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Leaked audio from 80+ internal TikTok meetings: ByteDance staff in China repeatedly accessed data about US TikTok users between September 2021 and January 2022 — For years, TikTok has responded to data privacy concerns by promising that information gathered about users in the United States …
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TikTok says it has completed migrating its US users' data to Oracle's servers in the US — TikTok has completed migrating its U.S. users' information to servers at Oracle Corp (ORCL.N), in a move that could address U.S. regulatory concerns over data integrity on the popular video app, the company confirmed to Reuters.
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Bitcoin falls by 6%+ to below $20,000 for the first time since December 2020, the twelfth straight day of decline, as ether briefly dropped below $1,000 — Bitcoin fell below $20,000 for the first time since December 2020 as evidence of deepening stress within the crypto industry keeps piling …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta unveils Avatars Store, where users can buy digital clothes for avatars, and plans to make it a marketplace where developers can create and sell clothing — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is launching a digital designer clothing store called the “Meta Avatars Store.”
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Brex says it will no longer work with SMBs that do not have venture funding and will shut down “tens of thousands” of accounts after August 15 — Three months after announcing it would make a big push into software and enterprise, fintech giant Brex is apparently abandoning …
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The US DOJ says RSocks, a Russian botnet used to hijack millions of devices worldwide for use as proxy servers, was disrupted in an international operation — The Department of Justice announced Thursday that the U.S. and international law enforcement partners in the United Kingdom, Germany …
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| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
TSMC details its roadmap: a high volume 3nm chip production starting in H2 2022, with five 3nm-class N3 node iterations, and 2nm-class N2 introduction in 2025 — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Thursday kicked off its 2022 TSMC Technology Symposium, where the company traditionally shares …
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Chipmakers including TSMC embark on a $120B investment spree across Taiwan, with 20 new fabs ready or in the works, dwarfing planned investments in US and Japan — 20 new fabs ready or in pipeline, dwarfing planned investments in U.S. and Japan — TAIPEI — Taiwan's chipmakers have launched …
Tweets: @nikkeiasia, @sharp_writing, and @nikkeiasia
| Varsha Bansal / TIME: |
A look at India's Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), which could help the country's mom-and-pop retailers compete against rapid grocery delivery startups — When Jay Prakash, a 35-year-old shopkeeper, inherited his father's local convenience store in Bengaluru, it had a dependable … | Ben Tarnoff / The Guardian: |
How eBay, launched in 1995 as AuctionWeb, anticipated many of the key features that would define a “platform” and unlocked the profit potential of the internet — The story of the modern web is often told through the stories of Google, Facebook, Amazon. But eBay was the first conqueror
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The UK publishes its final response to a data reform consultation to diverge from EU rules, including replacing cookie consent pop-ups with browser opt-outs — The UK government has published its final response to a data ‘reform’ consultation it kicked off last year, laying out how it intends …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
In a letter, 21 US lawmakers ask Google to clamp down on “misleading” search results that steer people searching for abortions services to anti-abortion clinics — - A group of lawmakers are urging Google to clamp down on misleading search results that allegedly steer people searching …
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