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Intel says its Foundry Services will build chips for Qualcomm and AWS and lays out a roadmap to catch up with TSMC and Samsung by 2025 — Intel Corp (INTC.O) said on Monday its factories will start building Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) chips and laid out a roadmap to expand its new foundry business …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Apple updates iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to address a zero-day flaw that was reportedly actively exploited, making it the 13th zero-day Apple has patched this year — Apple has released patches today for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to address a zero-day vulnerability that the company says has been exploited in the wild.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
About 1,000 current and former Activision Blizzard employees say the company's response to its recent lawsuit is “insulting”, in a letter to leadership — Nearly 1,000 current and former Activision Blizzard Inc. employees have signed a letter calling the company's responses …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung confirms that it won't launch Galaxy Note at its Unpacked event on Aug. 11, says it will launch new Galaxy Z phones and an S Pen designed for foldables — The company also promises ‘enhanced durability’ — Samsung isn't looking to have many surprises at its August 11th Unpacked event.| Todd Feathers / VICE: |
A look at ShotSpotter, which uses sensors to “detect gunshots”, as court filings suggest it frequently alters evidence at the request of police departments — Prosecutors in Chicago are being forced to withdraw evidence generated by the technology, which led to the police killing …
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| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Google issues a new Enterprise APIs policy, promising that APIs will remain available far into the future, aiming to move past a reputation for killing services — Google Cloud issued a promise Monday to current and potential customers that it's safe to build a business around its core technologies …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Facebook announces a new Metaverse product group, with plans to hire hundreds of staff, led by Instagram VP Vishal Shah, reporting to VR/AR VP Andrew Bosworth — The company plans to hire hundreds of new staffers for the group. — Facebook is all in on the Metaverse …
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Spotify adds a What's New feed on iOS and Android, showing continually updating new releases from followed artists, rolling out over the coming weeks — Spotify is introducing a feature to notify people when their favorite artists and podcast producers have a new release to check out.
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China issues regulations for food delivery platforms, mandating minimum wage, respect for worker rights, and more, leading to Meituan shares dropping by 14%+ — - It extended losses after Beijing issued food platform curbs — Meituan is grappling with a broader antitrust investigation| Financial Times: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
ActiveFence, whose tech proactively detects disinformation and other malicious content, raises $100M in a combined Series A and Series B — Online abuse, disinformation, fraud and other malicious content is growing and getting more complex to track. Today, a startup called ActiveFence … | New York Times: |
FTX and Binance will curb highly leveraged cryptocurrency trading, a practice that can vastly multiply losses; FTX offered 101x leverage, now down to 20x — The moves would reduce the size of the bets that investors can make by drastically cutting the maximum leverage offered.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: DOJ is probing whether Tether execs committed bank fraud in its early stages; Tethers in circulation are worth ~$62B, underpin >50% of bitcoin trades — - Tether says it's committed to cooperating with law enforcement — A U.S. probe into Tether is homing in on whether executives behind …
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Nium, a Singapore-based B2B payments company, raises $200M Series D at a $1B+ valuation led by Riverwood Capital, with Temasek, Visa, and others participating — Business-to-business payments platform Nium announced Monday that it raised more than $200 million in Series D funding and saw its valuation rise above $1 billion.
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Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, YouTube, and others will now add content from white supremacist and far-right militias to a key counterterrorism database — A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) …
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