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June 7, 2021, 7:40 AM

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Jay Peters / The Verge:
What to expect from WWDC 2021: iOS 15 with updated notifications and iMessage, revamp of iPadOS home screen, new Apple Silicon chips and MacBook Pro, and more  —  The keynote kicks off June 7th at 1PM ET  —  Apple's annual developer extravaganza, the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
James Titcomb / Telegraph:
Apple paid millions to settle a woman's claims that, after sending her iPhone to Apple for repair, technicians uploaded her nude photos to her Facebook account  —  Technicians posted the private photos and video from her iPhone after she sent it to Apple for repair, according to legal documents
Kim Lyons / The Verge:
Researcher: Twitter Super Follow to be limited to users over 18, with 25+ tweets posted in the last 30 days and 10K+ followers; categories include adult content  —  The company teased the Patreon-like subscription service earlier this year  —  Twitter announced earlier this year it was working …
Washington Post:
Analysis: eighteen, or nearly 2% of the 1,000 highest grossing apps on the App Store are scams; according to Appfigures data, they may have cost users $48M  —  Nearly 2 percent of Apple's top-grossing apps on one day were scams — and they have cost people $48 million
Shishir Mehrotra / Coda:
An insider's look at how YouTube tackled its 2008 to 2014 hypergrowth years with a set of rituals for everything from strategic planning to effective meetings  —  A peek inside how YouTube tackled the 2008 to 2014 hypergrowth years with a unique set of rituals for everything from strategic planning to effective meetings.
Harry Dempsey / Financial Times:
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Sources: Flipkart is in talks to raise $3B from SoftBank and several sovereign wealth funds, targeting a valuation of ~$40B  —  - E-commerce giant to raise funds as IPO pushed back to 2022  — SoftBank to back Flipkart again after selling stake to Walmart
More: Reuters
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Vancouver-based Trulioo, which offers an identity and document verification service, raises $394M Series D led by TCV at a $1.75B valuation  —  Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021.  —  Online identity verification platform Trulioo has closed …
More: BetaKit and Finextra
James T. Areddy / Wall Street Journal:
A brief history of cryptocurrency mining in China as authorities crack down on mining operations and miners in other countries cut into China's dominance  —  Crackdown warning highlights the cryptocurrency's reliance on a hostile host; miners head west  —  Bitcoin enthusiasts prize …
Matt O'brien / Associated Press:
Profile of Lynne Parker, the founding director of White House OSTP's National AI Initiative Office, tasked with boosting AI research and guiding AI regulation  —  Computer scientist Lynne Parker made breakthroughs in getting robots to work together so they could perform difficult missions …

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