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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Two Democratic senators introduce a bill to strip away social media platforms' Section 230 liability shield if they amplify harmful public health misinformation — A new bill would make Facebook liable for misinformation — As coronavirus cases rise in unvaccinated populations …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Twitter beats with Q2 revenue of $1.19B, up 74% YoY, vs $1.07B est., ad revenue of $1.05B, up 87% YoY, and mDAUs of 206M, up 11% YoY; stock is up 8%+ — - Twitter's revenue growth accelerated and surpassed analysts' expectations. — The social-media company introduced its first subscription service in the quarter.
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google updates its “About This Result” panel with more context about the specific search result, including matching keywords, related terms, and local relevance — Google now list several of the factors it used to rank a result in the about this result section.| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Snap Q2: revenue of $982M, up 116% YoY, DAUs up 23% YoY to 293M, and net loss shrunk 53% YoY to $152M; stock is up 13%+ after hours — - Snap on Thursday reported its second-quarter earnings, beating expectations across the board for earnings, revenue and user growth.
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| Nature: |
Arm details PlasticARM, a 32-bit processor built on a flexible substrate, that it says can lead to embedding of low-cost, ultrathin chips into everyday objects — Nearly 50 years ago, Intel created the world's first commercially produced microprocessor—the 4004 (ref. 1), a modest 4-bit CPU …
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| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Old stories on news sites including WaPo are displaying embedded porn videos after the domain for the defunct video service Vidme was bought by a porn company — Stories on major news sites like ‘The Washington Post,’ and ‘New York Magazine’ currently have porn embedded in them.
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BleepingComputer, Mashable, and The Register
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
DeepMind says it used AI to create a “transformative” map of human proteins; some compare the potential impact of the work to that of the Human Genome Project — DeepMind plans to release hundreds of millions of protein structures for free — AI research lab DeepMind has created …
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| Kent Duke / Android Police: |
Google is rolling out a fix for a bug in Chrome OS 91, apparently caused by a single typo, which locked Chromebook owners out of devices upon restarting — Google can't seem to catch a break when it comes to Chrome OS 91. First we saw many users reporting their devices using an egregious amount …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Several major websites and services, including Amazon, Steam, and Airbnb, were down for about an hour on Thursday due to issues with Akamai's Edge DNS service — Update 12:48 p.m. ET: Akamai says it has implemented a fix for the issue. “We have implemented a fix for this issue …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q2 revenue of $18.5B, up 2% YoY, vs. $17.8B est., Data Center Group revenue of $6.5B, down 9% YoY, while PC unit sales were up 33% YoY — - Intel reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday in CEO Pat Gelsinger's second earnings report at the helm of the American chip giant.| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Kaseya says it obtained a universal decryptor for the REvil ransomware and is helping customers recover their data; it is unclear if Kaseya paid the ransom — Remote management software vendor Kaseya said today it obtained a universal decryptor for the REvil ransomware and is now in the process …
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| Jaewon Kang / Wall Street Journal: |
Instacart says it is partnering with Fabric to build robot-equipped warehouses for supermarkets, with space for 10K-50K items, over the next 12 months — The grocery delivery company says it plans to build and operate fulfillment centers for supermarkets — Instacart Inc. is entering …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter is testing a way to downvote replies on iOS to understand the types of replies users find relevant to a conversation; downvotes won't be public — Last year, Twitter's chief product officer Kayvon Beykpour confirmed that the social network was “exploring” the idea of adding a dislike button to the app.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China is considering turning online tutoring companies into non-profits, unable to raise capital or go public, clamping down on the $100B industry — - Edtech firms to be banned from going public, foreign capital — Vacation, weekend tutoring for school subjects will be banned
Tweets: @pingroma, @haidilun, and @mbrookerhk
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Sophos researchers say Discord's own CDN is becoming an increasingly popular malware distribution channel, with much of the malware focused on data theft — Biz insists it's trying as hard as possible to scrub clean its IRC-for-the-2020s — Sophos on Thursday warned that internet instant … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Q&A with Zuckerberg about his vision for the metaverse and its potential to further splinter our sense of shared reality, Biden's comments about Facebook, more — As June came to an end, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees about an ambitious new initiative.
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| Jay Greene / Washington Post: |
Amazon says it has opened an investigation into AWS' culture after a popular internal petition criticized it for discrimination against women and others — The probe comes as more than 550 workers in a cloud-computing unit supported a petition, citing “an underlying culture of systemic discrimination, harassment, bullying and bias.”| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple MagSafe Battery Pack review: well integrated with iOS and can charge Qi devices, like AirPods, but doesn't provide full iPhone 12 charge and is expensive — Apple's new MagSafe Battery Pack is a white rectangle you can stick to the back of an iPhone 12 to charge it.| Bloomberg: |
Digital mapping startup Matterport will begin trading after a SPAC merger that raised $640M and valued the company at $2.9B; Matterport had $86M in 2020 revenue — Matterport Inc. is set to begin trading Friday on the Nasdaq under the symbol MTTR, after seeing a surge in demand for its 3D mapping products during the pandemic.
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| Kate Kaye / Digiday: |
After a delay, Facebook says it is starting a brand safety audit by industry body MRC, set to complete by the end of 2021; Twitter has started the audit process — Pressure from President Joe Biden, regulators and advertisers is building on tech platforms to do more to mitigate extremist, violent and illegal content on their sites.| Bloomberg: |
Profile of Dan Purcell, founder of Ceartas, a company that helps adult content creators stop piracy when their content gets stolen from sites like OnlyFans — Dan Purcell's transformation into a content protection vigilante began several years ago, with a moment of personal reckoning.| Mark Kleinman / Sky News: |
Source: London-based buy now, pay later service Zilch adds $110M to its Series B, bringing the round to over $200M, from Goldman Sachs and Daily Mail's owner — Zilch will announce on Friday an £80m debt-and-equity package from DMGT and Goldman Sachs' asset management division, Sky News learns.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Report: AI startups scored a record $20B in funding in Q2 2021, with 24 companies reaching $1B valuations for the first time, and had 11 IPOs, an all-time high — Watch now. — The pandemic spurred investments in AI across nearly every industry. That's according to CB Insights' AI …
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