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Blizzard president calls sexual harassment lawsuit “extremely troubling” in internal memo while a VP says it presents a “distorted and untrue” view of company — Blizzard president J. Allen Brack called the allegations ‘extremely troubling.’
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Sources: Apple is testing a new external display with a dedicated Apple-made SoC that includes a Neural Engine — Apple's Pro Display XDR has been available for quite some time now, but there are still no rumors about an updated version of its high-priced display in the near term.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Alphabet announces Intrinsic, a new company to build software for industrial robots, as part of its “other bets” that includes Waymo, Wing, and Verily — Intrinsic is one of Alphabet's other bets, like Waymo and Wing — Google's parent-company Alphabet has a birth to announce …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google Drive is rolling out the ability for users to block other accounts from sharing files with them, to prevent potential harassment and spam on the service — The new feature is rolling out over the next couple of weeks — Google Drive is adding the ability for users to block …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Facebook brings its cloud gaming service to iPhones and iPads through a progressive web app, with games using Facebook Pay to accept in-game purchases — But will people know how to find it? — Starting Friday, Facebook is bringing its nascent cloud gaming service to iPhones and iPads through …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
After initially taking down posts with the phrase “Death to Khamenei”, Facebook now says it will allow the chant for a two-week period, amid protests in Iran — After the company took down several posts on Instagram that included the popular protest chant against Iran's ruler …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Facebook announces the Passthrough API, which allows Oculus Quest 2 developers to use real-world images collected via sensors to create mixed reality apps — Developers will get the experimental feature with Oculus' next SDK — Facebook announced a new API that will let developers incorporate video …
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Experts working with companies affected by the Kaseya ransomware attack say Kaseya is requiring companies to sign NDAs before providing access to decryption key — Washington (CNN)On Thursday, the software company Kaseya announced that it could help unlock any of its customers' systems … | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
YouTube has avoided criticism by Biden and others for vaccine misinformation, after Biden criticized Facebook, possibly because its content is harder to track — Hi, it's Mark Bergen. Erin Elizabeth was kicked off Facebook. Elizabeth, owner of an alternative health blog, is one of the …
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| Joseph Pisani / Associated Press: |
A look at Amazon's Key For Business program, launched in 2018 to let drivers unlock apartment buildings via an app, which it is encouraging landlords to adopt — NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is tired of ringing doorbells. — The online shopping giant is pushing landlords around the country …
Tweets: @ap and @loganclarkhall
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Cloudflare accuses AWS of massive markups on egress bandwidth fees per region, estimating North American and European customers pay 80x the operational costs — Loading... When web hosting services first emerged in the mid-1990s, you paid for everything on a separate meter: bandwidth, storage, CPU, and memory.
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| Joanna Tan / CNBC: |
China's antitrust authorities order Tencent Music to end its exclusive music licensing deals with global record labels within 30 days and impose a fine of ~$77K — China's antitrust regulator ordered Tencent to give up its exclusive music licensing rights with international record labels … | Emma Betuel / TechCrunch: |
Sweetch, which has developed an AI-powered app that aims to increase patient compliance and boost health outcomes, raises $20M Series A led by Entreé Capital — You've just sat down to dinner, and your wearable device reminds you to get up and get in your steps for the day.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers: Apple and Google should provide more access to iOS and Android, to help catch more attacks by Pegasus-like spyware in real time — Amnesty International sheds alarming light on an NSO Group surveillance tool—and the gaps in Apple and Google's defenses.
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| Radhamely De Leon / VICE: |
Researchers say they embedded malware in up to half of the neurons in the benchmark AlexNet AI model and still kept the model's accuracy rate above 93.1% — In a proof-of-concept, researchers reported they could embed malware in up to half of an AI model's nodes and still obtain very high accuracy.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Twitter transparency report: only 2.3% of active accounts have enabled 2FA between July and December 2020; 79.6% of those who did used SMS-based 2FA — Twitter has revealed in its latest transparency report that only 2.3% of all active accounts have enabled at least one method of two-factor authentication …
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BetaNews. Tweets: @quinnypig, @michaelwilsonds, @db, @jake_mooreuk, @karlbode, @thecrowdfundlaw, and @pndc
| Chad Bray / South China Morning Post: |
PropertyGuru, which runs real estate rental and sale listing sites in Southeast Asia, is going public on the NYSE via a SPAC merger at a valuation of ~$1.8B — PropertyGuru is Southeast Asia's biggest property technology company Singapore company is the first acquisition … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google publishes a detailed timeline for the Privacy Sandbox rollout in Chrome, reiterating plans it announced earlier to delay cookie phaseout until H2 2023 — Last month, Google announced that it would delay Chrome's plan to phase out support for third-party cookies.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Taboola says it is buying retail- and e-commerce-focused ad network Connexity for $800M in cash and stock — Taboola, the company that operates a popular grid-based advertising and content recommendation network across media properties, today announced an acquisition to expand its reach further …
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Bloomberg, Taboola.com, PYMNTS.com, AdExchanger, TechRadar, CTech, ZDNet, Ad Age, and Adweek
| 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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Ars Technica, Android Central, Gizmodo, XDA Developers, The Register, The Verge, Engadget, XDA Developers, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, and OSnews
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