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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Instagram says it is testing Activity Feed notifications in the US that will alert users of service outages and technical issues — One week after a massive Facebook outage that took all of the social network's apps offline for more than six hours, Instagram says it's testing notifications …
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| Ivana Saric / Axios: |
Whistleblower Frances Haugen accepts an invitation to brief Facebook's Oversight Board, which she claims Facebook has lied to “repeatedly” — Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen said Monday she will meet with the social media company's Oversight Board sometime in the coming weeks.
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Twitter now lets web users remove followers without having to block them, after testing the option for over a month — All Twitter users can now remove a follower without having to block them. The company started testing this option last month, and starting today, everyone will have access to it.
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| Katrina Manson / Financial Times: |
Ex-Pentagon software chief Nicolas Chaillan, who recently resigned, says China is headed for global dominance due to advances in AI, ML, and cyber capabilities — Nicolas Chaillan speaks of ‘good reason to be angry’ as Beijing heads for ‘global dominance’ through technological innovation
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| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
UK Gambling Commission is investigating soccer NFT trading service Sorare for failing to obtain licenses; Sorare says it does not offer “regulated gambling” — The United Kingdom Gambling Commission wrote that Sorare may have to register as a licensed gambling operator.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft makes a preview version of Windows Subsystem for Linux for Windows 11 available in the Microsoft Store, decoupling the app from the Windows image — Microsoft is taking the first step toward making WSL available as a decoupled app available via the Microsoft Store via a first preview release.
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| Victoria Song / Gizmodo: |
Tile revamps its lineup with IP67 water resistance, longer ranges, and safety features to avoid unwanted tracking, and announces Tile Ultra with UWB support — Tile adds a new lost and found feature, safety from unwanted tracking, and a new ultra-wideband tracker. Sound familiar? — Alerts
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Magic Leap raises another $500M and says its second-gen AR headset will arrive in 2022 with a slimmer form factor and twice the field of view — Augmented reality startup Magic Leap has raised a new $500 million round of funding at a $2 billion valuation, CEO Peggy Johnson told CNBC on Monday.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
In an email to employees, Andy Jassy says Amazon will leave remote work decisions to team leaders, instead of having everyone return by January — [Updated below with additional details from internal FAQ.] — Amazon no longer plans to bring corporate employees back to the office en masse …
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| Tom Jackson / Disrupt Africa: |
Nigerian startup Mono, which is building open banking tools for businesses, raises $15M Series A led by Tiger Global — Nigerian fintech startup Mono, which is building open banking infrastructure that enables access to customer financial data and bank payments for digital businesses in Africa … | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Microsoft says it mitigated a 2.4Tbps DDoS attack on an Azure customer at the end of August, breaking AWS' record of mitigating a 2.3Tbps attack in Feb. 2020 — Microsoft said its Azure cloud service mitigated a 2.4 terabytes per second (Tbps) distributed denial of service attack this year …
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Tweets: @da_667 and @campuscodi
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China is expanding its anti-monopoly bureau, increasing its headcount from over 40 to 100, as its yearlong crackdown on monopolies continues — - SAMR plans to more than double antitrust staff to 100 people — Alibaba, Meituan were targeted during 1-year-old crackdown
Tweets: @hancocktom
| Bruce Haring / Deadline: |
Nick Clegg says that Facebook will put “more friends, less politics” in News Feed and will “nudge” teens away from toxic Instagram content — Fighting back after a whistleblower's damning testimony earlier this week before a Congressional committee …
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