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| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
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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| 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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Wall Street Journal, Big Technology, Gizmodo, US Senate, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, and Axios
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Q&A with Zuckerberg about his vision for the metaverse and its potential to further splinter our sense of shared reality, Biden's comments about Facebook, more — As June came to an end, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees about an ambitious new initiative.
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| 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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Akamai Edge DNS and GTM Status, CNBC, The Verge, CNN, Engadget, MacRumors, New York Times, TechCrunch, PCMag, AppleInsider, The Register, Entrackr, SiliconANGLE, searchenginejournal.com, Android Police, CNET, and Windows Central
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| Nature: |
Arm details PlasticARM, a 32-bit processor built on a flexible substrate, that it says can lead to embedding of low-cost, ultrathin chips into everyday objects — Nearly 50 years ago, Intel created the world's first commercially produced microprocessor—the 4004 (ref. 1), a modest 4-bit CPU …
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SiliconANGLE, New Scientist, eeNews Europe, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, The Register, Tom's Hardware, and Android Authority
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
DeepMind says it used AI to create a “transformative” map of human proteins; some compare the potential impact of the work to that of the Human Genome Project — DeepMind plans to release hundreds of millions of protein structures for free — AI research lab DeepMind has created …
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New York Times, BBC, MIT Technology Review, Deepmind, The Guardian, Wired UK, TNW, STAT, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch
| 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; stock is up 8%+ — - 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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Twitter, Inc., TechCrunch, Adweek, Barron's Online, ZDNet, MarketWatch, Reuters, TheStreet, Wall Street Journal, Ad Age, Financial Times, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Snap Q2: revenue of $982M, up 116% YoY, DAUs up 23% YoY to 293M, and net loss shrunk 53% YoY to $152M; stock is up 13%+ after hours — - Snap on Thursday reported its second-quarter earnings, beating expectations across the board for earnings, revenue and user growth.
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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.
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google updates its “About This Result” panel with more context about a 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.
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The Keyword, Reuters, The Verge, Axios, Android Police, MUO, fossbytes.com, 9to5Google, and searchenginejournal.com. Tweets: @lilyraynyc. Thanks:@rustybrick
| 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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BleepingComputer, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, CNN, HotHardware.com News, SiliconANGLE, CyberScoop, TechRepublic, and CRN
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| Edwin Chan / Bloomberg: |
Sources: China sees Didi's decision to go public despite pushback from regulators as a challenge to its authority and is considering unprecedented penalties — - Regulators weigh several penalties, from fine to delisting — Ride-hailing startup raised $4.4 billion in U.S. listing
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CNBC, New York Post, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @niubi, @pelstrom, @pelstrom, @retheauditors, and @rodalzmann
| 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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USA Today, The Daily Dot, Android Headlines, TechCabal, The Irish Times, and NBC News
| Michael Corkery / New York Times: |
Amazon ends use of arbitration for customer disputes, which critics said put consumers at a huge disadvantage; disputes can now be pursued in federal court — Now they will be pursued in federal court, a significant retreat from a strategy that often helps companies avoid liability.
Tweets: @seattletimes, @shiraovide, @shatter242, @tdlenk, and @bettermarkets
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram is testing Limits, which lets users facing a flood of harassment temporarily limit comments and messages from specific groups of followers — Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed the company is testing a new feature called “Limits,” which would give users the ability to temporary lock …
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Forbes, Engadget, SlashGear, and CNET
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Report: AI startups scored a record $20B in funding in Q2 2021, with 24 companies reaching $1B valuations for the first time, and had a record number of 11 IPOs — Watch now. — The pandemic spurred investments in AI across nearly every industry. That's according to CB Insights' AI …
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| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Neuralink competitor Paradromics raises $20M Seed led by Prime Movers Lab; so far in 2021 brain-machine interface startups have raised $132.8M — A competitor to Elon Musk's Neuralink said it raised $20 million, enough to get it on track to introduce a new generation of powerful and tiny electrodes to the human brain.
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| Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: |
OpenSesame, a marketplace for corporate learning programs, raises $50M led by JMI Equity, bringing its total raised to ~$100M — Portland online education portal OpenSesame reported $50 million in new funding Thursday, buoyed by interest in new workforce training options during the remote working era.| FinSMEs: |
Interos, whose ML-based platform helps clients like NASA and DOD monitor and flag supply chain issues in real time, raises $100M Series C at a $1B valuation — Interos, an Arlington, VA-based supply chain risk management and operational resilience technology company, raised $100m in Series C financing.
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GlobeNewswire News Room and Interos
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Motorola's flagship Moto G100 phone, launched in March, is now available in the US for $599, with triple camera setup, Snapdragon 870 chipset, 128 GB of storage — It comes with a 5,000mAh cell and a $599 MSRP — Motorola is now selling the Moto G100 in the US, after introducing it earlier …
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XDA Developers, CNET, SlashGear, and Android Central
| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Uber Freight to acquire Transplace, which makes transportation management software, from TPG, in a deal that values Transplace at $2.25B — - Uber Freight, the rideshare company's trucking division, said Thursday it's acquiring Transplace in a deal that values the transportation logistics company at $2.25 billion.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: grocery delivery startup Gopuff is raising up to $1B Series H at a pre-money valuation of $14B; Gopuff raised $1.15B at an $8.9B valuation in March — Gopuff, the “instant” grocery delivery startup that has been on an acquisition and expansion tear in the last several months to scale its business … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google's unified smartwatch platform with Samsung to be called Wear OS 3 and come as an update to a few watches in H2 2022, not including any Tizen watches — Only a few current watches will get it, but not until late 2022 — Google has finally given its new, unified smartwatch platform a name — and it's an obvious one: Wear OS 3.
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