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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
After White House meeting, Google will spend $10B over five years and train 100K IT and data workers, Apple pledges supply chain security improvements, and more — - The White House hosted a cybersecurity summit with CEOs in sectors ranging from tech to insurance.
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Tweets: @satyanadella, @sundarpichai, @patrickwardle, @markgurman, @kifleswing, @rlove, @thomasortk, @lutherlowe, @kent_walker, @camilleesq, and @secmayorkas
| Washington Post: |
Biden meets with CEOs from Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and others to discuss cybersecurity, says private sector must do more to protect infrastructure — “You have the power, capacity and responsibility, I believe, to raise the bar on cybersecurity,” President Biden tells CEOs of Apple, Google, JP Morgan Chase
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: TSMC plans to increase prices by ~10% for advanced chips and ~20% for less advanced chips, starting later this year or early next — TSMC to increase prices of most advanced chips by roughly 10%; less advanced chips will cost about 20% more — The world's largest contract chip maker … | Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
YouTube says it has removed over 1M videos related to COVID misinformation since Feb. 2020 and removes 10M videos per quarter, most of which have <10 views — But the 1 million coronavirus-related takedowns since the start of the pandemic are difficult to put in context, because of YouTube's gigantic scale.
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YouTube Official Blog. More:
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Facebook has approached experts about forming an advisory body for how it handles global election matters, including political ads and misinformation — The social network has contacted academics to create a group to advise it on thorny election-related decisions, said people with knowledge of the matter.
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The Verge. Tweets: @emilybell, @mikeisaac, @rmac18, @wolven, @mr_berman, @carlmalamud, @zaidjilani, @zephyrteachout, @davidakaye, @qorigins, @ancalerts, @muskrat__, @emilybell, @emilybell, and @reedgalen
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft has promoted Chief Product Officer Panos Panay to executive vice president role and has added him to its senior leadership team — Microsoft Corp. promoted Chief Product Officer Panos Panay to the role of executive vice president and added him to the senior leadership team …
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Tom's Hardware, XDA Developers, The Verge, Silicon Republic, Windows Central, IT PRO, ZDNet, Pocketnow, Neowin, and OnMSFT.com
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
UK government says it will move away from EU's GDPR after Brexit, including possibly ending cookie consent popups, and names John Edwards as preferred ICO head — Culture secretary says move could lead to an end to irritating cookie popups and consent requests online
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
A history of Google's messaging apps and how a lack of any kind of top-down messaging leadership has led to a decade and a half of failed messaging platforms — Sixteen years after the launch of Google Talk, Google messaging is still a mess. — Google Talk, Google's first-ever instant messaging platform … | Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
Adam Mosseri says Instagram plans to more prominently feature photos and videos in search results in the future along with traditional accounts and hashtags — How search works and what it will be able to do next — Instagram plans to more prominently feature photos and videos in search results …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Internal corporate directory shows Microsoft has hired 15-year AWS veteran Charlie Bell as a corporate VP — - Charlie Bell is listed as a corporate vice president under Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft's human-resources chief — Bell left Amazon recently after 15 years in a top leadership position at Amazon Web Services.
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Insider, The Information, Wall Street Journal, IT PRO, MSPoweruser, and GeekWire. Tweets: @quinnypig
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
A look at the small team behind @twitter and its 200+ corporate accounts, who adopted a more informal tone in late 2018 and use a Google doc with 300 drafts — The tweeters — When Twitter employee Ashley Tyra first heard from a colleague that the company was planning to shutter Fleets … | Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with John Binns, a 21-year-old American living in Turkey, who claims responsibility for the recent T-Mobile hack and says its security is “awful” — A 21-year-old American said he used an unprotected router to access millions of customer records in the mobile carrier's latest breach
Tweets: @drewfitzgerald, @chrisbhoffman, @marcelolprince, @techjournalist, @tomgara, @trmcdonald, and @dnvolz
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Canalys: US PC sales in Q2 2021 up 17% YoY, with 36.8M total units sold, notebooks up 27%, desktops up 23%, tablets down 1%; HP leads with 21.9% of market share — Canalys released its quarterly U.S. PC sales today, and while the news was quite good with sales overall up 17% YoY …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet's Wing nears 100K drone deliveries two years after Logan, Australia launch; the drones fly up to six miles and deliver items weighing up to 3 pounds — In a blog post this morning, Alphabet drone delivery company Wing announced that it is set to hit 100,000 customer deliveries over the weekend.| Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg: |
Study: lobbying dollars spent by US tech companies have increased with market concentration; the pattern is similar to pharmaceutical and oil & gas industries — - Pattern is similar to pharma and oil and gas industries — Study says antitrust laws should consider impact on democracy| Insider: |
In an abrupt reversal, OnlyFans suspends its October 1 policy change banning porn after securing “assurances” and aims to provide “a home for all creators” — - OnlyFans is reversing its recent decision to ban porn. — It had planned to prohibit sexually explicit …
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| Reuters: |
DOJ and SEC charged ex-HeadSpin CEO Manish Lachwani with allegedly defrauding investors out of $80M from 2018 to 2020 in an effort to boost HeadSpin's valuation — U.S. authorities on Wednesday charged a co-founder and former chief executive of HeadSpin with defrauding investors …
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U.S. Securities …, Crowdfund Insider, TechCrunch, San Jose Inside, Law360, Bloomberg Law, MarketWatch, PYMNTS.com, San Francisco Business Journal, and CRN
Tweets: @ilyasu, @corytv, @energycynic, @sf_sec, @jhong, @reuterslegal, @parismartineau, @jcoviedo6, @secgov, and @bgurley
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
GAO: 19 of 24 US government agencies surveyed use facial recognition in some capacity; DoD and DHS both have in-house systems, while 4 had used Clearview AI — A new GAO report finds 19 agencies are using some form of the technology — A new report from the Government Accountability Office …
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Washington Post, Engadget, and FedScoop
Tweets: @drewharwell, @usgao, @iwillleavenow, @digiphile, and @ashk4n
| New York Times: |
A look at China's evolving approach to state-sponsored hacking, which borrows from Russia and Iran and increasingly relies on private sector hackers — The state security ministry is recruiting from a vast pool of private-sector hackers who often have their own agendas and sometimes use …
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NPR. Tweets: @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @nytimesbusiness, @paulmozur, and @paulmozur
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Copenhagen-based Leapwork, which offers no-code process automation tools for enterprise, raises $62M Series B led by KKR and Salesforce Ventures — Copenhagen-based process automation platform Leapwork has snagged Denmark's largest ever Series B funding round, announcing a $62 million raise co-led …
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Tech.eu, Silicon Canals, EU-Startups, and VentureBeat
| Robert Hof / SiliconANGLE: |
Box reports Q2 revenue of $214.5M, up 12% YoY, vs. $211.7M est., and billings of $213M, up 13% YoY, ahead of investor vote on its strategy and management team — As Box Inc.'s battle to fend off an activist investor's demands for changes to the company, its earnings report today may provide …
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Box, Inc., diginomica, Box, Inc., MarketWatch, ZDNet, and Barron's Online
Tweets: @quinnypig and @jeffnolan
| Ben Feuerherd / New York Post: |
Court filing: a glitch in Palantir's tools let at least four unauthorized FBI employees access data on accused hacker Virgil Griffith from May 2020 to Aug. 2021 — A computer glitch in a secretive software program used by the FBI allowed some unauthorized employees to access private data … Sponsor Posts
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