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Instagram introduces anti-hate speech tools to let users limit comments and requests on popular posts, following abuse towards England soccer players — Instagram has introduced new features called Limits and Hidden Words designed to reduce hate and abuse on trending posts, the company — announced.
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A look at the multi-year effort by English soccer organizations to push Facebook to crack down on hate speech against players, intensifying during Euro 2020 — For more than two years, soccer officials pushed the social network to limit the invective. As a new season begins, the hate continues.
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| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
Group behind Poly Network, a cross-chain protocol used for DeFi applications, says a hacker has stolen $611M; one researcher blames the attack on a crypto flaw — Quick Take — Cross-chain protocol Poly Network has been hacked for $611 million. — The team behind the protocol …
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| Wolfie Zhao / The Block: |
Attacker who stole $611M from Poly Network starts returning the money, now $4M+ in USDC, BTCB, SHIBA, and others, after saying they were “ready to surrender” — Quick Take — Poly Network attacker has started returning the funds that were stolen in the largest DeFi hack to date.
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| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Facebook says it has removed a network of accounts from Russia linked to a UK marketing firm that pushed anti-vaccine content using Planet of the Apes memes — Facebook (FB.O) said on Tuesday it had removed a network of accounts from Russia that it linked to a marketing firm which aimed …
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| YouTube: |
Livestream of Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event, where new Galaxy Z Fold3, Z Flip3, and Watch4 are expected — #SamsungUnpacked is LIVE on August 11, 2021. Watch how it all unfolds. Learn more: http://www.samsung.com To view the YouTube streams on a desktop or laptop computer you'll need:
| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Court docs: Apple settles its 2019 lawsuit against Corellium over Corellium's “virtualized” iPhone business; Corellium says it still sells virtual iOS devices — Apple accused Corellium of violating its copyrights with virtual iPhones used for security research
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| Frank Konkel / Nextgov: |
Source: the NSA awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10B to AWS; Microsoft has filed a bid protest with the GAO in response — Much of the NSA's most prized intelligence data may be moving to the cloud. — The National Security Agency has awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Coinbase reports $2.23B in Q2 revenue, vs $1.78B est., and net profit of $1.6B, up nearly 4,900% YoY, following volatile stretch of cryptocurrency trading — - In Q2, Coinbase brought in $2.23 billion of revenue vs. $1.78 billion expected by Refinitiv. — It also reported a profit per share of $6.42.
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Tweets: @jonrussell, @jeffjohnroberts, @jeffjohnroberts, and @scottmelker
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Internal iOS 15 code and animations show Apple will let users link AirPods to the Find My network; the headphones will use Bluetooth to show a location — Apple has announced multiple new features for AirPods users with iOS 15, which includes Conversation Boost for AirPods Pro and true Find My support for the first time.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft fixes 44 vulnerabilities, including seven flaws that are classified as critical and three zero-day flaws, with one actively exploited in the wild — Today is Microsoft's August 2021 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for three zero-day vulnerabilities and a total of 44 flaws … | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
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Tweets: @briankrebs, @dangillmor, @msftsecresponse, and @ajohnsocyber
| Packy McCormick / Not Boring: |
NFTs blur the line between social and financial capital and dismissing them is akin to missing the importance of status while analyzing social networks — Analyzing NFTs as Social Networks Using the Status-as-a-Service Framework — The DEAD followed me across Twitter all weekend.
Tweets: @zoescaman, @jihoz_axie, @jessewldn, @pt, @pt, and @pt
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Facebook open sources Time Card, its PCIe-based timekeeping tool that uses atomic clocks and navigation satellites to keep devices and data centers in sync — The social network giant gives away its hardware and software designs that can keep data centers humming efficiently.
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Tweets: @iancutress, @alexvoica, @alexvoica, and @alexvoica
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI debuts a private beta for Codex, an API for turning natural language into code of one of over a dozen coding languages; Codex powers GitHub's Copilot — Watch now. — OpenAI today released OpenAI Codex, its AI system that translates natural language into code, through an API in private beta.
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Tweets: @maccaw, @kylebrussell, @varunmayya, and @blader
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Zomato reports revenue of $113.4M, up ~3x YoY, and a net loss of $48M for the quarter that ended in June, in its first quarterly earnings report since its IPO — Zomato's losses more than tripled in its first quarterly earnings report since its listing last month as the company's expenses grew …
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| TJ Denzer / Shacknews: |
Unity reports Q2 revenue of $273.6M, up 48% YoY, and says it will acquire remote desktop and streaming company Parsec for ~$320M — Unity boasted a massive increase in revenue year-over-year and has raised its guidance as a result. — As fiscal quarters close and companies report earnings results …
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Unity Technologies, TechCrunch, MCV/DEVELOP, Wccftech, Gamereactor UK, SiliconANGLE, MarketWatch, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @parsecteam, @unity3d, @boxerbk, @parsecteam, @parsecteam, @unity3d, and @glassbottommeg
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
In its first post-IPO results, Deliveroo says its pre-tax loss narrowed to £104.8M in H1 2021 as revenue rose 82% YoY to £922.5M; MAUs rose 81% YoY to 7.8M — Food delivery group narrows six-month pre-tax loss as sales pick up 82% — Deliveroo narrowed its pre-tax losses …
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| Joe Light / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase amends claims on its website that USDC is backed 1:1 by USD, after Circle disclosed in July that commercial paper and other assets back USDC — - Some assets of second-largest stablecoin carry default risk — Coinbase as late as this month claimed coin is backed by cash| The Information: |
Sources: FTC is reviewing Uber's partnership with delivery startup Gopuff and purchase of alcohol delivery firm Drizly on anti-competitive grounds — The Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing a partnership struck in May between Uber and Gopuff that allows people to order items … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Research shows semiconductor chip lead times slipped to 20.2 weeks in July, up by eight days over June, which was already the longest wait time since 2017 — The amount of time it's taking for chip-starved companies to get orders filled has stretched to more than 20 weeks … | Katherine Chiglinsky / Bloomberg: |
Upgrade, a digital bank focusing on personal loans and credit cards, raises $105M led by Koch Disruptive Technologies at a $3.3B valuation — Upgrade Inc., a lending startup that counts former LendingClub Corp. executive Renaud Laplanche as a co-founder, raised $105 million in a funding round …
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Amazon opens its $1.5B, 600-acre air hub in northern Kentucky, capable of handling 100 planes and 200 flights per day, as it ramps up delivery speeds — - Amazon on Wednesday debuted its $1.5 billion air hub in Northern Kentucky. — The hub will serve as the central nerve … | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Houston-based Cart.com, which provides tools to scale e-commerce businesses, raises $98M Series B, bringing its total raised to $143M — Cart.com, a Houston-based company providing end-to-end e-commerce services, brought in its third funding round this year, this time a $98 million Series B round …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Singapore-headquartered Parcel Perform, which offers shipping logistics tools to e-commerce companies, raises $20M Series A led by Cambridge Capital — Singapore-headquartered Parcel Perform, which connects merchants with e-commerce carriers and provides shipment tracking features …
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