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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
YouTube says it is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and blocking all anti-vax content, not just about COVID-19 vaccines — The Google-owned video site previously only banned misinformation about coronavirus vaccines. Facebook made the same change months ago.
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| Reuters: |
Russia arrests Ilya Sachkov, the CEO of cybersecurity company Group-IB, on suspicion of treason and will hold him in custody for two months — Russia has arrested Ilya Sachkov, the chief executive of top Russian cybersecurity company Group IB, on suspicion of state treason and will hold … | Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: |
Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith pleads guilty to violating US sanctions law following a crypto and blockchain presentation at a 2019 North Korean conference — Griffith was charged with violating sanctions law by giving a cryptocurrency and blockchain presentation at a North Korean conference in 2019.| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Researchers discover a malware operation that has infected 10M+ Android devices in 70+ countries via benign-looking apps, netting $1.5M-$4M per month — Security researchers have found a massive malware operation that has infected more than 10 million Android smartphones across …
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Zimperium Mobile Security Blog. More:
Wired, ZDNet, The Register, SiliconANGLE, PCMag, The Hacker News, Threatpost, Dark Reading, BleepingComputer, Tom's Guide, and TechSpot
Tweets: @slightlylate and @campuscodi
| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Google announces online shopping tools, including a Lens upgrade coming first to iOS and Chrome desktop that helps users find products seen in images and videos — New search tools designed for shopping from home — Shopping online isn't always a convenience.
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The Keyword, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, and Reuters
Tweets: @searchliaison, @producthunt, and @searchliaison
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google says it is improving Search using the MUM AI model, with features like “Things to know”, which gives users additional context about searched topics — At its Search On event today, Google introduced several new features that, taken together, are its strongest attempts yet …
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The Verge, iTnews, 9to5Google, The Keyword, XDA Developers, Android Central, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, Gizmodo, Fast Company, TechCrunch, SlashGear, and Search Engine Journal
Tweets: @grady_booch and @backlon
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is rolling out Reels to all US mobile users, after launching a beta last month, and announces a Reels Play bonus program for creators — After launching into beta tests just last month, Facebook today is rolling out Reels to all Facebook users in the U.S. on both iOS and Android.
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Tweets: @mattnavarra and @justiacom
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google Maps adds a wildfire info layer, rolling out to Android this week and iOS and desktop in October, expands its Tree Canopy tool to 100 cities worldwide — “Fire” will be a top-level layer just like traffic, satellite, and transit maps. — Google Maps is getting a few new features …
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Tweets: @googlemaps, @doiwildlandfire, and @googlemaps
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Apple says the “jelly scroll” issue on the 6th-gen iPad mini is normal for LCD screens; the issue isn't noticeable on other latest iPad models with LCD screens — Apple says the issue is caused by normal LCD screen behavior. — Update, 9/28/2021: In response to our inquiry …
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Tweets: @backlon, @iupdate, @tapbot_paul, @iupdate, @iupdate, @krazyfrog, @stroughtonsmith, @backlon, and @stroughtonsmith
| Ana Diaz / Polygon: |
Twitch rolls out the option for streamers to require phone and email-verified accounts in chat, as part of the company's effort to reduce targeted harassment — Curbing harassment continues to be a “top priority” for Twitch — After an upswell in targeted harassment on the streaming platform Twitch …
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Tweets: @majinphil, @rayapollo, @oregonrolleda20, @saysmasonlive, and @iambrandontv
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the FTC is considering strengthening online privacy protections, including for children, in an effort to bypass legislative logjams in Congress — Agency is looking at strengthening rules that govern how digital businesses collect user data — WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission …
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Senate Commerce Committee, The Verge, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @lourdesturrecha, @georgetownlaw, @ryanjtracy, @moonalice, @karlbode, and @georgetownlaw
| Bloomberg: |
Employees at 11 video game companies say their teams had a 4K Switch dev kit, despite sources saying a 4K Nintendo console won't go on sale until late 2022 — At least 11 companies, including Zynga, have tools from Nintendo to make 4K Switch games. — Many people were surprised to learn …
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The Verge, Game Rant, GameSpot, Kotaku, Press Start, Dot Esports, iMore, and Polygon
