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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, rivaling 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has asked suppliers to build up to 90M next-generation iPhones this year, up 20% YoY; this year's update will be more incremental than iPhone 12 — - Company targets 90 million shipments of this year's new models — Iterative iPhone upgrade to boost chips, cameras and displays
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| 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 …
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Facebook employees detail a clash over CrowdTangle, a tool that showed high engagement with right-wing media, which was moved under the Integrity team in April — Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users' high engagement levels with right-wing media sources.
Tweets: @sarafischer and @mccanner
| 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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| 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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| New York Times: |
Two GOP lawmakers are pointing to previously unreleased emails to allege that Amazon unfairly used its influence in competing for Pentagon's JEDI cloud contract — Newly released emails show particular praise of Amazon among top Defense Department officials during the Trump administration …
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| 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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| The Economic Times: |
Pratilipi, which operates an online storytelling platform in India, raises a $48M Series D led by South Korean gaming giant Krafton — Online storytelling platform Pratilipi has raised $48 million (about Rs 357 crore) in its Series D round, led by South Korean gaming company Krafton Inc.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Railsbank, which develops APIs for banking, credit products and payment cards, raises $70M led by Anthos Capital; CEO says the company is “near unicorn” status — Financial services-as-a-service — where entities like neobanks, retailers and others can create and sell … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Microsoft fixes 13 critical flaws, four of which are under active attack, and updates a fix for the “PrintNightmare” RCE flaw impacting Windows Print Spooler — Microsoft today released updates to patch at least 116 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software.
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Zero Day Initiative, The Register, Windows Report, SC Media, Threatpost, Neowin, Security Boulevard, BleepingComputer, OnMSFT.com, ZDNet, and BleepingComputer. Tweets: @mdowd
| 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: @panzer, @mattbirchler, @stevemoser, @leaksapplepro, @maxwinebach, @snazzyq, @saradietschy, @greengart, @joannastern, @leaksapplepro, @snazzyq, @airlineflyer, @rsgnl, @gruber, @reneritchie, @tldtoday, @tme_michael, @backlon, @leahcim_nyc, @samifathi_, @snazzyq, @gregorymcfadden, @film_girl, @natisho, @samifathi_, @thecomputerclan, @rendersbyian, @greengart, @zollotech, @robertquinnnj, and @rsgnl
| 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 …, WRAL TechWire, and Tech Xplore. Tweets: @jasonlk
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Syfe, a Singapore-based robo-advisor app, has raised ~$29.6M Series B led by Valar Ventures; CEO says Syfe's valuation has increased 3.6x from its Series A — Investment apps in Southeast Asia are attracting a lot of funding, and now some are raising fast follow-on rounds, too.
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