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Ashley Carman / The Verge:

Instagram says it's retiring the swipe-up link feature, which allows users to visit external links by swiping up, in favor of tappable stickers starting Aug. 30 — The swipe-up will be no more. Instagram is planning to retire the feature, which allows people to visit external webpages by swiping up …

More: 9to5Mac, Benzinga, TechCrunch, SlashGear, MobileSyrup, Ubergizmo, and Social Media Today

Tweets: @wongmjane, @samsheffer, @junaebrown, @navjosh, @thekenyeung, @rachbainbridge, @bpopetv, @jasebyjason, @thekenyeung, @merone, @summerson, @whosjasmine, and @missbeebright

Lily Hay Newman / Wired:

Researchers find 1,000+ web apps, from Ford, American Airlines, and others, mistakenly exposed 38M records stored on Microsoft's Power Apps service — Misconfigured Power Apps from Microsoft led to more than a thousand web apps accessible to anyone who found them.

Source: UpGuard Data Breach Research. More: Slashdot, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, The Register, PCMag, Dark Reading, The Hill, Threatpost, Tech.co, MSPoweruser, StateScoop, ZDNet, Thurrott, Engadget, Neowin, AppleInsider, OnMSFT.com, and Windows Central

Tweets: @engadget, @vulgarcontend3r, @gossithedog, @arekfurt, @kennwhite, @brfreed, @mbrg0, @thesunus, @troyhunt, @lanceulanoff, @howtogeek, @privacyspeak, and @upguard

Bloomberg:

Sources: Tim Cook and Satya Nadella plan to attend a meeting with Joe Biden on Wednesday to discuss efforts by private companies to improve cybersecurity — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella plan to attend a White House meeting with President Joe Biden …

More: Benzinga, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Neowin, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Verge, and iMore

Tweets: @chuckreynolds and @agentkyle

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:

Poly Network says it has now recovered all of $610M in cryptocurrencies it lost to a hacker, and is in the process of returning them to their rightful owners — One of the most unusual cryptocurrency heists in recent memory has come to a close. On Monday, Poly Network …

More: Poly Network, VICE, The Verge, BleepingComputer, Gizmodo, CNBC, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, AppleInsider, and infosecurity-magazine.com

Tweets: @polynetwork2, @lorenzofb, @lorenzofb, @mmasnick, and @daphnehk

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:

Facebook is running a test in the US to bring voice and video calling back to the main Facebook app, to reduce the need to jump between Facebook and Messenger — - New test will bring Messenger technology back into Facebook — Facebook Inc. is bringing voice and video calling …

More: TNW, Pocketnow, TechRadar, Pocket-lint, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, SlashGear, The Verge, and AppleInsider

Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @kurtwagner8, @zerohedge, and @mattnavarra

Turner Wright / Cointelegraph:

Substack begins accepting bitcoin as payment for subscriptions, initially for a few crypto publications, using payments processor OpenNode — Substack has more than 500,000 paid subscribers, but Bitcoin payments will first be available to “a select group of crypto-focused publications.”

More: PR Newswire, OpenNode Blog, PYMNTS.com, Bitcoin News, Insider, Bitcoinist.com, Decrypt, CoinDesk, Bitcoin Magazine, BitcoinExchangeGuide, The Block, and The Mac Observer

Tweets: @coinesper, @russellbrandom, @cointelegraph, and @coindesk

Ryan Browne / CNBC:

After criticism, Centre, the consortium founded by Circle and Coinbase, says it will exclusively back its USDC stablecoin reserves with cash and US treasuries — - Digital currency company Circle says it's changing the makeup of its dollar-pegged stablecoin USD Coin to just cash and U.S. Treasury bonds.

Source: Centre Blog. More: The Block, Cointelegraph, PYMNTS.com, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Coinspeaker, and Decrypt

Tweets: @emiliemc, @emiliemc, @emiliemc, @samkazemian, @migueldeicaza, @b_eichengreen, @brian_armstrong, @emiliemc, @tylergellasch, @rulexrp, @ccatalini, @lex_node, @andr3w321, @centre_io, @jp_koning, @jp_koning, @statecommon, and @awice

Android Developers Blog:

Google says it will make app ratings on the Play Store more personalized by localizing by users' country from November 2021 and device type from early 2022 — Ratings and reviews are important. They provide valuable quantitative and qualitative feedback on your users' reported experience …

More: 9to5Google, Phandroid, MUO, TechRadar, Engadget, The Verge, Android Central, SlashGear, Neowin, Android Police, DroidMaze, and XDA Developers. Tweets: @glenngabe

Reuters:

Report: Didi has suspended plans to launch in the UK and Europe for at least a year, amid a regulatory backlash in China over data privacy — China's ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc (DIDI.N) has suspended its plans to launch in Britain and continental Europe, The Telegraph reported on Monday …

Source: Telegraph. More: PingWest, South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia, The Times, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, and DealStreetAsia

Tweets: @jamestitcomb and @telegraphtech

Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:

UN-backed initiative Tech Against Terrorism adds the Taliban to its list of terrorist organizations and will alert tech companies when Taliban content is posted — A key UN-backed group that advises the tech industry on dealing with terrorist groups online has added the Afghan Taliban …

More: Terrorist Content … and The Hill. Tweets: @techvsterrorism

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

Khatabook, which helps small Indian businesses digitize bookkeeping and accept payments online, raises $100M Series C at a valuation “close to $600M” — Khatabook, a startup that is helping merchants in India digitize their bookkeeping and accept online payments …

More: Entrackr, The Economic Times, Bloomberg, Livemint, and Moneycontrol

Varsha Bansal / Rest of World:

A look at the decade long struggle to bring the script of Tulu, an Indian language, into Unicode, and the problem of keeping languages alive in the digital age — For 10 years, experts have tried to bring Tulu to smartphones. But they can't agree on how. — • BENGALURU, INDIA

Tweets: @mvzelenks, @restofworld, @xor, @restofworld, @restofworld, @cengizyar, @dlberes, @varshaabansal, and @restofworld

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

TikTok launches Effect Studio, which allows developers to build AR effects for use in the app, in private beta in select markets including the US — Both Facebook and Snap offer tools that allow developers to build out augmented reality (AR) experiences and features for their own respective family of apps.

