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Alphabet announces Intrinsic, a new company to build software for industrial robots, as part of its “other bets” that includes Waymo, Wing, and Verily — Intrinsic is one of Alphabet's other bets, like Waymo and Wing — Google's parent-company Alphabet has a birth to announce …
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google updates its “About This Result” panel with more context about the specific search result, including matching keywords, related terms, and local relevance — Google now list several of the factors it used to rank a result in the about this result section.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers: Apple and Google should provide more access to iOS and Android system internals to help catch more attacks by Pegasus-like spyware in real time — Amnesty International sheds alarming light on an NSO Group surveillance tool—and the gaps in Apple and Google's defenses.
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Zero Day, MacRumors, CyberNews, and The Mac Security Blog
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| Kent Duke / Android Police: |
Google is rolling out a fix for a bug in Chrome OS 91, apparently caused by a single typo, which locked Chromebook owners out of devices upon restarting — Google can't seem to catch a break when it comes to Chrome OS 91. First we saw many users reporting their devices using an egregious amount …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Twitter beats with Q2 revenue of $1.19B, up 74% YoY, vs $1.07B est., ad revenue of $1.05B, up 87% YoY, and mDAUs of 206M, up 11% YoY — - Twitter's revenue growth accelerated and surpassed analysts' expectations. — The social-media company introduced its first subscription service in the quarter.
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| Jay Greene / Washington Post: |
Amazon says it has opened an investigation into AWS' culture after a popular internal petition criticized it for discrimination against women and others — The probe comes as more than 550 workers in a cloud-computing unit supported a petition, citing “an underlying culture of systemic discrimination, harassment, bullying and bias.”| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple MagSafe Battery Pack review: well integrated with iOS and can charge Qi devices, like AirPods, but doesn't provide full iPhone 12 charge and is expensive — Apple's new MagSafe Battery Pack is a white rectangle you can stick to the back of an iPhone 12 to charge it.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China is considering turning online tutoring companies into non-profits, unable to raise capital or go public, clamping down on the $100B industry — - Edtech firms to be banned from going public, foreign capital — Vacation, weekend tutoring for school subjects will be banned
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Facebook brings its cloud gaming service to iPhones and iPads through a progressive web app, with games using Facebook Pay to accept in-game purchases — But will people know how to find it? — Starting Friday, Facebook is bringing its nascent cloud gaming service to iPhones and iPads through … | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Paystand, which is building an Ethereum blockchain-based service to enable B2B payments with zero fees, raises $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $85M — It's pretty easy for individuals to send money back and forth, and there are lots of cash apps from which to choose.
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Old stories on news sites including WaPo are displaying embedded porn videos after the domain for the defunct video service Vidme was bought by a porn company — Stories on major news sites like ‘The Washington Post,’ and ‘New York Magazine’ currently have porn embedded in them.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Taboola says it is buying retail- and e-commerce-focused ad network Connexity for $800M in cash and stock — Taboola, the company that operates a popular grid-based advertising and content recommendation network across media properties, today announced an acquisition to expand its reach further … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Two Democratic senators introduce a bill to strip away social media platforms' Section 230 liability shield if they amplify harmful public health misinformation — A new bill would make Facebook liable for misinformation — As coronavirus cases rise in unvaccinated populations …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Snap reports Q2 revenue of $982M, up 116% YoY, DAUs up 23% YoY to 293M, as its net loss shrinks 53% YoY to $152M; stock is up 22%+ — - Snap on Thursday reported its second-quarter earnings, beating expectations across the board for earnings, revenue and user growth.
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| Jaewon Kang / Wall Street Journal: |
Instacart says it is partnering with Fabric to build robot-equipped warehouses for supermarkets, with space for 10K-50K items, over the next 12 months — The grocery delivery company says it plans to build and operate fulfillment centers for supermarkets — Instacart Inc. is entering …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: EU antitrust regulators are likely to launch an investigation into Facebook's acquisition of Kustomer after an initial review ends next month — EU antitrust regulators are likely to kick off a full-scale investigation into Facebook's (FB.O) acquisition of U.S. customer service startup Kustomer …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
After initially taking down posts with the chant “Death to Khamenei”, Facebook now says it will allow the chant for a two-week period, amid protests in Iran — After the company took down several posts on Instagram that included the popular protest chant against Iran's ruler … | Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Sophos researchers say Discord's own CDN is becoming an increasingly popular malware distribution channel, with much of the malware focused on data theft — Biz insists it's trying as hard as possible to scrub clean its IRC-for-the-2020s — Sophos on Thursday warned that internet instant … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter is testing a way to downvote replies on iOS to understand the types of replies users find relevant to a conversation; downvotes won't be public — Last year, Twitter's chief product officer Kayvon Beykpour confirmed that the social network was “exploring” the idea of adding a dislike button to the app.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Kaseya says it obtained a universal decryptor for the REvil ransomware and is helping customers recover their data; it is unclear if Kaseya paid the ransom — Remote management software vendor Kaseya said today it obtained a universal decryptor for the REvil ransomware and is now in the process …
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Kaseya, BleepingComputer, BBC, New York Times, The Verge, Associated Press, Petri, ZDNet, The Hacker News, Security Affairs, Help Net Security, Wall Street Journal, CNN, TechRepublic, CRN, Tech Xplore, and CyberScoop
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q2 revenue of $18.5B, up 2% YoY, vs. $17.8B est., Data Center Group revenue of $6.5B, down 9% YoY, while PC unit sales were up 33% YoY — - Intel reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday in CEO Pat Gelsinger's second earnings report at the helm of the American chip giant.| Mike Peterson / AppleInsider: |
Apple updates Apple Music for Android with Spatial Audio and lossless quality streaming — The latest update to the Apple Music app on Android officially introduces support for Apple's lossless and spatial audio features. — Version 3.6 of the Apple Music for Android app …
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| Bloomberg: |
Digital mapping startup Matterport will begin trading after a SPAC merger that raised $640M and valued the company at $2.9B; Matterport had $86M in 2020 revenue — Matterport Inc. is set to begin trading Friday on the Nasdaq under the symbol MTTR, after seeing a surge in demand for its 3D mapping products during the pandemic.
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Profile of Dan Purcell, founder of Ceartas, a company that helps adult content creators stop piracy when their content gets stolen from sites like OnlyFans — Dan Purcell's transformation into a content protection vigilante began several years ago, with a moment of personal reckoning.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Several major websites and services, including Amazon, Steam, and Airbnb, were down for about an hour on Thursday due to issues with Akamai's Edge DNS service — Update 12:48 p.m. ET: Akamai says it has implemented a fix for the issue. “We have implemented a fix for this issue …
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