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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple and Goldman Sachs are working on a “buy now, pay later” service to let consumers pay for any Apple Pay purchase in installments, to rival Affirm — - Service to let users pay off any Apple Pay purchase over time — Fresh partnership with Apple could boost Goldman consumer push
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Tweets: @business, @ryan_browne_, @mattrosoff, @carnage4life, @caro_milanesi, @gartenberg, @markgurman, and @mdudas
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
REvil's infrastructure and websites are offline, including its data leak sites, less than two weeks after attacking 1,500+ businesses with ransomware via Kaseya — The infrastructure and websites for the REvil ransomware operation have mysteriously gone offline as of last night.
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New York Times, MIT Technology Review, Politico, CSO, Axios, Decrypt, Gizmodo, Threatpost, Bloomberg, The Independent, Mother Jones, UPI, SiliconANGLE, Is Russia finally clamping …, Newsweek, VICE, The Register, Associated Press, Washington Post, Forbes, AttackIQ, CyberScoop, Newser, and ZDNet
| Shannon Vavra / The Daily Beast: |
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
The current version of Apple's Weather app won't show 69 degrees, rounding a degree, potentially due to sourcing data in Celsius and converting to Fahrenheit — It's not so nice — If you're an iPhone user, the weather is always a particularly nice 70 degrees. Or 68 degrees.
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mobilesyrup.com, Daring Fireball, Android Authority, phonearena.com, Macworld, 9to5Mac, TechSpot, AppleInsider, and iMore
| Telegraph: |
Excerpt from An Ugly Truth: from Jan. 2014 to Aug. 2015, Facebook fired 52 staffers for exploiting access to user data, prompting an overhaul of data governance — In an exclusive extract, Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang reveal how an ethos of openness meant private information could be misused
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Platformer, Insider, NPR, Pixel Envy, CNN, The Daily Dot, and Telegraph
| 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 deal with publishers — Fine is the second biggest French antitrust penalty so far
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Reuters, BBC, CNN, AppleInsider, Politico, CNBC, New York Times, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Slashdot, Thurrott, SiliconANGLE, TechSpot, Engadget, Silicon Republic, Financial Times, and Plagiarism Today
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Discord buys Sentropy, which emerged from stealth last summer with AI-powered moderation software to fight online abuse and $13M in funding — The online chat platform Discord is buying Sentropy, a company that makes AI-powered software to detect and remove online harassment and hate.
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The Verge and Sentropy
Tweets: @evelyndouek, @jredgraves, @alexeheath, @tjc88, @jasoncitron, @jhblackb, @sentropy, @garrytan, and @chapterone
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces a $99 MagSafe Battery Pack for the iPhone 12 lineup, with a total capacity of 1460mAh, arriving July 19 — Apple today released the MagSafe Battery Pack accessory for iPhone 12 models. Many months after the iPhone 12 series was unveiled, Apple has quietly released …
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Tweets: @film_girl, @gregorymcfadden, @stevemoser, @airlineflyer, @zollotech, @tme_michael, @backlon, @robertquinnnj, @rsgnl, and @thecomputerclan
| The Information: |
In April, Amazon acquired over a dozen staff from Facebook to boost its own low earth orbit satellite internet efforts; Amazon paid Facebook to seal agreement — Amazon has acquired a team of more than a dozen wireless internet experts from Facebook in an effort to boost its multibillion-dollar effort …
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GeekWire and Insider
Tweets: @sylviavarnham, @lauramandaro, @jessicalessin, @bysarahkrouse, @quinnypig, @nickwingfield, @thekenyeung, and @amir
| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Facebook is rolling out the ability for Group administrators to designate “group experts”, partly in an effort to help Facebook combat misinformation — The social network has been trying to combat misinformation by elevating authoritative sources.
