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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Amnesty International researchers published a toolkit to help anyone scan their iPhone and Android devices for evidence of compromise by NSO's Pegasus spyware — Over the weekend, an international consortium of news outlets reported that several authoritarian governments — including Mexico …
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| The Guardian: |
Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid NSO news, saying the industry should not exist and “they don't make vaccines—the only thing they sell is the virus” — NSA whistleblower warns of world in which no phone is safe from state-sponsored hackers if no action taken
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DOJ unseals charges against four Chinese nationals, believed to be part of China-backed APT 40 hacking group; charging docs focus on activity from 2011 to 2018 — The US Department of Justice has indicted four Chinese nationals today for hacking companies, government agencies …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is delaying return to office deadline by at least a month to October amid rising COVID cases, will give employees a month's notice before return — - The iPhone maker is now eyeing an October return for workers — Covid-19 variants continue to spread across many countries
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The Verge, BBC, Protocol, PCMag, Insider, MacRumors, Engadget, Apple Must, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizchina, iMore, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, iThinkDifferent, iDownloadBlog.com, and Mashable
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| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Sources: a group of Facebook data scientists asked for resources to measure COVID misinfo on Facebook at the start of the pandemic, but execs denied the request — The company doesn't know some specifics about how falsehoods about Covid-19 and vaccines for the virus spread on its social network.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
YouTube acquires India-based social commerce startup Simsim, sources say for over $70M; Simsim raised $17M to date and was last valued at $50.1M — YouTube has acquired social commerce startup Simsim, the Google-owned firm said on Tuesday. Neither of the firms disclosed the terms of the deal …
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Official Google India Blog, Silicon Republic, Tech in Asia, Entrackr, Inc42 Media, and The Economic Times. Tweets: @sub8u
| Forbes: |
BlockFi CEO confirms it received an order from the New Jersey Bureau of Securities to stop accepting new Interest Accounts; existing users won't be impacted — I write about how digital assets are going to change the world — According to a draft press release from the New Jersey Office …
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The Block, Coinspeaker, Crypto Briefing, Forkast, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Decrypt, and Cryptonews
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| noyb.eu: |
Austria's Supreme Court asks CJEU if Facebook “undermines” GDPR by treating consent as a contract to deliver targeted ads, following a request from Max Schrems — BREAKING: Austrian Supreme Court asks CJEU if Facebook “undermines” the GDPR by confusing ‘consent’ with an alleged ‘contract’.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Dish Network signs a deal to pay AT&T at least $5B over the next 10 years to use AT&T's 4G and 5G networks for its MVNOs — Dish Network has a new network operator partner for its MVNO brands: AT&T. The companies have signed a network services agreement (NSA) that will see Dish pay … | Angel Au-Yeung / Forbes: |
Andreessen Horowitz hires former Intel CEO Bob Swan as Growth Operating Partner; Bob Swan stepped down from Intel in February — On Monday, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced that Bob Swan, former CEO of semiconductor giant Intel Corp., would join the firm as an operating partner for its early-stage growth fund.| GOV.UK: |
UK proposes new pro-competition rules for digital economy, including allowing its Digital Markets Unit to suspend, block, and reverse decisions by tech giants — Digital firms with deep-rooted market power to be subject to mandatory code to drive up competition
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, phonearena.com, and iMore
Tweets: @dcms, @oliverdowden, and @technation
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
CIRP: Android and iOS each accounted for 50% of smartphone activations in the US in Q2, the same as Q2 2020, after iOS' share climbed steadily from 31% in 2017 — Activations of iOS and Android devices are now evenly split in the United States, with little sign of movement toward either platform dominating …
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9to5Mac and iThinkDifferent
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Uber expands grocery delivery service to more than 400 US cities and towns, including SF, NYC, and DC, partly fueled by a partnership with Albertsons Companies — announced the first major expansion of its — grocery delivery service in the US. The company is more than doubling the number … | Dave Gershgorn / The Verge: |
DuckDuckGo launches a new Email Protection service that forwards emails from a free “@duck.com” address to users' regular inbox after scanning them for trackers — This is your chance to get an ‘@duck.com’ email address — DuckDuckGo is launching a new email privacy service meant …
Tweets: @fleming77
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
OpenSea, one of the largest marketplaces for NFTs, raises $100M Series B led by a16z at a $1.5B valuation; OpenSea had $160M in digital asset sales in June — The NFT venue has crossed into the rarefied air of crypto unicorns. — OpenSea, one of the largest digital art marketplaces …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Block, Decrypt, Forbes, and Crypto Briefing
| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
China calls out 145 apps, including those from Amazon and ByteDance, alleging that they illegally collected user info, and gives them until July 26 to stop — The 145 named apps have until July 26 to take corrective measures or face punishment, the Ministry of Information Technology (MIIT) … | Ilyse Liffreing / Ad Age: |
TikTok launches Spark Ads, an ad format that allows brands to sponsor already published posts with the post creators' approval, potentially cutting out agencies — Spark Ads allows brands to tap into pre-existing influencer posts, cutting out the middleman
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Swiggy raises $1.25B Series J led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 and Prosus Ventures at a post-money valuation of $5.5B, with Vision Fund 2 alone investing $450M — It took SoftBank several years, but the Japanese investment giant is now ready to bet on India's food delivery market.
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Nikkei Asia, The Economic Times, Bloomberg, TechCircle, VCCircle, DealStreetAsia, Tech in Asia, Entrackr, and Reuters
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Employment Hero, an automated HR management service for SMEs, raises A$140M Series E at a valuation of A$800M; the company was last valued at A$250M in March — Four months after announcing its last round, Employment Hero has closed another $140 million AUD (about $103 million USD) in funding.Sponsor Posts
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