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Internal documents: Facebook's own research found that a 2018 change to encourage positive interactions had the opposite effect; Zuckerberg resisted any fixes — Internal memos show how a big 2018 change rewarded outrage and that CEO Mark Zuckerberg resisted proposed fixes
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The Guardian, The Verge, Insider, CNET, Al Jazeera, Nieman Lab, and CNBC
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| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
NFT marketplace OpenSea acknowledges that its head of product, Nate Chastain, purchased NFTs he knew were going to be displayed prominently — Quick Take — The marketplace has acknowledged that its head of product Nate Chastain purchased NFTs that he knew were going to be displayed prominently.
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OpenSea Blog. More:
The Verge, VICE, Financial Times, TechCrunch, CNBC, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, Mashable, Crypto News, Crypto Briefing, TheStreet, and Tom's Hardware
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will now let users access accounts without a password by using Microsoft Authenticator, Windows Hello, a security key, or a verification code — You can delete your Microsoft account password — Microsoft now lets you remove passwords from Microsoft accounts to embrace a passwordless future.
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Windows Experience Blog. More:
Microsoft Security Blog, Microsoft Tech Community, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, HotHardware.com News, Gizmodo, BBC, ExtremeTech, Silicon Republic, USA Today, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tech.co, Dark Reading, MSPoweruser, Digital Trends, Wired, Ars Technica, Tom's Hardware, Neowin, BetaNews, CNET, Windows Central, OnMSFT.com, The Record, XDA Developers, PCMag, PCWorld, VentureBeat, TechSpot, SlashGear, TechCrunch, and ZDNet
Tweets: @satyanadella, @tomwarren, @campuscodi, @vickerysec, and @markrussinovich
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's iPhone 13 and 13 Pro are the first to support dual eSIM, expanding on support for eSIM and regular SIM in previous iPhones — Apple introduced eSIM support on iPhone with iPhone XR and iPhone XS in 2018. However, while you can use a regular SIM and an eSIM simultaneously …
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MacRumors, MobileSyrup, Computerworld, YouTube, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, MacDailyNews, CNET, iMore, Apple Support, AppleInsider, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @blackcommanick, @thetechchap, and @searls
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
The iPhone 13 might as well be called the 12S, as the updates to the lineup are iterative and lacking a major new addition like last year's MagSafe — Apple's ‘S’-year iPhones never went away, it just stopped advertising them — Apple had a lot of new features to announce with its iPhone 13 lineup this week.
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The Verge, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iMore, and phonearena.com
Tweets: @appleswupdates, @harshjain85, @universeice, @unclepamilerin, @ahmedmortada, @duraidabdul, @aschilling, @bochipev, @copprart, @daveyheuser, @jeffwpa, @duraidabdul, and @sdw
| Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
Apple, in a first, reported no CPU gains for the A15, likely because of the engineer exodus to companies like Nuvia and Rivos — Apple has been long hailed for having the best CPU cores for consumer workloads for years. They have by far the highest performance per clock and efficiency driven …
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Macworld, CNET, 9to5Mac, The Verge, iThinkDifferent, Digital Trends, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Mac Security Blog, Mashable, and TechSpot
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
After being sued by the state of California, Activision Blizzard is sued by a group representing employees, alleging it tried to prevent them from organizing — Organized by CODE-CWA, the suit claims Activision Blizzard engaged in coercive and intimidating behavior
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Communications Workers …, Axios, Activision Blizzard, TechSpot, Protocol, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Tweets: @stephentotilo, @vahn16, @atvi_ab, @pikachulita, and @nickstatt
| BBC: |
Google's Grace Hopper transatlantic communications cable, measuring 4,350 miles and operational in 2022, has reached Bude in the UK and Bilbao in Spain — A new “massive” undersea transatlantic communications cable has been brought ashore on a beach in Cornwall.
