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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
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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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Interview with Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's plans for smart eyewear, potential privacy issues, lack of AR features, the inadequacies of smartphones, and more — Mark Zuckerberg has big plans for smart eyewear. Facebook's first stab at the idea is not a huge deal—but it avoids privacy pitfalls that could come later.
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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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| 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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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has appointed longtime Apple Watch and Health software chief Kevin Lynch as the new head of its Apple Car project after Doug Field's departure — - Kevin Lynch replaces Doug Field as head of Apple's car efforts — Field left Apple's project after three years to work at Ford
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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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter is testing a new “Automated Account” label for profiles to self-identify as bots, intended for “good bots”, and the label will remain opt-in for now — Twitter today is introducing a new feature that will allow accounts to self-identify as bots by adding a label to their profile.| 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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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Twitter begins testing emoji reactions to tweets, starting with five options, on iOS and Android in Turkey — 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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Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, Social Media Today, MSPoweruser, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, and CNET. Tweets: @liamspradlin
| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Facebook is developing an ML chip for tasks such as recommending content to users and a data center chip to improve video transcoding — Google, Amazon and Microsoft have all been hiring and spending millions of dollars to design their own computer chips from scratch …
Tweets: @amir and @beardywheat
| 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.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
A number of playlist curators say Spotify is not addressing playlist abuse, letting bad actors report rivals to gain better visibility for their own playlists — A number of Spotify playlist curators are complaining that the streaming music company is not addressing the ongoing issue of playlist abuse …
Tweets: @mathewjosephmus
| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
California defense attorney Jay Leiderman, once dubbed the “Hacktivist's Advocate” and known for defending whistleblowers and hackers, dies at 50 years old — Leiderman's rebellious lawyering made him a go-to attorney for Anonymous hackers. — Alerts| Wall Street Journal: |
JPMorgan Chase acquires The Infatuation, a restaurant discovery service that bought Zagat from Google in 2018 — Deal is the bank's latest effort to cater to big spenders who like to travel and dine out — America's biggest bank is buying the company behind the Zagat brand.
Tweets: @drorpoleg, @hreins, @tanyadua, @schmooey, @quinnypig, @fromedome, @tomgara, @kenwattana, and @rafat
| 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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Mastercard USA, The Block, cryptodaily.co.uk, Financial Times, Blockworks, Crypto Briefing, and Bitcoinist.com
Tweets: @hbar_to_moon and @mastercardnews
| 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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Tweets: @ed2befree, @dalperdah, @nathankpeck, @blakersdozen, @errorjustin, @epro, @amazonnews, and @bullandbaird
| 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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Threatpost, Gizmodo, and The Hacker News
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Fin, which provides productivity insights for companies by capturing employee workflow data from across apps, raises $20M Series A led by Coatue — Work insights platform Fin raised $20 million in Series A funding and brought in Evan Cummack, a former Twilio executive, as its new chief executive officer.| 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 …
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Tweets: @therealjoshye, @thestalwart, @therealjoshye, and @arjunkharpal
| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Supabase, an open source alternative to Google's Firebase that automates parts of developers' backend work, raises $30M Series A — Supabase, the backend-as-a-service startup, announced this week that it raised a $30 million Series A. — Supabase is often described as an open source alternative … | 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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PR Newswire, Bitcoinist.com, Associated Press, Decrypt, and SportsPro
| Bloomberg: |
Resecurity: hackers gained access to UN's proprietary project management tool Umoja from April 5 to August 7, stealing an unknown amount of data — - Attackers gained access to UN network using stolen credentials — The identity of the hackers, or their motive, isn't yet clear
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