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Lithuanian government recommends ditching Chinese phones after finding Xiaomi devices with censorship capabilities that can be activated remotely — Lithuania's Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones …
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BBC, BetaNews, Associated Press, TNW, Insider, The Guardian, The Record, Light Reading, Telecoms.com, SamMobile, and Politico
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Sources: last month, Mark Zuckerberg agreed to show users positive stories about Facebook via News Feed; Facebook says it ran a small test with labeled posts — Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, has signed off on an effort to show users pro-Facebook stories and to distance himself from scandals.
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Insider, Axios, The Week, TNW, Benzinga, VICE, CNET, and Insider
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| Naman Ramachandran / Variety: |
Netflix agrees to acquire the Roald Dahl Story Company, expanding on a three-year deal to make animated shows, with plans to create TV, movies, games, and more — Netflix has acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company and will expand their existing deal to create a universe spanning several formats.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook says Apple's ATT changes will continue to cause headwinds in Q3 and reveals it under-reported iOS web conversions by 15% on average; stop drops 3%+ — Facebook said Wednesday that changes to Apple's new privacy terms will continue to cause headwinds for its ads business in the third quarter.| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
VMware urges customers to immediately patch a critical arbitrary file upload vulnerability in its flagship vCenter and vSphere products — File upload vuln lets miscreants hijack vCenter Server — VMware has disclosed a critical bug in its flagship vSphere and vCenter products and urged users to drop everything and patch it.
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VMware vSphere Blog and VMware. More:
BleepingComputer, Malwarebytes Labs, Silicon Republic, Rapid7, TechRadar, The Hacker News, ZDNet, and SecurityWeek
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Facebook's Oversight Board wants the company to explain its “cross-check” system, which reportedly lets celebrities, politicians, and others break its rules — pushing Facebook to provide more information on its controversial “cross-check” system, following a report that the company …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Apple iPad mini (2021) review: A15, Pencil 2 support, better cameras, and USB-C, but no keyboard case support and the screen feels too small for some apps — What's the most improved product in Apple's lineup this year? It might be the sixth-gen iPad Mini.
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MobileSyrup, Engadget, TechCrunch, MacStories, Gizmodo, YouTube, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, MacRumors, Wired, CNBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Wall Street Journal, Stuff, independent, and Pocket-lint
Tweets: @backlon, @adrianweckler, @viticci, and @viticci
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
macOS is susceptible to running arbitrary code when a user opens a malicious .inetloc file, and Apple's first attempt to silently fix the issue failed — Security researchers disclosed today a new vulnerability in Apple's macOS Finder, which makes it possible for attackers to run arbitrary commands …
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SSD Secure Disclosure, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, BetaNews, TechRadar, AppleInsider, and Security Affairs
Tweets: @patrickwardle, @notdan, @securiteam_ssd, @_r_netsec, @hrbrmstr, @alyssam_infosec, and @dinosn
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Microsoft uncovers a massive phishing operation offering “Phishing-as-a-Service” subscriptions or one-time tools based on over 120 templates for $80-$100 — - BulletProofLink works as a Phishing-as-a-Service portal for the cybercrime underground.
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Microsoft Security Blog. More:
ZDNet and The Hacker News
Tweets: @msftsecintel, @tomwarren, and @campuscodi
| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Facebook shareholders allege Facebook conditioned its $5B Cambridge Analytica settlement on the FTC dropping plans to sue and depose Mark Zuckerberg — Facebook conditioned its $5 billion payment to the Federal Trade Commission to resolve the Cambridge Analytica data leak probe … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 15.1 beta lets users store their verifiable health records, including COVID-19 vaccination cards and test results, in the Health app — The iOS 15.1 beta that was introduced today allows iPhone users to upload their COVID-19 vaccination status to the Health app and then generate a vaccination card in Apple Wallet.
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Apple Developer. More:
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Tweets: @brandonbutch, @mattcassinelli, @julipuli, @tylerg39, and @rklau
| Wall Street Journal: |
FCC says it is reviewing Zoom's proposed $15B acquisition of cloud-based call center software maker Five9, citing Zoom's ties to China — Justice Department-led Team Telecom is looking into whether Zoom's China ties could make its acquisition of the software company a national-security risk| James Rubin / CoinDesk: |
Blockdaemon, which offers blockchain staking infrastructure, raises $155M Series B led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $1.26B valuation — Blockdaemon has raised $155 million in a Series B capital round at a valuation of $1.3 billion, the provider of blockchain staking infrastructure said Tuesday.
