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Two former Twitter employees say more than 1,000 staff and contractors had access to internal tools to change account settings and ownership as of early 2020 — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools …
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Intel says that it has delayed the rollout of its 7nm CPUs by six months, now 12 months behind the company's internal targets — Intel announced today in its Q2 2020 earnings release that it has now delayed the rollout of its 7nm CPUs by six months relative to its previously-planned release date …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q2 revenue of $19.7B, up 20% YoY, and Data Center Group revenue of $7.1B, up 43% YoY, but offers disappointing Q3 guidance; stock down 8%+ — - Intel beat on the top and bottom lines, but earnings guidance for the current quarter was lighter than expected.
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| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
Sources: House's antitrust hearing with big tech CEOs on Monday is likely to be postponed in order to allow lawmakers to attend Rep. John Lewis' funeral — Monday's blockbuster congressional hearing with Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai is likely to be postponed …
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Following a possible ransomware attack, Garmin starts shutting down its website, Garmin Connect, and some production lines in Asia, plans for multi-day recovery — Smartwatch and wearable maker Garmin planning multi-day maintenance window to deal with ransomware incident.| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Sources: Facebook ceased research into racial bias in Instagram's moderation tools after finding problematic results; Facebook says the methodology was flawed — In mid-2019, researchers at Facebook began studying a new set of rules proposed for the automated system that Instagram uses …
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An inside look at internal strife and dissent within Facebook, as employees warn the company is “hurting people at scale” and reckon with what they've built — On July 1, Max Wang, a Boston-based software engineer who was leaving Facebook after more than seven years …
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Jack Dorsey says Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including through a subscription model — Washington (CNN Business)Twitter (TWTR) is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday.
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Sources: EU asks Google in its Fitbit acquisition to not use Fitbit data to “further enhance its search advantage” and to grant 3rd parties equal access to data — Pledge required that health data will not be used to improve search engine. — The EU has demanded that Google … | Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Internal doc: T-Mobile to require all new devices to support VoLTE from August 4, and will stop supporting any non-VoLTE phones on its network from January 2021 — According to internal T-Mobile documents, the carrier plans to rapidly fast track plans to shut down its 2G and 3G voice networks …
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Sources: Google's internal Android Lockbox project collects usage data from non-Google apps to inform product strategy; Google says data obtained via public API — When YouTube was planning the rollout of its rival to TikTok in India earlier this month, employees turned to a valuable source …
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MSPoweruser. Tweets: @timbray, @dhh, @aaronwall, @venkatananth, @parismartineau, and @samidhas
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Paris selects Lime, Tier, and Dott as its electric scooter operators, snubbing Bird, which had planned to build a Paris hub and hire 1,000 people over two years — Lime, Tier, and Dott are the big winners in the City of Lights — Paris has chosen its electric scooter operators.| Eli Blumenthal / CNET: |
AT&T says its low-band 5G network is now available to 205M people, joining T-Mobile as a nationwide 5G network — The carrier is also adding 5G access to its cheapest unlimited plan. — AT&T's 5G network crossed an important milestone Thursday, with the telecom giant announcing …
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Some startups that took investments from Amazon or had discussions about them say the company used info it received in the process to launch competing products — Some companies regret sharing information with tech giant and its Alexa Fund; ‘we may have been naive’
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Tweets: @oliviasolon, @grahamstarr, @allenholub, @danpriceseattle, @rachelbovard, @hshaban, @mcwm, and @danamattioli
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Filing: NY charges First American Financial over massive 2019 data breach caused by a software update flaw, in the first enforcement of 2017 cybersecurity rules — In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp …
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Tweets: @briankrebs and @brianhaugli
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
TikTok says it is launching a new $200M fund to pay creators directly for their content — The first major monetization effort from the company — As TikTok continues to grow in popularity and its personalities become mainstream celebrities in their own right, the company is trying …
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US officials unveil a plan to build a quantum Internet, existing alongside our current one, which uses the laws of quantum mechanics to share info more securely — The new network would sit alongside the existing Web, offering a more secure way to send and process information
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FedScoop, insideHPC, and HPCwire
Tweets: @sethdavishoops, @jonmasters, @natasharothwell, and @michaelsbrett
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