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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Interview with Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's plans for smart eyewear, potential privacy issues, lack of AR features, the inadequacies of smartphones, and more — Mark Zuckerberg has big plans for smart eyewear. Facebook's first stab at the idea is not a huge deal—but it avoids privacy pitfalls that could come later.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has appointed longtime Apple Watch and Health software chief Kevin Lynch as the new head of its Apple Car project after Doug Field's departure — - Kevin Lynch replaces Doug Field as head of Apple's car efforts — Field left Apple's project after three years to work at Ford| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft indefinitely postpones the return to its offices in the US, saying it has “decided against attempting to forecast a new date for a full reopening” — The pandemic keeps pushing back Microsoft's plans — Microsoft is shelving its plans to fully reopen its US offices next month.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic asks Apple to reinstate its Fortnite developer account in S. Korea, after passage of a Korean bill forcing app stores to allow alternative payment systems — Following the passing of a bill allowing alternative payment systems on the App Store — Epic Games has asked Apple to reinstate …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon launches the Fire TV Omni Series, its first smart TVs, starting at $410 and shipping in October — Amazon is officially in the TV set business. — After years of selling Fire TV devices that plug into third-party HDTVs and teaming with TV makers for Fire TV-based products …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Epic to shut down Houseparty, the video chat app it acquired in 2019, in October, along with Fortnite Mode, which uses Houseparty for video chats — Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down.
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Apple has fired senior engineering program manager Ashley Gjøvik for allegedly leaking confidential information; Gjøvik has been tweeting about workplace issues — For months, Gjøvik has been tweeting allegations about harassment and intimidation at Apple
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter is testing a new “Automated Account” label for profiles to self-identify as bots, intended for “good bots”, and the label will remain opt-in for now — Twitter today is introducing a new feature that will allow accounts to self-identify as bots by adding a label to their profile.| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
California defense attorney Jay Leiderman, once dubbed the “Hacktivist's Advocate” and known for defending whistleblowers and hackers, dies at 50 years old — Leiderman's rebellious lawyering made him a go-to attorney for Anonymous hackers. — Alerts
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Texas governor signs bill banning social media companies with 50M+ MAUs from blocking or restricting people or their content based on their viewpoint — The law is an escalation of a conservative critique of Silicon Valley and will likely to face legal challenges from the industry
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Facebook: Greg Abbott. Tweets: @govabbott, @marca56, @qhardy, @govabbott, @wr4nygov, @brendanbordelon, @robpegoraro, @artofcoop, @reckless, @harrengwarding, and @mmasnick
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Apple Music says it will use Shazam's tech to properly identify and compensate all of the individual creators involved in making a DJ mix — Apple Music announced today that it's created a process to properly identify and compensate all of the individual creators involved in making a DJ mix.| Kaya Yurieff / The Information: |
Source: Whatnot, a livestreaming service for buying and selling collectibles, is raising new capital at a valuation of $1.5B, following its $50M Series B in May — Whatnot is raising new capital at a valuation of $1.5 billion, according to a person familiar with the deal.
Tweets: @kyurieff
| Wall Street Journal: |
Doordash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats sue NYC for its law capping the amount of commissions the apps can charge, say the law is harmful government overreach — Food-delivery companies contend the cap is harmful, constitutes government overreach — DoorDash Inc., Grubhub Inc … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Wisetack, which facilitates buy now, pay later services for in-person business transactions, raises $45M Series B, following $19M seed and Series A in February — Buy now, pay later is growing globally — with various companies expanding to, and in, different parts of the world, such as Africa, Latin America and Asia.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Hackers leak a list of ~500K Fortinet VPN login names and passwords; a source in the IT security industry says at least some of the leaked credentials are valid — A threat actor has leaked a list of almost 500,000 Fortinet VPN login names and passwords that were allegedly scraped from exploitable devices last summer.
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McAfee Blogs, Fortinet Blog, Advanced Intel, Tech Times, Threatpost, eSecurityPlanet, HackRead, TechRadar, The Hacker News, SlashGear, ZDNet, PCMag, and cybernews.com. Tweets: @raj_samani
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Affirm beats in Q4 with $261.8M, up 71% YoY, vs. estimates of $225M, with 7.1M active customers, up from 5.4M in the previous quarter; stock up more than 20% — - Affirm reported better-than-expected revenue for the fourth quarter after the bell Thursday and gave strong guidance for the current quarter.| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Security researchers say Apple's bug bounty program is undermined by Apple's insular culture, confusion about payments, and long delays in fixing bugs — Lack of communication, confusion about payments and long delays have security researchers fed up with Apple's bug bounty program
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iMore, Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, wojciechregula.blog, The Loop, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Jio and Google delay the JioPhone Next, which was planned to launch on Sept. 10 in India, blaming chip shortages; the launch is now scheduled for early November — The JioPhone Next, the much-awaited smartphone designed by Google and India's Jio Platforms to tap hundreds of millions of users …
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Livemint, BGR India, The Register, Firstpost Tech, The Economic Times, and NDTV Gadgets 360
| Svea Herbst-Bayliss / Reuters: |
Box stockholders voted to re-elect three board directors, including CEO Aaron Levie, giving a blow to activist investor Starboard, which failed to win any seats — Box Inc (BOX.N)won a proxy contest against Starboard Value after the cloud services provider's shareholders backed …
| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
Report: since 2004, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter have earned $43.8B in contracts with the Pentagon, mostly in relation to the War on Terror — A team of researchers have published a new report detailing how Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Twitter have profited from the global campaign of violence.
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