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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Source: Twitter's board plans to comply with Elon Musk's demands for internal data on bots by offering access to its full “firehose”, after a weeks-long impasse — The billionaire is in a protracted battle with the company over information about spam and fake accounts
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: in an internal meeting, Twitter's Vijaya Gadde said a shareholder vote to approve Twitter's sale to Elon Musk will occur in late July or early August — Twitter Inc.'s top lawyer reassured staff Wednesday that the deal to sell the company to billionaire Elon Musk is still progressing …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
After leaving Amazon on July 1, Dave Clark will join supply chain software startup Flexport as co-CEO starting September 1, becoming sole CEO six months later — Former Amazon consumer chief Dave Clark has a new job: co-CEO, and eventually sole CEO, of $8 billion-valued supply chain software startup Flexport.
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| Prakhar Khanna / Digital Trends: |
Apple says Stage Manager is limited to M1 iPads because the feature relies on iPadOS 16's fast memory swap, which lets demanding apps use storage as virtual RAM — At its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2022, Apple announced numerous new features for iPadOS 16.
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Source: Citadel Securities is building a “cryptocurrency trading ecosystem” in partnership with market maker Virtu, VC firms Sequoia and Paradigm, and others — The effort also includes Citadel Securities' recent venture capital (VC) backers, Sequoia and Paradigm …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Sources: since its launch in October 2021, TikTok Shop in the UK has lost ~50% of its staff, or at least 20 people, due to a culture clash with Chinese owners — Chinese-owned social media group launches investigation into ‘toxic’ working practices at London offices
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Internal email: Microsoft splits its HoloLens group as its leader Alex Kipman leaves the company; a recent Insider report described Kipman's “toxic” behavior — Microsoft is splitting its HoloLens mixed reality group and parting ways with Alex Kipman, the leader of the group …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft plans to “significantly scale down” its operations in Russia, impacting 400+ staff, while continuing to fulfill its “existing contractual obligations” — Microsoft Corp. is substantially reducing its business in Russia, joining the list of prominent technology firms cutting …
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| Amrita Khalid / Engadget: |
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| Florence Ion / Gizmodo: |
Google releases Android 13 Beta 3 for Pixel phones and says Android 13 has reached platform stability — As the beta reaches Platform Stability, Google would like to remind you that Android tablets aren't dead yet. — Alerts — Google has officially pulled the lid off the third Android 13 beta.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple's iOS 16 introduces the ability to transfer an eSIM from another iPhone via Bluetooth while setting up cellular service — iOS 16 introduces a useful new feature that allows an eSIM to be transferred between iPhones via Bluetooth while setting up cellular service.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
In a joint cybersecurity advisory, the NSA, CISA, and the FBI reveal China-backed hackers exploited publicly known vulnerabilities to snoop on network traffic — Several US federal agencies today revealed that Chinese-backed threat actors have targeted and compromised major telecommunications companies …
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| Odanga Madung / Mozilla Foundation: |
Analysis of disinformation on TikTok ahead of Kenya's August 9 general election: hate speech, community incitement, and manipulated content is spreading widely — 2. Extensive Disinformation and TikTok Policy Violations — 3. Looking Back: Familiar Terrain for Kenyans
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| Anton Wilen / Bloomberg: |
Saudi Arabia's PIF-backed Savvy Gaming Group bought an 8.1% stake in Sweden's Embracer for ~$1.05B, after its Modern Times' acquisition and Nintendo investment — Saudi Arabia's wealth fund has made its second $1 billion foray into the Swedish gaming industry this year as part of a drive …
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Shared micromobility company Bird confirms plans to lay off 23% of its staff, or about 138 out of 600 workers, spanning across the organization and regions — Shared micromobility company Bird plans to layoff 23% of its staff, according to tech layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi.
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI and IRS led an international operation taking down online marketplace SSNDOB that sold the names, SSNs, and dates of birth of about 24 million US people — SSNDOB, an online marketplace that sold the names, social security numbers, and dates of birth of approximately 24 million US people … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Crayta, a service built on Unreal Engine 4 that lets players create, share, and play games with friends, is coming to Facebook Gaming — The Roblox-meets-Fortnite platform lets you build games with friends — Crayta, a platform that lets players create, share …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify's podcast business generated nearly €200M in 2021 revenue, up 300% YoY, but had a -57% gross margin; Spotify monetized 14% of listening time in Q1 2022 — Spotify disclosed some key financial metrics of its podcast business for the first time — and while the $1 billion-plus … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce announces NFT Cloud, a service for buying and selling NFTs, available in a closed preview — Who knows whether it's FOMO or actual customer demand for such a thing, but Salesforce announced today that it's launching a pilot of NFT Cloud, a new platform for buying and selling these crypto assets.
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| Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch: |
Brooklyn-based Entropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that works across blockchains, raises a $25M seed led by a16z, following a $1.95M pre-seed in January — Tux Pacific isn't your average tech founder. They're a self-taught cryptographer who dropped out of college … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Multiverse, which lets companies like Cisco find candidates for tech apprenticeships, raises a $220M Series D, following a $130M Series C in September 2021 — We've been tracking a worrying trend of layoffs in the technology industry, but that is not the full story.
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Forbes, PR Newswire, FinSMEs, and Sifted
| Rolling Stone: |
Sources: Twitter is fighting a request by the House January 6 committee for its internal Slack conversations, including on moderating tweets about the attack — Exclusive: The tech giant is refusing to hand over internal communications about how it moderated tweets about the Capitol Insurrection, sources tell Rolling Stone
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Paige Thompson, an ex-Amazon employee accused of stealing 100M+ Capital One customer details, stands trial; her lawyers say she was a “novice white-hat hacker” — A woman is accused of downloading data of more than 100 million Capital One customers.Sponsor Posts
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