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About Facebook, Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, Search Engine Journal, Facebook, and Adweek
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| TechCrunch: |
Business intelligence service ZoomInfo says it will acquire Chorus.AI, which makes AI-based software to analyze sales calls, for $575M — ZoomInfo announced this morning it intends to acquire conversational sales intelligence tool Chorus.AI for $575 million.| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Inside the World Wide Web Consortium as members debate the future of online privacy, with browsers' engineers often at odds with companies that rely on tracking — James Rosewell could see his company's future was in jeopardy. — It was January 2020, and Google had just announced key details … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Ring says opt-in end-to-end encryption for video streams is available to all US users and is rolling out globally — It's available now in the US — Ring's end-to-end encryption for video streams is leaving technical preview, is now available to US users, and is currently rolling out globally …
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Ring, iMore, TechHive, techadvisor.com, mobilesyrup.com, TechSpot, SlashGear, Digital Trends, PCMag, and Engadget. Tweets: @hypervisible
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Microsoft says the attacks targeting SolarWinds Serv-U software with a now-patched RCE exploit are the work of Chinese hacking group DEV-0322 — Microsoft said today that the recent wave of attacks that have targeted SolarWinds file transfer servers are the work of a Chinese hacking group …
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Microsoft Security Blog, BleepingComputer, and Softpedia News
Tweets: @likethecoins, @likethecoins, and @tomwarren
| 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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Mynewsdesk, BBC, CNN, Fortune, Bitcoin News, Enterprise Times, Tom's Hardware, CSO, and CoinJournal. Tweets: @danneidle
| Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Broadcom is no longer in talks to buy SAS after the founders of SAS had a change of heart and decided not to sell to Broadcom — A deal by the chip maker would have valued closely held SAS in the range of $15 billion to $20 billion — Talks for Broadcom Inc. to buy SAS Institute Inc …
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CRN, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Silicon Valley Business …, Tech Xplore, and WRAL TechWire. Tweets: @jasonlk
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Google will now take a 15% cut on the first $3M in sales for “newly signed games” on Stadia from October through the end of 2023 — Platform will take 15 percent cut on first $3 million in sales for new titles. — As part of a Stadia keynote presentation today …
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The Verge, mobilesyrup.com, YouTube, Gamasutra, MCV/DEVELOP, Android Central, Phandroid, Engadget, and VentureBeat
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| 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.| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Remote, which develops HR tools for global workforces, raises $150M Series B at a $1B+ valuation led by Accel — New York-based Remote raised a $150 million Series B at a valuation of more than $1 billion as it looks to make hiring anywhere easier for companies.
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TechCrunch, Tech.eu, Business Wire, VentureBeat, FinSMEs, PYMNTS.com, FinLedger, CNBC, and San Francisco Business Journal. Tweets: @csbeirne
| Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed News: |
Some Black and LGBTQ passengers say Uber and Lyft drivers refuse rides by falsely claiming they're maskless, a claim also used against drivers to get free rides — Black and LGBTQ passengers told BuzzFeed News they're being refused rides due to false claims they're not wearing masks.
Tweets: @allisonpdavis, @furioursus, and @nmessina
| 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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Financial Times, Sky News, and Politico
Tweets: @pritipatel, @borisjohnson, @metpoliceevents, @officialtm_3, @rmac18, @oliverdowden, @dcms, @ruskin147, @rmac18, @faspokesperson, @sachabaroncohen, @malikashok, @nicolaroberts, @tariqpanja, @webdevlaw, @billiejeanking, @rmac18, @webdevlaw, @oliviasolon, @tariqpanja, @adamndsmith, @peterjukes, @rmac18, @fcbarcelona, @sadiqkhan, @rmac18, and @rmac18
| Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal: |
Verizon and Huawei agree to settle two US patent infringement lawsuits, avoiding a public fight over Huawei's role in the supply chain — Agreement reached amid broader geopolitical fight involving the U.S. and the Chinese company — Huawei Technologies Co. agreed to settle … | Lesley Goldberg / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Sources: Netflix is turning to live events, like the Bridgerton Ball in London, video games, and merchandising to complement subscriber revenue and engage fans — Sources say the streaming giant wants to work directly with creators on live events that will, in success, provide new revenue streams as subscriber growth slows.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Sourcegraph, which offers a universal code search tool, raises $125M Series D led by a16z at a $2.6B valuation, up 3x from its December valuation — Sourcegraph, a late stage startup that wants to bring the power of search to code, announced a $125 million Series D investment today …
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