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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Activision Blizzard says president J. Allen Brack is leaving the company, replaced by Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra, as the fallout from CA lawsuit continues — Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra will take over as co-leaders — In the last week or so, we've learned about the state of California filing …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan on monetizing Shorts, content moderation with Content ID, YouTube TV, competing with TikTok, and more — YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan joined Decoder this week to discuss YouTube's new $100 million fund to begin paying creators …
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Tweets: @reckless, @reckless, and @alexeheath
| Chong Koh Ping / Wall Street Journal: |
After Chinese state media criticized online gaming as “opium for the mind” in a now-deleted article, Tencent announces stricter rules for young users — Shares of NetEase and Bilibili also suffer steep falls — Shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd. and rivals plummeted Tuesday …
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| Bloomberg: |
Q&A with SEC chair Gary Gensler on protecting cryptocurrency investors from fraud, regulating the industry, Bitcoin ETFs, and other SEC priorities like GameStop — It's become a parlor game in Washington, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley to figure out where U.S. Securities …
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Tweets: @mayazi, @apompliano, @jtseo9, @hkanji, @garygensler, @crypto, and @brucefenton
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Microsoft tells employees it will require proof of vaccination to enter a Microsoft building in the US starting September, with medical and religious exceptions — The full opening of its US offices will be ‘no earlier’ than October 4th — Microsoft has informed employees that it will require proof …
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Windows Central, Thurrott, ZDNet, Seattle Business Journal, GeekWire, CNET, Gizchina, OnMSFT.com, and CNBC
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple rolls out three new AMD Radeon Pro graphic card modules for Intel-based Mac Pros; the options range from $2,400 to $5,600 in build-to-order configurations — Apple has rolled out three new graphics card modules for the Intel-powered Mac Pro today. The new graphics card modules include …
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AppleInsider, GlobeNewswire News Room, iThinkDifferent, MacRumors, The Verge, Macworld, PCMag, MacRumors, iMore, iPhone Hacks, and iMore
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Spotify is testing Spotify Plus, a low-cost tier that includes ads but doesn't impose limits on track skipping and lets users pick specific songs to play — Spotify Plus is being piloted with a ‘limited number’ of users — Spotify Plus is a new $.99 subscription tier being piloted …
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TNW, mobilesyrup.com, PCMag, TechHive, Neowin, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, Livemint, Softpedia News, TechRadar, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Phandroid, 9to5Mac, MUO, Trusted Reviews, Engadget, iMore, MacRumors, phonearena.com, KnowTechie, TechSpot, and Mashable. Tweets: @shiraovide
| Andrew Kersley / Wired UK: |
Sources: well over 100 UK-based employees at Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery unit have lost their jobs since 2019, as the company scales back its ambitions — Amazon has triggered mass redundancies and transfers as it winds down a huge part of its UK drone delivery business
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New York Post, The Verge, CNET, SlashGear, and DroneDJ
Tweets: @tashabernal, @hkanji, @markdistef, @jamestitcomb, @olifranklin, @sam_l_shead, @andrewkersley, and @rupertmyers
| The Information: |
Facebook confirms it is building a team of AI researchers to study ways of analyzing encrypted data without decrypting it, potentially helping better target ads — Facebook is bulking up a team of artificial intelligence researchers, including a key hire from Microsoft …
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MacRumors and Engadget
Tweets: @theinformation, @wcathcart, @chrisbrogan, @rachelbovard, @alexhern, @mshannahmurphy, @markdistef, and @jessicalessin
| Antoine Gara / Forbes: |
How Michael Dell oversaw Dell's expansion after taking it private, growing the company to $75B, by focusing on providing infrastructure to businesses and others — After years battling Silicon Valley skeptics and Wall Street adversaries, Michael Dell has pulled off the deal of the century …
Tweets: @antoinegara, @forbes, @bgurley, @johnbyrnecso, @danprimack, @antoinegara, and @chrishelman
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Citizen launches Protect, a $20/month service that offers access to a Citizen operator and other features, after a 100,000-user beta test — After months of testing with upwards of 100,000 beta testers, Citizen today is launching its premium Protect offering for all users.
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Reuters, CITIZEN, CNN, Engadget, PCMag, USA Today, Vox, and The Verge
Tweets: @richardhanania, @hypervisible, @citizenapp, @gregghoush, @eculliford, and @eculliford
| Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
The confusing language in the infrastructure bill's crypto provision suggests that nearly any entity in crypto is a broker and must collect their users' data — The forthcoming Senate draft of Biden's infrastructure bill—a 2,000+ page bill designed to update the United States' roads …
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Washington Post, Jeremy Rubin, Tom's Hardware, CoinDesk, New York Times, Techdirt, Breitbart, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Blockonomi, Decrypt, and Forkast
Tweets: @sentoomey, @eff, @opensecretsdc, @reptedbudd, @hshaban, and @technologypoet
| Rob Price / Insider: |
UK-based Emojipedia, an encyclopedia for emoji founded in 2013, says it has been acquired by smartphone software company Zedge — - Emojipedia has been acquired by smartphone software company Zedge for an undisclosed amount. — The online emoji encyclopedia was founded in 2013, and has 500 million-plus yearly pageviews.
