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Investigation details ForcedEntry, an iMessage “zero-click” attack used by NSO Group that circumvents iOS 14's BlastDoor, likely used by the Bahraini government — Summary & Key Findings — We identified nine Bahraini activists whose iPhones were successfully hacked … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Microsoft says that Xbox Cloud Gaming will expand beyond PC and mobile to its Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox One consoles this holiday — - Microsoft said its Xbox Cloud Gaming service will arrive on console this holiday. — Cloud gaming lets people stream games over the internet rather than install them locally.
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| Erin Woo / New York Times: |
TikTok partners with Shopify to launch a pilot program letting merchants add a shopping tab to their profiles and link to products in their posts — TikTok and Shopify, the e-commerce platform, said on Tuesday that they were working together to add the ability for consumers to shop directly in the TikTok app for the first time.
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| Sascha Segan / PCMag: |
Testing of carriers across the US shows T-Mobile with a commanding lead in 5G, winning speed tests in 24 cities and rural regions to AT&T's eight, Verizon's two — For our 12th annual test, we drove more than 10,000 miles, speed-testing AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon 4G and 5G in cities, towns, and rural regions all over the US.
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| Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times: |
FBI says a man phished thousands of iCloud accounts via an email scam where he impersonated customer support, stealing 620K photos and 9K videos until mid-2018 — A Los Angeles County man broke into thousands of Apple iCloud accounts and collected more than 620,000 private photos and videos … | Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: |
OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely blames banks, including BNY Mellon, Metro Bank, JPMorgan, for its porn ban, but says Mastercard's rules had no bearing on the ban — Tim Stokely says Bank of New York Mellon ‘flagged and rejected’ all interbank wires linked to website
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify says all US-based podcasters using Anchor can sell subscriptions to episodes available on RSS and Spotify, expanding internationally later — Plus new price tiers and email addresses — Spotify is broadening the number of people who can offer subscription podcasts and have their shows play on its service.
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Tweets: @mignano, @anchor, @ashleyrcarman, @mignano, @glenngabe, @spotifynews, @evan_greer, @anchor, and @ashleyrcarman
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart announces GoLocal, a logistics service for third-party US merchants with a variety of delivery types, including same-day — Walmart today announced of a new delivery service business called Walmart GoLocal, which allows other merchants, both large and small, to tap …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Ramp, which provides corporate cards and spend management software, raises $300M Series C at a $3.9B valuation, up from $1.6B after raising $115M in April — Less than five months after raising $115 million, spend management startup Ramp announced today it has raised $300 million …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Cerebras Systems claims its hardware can now run a neural network with 120 trillion parameters, targeting a nascent market for massive NLP AI algorithms — Cerebras says its technology can run a neural network with 120 trillion connections—a hundred times what's achievable today.
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
A look at the Belarusian Cyber Partisans, a hacking group that has released a huge data trove, including from the government and police, to undermine Lukashenko — Pilfered data includes lists of alleged police informants and information on government spies.| Charles Riley / CNN: |
Brian Chesky says Airbnb will provide free housing for 20,000 Afghan refugees without specifying for how long — London (CNN Business)Airbnb has pledged to provide free housing for 20,000 Afghan refugees. — CEO Brian Chesky said Tuesday that the program would begin immediately, and that Airbnb would pay for the stays.
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| New York Times: |
Apple and Google call on the White House to oppose a South Korean bill, set to face a vote this week, that would mandate multiple payment systems for IAPs — A proposal in the South Korean legislature is an early test of how forcefully the Biden administration will defend the companies abroad while trying to trim their power at home.
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
NoRedInk, which aims to improve students' writing through a curriculum that pairs adaptive learning with Mad Libs-style prompts, raises $50M Series B — “In order to become a better writer, read your written words out loud.” — That's one of the first, and best, writing tips I ever received.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Some are raising concerns about harmful uses of “netflow data”, used to map traffic's flow across networks and that some ISPs allow to be sold to third parties — ISPs are quietly distributing “netflow” data that can, among other things, trace traffic through VPNs. — Joseph Cox
Tweets: @matthew_d_green and @mmasnick
| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Researchers say that, before Trump's ban, his tweets that had fact-check labels spread further on Twitter than those that lacked them — Twitter blocked and labeled some Donald Trump's claims of election fraud in the run-up and aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.| Matt Phillips / New York Times: |
Profile of Cathie Wood, the CEO of Ark Invest, which manages $85B, whose aggressive bets on Tesla and others have earned her admiration from Reddit traders — Ms. Wood says the Holy Spirit moved her to strike out on her own after an up-and-down career in money management.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Groovy Bot, which lets Discord users play music from YouTube videos and other services, is shutting down Aug. 30 after YouTube sent a cease-and-desist notice — Google gave the Groovy Bot owners seven days to comply — Google-owned YouTube is starting to crack down on Discord music bots.| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Grafana Labs, developer of the open source analytics and data visualization suite Grafana, raises $220M at $3B valuation, a tenfold increase from two years ago — - Sequoia and Coatue co-lead round for enterprise tech startup — Company's open-source software is used by JPMorgan, PayPal| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Urbint, which uses AI to detect threats to critical infrastructure, raises $60M Series C led by Energize Ventures, bringing its total raised to $109M — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now!
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| Josh Scott / BetaKit: |
Blockstream, which offers Bitcoin infrastructure and apps, raises $210M Series B at a $3.2B valuation and will acquire Israeli mining manufacturer Spondoolies — With years invested in building its sidechain-based settlement network, Blockstream has raised significant funding to continue …
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Blockstream, FinSMEs, Globe and Mail, SiliconANGLE, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, CoinDesk, BTC Times, and Finextra. Thanks:@tron
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 review: water resistant with an improved screen feel and multitasking, but terrible under-screen camera, expensive, and heavy — As good as foldables get, but is that good enough? — The Galaxy Z Fold 3 is the best possible case Samsung can make for a phone that unfolds into a small tablet.
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XDA Developers, 9to5Google, Android Police, ZDNet, YouTube, Ars Technica, Phandroid, and Digital Trends
| Ben Brody / Protocol: |
As Congress fails to regulate Big Tech, state and local governments move ahead to pass their own laws on privacy, gig work, anticompetitive conduct, and more — Andrew Rigie said it isn't worth waiting around for tech regulation in Washington. — “New York City is a restaurant capital of the world,” Rigie told Protocol.
Tweets: @econliberties, @karlbode, @issielapowsky, and @benbrodydc
| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Bungalow, a marketplace for residential real estate that offers tools for landlords, raises $75M at a $600M+ valuation led by Deer Park Road Management — - Coatue, Khosla, Founders Fund bet on residential marketplace — Initially a roommate-finder, firm expanded into family rentals
Tweets: @chest
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Automotive cybersecurity startup Upstream raises $62M Series C led by Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and plans to expand into insurance telematics and data analytics — Back in 2015, researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek remotely hacked into a Jeep Cherokee driven by a Wired reporter … Sponsor Posts
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