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Blockdaemon, Blockworks, Business Wire, Coinspeaker, and SiliconANGLE
| Washington Post: |
Sources: FBI refrained from sharing a ransomware decryptor with businesses for almost three weeks, as it carried out an operation to disrupt the REvil gang — The FBI refrained for almost three weeks from helping to unlock the computers of hundreds of businesses and institutions hobbled …
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CSO, TechRadar, Ars Technica, iTnews, and CNET
| Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard: |
Twitch and NMPA reach deal after tensions over takedown notices; sources: deal doesn't include music licenses, and Twitch will warn users before suspending them — Twitch and the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) have reached a long-awaited agreement focused on building …
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Variety, Washington Post, Engadget, Kotaku, KnowTechie, and MCV/DEVELOP
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Enterprise document management startup PandaDoc raises Series C at a $1B valuation but is not disclosing the amount raised due to Belarus' political situation — Business tools have gone completely virtual in the last 20 months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and today a startup whose e-document platform … | Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
As it passes 2B iPhones sold, Apple has avoided disruption by adding useful features nobody asked for and avoiding overshooting on performance that few need — Just recently, the 2 billionth iPhone was sold. Unlike the 1 billionth, there was no announcement, no celebration.
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and Wccftech
Tweets: @eranshir, @emollick, @shubhammehrish, @asymco, @apollozac, @asymco, @mikko, @asymco, @happy_roman, and @asymco
| Ari Notis / Kotaku: |
Blizzard's chief legal officer Claire Hart leaves Activision Blizzard amid a series of high-level departures — Claire Hart, who had been the company's top lawyer for three years, resigned Friday — Blizzard Entertainment's chief legal officer, Claire Hart, has resigned from the embattled company.
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Bloomberg, Activision Blizzard, The Verge, MCV/DEVELOP, PC Gamer, Polygon, GamesIndustry.biz, TrueAchievements, and dexerto.com
Tweets: @paultassi, @wowhead, and @lucidshitposts
| Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: |
Dapper Labs, maker of NFT-focused NBA Top Shot, raises $250M led by Coatue Management and says it is partnering with Spain's LaLiga soccer league — - Firm sets pact with LaLiga for soccer digital collectibles — Coatue leads second funding round of the year for Dapper Labs
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TechCrunch, CoinDesk, Reuters, VentureBeat, Decrypt, PR Newswire, and CNBC
| Tory Newmyer / Washington Post: |
SEC's Gary Gensler says stablecoins are a risk to consumers, like “poker chips at the casino”, and equates crypto boom to “wildcat banking” in the 1830s — The top Wall Street regulator described the digital assets frequently pegged to the U.S. dollar as a danger to consumers
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Wall Street Journal, CoinDesk, NewsBTC, cryptonews.com, CoinDesk, Insider, MarketWatch, and CryptoSlate. Tweets: @carlquintanilla
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Kavak, a Mexico-based marketplace for used cars, raises $700M Series E led by General Catalyst, doubling its valuation from April to $8.7B — Kavak, a Mexico City-based startup that operates a pre-owned car marketplace in Latin America, announced today that it has raised a massive $700 million … | Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg: |
How FanDuel outpaced DraftKings to take an estimated 42% share of the US sports wagers market after its sale to Flutter — Greg Bunnell has played fantasy football since he was a teenager. So when Indiana legalized sports betting two years ago, the 39-year-old project manager seamlessly switched …
Tweets: @ideafaktory and @bw
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Source: ahead of its NYSE debut, Toast prices its IPO at $40 per share, above its original $30-$33 range, which would give it a market cap of ~$20B — - Toast priced its IPO at $40 a share, after previously raising its price range to as high as $36. — The company, which sells technology … | Jing Yang / Wall Street Journal: |
Ant Group's Huabei consumer lending service says user data will be made available to China's central bank credit reporting system — User data from lending service Huabei will be made available to the central bank's credit-reporting system — Credit data generated by Ant Group Co.'s …
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Reuters and South China Morning Post
| Cathrin Schaer / Wired UK: |
Profile of Johannes Caspar, who was Hamburg's data protection commissioner for over a decade and investigated Facebook, WhatsApp, Clearview, PimEyes, and Amazon — Under former commissioner Johannes Caspar, Hamburg sent shock waves from Brussels to Silicon Valley — In Germany, they call him the “Facebook hunter”.
Tweets: @robertjbateman, @wolfiechristl, @andrejonker, and @samuelstolton
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Treasury Department sanctions cryptocurrency exchange Suex for helping facilitate and launder transactions from at least eight ransomware variants — - The U.S. Treasury Department announced Tuesday it will sanction a cryptocurrency exchange for its alleged role in laundering ransoms for cyberattacks.
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U.S. Department … and U.S. Department …. More:
CSO, Wall Street Journal, cryptodaily.co.uk, Bloomberg, The Hacker News, ZDNet, and infosecurity-magazine.com
Tweets: @duediligenceguy, @malwarejake, @wsjmarkets, @campuscodi, @reggiemiddleton, @campuscodi, @adamslily, @tomrobin, @dnvolz, and @neerajka
| Angelina Rascouet / Bloomberg: |
French online secondhand fashion marketplace Vestiaire Collective raises $209M at a $1.7B valuation led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, after raising $216M in March — - Fashion company's valuation reaches $1.7 billion in raise — SoftBank executive Marcelo Claure to become board member
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