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Matt Mullenweg says Automattic will add IAP for WordPress.com plans to WordPress iOS app after Apple froze app updates and demanded the addition — This sounds ridiculous — WordPress, the iOS app, lets you build and manage a website right from your iPhone or iPad.
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In a legal filing, Apple accuses Epic Games of anticompetitive behavior, producing three emails from Tim Sweeney to show that Epic asked for a special deal — - Apple responded to Epic Games' lawsuit accusing it of anticompetitive behavior in its control of the App Store in a legal filing on Friday.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
FBI and CISA warn of an ongoing voice phishing campaign targeting remote workers in the US aimed at stealing login credentials for corporate networks/VPNs — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued a joint alert …
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| Joe Maring / Android Central: |
Sources: Google Pixel 5 to have a 6" 90Hz display, Snapdragon 765G, and dual rear cameras with an ultrawide lens; leaked renders show a rear fingerprint sensor — Here's your early look at Google's upcoming Pixels. — What you need to know — Following new renders of the Pixel 5 …
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| Rana Ayyub / Washington Post: |
In India, like in Myanmar and the Philippines previously, Facebook has no issue aiding dishonest and hateful authoritarian leaders to increase its market share — On Aug. 14, the Wall Street Journal published a damning story about Facebook's complicity in aiding and abetting Prime Minister …
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| Matthew Leising / Bloomberg: |
Chainalysis: around $50B in crypto assets have left China in the past year, of which ~$18B was Tether; China limits citizens to $50K/year in overseas transfers — - Report suggests digital coins contribute to capital flight — Tether coin is ‘a U.S. dollar replacement’ for some in China| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Alphabet considered participating in a group bid for TikTok but talks among companies in the nascent consortium ended recently — - Google parent would have used an investment unit for deal — Talks among firms in nascent consortium said to end recently
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Experian South Africa CEO claims someone posing as a client tricked the company into giving up personal information of an estimated 24M SA citizens in May — Experian South Africa CEO Ferdie Pieterse downplayed the seriousness of a data breach at his company which exposed the personal details of 23.4 million South Africans.| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Leaked Palantir S-1 shows the company had 2019 revenue of $742M, up ~25% YoY, and a net loss of $580M, about the same as in 2018 — Palantir filed an S-1 confidentially to the SEC in early July, but we have so far been waiting for the final doc to be published for weeks now with nary a murmur.
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| Varsha Bansal / Coda Story: |
Hyderabad, with 500K+ CCTV cameras, has become India's most surveilled city and a test bed for AI-based visual surveillance tech for the rest of the country — Hyderabad's IT industry brought jobs and growth to the city. Critics now say the same technology is being used to watch the moves of every citizen
Tweets: @varshaabansal, @nilchristopher, @varshaabansal, @robinwauters, @varshaabansal, and @varshaabansal
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Sources: Microsoft started signing deals with foreign governments for cloud contracts after JEDI was put on hold due to Amazon's legal challenge — - A cloud contract effort designed for governments outside the U.S. could launch later this year. — The launch would come after Microsoft won … | Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Tech for Campaigns, a volunteer group of ~13,500 tech employees, have worked on 468 election-related projects, flipping 3 state chambers Democratic since 2018 — Some 13,500 tech workers with day jobs at companies like Facebook, Google, Netflix and Disney are volunteering in their spare … | NBC News: |
Facebook's decision to disable the #SaveTheChildren hashtag appears to have energized and amplified the QAnon movement, spurring on public, offline rallies — On the second Saturday of August, about 100 protestors gathered at the “Big Red Wagon,” a well-known attraction in downtown Spokane, Washington.
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