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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Valve announces Steam Deck, its long-rumored Switch-like handheld gaming device with a 7" touchscreen display, available in December from $399 — It starts at $399 — Valve just announced the Steam Deck, its long-rumored Switch-like handheld gaming device. It will begin shipping in December.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Microsoft and Citizen Lab say government hackers from several countries have used spyware from Israeli vendor Candiru that uses two 0-day exploits in Windows — Microsoft and Citizen Lab found a new kind of spyware made by the mysterious Israeli vendor Candiru, and targeting someone in Europe based on their political beliefs.
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The Citizen Lab, Microsoft On the Issues, The Guardian, Washington Post, The Register, Microsoft Security Blog, CNBC, iTnews, The Record, Bloomberg, SecurityWeek, CTech, Financial Times, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @jsrailton, @shanehuntley, @rondeibert, @ericgarland, @ericgarland, @selenalarson, @johnlatwc, @raffiwriter, @w7voa, @scottmstedman, @thedeshbhakt, and @jsrailton
| David Priest / CNET: |
Facebook Messenger adds Soundmojis, which add audible expressions to emoji, accessible through a loudspeaker icon — Messenger chats are about to get louder. … Facebook on Thursday launched “Soundmojis” for its Messenger app. The new feature adds the audible expressions to emoji …
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Emojipedia, About Facebook, Messenger News, 9to5Mac, iMore, and The Verge
Tweets: @alexvoica, @ianvisits, @jonah_manzano, @alexvoica, and @messenger
| Dave Gershgorn / The Verge: |
The maker of a new documentary about Anthony Bourdain says he used AI to re-create Bourdain's voice and synthesized the audio of three quotes from the TV host — ‘We can have a documentary-ethics panel about it later’ — In a new documentary, Roadrunner, about the life and tragic death …
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New Yorker, The Wrap, Tech Policy Press, TechCrunch, VICE, The Week, /Film, The A.V. Club, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, Vulture, Variety, and IndieWire
| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Some tech workers who quit the Bay Area during the pandemic are trickling back, as Twitter reopens its SF HQ and, along with Google, plans to expand in the area — Critics said the pandemic would make the industry flee San Francisco and its southern neighbor, Silicon Valley.
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Bloomberg, Big Technology, and Insider
Tweets: @mhbergen, @ubergeekgirl, @carnage4life, @kateconger, @sg, @tomgara, @nicoleperlroth, @sarahfrier, @eliotwb, @coryweinberg, @cliffordlevy, @redford, @tomgara, and @burritojustice
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Intel is exploring a deal to buy GlobalFoundries, valuing the company at about $30B; GlobalFoundries itself says it isn't aware of any talks — GlobalFoundries, owned by an investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government, has been planning an IPO — Intel Corp. is exploring a deal …
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Reuters, SiliconANGLE, CRN, The Verge, AppleInsider, Tom's Hardware, Phoronix, and Wccftech
Tweets: @anshelsag, @dylan522p, @patrickmoorhead, and @birdyword
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Dorsey says Square is creating a new business line with the aim of helping devs build decentralized financial services products, primarily focused on Bitcoin — Square Inc. is creating a new business line to help developers build financial services products focused on Bitcoin …
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The Verge, PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, CNET, The Block, Financial Times, MarketWatch, Reuters, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Benzinga, NewsBTC, and CryptoGlobe. Tweets: @jack
| Ted Johnson / Deadline: |
White House says it is alerting Facebook about posts that spread COVID-19 misinfo; US surgeon general calls on social media companies to tackle health misinfo — As the rate of Covid-19 vaccination slows and cases rise again, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called on tech platforms …
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Reuters, HHS.gov, The Hill, HHS News releases, Vox, ABC News, Insider, NBC News, NPR, New York Times, Engadget, Fox News, Reason, Mediaite, Newsweek, The Independent, Washington Times, Voice of America, Associated Press, ZeroHedge, CNET, and New York Post
Tweets: @acyn, @cbsnews, @surgeon_general, @brandyzadrozny, @brandyzadrozny, @doctorow, @tomcottonar, @fboversight, @doctorow, @doctorow, @danpriceseattle, @benedictevans, @maziehirono, @liz_wheeler, @mtgreenee, @aslavitt, @jj_rochester, @kjp46, @arneduncan, @kmunoz46, @pturnermd, @sabrevaya, @ggreenwald, @meganfoxwriter, @jackposobiec, @evelyndouek, @willoremus, @surgeon_general, @jackposobiec, @greg_price11, @abcpolitics, @drdenagrayson, @columbiabugle, @hawleymo, @bgmasters, @ggreenwald, @louisianagov, @wutangkids, @benedictevans, @jordanschachtel, @ryanafournier, @mtaibbi, @sacca, @thechrisbuskirk, @kevinroose, @drleanawen, @arkloster, @ggreenwald, and @gopleader
| Wall Street Journal: |
TSMC says it expects shortage of chips used in cars to start easing in the next few months but broader semiconductor shortage could persist until 2022 — A dearth of semiconductors has stymied manufacturing activity in the auto industry — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. …