More: Social Media Today. Tweets: @nathanbazley

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

Pakistan-based Bazaar, which operates a B2B marketplace for merchants and helps them digitize their bookkeeping, raises the country's largest Series A at $30M — A one-year-old startup that is building a business-to-business marketplace for merchants in Pakistan and also helping them digitize …

More: DealStreetAsia, MENAbytes, and Tech in Asia

Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch:

SpaceX says it has now shipped 100K Starlink terminals to customers, and has launched more than 1,700 satellites since its first in November 2019 — Elon Musk's Starlink project, which aims to provide global broadband connectivity via a constellation of satellites, has shipped 100,000 terminals to customers.

More: Engadget, CNBC, and Wccftech

Tweets: @megaconstellati, @epro, and @tmfassociates

Kate Park / TechCrunch:

Tokyo-based CADDi, a B2B ordering and supply service in the manufacturing and procurement industry, raises $73M Series B, sources say at a ~$450M valuation — With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries …

More: Tech in Asia and Bestgamingpro

Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company:

Profile of Invisible Universe, which is developing animated franchises using characters born on social media with the help of influencers like Serena Williams — Last week, Realqaiqai, the Instagram handle for Qai Qai (pronounced “kway kway"), the doll turned social media star belonging to Olympia Ohanian …

More: The Overspill. Tweets: @ballmatthew, @serenawilliams, @mographmel, @laurenkunze, @fastcompany, @manuseuge, @chrisbrogan, @ruima, @zoescaman, @prettyboyshav, @brennanjp, @michaelsidgmore, and @rrhoover

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Trump says Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator who briefly worked at DHS, will be the next White House press secretary, succeeding Karoline Leavitt

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Bloomberg:

ForgeRock, which makes identity management software, has filed for an IPO seeking to raise $100M; sources say it may seek a valuation of $3B-$4B+

Tweets: @business

New York Times:

Apple and Google are calling on the WH to oppose a South Korean bill, set to face a vote this week, that would mandate multiple payment systems for IAPs

More: Reuters and AppleInsider

Tweets: @keleftheriou, @paulmozur, @tanarrowz, @pucknorris, @matthewstoller, @dmccabe, @crtejada, and @dmccabe

Echo Wang / Reuters:

Sources: SEC has started asking Chinese firms planning to list on NYSE for greater disclosures, including risks for investors if Chinese authorities interfere

More: PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @reuters

Patrick Klepek / VICE:

Sources detail Unity's GovTech division, which contracts with governments and militaries, as some staff complain about the lack of transparency around such work

More: PC Gamer, Kotaku, thegamer.com, Gamasutra, and Protocol

Tweets: @josephfcox, @xoxogossipgita, @fasterthanlime, and @patrickklepek

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Shelf.io, which helps companies organize info to quickly find answers and respond to customers, raises $52.5M Series B led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners

More: FinSMEs. Tweets: @base10partners and @rexhidollaku

Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac:

Apple confirms it has been scanning iCloud Mail for CSAM since 2019 but has not been scanning iCloud Photos or iCloud backups

More: Pocketnow, Pixel Envy, Slashdot, Gizmodo, TechRadar, iThinkDifferent, TechSpot, iClarified, iPhone in Canada Blog, KnowTechie, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, and iPhone Hacks

Tweets: @gregbensinger, @foxfortmobile, and @benlovejoy

Yogita Khatri / The Block:

Visa says it acquired CryptoPunk 7610, one of the 3,840 female punk NFTs, for around $150K last week, adding it to its art collection

More: Larva Labs, Meet Visa. A network working …, altfi.com, Forbes, CoinDesk, Bitcoin News, CNBC, The Daily Hodl, SiliconANGLE, Blockworks, Input, FinLedger, Decrypt, PYMNTS.com, TechSpot, Finextra, CryptoSlate, CNBC, Coinspeaker, Mashable, BitcoinExchangeGuide, CoinDesk, and Decrypt

Tweets: @visanews, @visanews, @casey, @bx, @banks, @wolfejosh, @bobbyhundreds, and @mdudas

David McLaughlin / Bloomberg:

Sources: before its acquisition by Facebook, Giphy paid investors a dividend, reducing its value and ensuring antitrust officials did not need to be notified

More: The Information, WebProNews, and Gizmodo

Tweets: @econliberties, @bdsams, @saraforden, and @kajrozga

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Kim Lyons / The Verge:

YouTube says its Partner Program has 2M creators and the number of new channels joining the program in 2020 doubled YoY as channels making $100K+ grew 35% YoY

Source: YouTube Official Blog. More: Bloomberg, 9to5Google, Barron's Online, PYMNTS.com, Adweek, Social Media Today, and Benzinga. Tweets: @fwiz