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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
What to expect from Apple's Unleashed event on Monday: 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with mini-LED, AirPods 3, redesigned Mac mini, and macOS Monterey launch — Apple's first fall event of 2021 focused on the iPhone and the Apple Watch, but the second, set to be held on Monday, October 18, is expected to be Mac-centric.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A Mac developer says new MacBook Pro chips named M1 Pro and M1 Max appeared in app logs; sources: MacBook Pros will regain MagSafe and may lose the Touch Bar — This is the free version of Power On. If you like it, consider subscribing to Bloomberg.com—you'll receive this newsletter several hours earlier …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Internal documents: Facebook's AI has minimal success enforcing its rules against problematic content, including removing an estimated 3%-5% of hate speech — AI has only minimal success in removing hate speech, violent images and other problem content, according to internal company reports
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Facebook disputes WSJ report, saying the prevalence of hate speech on the platform dropped by 50% over the past three years to about 0.05% of content viewed — The Wall Street Journal said in a new report that Facebook's AI is not consistently successful at removing objectionable content
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| Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: two Microsoft execs, including Brad Smith, told Bill Gates in 2008 that emails with a midlevel female employee were inappropriate; Gates agreed to stop — Top lawyer, HR chief informed some Microsoft directors they told billionaire co-founder that his emails with female employee were inappropriate
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| Reuters: |
Five US House Judiciary committee members write to Amazon accusing executives of either misleading Congress or lying about promoting its brands above rivals — Five members of the U.S. House Judiciary committee wrote to Amazon.com Inc's chief executive Sunday, and accused the company's top executives …
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| New York Times: |
NYSE says ProShares will launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) linked to Bitcoin futures, giving investors exposure without having to hold bitcoin directly — An exchange-traded fund tied to the cryptocurrency is set to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange, a milestone for the industry.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China is considering asking Tencent, ByteDance, and other media companies to let rivals access and display their content in search results — - MIIT may ask Tencent to allow Baidu, others to search WeChat — If implemented, it could shake up the online advertising arena| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
In an SEC filing, Sinclair confirms it suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted its channels on Sunday; Sinclair initially blamed technical issues — Sinclair formally confirmed the ransomware attack a day after this initial report in SEC documents. Original reporting below.
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| Ian Talley / Wall Street Journal: |
US Treasury Department report: in H1 2021, financial firms flagged ~$600M in suspected ransomware payments out of an estimated $5.2B in such payments — Financial firms flagged nearly $600 million in suspected ransomware payments; Treasury investigators identified billions more| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Deel, which provides tools for payroll, compliance, and other services to help remote hiring, raises a $425M Series D led by Coatue at a $5.5B valuation — As more people continue to work remotely, organizations globally have had to adjust — particularly when it comes to onboarding …
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| Harry Brumpton / Bloomberg: |
Australian slot machine maker Aristocrat will acquire British gambling software company Playtech for $3.7B — - Offer pitched at 58% premium to Playtech's latest price — Aristocrat to raise A$1.3 billion in share sale to fund deal — Australian slot-machine maker Aristocrat Leisure Ltd …
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