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Sources: Samsung plans to unveil a 6.7-inch phone, which will shrink to a pocketable square when folded inward like a clamshell, early next year — - Coming in 2020, it will close inward like a classic flip phone — Collaboration with designer Thom Browne to push luxury appeal
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android 10 launches today, with the update available to all Pixel phones — After six betas over six months, the newest version of Android is finally out. — Android 10 is finally finished! The next big Android update, which we've been examining for most of the year as the “Android Q Beta,” starts rolling out to devices today.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 69 arrives and now blocks third-party tracking cookies, fingerprinting, and cryptomining by default — Mozilla today launched Firefox 69 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Firefox 69 blocks third-party tracking cookies and cryptomining by default.
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| Ravie Lakshmanan / The Next Web: |
Report: scammers used commercially available voice-generating AI software to impersonate a German company's boss, tricking a manager into transferring $243K — It's already getting tough to discern real text from fake, genuine video from deepfake. Now, it appears that use of fake voice tech is on the rise too.
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| YouTube Blog: |
YouTube has removed 100K+ videos and 17K channels for hate speech, ~5x more than in Q1, since implementing changes to its hateful content policies in June — Over the past several years, we've redoubled our efforts to live up to our responsibility while preserving the power of an open platform.
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| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
Huawei says, without evidence, that the US targeted its networks with cyberattacks, and that FBI agents have pressed Huawei staffers at home for info on Huawei — BEIJING — The Chinese technology giant Huawei said on Tuesday, without providing evidence, that the United States government … | Axios: |
Podcasting startup Himalaya overstated its $100M fundraise in February, as it did not have that much money in hand, nor were all the stated investors on board — Himalaya Media launched in February as a San Francisco-based podcasting startup that had raised an eye-popping $100 million.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Hackers breach the forum of the popular webcomic XKCD, stealing around 560,000 usernames, hashed passwords, email addresses, and IP addresses — The data breach affected 560,000 users. — Hackers have breached the forum of the popular webcomic XKCD, stealing around 560,000 usernames … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Zero-day exploit broker Zerodium increases the price of a “zero-click” exploit chain for Android to $2.5M, eclipsing iOS' top prize for the first time — Exploit broker Zerodium increases zero-day prices for Android, now worth more than iOS. — Zerodium, a company which claims … | Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: more than half of the state attorneys general in the US are preparing an antitrust investigation into Google, scheduled to be announced on September 9 — More than half of the nation's state attorneys generals are preparing to announce an antitrust investigation into Google next week.
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| Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
Cloudflare sets initial price range of $10-$12 per share for its IPO, which will value the company at between $2.9B and $3.5B and could raise over $400M — Cloudflare, a content delivery and Internet security firm, set an initial price range for its IPO this morning.| Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News: |
As a growing number of Americans over 50 play video games as a way to remain socially connected and cognitively sharp, some are finding stardom on Twitch — Audrey Buchanan, 88, has put more than 3,500 hours into “Animal Crossing” — and been able to connect with her grandson across the country.
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