: |
European Central Bank says it will begin a 24-month “investigation phase” that could lead to the creation of a digital euro by around 2025 — - Process will take 24 months before decision on adoption taken — ECB says infrastructure would use far less energy than Bitcoin
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| Catie Keck / The Verge: |
Netflix launches two tools for parents: a Top 10 row for age-restricted profiles and a bi-weekly Kids Recap Email to give insights into watching habits — Just like on regular Netflix — Netflix is launching two new tools this week that should help make finding age-appropriate content …
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Protocol, Engadget, About Netflix, PCMag, and Variety
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
REvil's infrastructure and websites are offline, including its data leak sites, less than two weeks after attacking 1,500+ businesses with ransomware via Kaseya — The infrastructure and websites for the REvil ransomware operation have mysteriously gone offline as of last night.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India has indefinitely banned Mastercard from issuing new debit, credit, or prepaid cards over noncompliance with local data storage rules — Reserve Bank of India has indefinitely barred Mastercard from issuing new debit, credit, or prepaid cards to customers in the South Asian market over noncompliance with local data storage rules.
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Entrackr, Reuters, and TechCircle
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Microsoft fixes 13 critical flaws, four of which are under active attack, and updates a fix for the “PrintNightmare” RCE flaw impacting Windows Print Spooler — Microsoft today released updates to patch at least 116 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software.
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Zero Day Initiative, Gizchina, Windows Report, ComputerWeekly.com, The Register, ZDNet, Threatpost, Neowin, Security Boulevard, SANS Internet Storm Center …, and BleepingComputer. Tweets: @mdowd
| New York Times: |
Two GOP lawmakers are pointing to previously unreleased emails to allege that Amazon unfairly used its influence in competing for Pentagon's JEDI cloud contract — Newly released emails show particular praise of Amazon among top Defense Department officials during the Trump administration …
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The Intercept. Tweets: @kenvogel, @repkenbuck, @saralsirota, @matthewstoller, @nytpolitics, @mideastxmidwest, @defensebaron, @repandybiggsaz, and @matthewstoller
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Discord buys Sentropy, which emerged from stealth last summer with AI-powered moderation software to fight online abuse and $13M in funding — The online chat platform Discord is buying Sentropy, a company that makes AI-powered software to detect and remove online harassment and hate.
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The Verge and Sentropy
Tweets: @jredgraves, @evelyndouek, @alexeheath, @alexisohanian, @tjc88, @jasoncitron, @jhblackb, @sentropy, @chapterone, and @garrytan
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Railsbank, which develops APIs for banking, credit products and payment cards, raises $70M led by Anthos Capital; CEO says the company is “near unicorn” status — Financial services-as-a-service — where entities like neobanks, retailers and others can create and sell …
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altfi.com, FinSMEs, Tech.eu, Crowdfund Insider, Finextra, and Silicon Canals
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Chicago-based investing app M1 Finance raises $150M Series E led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 at a $1.45B valuation, following $75M Series D in March 2021 — Just over four months after announcing a $75 million Series D, M1 Finance today is announcing a new $150 million Series E round of funding led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2.
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| The Economic Times: |
Pratilipi, which operates an online storytelling platform in India, raises a $48M Series D led by South Korean gaming giant Krafton — Online storytelling platform Pratilipi has raised $48 million (about Rs 357 crore) in its Series D round, led by South Korean gaming company Krafton Inc.| Albert Fox Cahn / Wired: |
How Twitter's rules make verification difficult for activists, with stricter requirements than for journalists, potentially reducing their credibility — A new program makes getting a blue checkmark too easy for ‘journalists’—and far too difficult for activists. — I NEVER CALLED myself a journalist until Twitter made me.
Tweets: @justinhendrix and @foxcahn
| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
PE firm Permira says it has bought a 10.2% stake in Norway-listed online classifieds giant Adevinta, worth €1.9B, from eBay — Private equity powerhouse Permira has announced a strategic investment in Norway-listed online classifieds juggernaut Adevinta, buying approximately 125 million shares …
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Permira, The Economic Times, PR Newswire, Adevinta, Silicon Canals, Reuters, and Bloomberg. Thanks:@robinwauters
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