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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is delaying return to office deadline by at least a month to October amid rising COVID cases, will give employees a month's notice before return — - The iPhone maker is now eyeing an October return for workers — Covid-19 variants continue to spread across many countries
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Tweets: @amydiehl, @sesmith, @engineering_bae, @seldo, @gruber, and @jeffnolan
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Amnesty International researchers published a toolkit to help anyone scan their iPhone and Android devices for evidence of compromise by NSO's Pegasus spyware — Over the weekend, an international consortium of news outlets reported that several authoritarian governments — including Mexico …
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| Washington Post: |
Phone numbers belonging to ten prime ministers, three presidents, and a king were among the list of 50K potential NSO targets, leaked to Amnesty International — Spies for centuries have trained their sights on those who shape destinies of nations: presidents, prime ministers, kings.
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| Dave Gershgorn / The Verge: |
DuckDuckGo launches a new Email Protection service that forwards emails from a free “@duck.com” address to users' regular inbox after scanning them for trackers — This is your chance to get an ‘@duck.com’ email address — DuckDuckGo is launching a new email privacy service meant …
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Spread Privacy, BetaNews, Engadget, and Thurrott
Tweets: @duckduckgo, @martinsfp, and @fleming77
| Forbes: |
BlockFi CEO confirms it received an order from the New Jersey Bureau of Securities to stop accepting new Interest Accounts; existing users won't be impacted — I write about how digital assets are going to change the world — According to a draft press release from the New Jersey Office …
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The Block, Bitcoin News, Protos, CryptoSlate, Crypto Briefing, Coinspeaker, Forkast, Cointelegraph, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Cryptonews, CoinDesk, and Decrypt
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| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Sources: a group of Facebook data scientists asked for resources to measure COVID misinfo on Facebook at the start of the pandemic, but execs denied the request — The company doesn't know some specifics about how falsehoods about Covid-19 and vaccines for the virus spread on its social network.
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Ars Technica, TIME, The Hill, BBC, Platformer, CNET, NBC News, and Insider
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| Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter begins rolling out a preview of a revamped TweetDeck in the US, Canada, and Australia, featuring an option for wider columns, an Explore column, more — Twitter is beginning to test a completely redesigned version of TweetDeck, the company announced today.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
YouTube acquires India-based social commerce startup Simsim, sources say for over $70M; Simsim raised $17M to date and was last valued at $50.1M — YouTube has acquired social commerce startup Simsim, the Google-owned firm said on Tuesday. Neither of the firms disclosed the terms of the deal … | noyb.eu: |
Austria's Supreme Court asks CJEU if Facebook “undermines” GDPR by treating a contract as consent to deliver targeted ads, following a request from Max Schrems — BREAKING: Austrian Supreme Court asks CJEU if Facebook “undermines” the GDPR by confusing ‘consent’ with an alleged ‘contract’.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Square launches Square Banking, which offers savings, checking, and loan services to Square merchants — Building on the success of the Square Debit Card and Square Capital, the company is launching Square Banking, a combination of savings, checking and loan services for Square merchants.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Titan, an investing app with ~30,000 users and ~$500M in assets under management, raises $58M Series B led by a16z, valuing the startup at $450M — Titan, a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at the new generation of “everyday investors,” …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
US, EU, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, and NATO blame China for cyberattacks, including the massive attack on Microsoft's Exchange Servers in March — The U.S., NATO and other allies are collectively calling out China for malicious cyberattacks, including a March attack that exploited a flaw in Microsoft's Exchange Server.
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The White House and GOV.UK. More:
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Tweets: @nakashimae, @nicoleperlroth, @shanvav, @billbirtles, @nytimesbusiness, @repcolinallred, @nicoleperlroth, @dojnatsec, @dnvolz, @keithjkrach, @datadrivenmd, @quicktake, @senblumenthal, @cisagov, @dalperovitch, @dod_policy, @tom_fowdy, @tom_fowdy, @realpnavarro, @benjamint0001, @axios, @tomhfh, @dnvolz, @kevincollier, @stuartklau, @ericgeller, @gossithedog, @chigrl, @gordoncorera, @theresaafallon, @nickschifrin, @etaylaw, @reenabhardwaj, @gazthejourno, @jeppekofod, and @marquardta
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
OpenSea, one of the largest marketplaces for NFTs, raises $100M Series B led by a16z at a $1.5B valuation; OpenSea had $160M in digital asset sales in June — The NFT venue has crossed into the rarefied air of crypto unicorns. — OpenSea, one of the largest digital art marketplaces …
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TechCrunch, OpenSea Blog, SiliconANGLE, Blockworks, VentureBeat, FinSMEs, Coinspeaker, Fast Company, The Block, Crypto Briefing, Forbes, and Decrypt. Tweets: @katie_haun
| Keith Barry / Consumer Reports: |
Videos of Tesla customers using Full Self-Driving beta 9, rolled out to select users, show a system that seems dangerous for users to be testing on public roads — Consumer Reports' car safety experts worry that Tesla continues to use vehicle owners as beta testers for its new features, putting others on the road at risk
Tweets: @giacaglia, @giacaglia, @giacaglia, @giacaglia, @giacaglia, @giacaglia, @giacaglia, @giacaglia, @pomeranian99, and @pomeranian99
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Mural, which offers a whiteboard-like digital environment for users to collaborate, raises $50M Series C, valuing it at $2B+, says it's tripled ARR in last year — This morning Mural, a startup that builds digital collaboration software with a focus on visual presentation …
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| Jordyn Holman / Bloomberg: |
Fabric, which helps companies build their own e-commerce sites, raises $100M, source says at a valuation of $850M — - Funding gives the platform developer a value of $850 million — Fabric, a startup specializing in e-commerce platform development, raised $100 million in new funding … | GOV.UK: |
UK proposes new pro-competition rules for digital economy, including allowing its Digital Markets Unit to suspend, block, and reverse decisions by tech giants — Digital firms with deep-rooted market power to be subject to mandatory code to drive up competition
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MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, iMore, phonearena.com, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @dcms, @oliverdowden, and @technation
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: AT&T is in discussions to sell Xandr to Indian ad tech company InMobi; the mismanaged ad unit has annual revenue of ~$300-$380M and losses of $50-$90M — AT&T is in discussions to sell its ad unit to Indian ad tech giant InMobi, sources tell Axios.
Tweets: @sarafischer, @aripap, @loupas, @awolk, @loudmouthjulia, @reckless, and @karlbode
| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
China calls out 145 apps, including those from Amazon and ByteDance, alleging that they illegally collected user info, and gives them until July 26 to stop — The 145 named apps have until July 26 to take corrective measures or face punishment, the Ministry of Information Technology (MIIT) … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Substack is funding the launch of podcast network Booksmart, which will start with five podcasts; subscribers will get extra content for $7/month or $70/year — Substack is funding the launch of a new podcast network called Booksmart Studios, executives tell Axios.| Globe and Mail: |
Ottawa used facial recognition on ~2.95M travelers at Toronto's Pearson airport between July and Dec. 2016, experts say with no public discussion in advance — In an effort to identify potential deportees, the federal government quietly tested facial recognition technology on millions …
Tweets: @lex_is and @moore_oliver
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Uber expands grocery delivery service to more than 400 US cities and towns, including SF, NYC, and DC, partly fueled by a partnership with Albertsons Companies — announced the first major expansion of its — grocery delivery service in the US. The company is more than doubling the number … Sponsor Posts
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