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Wall Street Journal: Internal docs show Facebook's weak response after staff flagged human traffickers and drug cartels using its platform for recruitment in developing countries -
Eric Slivka / MacRumors: Initial benchmarks show iPhone 13's A15 chip offers a roughly 15% improvement for GPU performance and 10%-18% improvement for CPU performance over A14 -
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple's iPhone 13 and 13 Pro are the first to support dual eSIM, expanding on support for eSIM and regular SIM in previous iPhones -
Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: Apple, in a first, reported no CPU gains for the A15, likely because of the engineer exodus to companies like Nuvia and Rivos -
Haroon Siddique / The Guardian: Sir Clive Sinclair, the creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum who helped popularize the home computer, dies at age 81 — Creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum … -
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents -
Makena Kelly / The Verge: Senator Markey and Reps. Castor and Trahan wrote to Facebook calling on it to abandon its plans to launch an Instagram app for kids in light of WSJ's report -
Richard Lawler / The Verge: Alphabet's Project Taara, which uses light beams to deliver internet, says it transmitted nearly 700TB of data across the Congo River over 20 days -
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Nate Chastain, the head of product at OpenSea who was accused this week of a form of NFT insider trading, appears to no longer be working for the company -
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: Brooklyn-based Genius, a music-annotating startup that provides context for lyrics, sells its assets for $80M, less than the total funding it raised -
Reuters: Facebook says it will use the same tactics that it uses to remove bot networks to target real-user accounts engaging in tactics like mass reporting -
Maggie Miller / The Hill: FTC asks health apps, such as those tracking fitness or menstrual cycles, to notify consumers of data breaches as per the 2009 Health Breach Notification Rule -
Wenxin Fan / Wall Street Journal: China erased Zhao Wei, its biggest movie star who had 86M Weibo followers, from its internet on August 26, amid a clampdown on its entertainment industry -
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Tyk, which offers open source tools for businesses to manage APIs, raises $35M led by Scottish Equity Partners -
Bloomberg: Sources: China's crypto mining crackdown has expanded to focus on colleges, research institutions, and data centers, as fears over its winter power supply grow -
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: Whatnot, a livestreaming service for buying and selling collectibles, raises $150M Series C at a $1.5B valuation, its third fundraising round in 2021 -
15 minutes ago Aaron Mak / Slate: Inside r/aznidentity, a subreddit that has become an unofficial hub of “Men's Rights Asians” subculture, which has gained notoriety by harassing Asian women -
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Elodie Games, which makes cross-play, co-op games that run on PCs, mobile devices, and consoles, raises $32.5M Series A led by Galaxy Interactive and a16z -
Andrew Fedorov / Input: A look at CouchSurfing.com, which is now headed by Palantir alum Patrick Dugan, as it abandoned its always-free ethos at the start of the pandemic -
Christine Hall / TechCrunch: CodeSignal, which automates technical assessments to reduce recruitment bias, raises $50M Series C led by Index Ventures, bringing its total raised to $87.5M