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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple's plan to find CSAM should have centered around scanning images on iCloud servers, not on users' devices, where there is a greater expectation of privacy — It was in August 2009, two months after the release of the iPhone 3GS, that the barbarians crashed the gates; from The Online Photographer:
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple publishes a CSAM FAQ to address misconceptions and concerns about photo scanning — Apple has responded to misconceptions and concerns about its photo scanning announcements by publishing a CSAM FAQ - answering frequently asked questions about the features.
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| Jeff Benson / Decrypt: |
Latest compromise amendment to the infrastructure bill's cryptocurrency clause fails to reach a vote after Sen. Shelby files an objection over military spending — The Senate rejected an amendment championed by the cryptocurrency industry that exempts non-custodial crypto actors …
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| Bloomberg: |
A bipartisan group of senators says it has reached a compromise on cryptocurrency reporting in the infrastructure bill, but the amendment may not get a vote — - Treasury Department backs the new language, senator says — Wyden concerned compromise falls short on privacy, security
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
PitchBook: 3,000+ angel investors are expected to make their first deal in 2021, up from 2,725 in 2020; angels have invested $2.1B in H1 2021 vs. $2.6B in 2020 — The once-clubby world of start-up deal making known as “angel investing” has had an influx of new participants.| Reuters: |
Shares of Krafton, the game studio behind PUBG, fell as much as 20% after the company raised $3.8B in its Seoul IPO at a valuation of ~$19B — Shares in Krafton Inc (259960.KS), the Tencent Holdings-backed (0700.HK) South Korean company behind blockbuster video game “PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds” …
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| Kim Jaewon / Nikkei Asia: |
A brief look at key executives at Krafton, the maker of PUBG, including founder and chairman Chang Byung-gyu and Brendan Greene, aka “PlayerUnknown” — Korean duo created ‘freak’ company with help from Irish developer and Tencent — SEOUL — South Korean video game developer Krafton … | Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Labor lawyers say Apple has violated worker protections by shutting down three employee-run surveys on women and underrepresented minorities' pay equity — Apple insists it does not have a problem with pay inequality. Skeptical Apple employees have been trying to verify that claim by sending …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Twitter's photo cropping algorithm favors people with slimmer, younger-looking faces, and lighter skin; a researcher was awarded $3,500 for the discovery — The service's algorithm for cropping photos favors people with slimmer, younger faces and lighter skin.
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| Reuters: |
India's Supreme Court rules that Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart must face antitrust investigations ordered against them last year by the competition commission — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Walmart's (WMT.N) Flipkart must face antitrust investigations ordered against them in India …
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| Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: |
When Amazon customers leave negative reviews, some sellers hound them to revise or delete them, in exchange for refunds or gift cards, violating Amazon policies — Don't share personal information in reviews or with Amazon sellers; save messages in case you decide to report them
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Insider, KnowTechie, Android Central, Gizmodo, The Verge, and The Overspill
Tweets: @aatilley, @nicnguyen, @joannastern, and @shortformernie
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Filings: Google is planning a campus in Silicon Valley, made up of five buildings, dedicated to hardware development; Google spent $389M on the land since 2018 — - Google is planning another new Silicon Valley campus dubbed “Midpoint.” — The five-building office campus will sit adjacent …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Trendyol, a Turkey-based e-commerce marketplace and “superapp”, raises $1.5B at a $16.5B valuation, up from $9.4B in April, to become Turkey's first decacorn — Trendyol, an e-commerce platform based in Turkey, has raised $1.5 billion in a massive funding round that values the company at $16.5 billion.
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