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Epic enables a direct payment option in Fortnite on iOS and Android alongside the existing method, to get around app store fees; buying direct is up to 20% off — Plus, V-bucks get permanently discounted — Today, Epic announced the Fortnite “mega drop,” a permanent discount on V-bucks …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple has removed Epic Games' Fortnite from the App Store after the developer implemented its own in-app payment system, bypassing Apple's standard 30% fee — Apple says Epic is violating its App Store guidelines by using its own payment system — Apple has removed Epic Games' battle royale Fortnite … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple will launch “Apple One” tiered subscription bundles, with Music, TV+, News+, and a new virtual fitness service, as early as October — Apple Inc. is readying a series of bundles that will let customers subscribe to several of the company's digital services …
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Sources: Apple, Disney, and others participated in a White House call over the potential WeChat ban, arguing it could undermine their competitiveness in China — Companies including Apple, Disney and Walmart participate in call with White House over action against China's most important app
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| Bloomberg: |
A Weibo survey asking users to choose between WeChat and iPhones drew 1.2M responses, with ~95% saying they would rather give up their devices — - Ban on Chinese apps may render iPhone “electronic trash” — WeChat is instrumental to most China residents' everyday lives
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Researchers say a now-patched Alexa vulnerability could have been exploited to hand over users' personal data, voice recordings, banking data history, and more — Subdomains belonging to the service were found to be harboring CORS errors and vulnerable to XSS attacks.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft joins Uber in saying it will pull out of California if forced to re-classify drivers as employees — The companies say they can't afford to classify drivers as employees — Lyft said it would shut down operations in California if forced to classify drivers as employees …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook officially launches a Voting Information Center on Facebook and Instagram, with state-by-state information on how to register and vote — Eager to avoid a repeat of its disastrous role as a super-spreader of misinformation during the 2016 election cycle, Facebook is getting its ducks in a row.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
US says it has seized 300+ “cryptocurrency accounts”, around $2M, four websites, and four FB pages used by al-Qaeda, Hamas' military wing, and ISIS — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the “largest ever seizure of terrorist organizations' cryptocurrency accounts” …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel offers a first look at its next-gen Tiger Lake processors and Xe graphics, both of which promise higher performance and lower power consumption — Architecture Day 2020 offers a preview of Intel's future — Intel's Architecture Day 2020 brought a first look at the company's upcoming …
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CNET, Tom's Hardware, ZDNet, Tom's Hardware, SemiAccurate, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, Windows Central, TheStreet, CNET, Ars Technica, Reuters, PCWorld, VentureBeat, AnandTech, AnandTech, Digital Trends, Engadget, Engadget, and CRN. Tweets: @stshank
| Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: |
NSA and FBI say Russian state sponsored hacker group Fancy Bear is using a previously undisclosed Linux malware called Drovorub for cyber espionage operations — The National Security Agency and the FBI are jointly exposing malware that they say Russian military hackers use in cyber-espionage operations.
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| Brian J Barth / OneZero : |
A look at how Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs' bet on making Toronto a smart city failed, driven by intense resistance from residents and civic leaders — Alphabet bet big in Toronto. Toronto didn't play along. — October 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
YouTube bans videos containing info obtained through hacking that could interfere with the election and will remove content that encourages meddling in voting — The Google-owned video site will also take down content that encourages meddling in the voting process.| Fanny Potkin / Reuters: |
Sources: ByteDance's Indonesian news aggregator app BaBe censored content perceived as critical of the Chinese government between 2018 and mid-2020 — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Chinese tech giant ByteDance censored content it perceived as critical of the Chinese government on its news aggregator app … | Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Instagram says it will start asking some users to verify their identities by submitting government IDs, if it suspects “potential inauthentic behavior” — Instagram is taking new steps to root out bots and other accounts trying to manipulate its platform.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Stream, whose APIs enable product teams to build chat and activity feeds for their applications, raises $15M Series A led by GGV Capital — Earlier this year, the founders of Stream, a five-year-old, 60-person startup with offices in Boulder and Amsterdam, weren't feeling so great about their prospects.Sponsor Posts
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