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The Keyword. More:
9to5Google, Insider, Neowin, TechRadar, ZDNet, and cloudpro.co.uk. Tweets: @googlecloud_uki
| Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
Book excerpt examines Peter Thiel's support for Trump and partnership with Steve Bannon, libertarian ideology, battles with the IRS, and founding of Palantir — In an exclusive excerpt from The Contrarian, a new biography, the disruption-preaching power broker is revealed …
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Fortune. Tweets: @profcarroll, @n3rdgal, @afarmerinohio, @chafkin, @jason_kint, @chafkin, @bw, @chafkin, @silviakillings, @jimaley, and @s_m_i
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Irish data commissioner launches GDPR probe into TikTok's handling of children's data and the transfer of user information to China — Irish regulator adds to scrutiny of video app that has drawn national security concerns — The Irish data commissioner has launched investigations … | Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: |
Chainalysis: Africa's crypto market grew 1,200%+ in value between July 2020 and June 2021 to reach $105.6B; retail-sized transfers made up 7%+ of overall volume — P2P platforms, the need for remittances to circumvent restrictions from banks, and putting savings into crypto as a means …
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Chainalysis. More:
BitcoinExchangeGuide, cryptonews.com, InsideBitcoins.com, and CoinJournal
Tweets: @chainalysis, @chainalysis, @chainalysis, and @chainalysis
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Adobe says it will launch a payment service via PayPal for Adobe Commerce by the end of the year, adding native payments to customers' digital storefronts — Customers will be able to manage payments directly from their Adobe Commerce Admin without integration with third-party payment providers.| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
WhatsApp launches its first test of a public directory for businesses within the app, starting in São Paulo — (Reuters) - Facebook's messaging service WhatsApp on Wednesday launched a new feature to make it possible to search for businesses within its app for the first time, the company told Reuters.
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XDA Developers and WABetaInfo
Tweets: @wcathcart, @wcathcart, @wcathcart, @inafried, @eculliford, and @iiiitsandrea
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Xiaomi launches flagship 11T series, including the 11T Pro with 120W fast charging, claiming 100% charge in 17 minutes, starting at €649 — A fully charged 5,000mAh battery in 17 minutes — Xiaomi has launched its 11T series, the headline of which is the 11T Pro …
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Mi Blog. More:
techadvisor.com, The Verge, 9to5Google, Mi Blog, Tom's Guide, CNET, TechSpot, Digital Photography Review, Android Central, Pandaily, Engadget, Pocketnow, Pocket-lint, 9to5Google, Android Police, techadvisor.com, Android Headlines, SlashGear, Android Police, Phandroid, phonearena.com, Wccftech, Notebookcheck.net, Android Authority, and AnandTech
Tweets: @mkbhd, @maxwinebach, and @maxwinebach
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
StrongDM, which builds tools to manage servers, databases, and other infrastructure, raises $54M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing total funding to $77M — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now!
