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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Memo: on top of cutting ~20% of its staff, Snap cancels its original shows, in-app games, and Zenly and Voisey apps; the layoffs could save $500M annually — Snapchat's original shows, in-app games, and camera drone are no more — Snap is laying off around 20 percent of its more than 6,400 employees …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Snap plans to start laying off ~20% of its 6,400+ employees on August 31, 2022, including cuts to its hardware group; Snap stock is down ~80% in 2022 — Snap's stock price has declined nearly 80 percent this year — Snap is planning to lay off approximately 20 percent … | Alex Heath / The Verge: |
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| Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: |
Washington, DC sues Michael Saylor for tax fraud and his company MicroStrategy “for conspiring to help him evade taxes” “on hundreds of millions of dollars” — The attorney general's office is also suing the business software company for allegedly helping him evade taxes on his earnings in the district.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
After an outcry over having transphobic forum Kiwi Farms as a client, Cloudflare says denying security services due to “despicable” content is the wrong policy — The company has faced mounting pressure to stop providing security services to Kiwi Farms, whose users regularly dox and stalk trans people.
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| Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
Crypto.com sues an Australian woman after erroneously sending her AU$10.5M in May 2021 instead of a AU$100 refund; the woman reportedly bought a AU$1.35M house — A woman asked for a $100 refund from the crypto platform but instead received $10.5 million—and then went on a spending spree, according to reports.
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| Corin Faife / The Verge: |
Microsoft reveals a now-patched “high severity vulnerability” in TikTok for Android that could let attackers take over accounts that clicked on a malicious link — Hackers could have used the exploit to post videos, send messages, and edit account details
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
a16z releases free “Can't Be Evil” licenses for NFTs, inspired by Creative Commons, on GitHub; NFT licensing has been attempted before, including by Dapper Labs — Andreessen Horowitz's crypto arm is releasing a free licensing system, aiming to help the NFT sector fulfil its “economic potential.”
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| ProPublica: |
An investigation details an Instagram verification scheme using fake profiles on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and more; Meta removes badges from 300+ accounts — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.| Bloomberg: |
Apple VP of Corporate Development Adrian Perica resigned from Didi's board, which he joined in 2016 after Apple's $1B investment in the ride-hailing company — An Apple Inc. executive has left the board of Didi Global Inc., as the Chinese ride-hailing company struggles to regain ground …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Q&A with Chris McKillop, the former director of engineering for Google's Fuchsia project, on the past, present, and future of the OS, Nexus Q failures, and more — The former director of engineering for Google's Fuchsia project, Chris McKillop, has shared with us some insights …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Asus Zenbook 17 Fold review: foldable OLED display with a comfortable keyboard and professional look, but $3,500 is expensive and the software has glitches — It's a 17-inch foldable that actually works — Ever since Samsung Display showed off a 17-inch foldable OLED screen last May …
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Tweets: @mcsquared96, @danackerman, @danackerman, and @pierce
| Bloomberg: |
China's punishing tech crackdown undercut the industry's role as the largest and most sought-after employer, leading to high college graduate unemployment rates — When Xi Jinping tightened the screws on China's technology industry last year, he escalated a jobs crisis for the youngest …
Tweets: @tommackenzietv, @angelazhanghk, and @nerysinchina
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Live Nation's Ticketmaster partners with Dapper Labs to issue ticket NFTs on the Flow blockchain and expands its NFL deal to give NFTs to attendees of 100 games — Ticketmaster will now let event organizers issue NFTs (non-fungible tokens) tied to tickets on Flow, a blockchain operated by a16z-backed Dapper Labs.| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Researchers: self-harm posts are surging on Twitter, including graphic photos with bloody practices; one hashtag grew to close to 30,000 tweets by July 2022 — Self-harm related hashtags have increased roughly 500 percent since October, a new report says — A Twitter user in apparent distress turned …
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| Josephine Wolff / Wired: |
Cyber insurers are failing to reduce companies' cyber risk exposure and to cover breached firms' costs after state-sponsored cyberattacks that fall short of war — Cyberinsurance doesn't cover acts of war. But even as cyberattacks mount, the definition of “warlike” actions remains blurry.
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Japan's digital minister Taro Kono pledges to update the many regulations that require floppy disks and CD-ROMs to be used when sending data to the government — Digital minister will drive change because, in theory, uploading info to government isn't allowed
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