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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: Twitter's Vijaya Gadde told staff in a meeting that a shareholder vote to approve Elon Musk buying the company 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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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple will handle Apple Pay Later's lending, a first for the company; in-house subsidiary Apple Financing LLC will oversee credit checks and make loan decisions — Apple Inc. will handle the lending itself for a new “buy now, pay later” offering, sidestepping partners as the tech giant pushes deeper …
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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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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft plans to stop adding noncompete clauses to US employment agreements, drop NDAs from US worker settlements, add salary ranges to US job posts, and more — Bending to employee sentiment and legislative mandate, Microsoft announced a series of reforms Wednesday that will curtail …
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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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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
In an email, ByteDance says Joshua Ma, who leads UK's TikTok Shop, will “step back” during a probe into comments that he “didn't believe” in maternity leave — Joshua Ma will ‘take some time off’ after claims were brought to TikTok by the Financial Times
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| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Ethereum's proof-of-stake Merge upgrade goes live on Ropsten, Ethereum's oldest testnet for blockchain development testing before deployment on the mainnet — First rolled out in 2016, Ropsten is Ethereum's oldest testnet that allows for blockchain development testing before deployment on the mainnet.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub is sunsetting Atom, the text editor for developers it launched in 2011, and will archive all projects under the Atom organization on December 15, 2022 — GitHub today announced that it will sunset Atom, the text editor for software development that the company introduced in 2011.| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
South Korean crypto exchanges Bithumb and Upbit plan to delist Litecoin, saying the token's new privacy features violate the country's anti-money laundering law — Two major exchanges in South Korea said they will delist Litecoin due to new privacy features enabled by the protocol.| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Source: Meta has halted development of a smartwatch with dual cameras, which was in development for two years, and is instead working on other wrist devices — Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has halted development of a smartwatch with dual cameras and is instead working … | Florence Ion / Gizmodo: |
Google releases Android 13 Beta 3 for Pixel phones and says Android 13 has reached platform stability, meaning the developer APIs and how apps perform are final — As the beta reaches Platform Stability, Google would like to remind you that Android tablets aren't dead yet. — Alerts| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
Meta faces eight lawsuits this week that claim its algorithms lead to attempted suicide, eating disorders, sleeplessness, and other issues in young people — Meta Platforms Inc. is now a leader in another social media trend — lawsuits claiming the company built algorithms in its platforms …
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| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Vanta, which offers enterprise data security compliance tools, raises $110M led by Craft Ventures at a $1.6B valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$163M — In some ways, Vanta Inc. looks like a startup from a frothier era. It's run by a 35-year-old entrepreneur in San Francisco and sells software primarily to other startups.| 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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CNET, MobileSyrup, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wccftech, Cult of Mac, and iPhone Hacks
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| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Sweden-based Juni, a neobank catering to e-commerce and online marketing companies, raises a $206M Series B, $100M in equity led by Mubadala and $106M in debt — Sweden's Juni has raised $206 million ($100 equity/$106 debt) in a Series B funding round. — Swedish integrated payment … | Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Unsealed docs: the US Secret Service ordered travel companies Sabre and Travelport to spy on a Russian hacker for two years, providing weekly location reports — A Forbes legal challenge forces the unsealing of documents that reveal for the first time the scope of secretive surveillance orders … | Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta's head of infrastructure David Mortenson steps down; engineering and infrastructure VP Santosh Janardhan, his direct report, will take over later in June — The change comes days after the announced departure of Sheryl Sandberg — Another executive change is hitting Meta … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
The Block: weekly NFT sales declined by just over 70% from a high of nearly 1M units in the third week of 2022 to 250K+ at the end of May 2022 — The consumer trading boom has deflated, pushing unicorns and recently public companies alike into defensive modes.
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| TechCrunch: |
Researcher says over 120K passports, drivers licenses, and IDs of users of Chinese bike-sharing service Mobike was not encrypted and exposed online — A massive trove of more than 120,000 passports, drivers licenses and identity documents uploaded by users of bike-sharing service Mobike have been found online.Sponsor Posts
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