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FinSMEs and SiliconANGLE
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Senate Commerce Committee's consumer protection panel to launch a probe into Facebook after reports it was aware of the harm Instagram can cause teenage girls — Democrats call on the company to abandon Instagram for kids — Two top lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee's panel …
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Gizmodo, Press Gazette, TheStreet, TIME, United States Senator …, and The Hill
Tweets: @jodikantor, @lancegooden, and @marshablackburn
| Alex Engler / Tech Policy Press: |
Review finds at least 700 US colleges use enrollment algorithms that intentionally reduce scholarships, leading to higher debt and lower college completion — As colleges look for any advantage in the fierce competition to enroll students, hundreds of institutions have turned to algorithms …
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Input. Tweets: @brookingsgov, @hypervisible, @justinhendrix, @justinhendrix, @justinhendrix, @alexcengler, @alexcengler, @alexcengler, and @justinhendrix
| Bloomberg: |
Thoughtworks shares close up nearly 40% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the company at ~$9B, after raising roughly $773M in its IPO — - Tech consulting firm's CEO ‘constant change’ for two decades — On, Dutch Bros, Definitive Healthcare all climb in debuts
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MarketWatch and Reuters
| Keith Broni / Emojipedia: |
Unicode Consortium launches version 14.0 with 112 new emoji, including multiracial handshake, melting face, saluting face, and heart hands — Today the latest emoji list will be released by the Unicode Consortium, with additions including Biting Lip, Troll, Saluting Face …
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The Unicode Blog, Engadget, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, iThinkDifferent, appadvice.com, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Silicon Republic, Phone Scoop, PCMag, and SlashGear
Tweets: @unicode, @emojipedia, @unicode, @campuscodi, @emojipedia, and @emojipedia
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Persona, an identity verification startup used by Robinhood, DoorDash, and Square, raises $150M Series C led by Founders Fund at a $1.5B valuation — - Startup raises $150 million from Index Ventures, Coatue — Clients include Robinhood, DoorDash, Square, Coursera| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Snap hires Jacqueline Beauchere, Microsoft's chief online safety officer, as its first global head of platform safety — Snap Inc. has hired Jacqueline Beauchere, the current Chief Online Safety Officer at Microsoft, to be its first-ever Global Head of Platform Safety, a spokesperson tells Axios.
Tweets: @rachelracusen
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DOJ court documents: three former US intel operatives, who worked as mercenary hackers for the UAE, face charges of conspiring to violate hacking laws — The US Department of Justice has fined three former NSA employees who worked as hackers-for-hire for a United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company.
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U.S. Department of Justice. More:
MIT Technology Review, Reuters, PCMag, Washington Post, ZDNet, CSO, cybernews.com, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @bradheath, @marietjeschaake, and @bradheath
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Manchester-based Matillion, which offers “low-code” tools to manage disparate data, raises $150M at a $1.5B valuation led by General Atlantic — Businesses and the tech companies that serve them are run on data. At best, it can be used to help with decision-making …
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SiliconANGLE, The Times, VentureBeat, and CRN
Tweets: @dthakker02, @rytisvit, and @chiraag_deora
| Catherine Thorbecke / ABC News: |
UN rights chief calls for a moratorium on sale and use of AI tech that threatens human rights, including facial recognition, until safeguards are put in place — “We cannot afford to continue playing catch-up regarding AI.” — The United Nations Human Rights chief on Wednesday called …
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OHCHR, Al Jazeera, Associated Press, and Voice of America
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Deep Vision, which develops AI accelerator chips and software for edge computing workloads, raises $35M Series B led by Tiger Global — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! — Deep Vision, a company developing … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Constructor, which helps companies optimize e-commerce listings using AI, raises $55M Series A led by Silversmith Capital — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! — Constructor, a San Francisco …
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PYMNTS.com, FinSMEs, Yahoo Finance, and TechCrunch
| Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: |
SmartNews, a news aggregation app that shows users articles on the same topic with labels on their political bent, raises $230M at a ~$2B valuation — Tokyo-based news-discovery company is valued at $2 billion in its latest funding round — SmartNews Inc. has raised $230 million … | Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
DoorDash files another lawsuit against NYC, saying a new law requiring it to share customer data with restaurants constitutes an invasion of user privacy — The delivery platform says the law raises customer privacy concerns — Food delivery company DoorDash has filed yet another lawsuit …
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The Hill, PYMNTS.com, DoorDash Newsroom, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Associated Press, and Eater. Tweets: @epro
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Relyance AI, which builds tools to help companies comply with privacy laws at the code level, emerges from stealth with $25M Series A and $5M seed — Relyance AI, an early stage startup that is helping companies stay in compliance with privacy laws at the code level, announced a $25 million Series A today.
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SiliconANGLE
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Swedish caller ID and spam blocking service Truecaller seeks to raise $116M in Stockholm IPO at a valuation of about $3B — Truecaller, which operates an eponymous caller-identification service, said on Wednesday it is looking to raise $116 million in an initial public offering on Nasdaq Stockholm.
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Truecaller
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