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A rundown of Twitter whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko's testimony before US Senate Judiciary Committee lawmakers — Twitter shareholders voted Tuesday to approve Elon Musk's $44 billion offer to acquire it, setting the world's richest man on a collision course with the social media company …
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| Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: |
A look at the efforts by at least six research groups to find dirt on Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko, including offers to pay his former colleagues for info — Many of Peiter (Mudge) Zatko's former colleagues have received offers of payment for information about him.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Mudge details Twitter's lack of logging, hackers' ongoing and ignored efforts to access its systems, that it could “grade its own homework” to appease FTC, more — A ticking bomb of security vulnerabilities. Covering up security failures. Duping regulators and misleading lawmakers.| David McCabe / New York Times: |
In his Senate testimony, ex-head of Twitter security and whistleblower Peiter Zatko says the company was told of “at least one [Chinese] agent” on its payroll — At a congressional hearing, Peiter Zatko, Twitter's former head of security, told lawmakers that the company lied about its data practices.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Alongside iOS 16, Apple releases iOS and iPadOS 15.7, macOS Monterey 12.6, and macOS Big Sur 11.7 to fix 2022's eighth actively exploited iOS and macOS zero-day — Apple has released security updates to address the eighth zero-day vulnerability used in attacks against iPhones and Macs since the start of the year.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Twitter says that a preliminary count shows that shareholders have voted to approve Elon Musk's proposed $44B buyout — I'm convinced Tears of the Kingdom is going to feature time travel in a big way.The new trailer for the game is the second to seemingly show Link reversing an object through time.
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Twitter rolls out its redesigned Spaces tab to Twitter Blue subscribers on iOS, which includes live and recorded Spaces, podcasts, and themed audio stations — Twitter has begun rolling out its redesigned Spaces tab. Starting today, Twitter Blue members on iOS can check …
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| Maria Gracia Santillana Linares / Forbes: |
Doodles, an NFT profile picture maker, raised $54M at a $704M valuation from Alexis Ohanian's 776, FTX, and others, and plans to expand to music and gaming NFTs — Amid generally somber conditions in the non-fungible token (NFT) market, colorful-profile-picture maker Doodles raised $54 million …
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| Luc Cohen / Reuters: |
Nikhil Wahi, Coinbase PM Ishan Wahi's brother, pleaded guilty to a wire fraud conspiracy charge, in the first insider trading case involving cryptocurrencies — The brother of a former Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) product manager pleaded guilty on Monday to a wire fraud conspiracy charge …
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
The Linux Foundation plans to form the OpenWallet Foundation, building open-source interoperability for digital wallets, supported by Okta, Accenture, and more — The Linux Foundation has announced plans for a new collaborative initiative designed to support interoperability across digital wallets, built on an open source bedrock.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Bob Iger, the CEO of Walt Disney from 2005 to 2020, joins VC firm Thrive Capital, founded by Joshua Kushner, as a venture partner to advise on day-to-day work — As a venture partner, Iger will identify new investments and mentor founders in day-to-day role — Netflix Hit a Subscriber Peak, Here's How It Plans to Keep Growing
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| CNN: |
Internal Twitter memo: extreme heat in California takes down its Sacramento data center region; another data center outage could mean downtime for some users — Extreme heat in California has left Twitter without one of its key data centers, and a company executive warned in an internal memo obtained …
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| Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
Amazon updates its entry-level Kindle with USB-C, 16GB of storage as standard, a blue color option, and an improved 300ppi display, available for $100 with ads — Amazon's most basic Kindle still squeaks in at under $100, with some compromises. — Alerts
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Zesty, which helps cut cloud costs by automatically scaling resources to demand, raised a $75M Series B led by B Capital and Sapphire Ventures — Spending on the cloud shows no signs of slowing down. In the first quarter of 2021, corporate cloud services infrastructure investment increased …
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| Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: |
TCG invests $100M in Night Capital, co-founded by Mr. Beast's manager Reed Duchscher, which plans to buy DTC businesses and pair them with top online creators — Reed Duchscher, the manager of the YouTube megastar “Mr. Beast,” is teaming up with the investment firm TCG to bankroll businesses led by online creators.
Tweets: @jarroddicker and @bentwitr
| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
HBO and HBO Max won 37 awards at the 74th Emmy Awards, while Netflix won 26, Hulu eight, Apple TV+ seven, NBC seven, Disney+ six, and Amazon Prime Video six — The combined HBO and HBO Max surged past rival Netflix in this year's overall Emmys tally, winning a dozen prizes tonight for a total …
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| Reuters: |
A close look at Twitter's China business, one of its largest non-US revenue streams: local governments and state media buying ads, internal tensions, and more — Even as China bars 1.4 billion citizens from Twitter, its local authorities are splurging on global advertising on the site …
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| Eva Szalay / Bloomberg: |
Crypto lending rates sink below three-month US Treasury yields; DeFiLlama data shows DeFi platforms' total value locked fell from $182B in December 2021 to $60B — Cryptocurrencies are facing a new threat: the lure of Treasuries offering a similar payout for a whole lot less risk.| CNBC: |
After surprising inflation data, Apple closes down 5.87%, Nvidia down 9.47%, Meta down 9.37%, Coinbase down 8.84%, Amazon down 7.06%; BTC down 9%+ in 24 hours — WATCH NOW — Four experts react to August's key inflation report — Stocks fell sharply on Tuesday after a key August inflation report came … | Adam Blacker / Apptopia Blog: |
The average July in-app purchase price rose 40% YoY on iOS and 9% YoY on Google Play; Adjust data: iOS IAP prices correlate with the rising cost per install — The average price of an in-app purchase (IAP) in the U.S. on the iOS App Store has increased 40% year-over-year (YoY) in the month of July.| Bloomberg: |
To combat the FTC's 2020 antitrust lawsuit, Meta subpoenas 132 companies, including Snap, ByteDance, and Clubhouse, seeking competitively sensitive data — To defend itself against the federal government, Meta Platforms Inc. says it needs its rivals to divulge some of their most closely held secrets.| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
YouTube paid $6B+ to the music industry from July 2021 to June 2022, up $2B YoY, and says user generated content drove 30%+ of payouts for a second year running — YouTube, the world's largest streaming platform for music, announced that it has paid more than $6 billion to the music industry … | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Meta will start testing Discord-like “Community Chats” in Messenger and Facebook Groups, bringing categories, audio and video channels, and more — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that “Community Chats” are coming to Messenger and Facebook Groups.
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