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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.
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Gizmodo, Insider, and Nieman Lab
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Windows 365, letting businesses stream a version of Windows 10 or 11 in a web browser or through its Remote Desktop app, launching August 2 — Windows 365 is a new service that creates Cloud PCs — Microsoft is putting Windows in the cloud.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, Microsoft, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, Petri, GeekWire, TechRepublic, AppleInsider, ZDNet, Tom's Hardware, TechCrunch, The 8-Bit, BetaNews, PCWorld, CRN, Livemint, Australian Financial Review, Engadget, XDA Developers, Thurrott, VentureBeat, BleepingComputer, Microsoft, CNBC, The Official Microsoft Blog, TechSpot, Bloomberg, Insider, Digital Trends, cloudpro.co.uk, Windows Experience Blog, MSPoweruser, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @jordannovet, @backlon, @kylebrussell, @jordannovet, @microsoft365, @swiftonsecurity, and @tomwarren
| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
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
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Facebook, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, CNN, AppleInsider, Engadget, Insider, Financial Times, Reuters, The Verge, Washington Post, CNET, Axios, VICE, The Daily Dot, Daily Mail, Human Events, The Hill, New York Post, Android Central, Politico, CNBC, TIME, Fast Company, and Tech Xplore
| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will pay $1B to creators by the end of 2022; creators can earn money using Instagram or Facebook tools or by hitting milestones — Facebook is setting up a program to pay $1 billion to creators through the end of 2022, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive …
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About Facebook, Engadget, The Verge, Reuters, CNET, Variety, CNBC, and The Wrap
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @mathewi, @mosseri, @kantrowitz, @jetscott, @ow, @taylorlorenz, @kurtwagner8, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @joshsternberg, @kashhill, and @kerrymflynn
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Twitter says it will retire Fleets, its stories-like service, on August 3 after low adoption — A fleeting moment for Fleets — Say goodbye to Fleets, the row of fullscreen tweets at the top of the Twitter timeline that expire after 24 hours. The ephemeral tweet format is shutting …
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Ad Age, Twitter, Engadget, MacRumors, and Variety
Tweets: @twitter, @twittersupport, @tomwarren, @twittersupport, @alexeheath, @ow, @alexhern, @alexeheath, @twittersupport, @tobi, @tobi, @ow, @taylorlorenz, @thekenyeung, @zacbowden, @caseynewton, and @backlon
| 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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The Verge, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, KnowTechie, MacDailyNews, BGR, TechSpot, MACお宝 …, SlashGear, CNBC, phonearena.com, Coinspeaker, TechRadar, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, iThinkDifferent, Trusted Reviews, Laptop Mag, Digital Trends, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, and MacRumors
Tweets: @vladsavov, @snazzyq, @markgurman, @mgsiegler, and @zollotech
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
As very few iOS users opt into tracking, Facebook's many advertisers are noticing a negative impact on tracking campaigns, targeting new customers, and more — People give iOS apps permission to track their behavior just 25% of the time — When users get asked on iPhone devices …
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, MacDailyNews, VentureBeat, iMore, and iMore
Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @robleathern, and @sarahfrier
| 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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European Central Bank, European Central Bank, CoinDesk, Blockworks, Forbes, Politico, Silicon Republic, Wccftech, CNBC, Crypto Briefing, Reuters, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @ecb, @ecb, @peterbofinger, @lagarde, @vdombrovskis, and @ecb
| Stephanie Chan / Sensor Tower Blog: |
TikTok has passed 3B installs globally across iOS and Android, the first non-Facebook app to do so — ByteDance's TikTok had an eventful 2020, setting new records and thriving despite threats of government bans in more than one country. Although the app was removed from India … | 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 …
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Insider, CNN, Insider, and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @orientaljanedoe, @yaeleisenstat, @yaeleisenstat, @katieharbath, @brianstelter, @yaeleisenstat, @yaeleisenstat, @willoremus, @caseynewton, @techinsider, @orientaljanedoe, @platformer, @katieharbath, @orientaljanedoe, @yaeleisenstat, @orientaljanedoe, @katieharbath, @nycsouthpaw, @jason_kint, and @parismarx
