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| Mikael Thalen / The Daily Dot: |
After a user highlighted them, Twitter confirms it inadvertently verified six accounts and says the “inauthentic” accounts are now suspended and badges removed — Six users with fake profile pics were seemingly verified less than one month after being created.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Google adds support for BIMI security standard for brands to Gmail, showing logos for verified users, as part of an effort to improve email-sender authenticity — Google has rolled out today support for the new Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) standard to all Gmail users …
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| Gaspard Sebag / Bloomberg: |
France fines Google $593M for failing to comply with a 2020 order to negotiate in good faith with publishers for displaying article snippets in Google News — - Tech giant penalized for not agreeing fair deal with publisher — Complaint from news wires and magazines dates back to 2019
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Quantexa, which uses AI to detect money laundering and other illegal activities, raises $153M Series D led by Warburg Pincus, at a valuation of $800M-$900M — As financial crime has become significantly more sophisticated, so too have the tools that are used to combat it.
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| The Guardian: |
London Met Police says it seized ~£180M in bitcoin while investigating international money laundering, after seizing £114M of cryptocurrencies last month — Seizure in London follows confiscation of £114m of the cryptocurrency in June — Metropolitan police detectives …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Broadcom is in talks to buy SAS, which sells analytics, business-intelligence and data-management software, in a deal valuing SAS between $15B and $20B — A deal by the chip maker would value closely held SAS in the range of $15 billion to $20 billion
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| Mark Landler / New York Times: |
After England's defeat in Euro 2020, Boris Johnson and others condemn racist abuse of players on social media, with some calling for tougher action by platforms — The social media bigotry, directed at three players who missed penalty kicks in the Euro 2020 final, was condemned by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and most everyone else.
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| NetBlocks: |
In response to protests, NetBlocks says Cuba's state-run ISP has restricted social media and messaging apps, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — Network data from NetBlocks confirm partial disruption to social media and messaging platforms in Cuba from 12 July 2021.
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| Gartner: |
Q2 2021: global PC shipments totaled 71.6M, up 4.6% YoY, following Q1's record 35.7% YoY growth; Lenovo holds 24.1% marketshare, followed by HP, Dell, and Apple — Growth Rate Slowed, Tempered by Impact of Ongoing Semiconductor Shortages — Worldwide PC shipments totaled 71.6 million units …
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Tweets: @benbajarin, @susan_m, @firstadopter, @firstadopter, and @firstadopter
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils a feature for Android 12 that lets users play a game from the Play Store before it's fully downloaded, available with “minimal developer effort” — On the first day of this year's Games Developer Conference, Google introduced a handful of Android 12-specific features …
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XDA Developers, GamesIndustry.biz, Gizchina, Android Police, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @timsweeneyepic, @ronamadeo, and @ronamadeo
| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
Senate confirms ex-NSA official Jen Easterly as CISA's director, a role that was vacant since Trump fired Chris Krebs in Nov. for refuting conspiracy theories — The Senate on Monday confirmed President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency …
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Politico, Engadget, The Hill, Gizmodo, CNN, ZDNet, and CyberScoop
Tweets: @therecord_media, @spauldingsez, and @senatorhassan
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Meet starts enforcing a 60-minute time limit on group calls for free Gmail users — In light of COVID-19 driving all communication online, free Google Meet users with personal Gmail accounts could take advantage of group calls without a duration limit over the past year.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
SolarWinds patches a remote code execution flaw in its Serv-U product, after Microsoft notified the company that the flaw was being exploited in the wild — SolarWinds is urging customers to patch a Serv-U remote code execution vulnerability exploited in the wild by “a single threat actor” …
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The Hacker News, ZDNet, Ars Technica, SecurityWeek, The Register, and Windows Central. Tweets: @marknca
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Some YouTubers are making a living by creating videos about Microsoft software, and have a larger subscriber base than Microsoft's own YouTube channels — - Some people make a living off of making YouTube videos about software from Microsoft and other companies.| Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
Mediaocean, known for its ad-agency billing technology, buys adtech company Flashtalking for $500M as, sources say, it prepares for an IPO next year — Flashtalking, known for its ad server, is the latest in a string of Mediaocean acquisitions aimed at enhancing its digital ad technology| Shuli Ren / Bloomberg: |
How corporate accountants are grappling with companies holding cryptocurrencies on their balance sheets, as official GAAP guidelines don't exist — A company holding such digital assets can — for the most part — only write down their value. It's unfair. Just look at those risky startup investments.
Tweets: @matt_hougan
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
YouTube says Shorts, which launched in India before expanding to 26 countries, will now be available in over 100 countries — The short-form video experience arrives in more than 100 countries — YouTube's TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts, is now rolling out globally.
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Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wccftech, Mashable, and Tubefilter
| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
Disney to raise the subscription fees for ESPN+ in the US to $7/mo. and $70/year, from $6/mo. and $60/year; price for a Disney bundle is unchanged at $14/mo. — Disney will raise the monthly and annual fees for ESPN Plus, one of three different subscription-based streaming services it operates in the U.S. …
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9to5Mac, MUO, iMore, CNBC, Engadget, Gizmodo, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Pocket-lint, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Tom's Guide, The Streamable, CNET, Cord Cutters News, and The Verge. Tweets: @ivanthek
| Thad Rueter / Government Technology: |
Mark43, which offers cloud-based records management and dispatch systems to US police departments, raises $101M Series E, as it looks to expand internationally — Even amid calls to “defund the police,” agencies are buying new technology, boosting efficiency and enabling new types of reporting.Sponsor Posts
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