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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
After White House meeting, Google will spend $10B over five years and train 100K IT and data workers, Apple pledges supply chain security improvements, and more — - The White House hosted a cybersecurity summit with CEOs in sectors ranging from tech to insurance.
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| Washington Post: |
Biden meets with CEOs from Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and others to discuss cybersecurity, says private sector must do more to protect infrastructure — “You have the power, capacity and responsibility, I believe, to raise the bar on cybersecurity,” President Biden tells CEOs of Apple, Google, JP Morgan Chase
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft says it will quadruple cybersecurity spending to $20B over five years, spend $150M to help federal, state, and local governments improve security — [Updated below with Microsoft confirmation and related announcements from Amazon, Google, and Code.org.]| Insider: |
In an abrupt reversal, OnlyFans suspends its October 1 policy change banning porn after securing “assurances” and aims to provide “a home for all creators” — - OnlyFans is reversing its recent decision to ban porn. — It had planned to prohibit sexually explicit …
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| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
YouTube says it has removed over 1M videos related to COVID misinformation since Feb. 2020 and removes 10M videos per quarter, most of which have <10 views — But the 1 million coronavirus-related takedowns since the start of the pandemic are difficult to put in context, because of YouTube's gigantic scale.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Facebook has approached experts about forming an advisory body for how it handles global election matters, including political ads and misinformation — The social network has contacted academics to create a group to advise it on thorny election-related decisions, said people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
Adam Mosseri says Instagram plans to more prominently feature photos and videos in search results in the future along with traditional accounts and hashtags — How search works and what it will be able to do next — Instagram plans to more prominently feature photos and videos in search results …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
GAO: 19 of 24 US government agencies surveyed use facial recognition in some capacity; DoD and DHS both have in-house systems, while 4 had used Clearview AI — A new GAO report finds 19 agencies are using some form of the technology — A new report from the Government Accountability Office …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Canalys: US PC sales in Q2 2021 up 17% YoY, with 36.8M total units sold, notebooks up 27%, desktops up 23%, tablets down 1%; HP leads with 21.9% of market share — Canalys released its quarterly U.S. PC sales today, and while the news was quite good with sales overall up 17% YoY …
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| Reuters: |
DOJ and SEC charged ex-HeadSpin CEO Manish Lachwani with allegedly defrauding investors out of $80M from 2018 to 2020 in an effort to boost HeadSpin's valuation — U.S. authorities on Wednesday charged a co-founder and former chief executive of HeadSpin with defrauding investors …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft has promoted Chief Product Officer Panos Panay to executive vice president role and has added him to its senior leadership team — Microsoft Corp. promoted Chief Product Officer Panos Panay to the role of executive vice president and added him to the senior leadership team …
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The Verge, Windows Central, OnMSFT.com, and ZDNet
Tweets: @tomwarren, @bdsams, and @davegershgorn
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet's Wing nears 100K drone deliveries two years after Logan, Australia launch; the drones fly up to six miles and deliver items weighing up to 3 pounds — In a blog post this morning, Alphabet drone delivery company Wing announced that it is set to hit 100,000 customer deliveries over the weekend.
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| Robert Hof / SiliconANGLE: |
Box reports Q2 revenue of $214.5M, up 12% YoY, vs. $211.7M est., and billings of $213M, up 13% YoY, ahead of investor vote on its strategy and management team — As Box Inc.'s battle to fend off an activist investor's demands for changes to the company, its earnings report today may provide …
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Box, Inc., ZDNet, Box, Inc., MarketWatch, and Barron's Online
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
A history of Google's messaging apps and how a lack of any kind of top-down messaging leadership has led to a decade and a half of failed messaging platforms — Sixteen years after the launch of Google Talk, Google messaging is still a mess. — Google Talk, Google's first-ever instant messaging platform … | Eric J. Savitz / Barron's Online: |
Snowflake beats in Q2 with revenue of $272.2M, up 104% YoY, 4,990 total customers, up 60% YoY, and losses of $189.7M vs. $77.6M in Q2 2020 — Snowflake shares are gaining ground in late trading after the company posted better-than-expected growth for its fiscal second quarter ended July 31.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Western Digital is in advanced talks to merge with Kioxia, the chipmaker spun out of Toshiba in 2018, in a deal that could be valued at more than $20B — Stock deal could be finalized as early as the middle of September, according to people familiar with the matter
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Tom's Hardware, MarketWatch, Fortune, TechSpot, DealStreetAsia, SiliconANGLE, Barron's Online, CRN, Bloomberg, CNBC, Benzinga, and Reuters
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Fitbit announces Charge 5 with a rounded design, a larger and brighter color AMOLED display, GPS, and more, arriving in the fall for $179.95 — It costs $179.95 and will be out this fall — Following a couple of big leaks, Fitbit is officially announcing the Charge 5 …
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| Tech Transparency Project: |
Investigation finds underage users can easily evade age limits on ~80 apps on Apple's App Store, such as dating, sex, and gambling apps restricted to ages 17+ — Apple just announced new steps to flag child sex abuse images on iPhones. But a TTP investigation shows that Apple's App Store is rife with child safety problems.
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Campaign for Accountability, MacRumors, The Guardian, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, and Michael Tsai
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