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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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| 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 …
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Tweets: @jonst0kes, @matthewkeyslive, @taralach, @jchengwsj, @epro, and @matthewstoller
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches News Partner Program, which lowers commissions on in-app purchases to 15% for news publishers who participate in Apple News — Apple today is launching a new program that will allow subscription news organizations that participate in the Apple News app and meet certain requirements …
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Apple, Apple Developer, 9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, Appleosophy, AppleInsider, CNBC, and CNBC
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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 …
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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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| 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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| 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
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KnowTechie. Tweets: @drewfitzgerald, @chrisbhoffman, @marcelolprince, @techjournalist, @tomgara, @trmcdonald, and @dnvolz
| 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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Thurrott, Tom's Hardware, The Verge, Windows Central, XDA Developers, WinBuzzer, ZDNet, Silicon Republic, IT PRO, 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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| 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 … | Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Netflix is testing games in its Android app in Poland, starting with two existing Stranger Things games — Playing on Netflix's mobile app is new, but the games themselves — two pixelated Stranger Things games — have already been available off Netflix for years.
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| 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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| 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. Department of Justice, U.S. Securities …, Crowdfund Insider, TechCrunch, Law360, Bloomberg Law, MarketWatch, PYMNTS.com, and San Francisco Business Journal
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Snap updates Snapchat's Scan feature, turning it into a visual search engine that identifies many things in the real world, like clothes or dog breeds — Snapchat's camera has to date mostly been associated with sending disappearing messages and goofy AR effects, like a virtual dancing hot dog.
Tweets: @alexeheath and @mattnavarra
| 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 …
Tweets: @bhweingarten, @alfonslopeztena, @timothys, @aadilbrar, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @nytimesbusiness, and @paulmozur
| Sujeong Lim / Counterpoint Research: |
Apple Watch active user base crossed 100M globally in Q2, as the smartwatch market grew 27% YoY and the sub-$100 segment grew 547% YoY — - The market grew a healthy 27% YoY, thanks to strong demand for sub-$100 smartwatches. — Samsung and Garmin posted remarkable YoY growth even as Apple maintained its lead.| 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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Columbia Journalism Review, The Verge, and Fortune
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| Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
Long-Term Stock Exchange, a Silicon Valley-based rival to NYSE, says Twilio and Asana will list their shares Thursday, the first companies to do so — - Twilio, Asana shares to trade on Long-Term Stock Exchange — CEO Ries says new exchange offers ‘access to ESG investors’| 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 … | Steven Bertoni / Forbes: |
Picsart, which makes image and video editing tools, raises $130M Series C led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2, sources say at a valuation of around $1.5B — After raising a fresh $130 million at a near $1.5 billion valuation, Hovhannes Avoyan's (above) free-to-use editor is fast becoming …
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| 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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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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