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Meta plans to shut down Facebook's decade-old facial recognition system this month, deleting the face scan data of 1B+ users following legal and regulatory woes — Saying it wants “to find the right balance” with the technology, the social network will delete the face scan data of more than one billion users.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Zillow says it is shutting down its home buying business, laying off ~2,000 employees, and taking a write down of $500M+; stock drops 10%+ — Zillow Group's ambitious tech-fueled bid to shake up how people buy and sell homes is coming to a surprising end. — The Seattle online real estate giant …
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| Mike Minotti / VentureBeat: |
Activision Blizzard says Blizzard co-leader Jen Oneal is stepping down, leaving Mike Ybarra as sole leader; Oneal says she'll focus on diversity in the industry — Activision Blizzard announced today that Jen Oneal is stepping down from her role as Blizzard co-leader, which she started in August along with Mike Ybarra.
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Australia's largest bank Commonwealth Bank to become the country's first bank to offer customers crypto services, including cryptocurrency trading via its app — Commonwealth Bank of Australia will become the country's first to offer retail clients crypto services, Australia's largest bank …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
CISA creates a catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities, including from Apple and Google, and orders federal agencies to apply patches within timeframes — The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has established today a public catalog of vulnerabilities known to be exploited …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will bring its mixed reality platform Mesh with 3D avatars and VR support to Teams in the first half of 2022 — Microsoft and Meta are on a collision course for metaverse competition — Microsoft is entering the race to build a metaverse inside Teams, just days after Facebook rebranded …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix rolls out its exclusive mobile games globally to the Play Store and plans to feature them in its Android app starting this week — After early tests in select markets, Netflix announced today its debut lineup of exclusive mobile games will begin rolling out to all members globally on Android devices, starting this week.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
The criminal group behind BlackMatter ransomware announces plans to shut down the operation, citing “pressure from the authorities” — The criminal group behind the BlackMatter ransomware have announced plans today to shut down their operation, citing pressure from local authorities.
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BleepingComputer, Security Affairs, cybernews.com, and Graham Cluley
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Loop, an app that combines a “flexible canvas” with collaborative components that sync across Microsoft 365 services — At its Ignite 2021 conference today, Microsoft announced Loop, a new app that combines a “flexible canvas” with components …
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| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Faze Technologies, which wants to launch a Cricket NFT marketplace and build “the metaverse for cricket”, raises a $17.4M seed led by Tiger Global — Tiger Global led a $17.4 million seed round for Faze Technologies, the company announced Wednesday.
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Google News will return to Spain “early next year” following a change to Spain's copyright laws that will let Google negotiate fees with individual publishers — Spain has changed its copyright law in accordance with EU legislation — Who should get paid when big tech platforms aggregate news stories?| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Oculus rolls out v34, adding a Space Sense safety feature notifying users when objects, people, or animals intrude on a safe VR space, alongside other features — Version 34 is starting to roll out today — Fresh off of Meta's Connect 2021 keynote, where Grand Theft Auto …
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Tencent announces a cloud operating system called Orca and three chips, one for AI, another for video processing, and a chip for high-performance networks — Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) touted progress in semiconductor chip development and investment on Wednesday … | Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Source: ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming, who stepped down as CEO in May, has left the board after stepping down as chairman; CEO Liang Rubo to become chairman — - Zhang announced in May he was giving up his CEO title — Chinese tech giant this week announced a restructuring
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
HoneyBook, which offers business management tools to SMBs and freelancers, raises a $250M Series E led by Tiger Global at a $2.4B valuation, up from $1B+ in May — HoneyBook, a client management and financial platform for independent contractors, today announced that it raised $250 million …
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Chinese central bank official says around 140M people opened wallets for digital yuan as of October and used it for transactions totaling around $9.7B — Some 140 million people had opened “wallets” for China's new digital yuan as of October and used it for transactions totalling around 62 billion yuan …
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| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Company salaries of data protection officers are soaring across China after laws were introduced that hold the officers personally responsible for any failures — Sweeping legislation has created huge demand but job risks have risen alongside salaries — Chinese data protection officers …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash rolls out SafeDash, an in-app security toolkit for its delivery drivers, in NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, San Francisco, and Los Angeles — DoorDash is introducing SafeDash, a new in-app security toolkit aimed at helping its delivery providers feel safe while they work.| Aditi Shah / Reuters: |
Indian ride-hailing company Ola reports its first operating profit since beginning operations a decade ago, with $12M for FY ending March 2021 — Indian ride-hailing company Ola, backed by Japan's Softbank Group (9984.T), has notched up its first-ever operating profit since beginning operations …
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Sources: Facebook has done little to act on the Islamophobic “Love Jihad” conspiracy theory on its platform in India due to “political sensitivities” — In a video posted to Facebook in November 2020, an extremist priest called for Hindus to rise up and begin killing Muslims in India.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Notable, which makes RPA-based tools to speed up healthcare administrative tasks, raises a $100M Series B led by Iconiq Growth at a $600M valuation — Timing is everything in healthcare — yet too often diagnoses, treatments and procedures are held up by paperwork, administrative red tape between patients …
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