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Emojipedia, ACCESSWIRE, and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @jeremyburge, @jeremyburge, and @emojipedia
| Boris Metodiev / Strategy Analytics: |
Xiaomi became Europe's top smartphone vendor in Q2 with 12.7M units shipped, up 67.1% YoY, followed by Samsung with 12M, down 7% YoY, and Apple with 9.6M — According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Europe smartphone shipments grew a strong +14% YoY to 50.1 million units in Q2 2021 …
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers were able to quickly circumvent security protections of a laptop that followed virtually all NIST recommendations, including TPM and UEFI SecureBoot — Sometimes, locking down a laptop with the latest defenses isn't enough. — Let's say you're a large company that has just shipped …
Tweets: @mjg59, @dangoodin001, @concentrateddon, @dangoodin001, @dangoodin001, @dangoodin001, and @dangoodin001
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
After Chinese regulators halted its IPO, Alibaba's Ant Group reports Q1 profit fell to $2.1B, down 37% from the previous quarter — Ant Group Co.'s profit fell to $2.1 billion in the March quarter after Chinese regulators thwarted its record initial public offering and told it to overhaul its sprawling operation.
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| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
A bipartisan Senate investigation finds that, despite years of warnings, many US government agencies have not established effective cybersecurity programs — Several major federal agencies continue to fail to address recurring cybersecurity vulnerabilities or implement basic standards …
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Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, The Hill, CyberScoop, Engadget, CBS News, FedScoop, NBC News, and Washington Post. Tweets: @ron_miller
| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Apple makes Magic Keyboard with Touch ID available as a standalone product for $149; the keyboard is only compatible with Apple silicon Macs — Apple has made the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, which previously was only available with the purchase of the new 24-inch iMac, available for purchase individually for $179.
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9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, BetaNews, Macworld, mobilesyrup.com, Appleosophy, Engadget, The Verge, Redmond Pie, KnowTechie, TechSpot, Six Colors, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, MacDailyNews, iMore, Wccftech, AppleInsider, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @reneritchie, @michaelsteeber, @_inside, @samifathi_, and @davezatz
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rapyd, which offers APIs to add financial services like payments, raises $300M Series E led by Target Global, sources say at a $8.75B valuation — Neobanks, other financial startups, and the basic concept of “finance anywhere” are seeing huge gains at the moment, and today …
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PR Newswire, FinLedger, FinSMEs, Forbes, Tech.eu, Rapyd, SiliconANGLE, Crunchbase News, and Finextra
| Laurel Deppen / GeekWire: |
Hootsuite says it has acquired Montreal-based conversational AI startup Heyday, which offers a unified messaging platform for retailers, for ~$48M — Hootsuite, the Vancouver, B.C.-based social media management platform, announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Heyday, a conversational AI platform, for about $48 million USD.
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BetaKit, Globe and Mail, GlobeNewswire News Room, and The Logic
| Dmitry Smilyanets / The Record: |
Interview with BlackMatter, a new ransomware group that only targets companies with $100M+ revenue and says it will avoid certain industries like healthcare — Editor's Note: In July, a new ransomware gang started posting advertisements on various cybercrime forums announcing that it was seeking …
Tweets: @chainalysis, @smdiehl, @dcuthbert, and @therecord_media
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google unveils Pixel 6, with 6.4" 90Hz display, and Pixel 6 Pro, with 6.7" 120Hz display and 4x optical zoom, with a Google-designed Tensor SoC, coming in fall — Google's new Tensor SoC is the heart of its next phone — Google is announcing the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro today …
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Financial Times, The Information, XDA Developers, ZDNet, 9to5Google, HotHardware.com News, Digital Trends, Droid Life, Forbes, Android Police, Pocketnow, phonearena.com, Livemint, Silicon Canals, iThinkDifferent, SamMobile, Telecoms.com, Patently Apple, Android Central, BGR, TechCrunch, RCR Wireless News, and TechRadar
| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
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Barron's Online, Silicon Republic, XDA Developers, Digital Trends, phonearena.com, TNW, and Insider
Tweets: @sundarpichai, @deitaone, and @atomicthumbs
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
A look at a community of libertarian-leaning Bitcoin enthusiasts in New Hampshire raided in March by the feds, who allege an unlicensed money transmittal scheme — The sky was still dark when the agents arrived at Leverett St. in Keene, New Hampshire, a leafy block of kit houses at the quiet edges of the small college town.
Tweets: @russellbrandom, @russellbrandom, and @russellbrandom
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apptopia: anonymous messaging app Sendit, which uses Snap Kit to work with Snapchat features, surges with 3.5M installs, two months after Snap banned Yolo, LMK — In May of this year, Snap banned two Snapchat platform apps that allowed users to send anonymous messages, Yolo and LMK … Sponsor Posts
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