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Facebook launches $299 Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses in six countries including the US; users can capture photo and video, listen to music, or take phone calls — Hands-on with Facebook and Ray-Ban's first pair of smart glasses — Starting Thursday, the first pair of smart glasses …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon launches the Fire TV Omni Series, its first smart TVs, starting at $410 and shipping in October — Amazon is officially in the TV set business. — After years of selling Fire TV devices that plug into third-party HDTVs and teaming with TV makers for Fire TV-based products …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon introduces the Fire TV Stick 4K Max, its new flagship streaming device, with WiFi 6 and faster performance, for $55, shipping October 7 — And it still comes in at an appealing $54.99 price — Amazon is today introducing a new flagship streaming stick that joins the Fire TV Stick 4K, Fire TV Stick, and Fire TV Stick Lite.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft indefinitely postpones the return to its offices in the US, saying it has “decided against attempting to forecast a new date for a full reopening” — The pandemic keeps pushing back Microsoft's plans — Microsoft is shelving its plans to fully reopen its US offices next month.
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Twitter begins testing emoji reactions to tweets, starting with five options, in Turkey on iOS and Android for a limited time — Starting today, Twitter is testing Tweet Reactions in Turkey for a limited time. Users in the region will be able to react to tweets using , , , , in addition to .
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it is testing Communities, invite-only topic-based public feeds curated by moderators, initially limited to a few topics, such as dogs and skincare — Twitter is a useful place for following breaking news and keeping up with what the people you're already interested in are doing …
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
While SEC rules are hazy, Coinbase's Lend product likely does constitute a security; to avoid SEC oversight, Coinbase would need to be regulated like a bank — Is lending your Bitcoins a security? — Oh, sure, yes, absolutely. The rule in the U.S. is that an “investment contract,” …
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro temporarily bans social media companies from removing accounts and content that violate their rules, ahead of a presidential election — The new rules in Brazil appear to be the first national policy that restricts how tech companies can control their sites, analysts say.
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Hackers leak a list of ~500K Fortinet VPN login names and passwords; a source in the IT security industry says at least some of the leaked credentials are valid — A threat actor has leaked a list of almost 500,000 Fortinet VPN login names and passwords that were allegedly scraped from exploitable devices last summer.
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| Stephen Graves / Decrypt: |
Mastercard acquires CipherTrace, which offers a crypto-focused analytics service that specializes in anti-money laundering and forensics — Mastercard has announced that it has acquired cryptocurrency tracking firm CipherTrace with a view to providing “additional transparency and support” for the emerging ecosystem of digital assets.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Microsoft says it has fixed a flaw that could have let hackers access the data of some Azure customers; Palo Alto Networks reported the flaw in July — Microsoft (MSFT.O) warned some of its Azure cloud computing customers that a flaw discovered by security researchers could have allowed hackers access to their data.
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| Josh Ye / South China Morning Post: |
Sources: Chinese regulators are slowing approvals for all new online games, revealing the move in a meeting with Tencent and NetEase — Sources said the move to slow down new video game approvals is in line with Beijing's initiative to reduce gaming addiction in minors It is unclear … | Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
FOIA records show Google settled with a software engineer allegedly fired for his workplace activism in 2019; settlement was approved in July by the NLRB — - U.S. Labor Board said five employees were wrongly terminated — Trial is ongoing over remaining allegations against company| Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: |
Snyk, which helps fix vulnerabilities in open source dependencies and container images, raises $300M at a $8.5B valuation, up ~2x from its March valuation — Boston-Based cyber security software startup Snyk on Wednesday said it raised $300 million in fresh funds and the company was now valued at $8.5 billion.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Mobile banking startup Varo Money raises $510M Series E at a $2.5B valuation, which it says is up ~5x since May 2020, bringing total raised to $992.4M — Varo Bank, which last year became the first U.S. neobank to be granted a national bank charter, announced this morning it has raised … | Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Xiaomi says its upcoming 11T flagship series will get three years of OS updates and four years of security updates, matching Samsung and Google — Ahead of the release of the Xiaomi 11T Pro and 11T, the Chinese firm is promising extended support for the upcoming duo with three years … | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
UK network Three joins EE and Vodafone in adding a £2/day charge for EU roaming starting May 2022; O2 will offer free EU roaming as an add-on for some plans — Three has become the latest UK mobile network to reintroduce EU roaming fees, in another post-Brexit setback for customers traveling abroad.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Affinity, which offers AI-powered CRM tools, raises $80M Series C led by Menlo Ventures at a $600M valuation, bringing total funding to $120M — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now!
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Spain's La Liga soccer league partners with French platform Sorare to offer NFTs of all its players, the first major European soccer league to do so — Spain's La Liga has become the first of Europe's top soccer leagues to offer non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for all its players.
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Security researchers say Apple's bug bounty program is undermined by Apple's insular culture, confusion about payments, and long delays in fixing bugs — Lack of communication, confusion about payments and long delays have security researchers fed up with Apple's bug bounty program
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon says it will offer to cover 100% of college tuition for its 750,000 hourly employees in the US after 90 days of employment, starting in January 2022 — - Amazon is offering to pay the full cost of college tuition, including books and fees, for its 750,000 hourly U.S. employees.
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