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Nikkei Asia, Taiwan Semiconductor …, Tom's Hardware, The Verge, Reuters, Financial Times, TechSpot, and MacRumors
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| Frank Bajak / Associated Press: |
US announces anti-ransomware measures, including rewards of up to $10M for information about foreign state-sanctioned hackers targeting critical infrastructure — BOSTON (AP) — The State Department will offer rewards up to $10 million for information leading to the identification …
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CyberScoop, Department of Homeland …, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, CNN, iTnews, Mediaite, Axios, BankInfoSecurity, New York Post, Nextgov, CoinDesk, and Reuters
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Facebook says it stopped a campaign by Iranian hackers, targeting about 200 defense and aerospace personnel, primarily from the US, using fake online personas — Social media group says fake online personas were created to trick victims into clicking malicious links
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About Facebook, Wired, CNN, The Daily Beast, The Record, Bloomberg, Politico, Reuters, SecurityWeek, and Forbes
| Jennifer Broxmeyer / About Facebook: |
Facebook publishes its first quarterly Oversight Board update, noting it fully or partially implemented 14 of 18 board recommendations across 6 cases in Q1 2021 — When we launched the Oversight Board, we committed to consider and transparently respond to all of the board's recommendations.
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Platformer, Facebook, Medium, and Social Media Today
Tweets: @fboversight, @evelyndouek, @evelyndouek, @courtneyr, @evelyndouek, @diakayyali, @evelyndouek, and @evelyndouek
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
PayPal increases weekly cryptocurrency purchase limit fivefold to $100,000 and scraps its annual purchase limit of $50,000 — - PayPal users can now buy $100,000 of bitcoin and other digital assets per week, up from a previous limit of $20,000. — PayPal is also scrapping its annual purchase limit of $50,000.
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PayPal Newsroom, PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, TheStreet, The Block, cryptodaily.co.uk, Bitcoin News, Forbes, and Crypto Briefing. Tweets: @paypal
| Canalys: |
Global smartphone shipments grew 12% YoY in Q2, with Xiaomi up 83% to take a 17% share and pushing past Apple to reach the second place for the first time ever — In Q2 2021, global smartphone shipments increased 12%, as vaccines rolled out around the world, and the new normal for economies and citizens started to take shape.
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XDA Developers, SlashGear, Forbes, and MacRumors
| Sara Ashley O'Brien / CNN: |
Lyft says it will restart its shared rides option starting July 19 in Chicago, Denver, and Philadelphia, after pausing the service last year due to the pandemic — (CNN Business)Shared rides were a key part of how the founders of Uber and Lyft envisioned disrupting transportation.| Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review: |
Facebook discontinues a project to build an interface that uses brain signals to type, will instead focus on a wrist controller for VR that reads muscle signals — The spring of 2017 may be remembered as the coming-out party for Big Tech's campaign to get inside your head.
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Facebook Technology, SlashGear, and OneZero
Tweets: @boztank, @kentbye, @tsimonite, @ucsf, @patrickmineault, @edgeimpulse, and @techreview
| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Report: iPhone 12 line accounted for 63% of US iPhone sales in Q3; the iPhone 12 Pro Max had a 23% share while the iPhone 12 mini had a 5% share — A new report by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners says the iPhone 12 line accounted for 63% of US iPhone sales in the quarter ending June 2021.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Revolut raises $800M Series E from SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 and Tiger Global at a valuation of $33B; Revolut was last valued at $5.5B in 2020 — The fintech funding continues to roll in at a rapid pace, a result of the huge shift underway in how consumers spend and manage their money.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Scribd is in talks to go public as soon as this year, via an IPO in Q4 or through a merger with a SPAC, and could be valued at about $1B — Scribd Inc., an online platform for e-books, podcasts and audio books, is in discussions to go public as soon as this year, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Tweets: @katie_roof
| PYMNTS.com: |
Facebook says it will expand its Facebook Pay service beyond its own platforms, starting in August with Shopify vendors in the US — The cozy and consolidated universe of payment and digital wallet providers got a little less comfortable on Wednesday (July 14) after social media giant Facebook announced … | Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 15 and watchOS 8 beta 3 allow users to install system updates even when less than 500 MB of storage is available — As Apple continues to work on iOS 15 and other updates ahead of the fall release, the company rolled out today the third beta versions of its latest software for developers.| Decrypt: |
A US District Court judge ruled in favor of Ripple to allow deposition of former SEC official William Hinman, who in 2018 said Ethereum is not a security — The SEC argues that Ripple token XRP was an unregistered security. The judge wants to see what William Hinman has to say. — XRPSponsor Posts
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