| Wall Street Journal: |
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
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PingWest and Pandaily
Tweets: @arjunkharpal, @jchengwsj, @jchengwsj, @briefnorris, and @joshchin
| Dave Gershgorn / The Verge: |
A coalition of 35 organizations demand that top US retailers, including Macy's and Lowe's, stop using facial recognition to identify customers — Lowe's, Albertsons, Macy's are already using the tech — More than 35 organizations are demanding top US retailers cease using facial recognition …
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Ban Facial Recognition in Stores and Bloomberg
Tweets: @brodyford_, @fightfortheftr, @fightfortheftr, @fightfortheftr, @kevinabarnes, @fightfortheftr, and @ihnatko
| 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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Microsoft Security Blog, HotHardware.com News, The Register, TechRadar, BleepingComputer, SecurityWeek, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @tomwarren, @mrbcyber, @campuscodi, @jarwidmark, @likethecoins, and @likethecoins
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Spotify's chief legal officer Horacio Gutierrez, who leads its campaign against Apple in the US and EU, painting Apple as an abusive monopolist — Horacio Gutierrez made his name in U.S. corporate law two decades ago defending Microsoft Corp. against charges of anticompetitive behavior …
Tweets: @lucas_shaw
| 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 … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Clubhouse debuts Backchannel, a DM feature supporting group messages and audio chat, on iOS and Android; the ability to send images or video will be added later — Never leave the app — Now, you can slide into people's Clubhouse DMs. The social audio company is launching its direct messaging feature … | Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Amazon launches its Kindle Vella serialized story service on iOS and web, which lets users unlock episodic, self-published stories via in-app purchases — launched its serialized fiction Kindle Vella store that lets you unlock episodic, self-published stories via in-app purchases.
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GeekWire, Business Wire, Android Police, and SlashGear
| 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 … | Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
Internal documents: Amazon considered building an Alexa-powered, GPS-enabled wearable device for kids aged 4-12 as part of its 2020 product roadmap — - Gadget would give kids aged 4 to 12 access to movies, games — Company is also exploring a ‘Magic Band’ wearable with Disney| 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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Agence France-Presse, Entrackr, Reuters, Financial Times, MediaNama, and TechCircle
| Paul Sandle / Reuters: |
UK's BT, which runs the EE carrier, will phase out 3G by 2023 and plans 5G coverage for all of the UK by 2028; iPhone 12 quadrupled 5G traffic since October — BT (BT.L), the owner of Britain's EE mobile company, said on Wednesday it would phase out 3G in the next two years to free up airwaves … | 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, CyberScoop, The Register, ComputerWeekly.com, Gizchina, Windows Report, and ZDNet. Tweets: @mdowd
| 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 … | 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, PCMag, 9to5Mac, Beyond Search, Facebook, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, and Search Engine Journal
Tweets: @evelyndouek, @iansherr, @mmasnick, @qwongsj, and @techledes
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Stytch, which is building APIs for passwordless authentication, raises $30M Series A led by Thrive Capital, sources say at a $200M+ valuation — There are far fewer annoying things than managing one's passwords. — There are a bunch of companies out there to help you attempt to do that.
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Stytch Blog and Business Wire
| Assaf Gilead / Globes Online: |
US-Israeli startup Cybereason, which offers endpoint detection and response services, raises $275M Series F at a $3.1B-$3.3B valuation — Former US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's Liberty Strategic Capital fund has led the financing round in the Israeli cybersecurity company.
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CRN, TechCrunch, The Times of Israel, The Boston Globe, and CTech
| 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, Engadget, Gizmodo, PCMag, mobilesyrup.com, Finbold, Input, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @stephennellis, @quinnypig, @lauramandaro, @thekenyeung, @sylviavarnham, @nickwingfield, @jessicalessin, @bysarahkrouse, and @amir
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