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| Apple: |
Apple agrees to settle class-action lawsuit, will let developers directly contact customers, inform them about alternative purchase options outside iOS, more — CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced a number of changes coming to the App Store that, pending court approval, will resolve a class-action suit from US developers.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: TSMC plans to increase prices by ~10% for advanced chips and ~20% for less advanced chips, starting later this year or early next — TSMC to increase prices of most advanced chips by roughly 10%; less advanced chips will cost about 20% more — The world's largest contract chip maker …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with John Binns, a 21-year-old American living in Turkey, who claims responsibility for the recent T-Mobile hack and says its security is “awful” — A 21-year-old American said he used an unprotected router to access millions of customer records in the mobile carrier's latest breach
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
YouTube is implementing picture-in-picture functionality on its iOS app, starting with a testing window for Premium subscribers through October 31 — YouTube is making good on its promise to — bring picture-in-picture viewing to iOS users. TechCrunch
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches News Partner Program, which lowers commissions on in-app purchases to 15% for news publishers who participate in Apple News — Apple today is launching a new program that will allow subscription news organizations that participate in the Apple News app and meet certain requirements …
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| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Netflix is testing games in its Android app in Poland, starting with two existing Stranger Things games — Playing on Netflix's mobile app is new, but the games themselves — two pixelated Stranger Things games — have already been available off Netflix for years.
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| Sujeong Lim / Counterpoint Research: |
Apple Watch active user base crossed 100M globally in Q2, as the smartwatch market grew 27% YoY and the sub-$100 segment grew 547% YoY — - The market grew a healthy 27% YoY, thanks to strong demand for sub-$100 smartwatches. — Samsung and Garmin posted remarkable YoY growth even as Apple maintained its lead.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Microsoft warns thousands of cloud computing customers that a now-fixed Azure Cosmos vulnerability may have exposed databases, saw no evidence it was exploited — Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Thursday warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world's largest companies … | Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Snap updates Snapchat's Scan feature, turning it into a visual search engine that identifies many things in the real world, like clothes or dog breeds — Snapchat's camera has to date mostly been associated with sending disappearing messages and goofy AR effects, like a virtual dancing hot dog.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Internal corporate directory shows Microsoft has hired 15-year AWS veteran Charlie Bell as a corporate VP — - Charlie Bell is listed as a corporate vice president under Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft's human-resources chief — Bell left Amazon recently after 15 years in a top leadership position at Amazon Web Services.
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Insider, GeekWire, Protocol, Seattle Business Journal, Channel Futures, Windows Central, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, and IT PRO. Tweets: @quinnypig
| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Reddit CEO responds after calls from users to purge the site of COVID-19 disinformation, saying “dissent is a part of Reddit and the foundation of democracy” — The CEO of Reddit has responded to calls from users to purge the site of disinformation, saying “dissent is a part of Reddit and the foundation of democracy.”
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| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
DJ 3LAU launches Royal, which lets users trade shares of song royalty rights as crypto tokens, with $16M in seed funding led by Founders Fund and Paradigm — Royal, a non-fungible token (NFT) investment platform focused on music, has announced a $16 million seed-stage fundraise.
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Tweets: @rabois, @bt, @shaughnessy119, @beaniemaxi, @3lau, @unidentifiedta1, and @matthuang
| 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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Tweets: @marklittlenews, @mhbergen, and @noupside
| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
UK government says it will move away from EU's GDPR after Brexit, including possibly ending cookie consent popups, and names John Edwards as preferred ICO head — Culture secretary says move could lead to an end to irritating cookie popups and consent requests online
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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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Tweets: @satyanadella, @sundarpichai, and @sbaisabel
| 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 …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Workstream, which helps SMBs hire frontline and deskless workers by using text messages, raises $48M Series B co-led by Mary Meeker's BOND and Coatue — It isn't only tech giants that are struggling to fill open roles with talented individuals, it's your local Jamba Juice, too.| Ben Feuerherd / New York Post: |
Court filing: a glitch in Palantir's tools let at least four unauthorized FBI employees access data on accused hacker Virgil Griffith from May 2020 to Aug. 2021 — A computer glitch in a secretive software program used by the FBI allowed some unauthorized employees to access private data … | Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
VMware reports Q2 revenue of $3.14B, up 9% YoY, vs estimates of $3.1B, Subscription and SaaS revenue of $776M, up 23% YoY, is on track for Dell spin-off in Nov. — The virtualization company published results slightly ahead of expectations, with strong growth in multi-cloud …
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| 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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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
A look at the small team behind @twitter and its 200+ corporate accounts, who adopted a more informal tone in late 2018 and use a Google doc with 300 drafts — The tweeters — When Twitter employee Ashley Tyra first heard from a colleague that the company was planning to shutter Fleets …
Tweets: @mcely, @venkatananth, and @kurtwagner8
| Zeyi Yang / Protocol: |
China calls the “996” work culture, a weekly schedule of six 12-hour work days popular among Chinese tech firms, a “serious violation” of labor law — The “996” work culture — a 12-hour, six-day work schedule that had been popular among Chinese tech companies until recently … Sponsor Posts
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