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Seattle-based Read AI, which offers a dashboard for Zoom meetings to measure engagement, sentiment, and more, emerges from stealth with $10M in seed funding — Meetings can go one of two ways... either be productive, or be ineffective. Read AI wants all meeting goers to be engaged and feel productive …
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TechRadar, read.ai, GeekWire, FinSMEs, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, AdExchanger, and ZDNet. Tweets: @hypervisible
| The Verge: |
Facebook shares its internal research about Instagram's impact on teen mental health reported on by WSJ, with annotations for context — The company shared the PDFs Wednesday night — Facebook has shared the internal research about the impact of Instagram on teenage mental well-being reported …
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Engadget and Forbes
Tweets: @fbnewsroom, @jesselehrich, @mikeisaac, @abebrown716, @jaykaydee, @jesselehrich, and @andymstone
| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Ripple Labs says it is starting a $250M fund for NFT creators, exploring new use cases and providing financial, creative, and technical support — - Mintable, mintNFT, VSA Partners will have access to the fund — Projects will be tokenized on the XRP Ledger blockchain
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Ripple. More:
Ripple, The Block, Finextra, CryptoNinjas, Blockworks, SiliconANGLE, Crypto Briefing, Coinspeaker, cryptonews.com, FinSMEs, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, and CoinDesk. Tweets: @kylesgibson
| Rachel Pannett / Washington Post: |
Russia threatens to block YouTube unless it restores two German-language RT channels that were banned for COVID-19 misinformation — Russia has threatened to block YouTube unless the Google-owned video service restores two German-language channels managed by Russia's state media company RT …
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The Guardian, BBC, Reuters, euronews, Gizmodo, DW.COM, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, ABC News, AndroidPolice, The Hill, and Associated Press
Tweets: @itosettimd_mba, @digiphile, @golovchenko_yev, and @digiphile
| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
AngelList launches AngelList Stack, a set of tools to help founders start and run their companies, including end-to-end incorporation and banking services — AngelList Stack is a new suite of workflow products for founders — AngelList this week launched AngelList Stack …
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AngelList Venture. Tweets: @angellist, @alexh_johnson, @rolfmathies, @apompliano, @nickabouzeid, @alanb, @_damarioj, @jess, @shanemac, @thisiskp_, @sugupta, @benwerd, @clementc, @nmasc_, @roblalka, @nmasc_, @nmasc_, and @nmasc_
| Reuters: |
Senators Blackburn and Blumenthal say a Facebook whistleblower will testify at an October 5 Senate hearing on child safety — Two U.S. senators said on Tuesday a Facebook Inc (FB.O) whistleblower will testify at a Senate hearing next week about what one of them called the social media company's “toxic effects” on young users.
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Tech Policy Press, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn …, Newsbusters, and Protocol
Tweets: @senblumenthal, @viacristiano, @donie, @ceciliakang, @viacristiano, @jason_kint, @melissaryan, @jason_kint, and @mshannahmurphy
| Jennifer Lynch / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Ninth Circuit court confirms police need a warrant before opening people's email attachments, even if containing potentially illegal content such as CSAM — In a powerful new ruling for digital privacy rights, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has confirmed that the police need to get a warrant … | Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
A look at IBM Cloud's missteps, driven by marketing mistakes, duplicated development processes, and a sales-driven culture catering to existing clients — The words stunned IBM's cloud executives in November 2013. Former CEO Ginni Rometty had just told them that Watson, IBM's dubious crown jewel …
Tweets: @tomkrazit, @estesp, @quinnypig, @wallstcynic, and @marypcbuk
| Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
UK Met Office and DeepMind partner to improve short-term weather forecasts using AI, particularly predictions of storms and heavy rain — Better rainfall predictions could save lives when floods threaten, say researchers — Artificial intelligence improves the accuracy of short-term weather forecasts …
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Nature, SiliconANGLE, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, The Guardian, The Guardian, New Scientist, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @financialtimes and @deepmind
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
EquityBee, which runs a marketplace with ~12K investors to help startup employees exercise their stock options, raises $55M Series B led by Group 11 — Stock options can hold a lot of potential reward for employees when their company is doing well, but not every person will have the funds … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
ViacomCBS-owned Pluto TV will pay $3.5M to settle an FCC investigation that found the video streaming service violated closed captioning rules — According to the FCC's Enforcement Bureau, in addition to paying the civil penalty, Pluto TV agreed to enter into a compliance plan to ensure … Sponsor Posts
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