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Sources: emergency meetings continue inside Facebook amid WSJ exposé, as some research staff decry Facebook's public response in group chats — The social network has been all hands on deck as it grapples with revelations that it knew the harmful effects its Instagram photo-sharing app was having on teenagers.| Wall Street Journal: |
Google scraps plans for mobile-first bank accounts service Plex; sources say the move follows April departure of a Google Pay exec who championed the project — Tech giant had partnered with Citigroup and other banks on ‘Plex’ accounts that would sync with Google Pay
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Coinbase says a threat actor stole cryptocurrency from 6,000 customers between March and May 20 using a vulnerability in its SMS multi-factor authentication — Crypto exchange Coinbase disclosed that a threat actor stole cryptocurrency from 6,000 customers after using a vulnerability to bypass …
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| Sean Lyngaas / CNN: |
President Biden to convene a 30-country meeting this month to try to ramp up global efforts to address the ransomware threat — (CNN)The White House will convene a 30-country meeting this month to try to ramp up global efforts to address the threat of ransomware to economic and national security …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft details Office 2021 features and pricing ahead of Oct. 5 release: Office Home and Student will cost $150 and Office Home and Business will cost $250 — Microsoft is launching Office 2021 on October 5th, and the company is finally detailing the features and pricing today.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple rolls out iOS 15.0.1 and iPadOS 15.0.1, with bug fixes for multiple issues, including Unlock with Apple Watch on iPhone 13 — One week after the release of the iPhone 13 and iOS 15, Apple is rolling out a bug fix update with some notable improvements. iOS 15..1 and iPadOS 15..1 …
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| Carolina Milanesi / Fast Company: |
Amazon Astro review: impressive autonomous navigation skills, reasonable price for the tech, attractive design, but its daily utility is questionable — In a two-week trial, Astro was surprisingly endearing and avoided hazards such as pets and stairs. But I still don't know what I'd do with one.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The new tab design in Safari 15 for macOS makes usability worse and shows a complete disregard for the familiarity users had with Safari's previous tab design — Our long national iOS 15 Safari nightmare ended last month, praise be, but the lesser of the two bad Safari designs unveiled …
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| Josef Adalian / Vulture: |
South Korean show Squid Game, topping Netflix charts in 90 countries, vindicates Netflix's strategy of creating franchises using content from around the world — At your service. — This story also ran in Buffering, Vulture's newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today!
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| Kyle Stock / Bloomberg: |
Online used-car dealers like Shift, Vroom, and Carvana have seen record sales over the past year, as the pandemic and chip shortages upended the US auto market — In December, David Tvaltchrelidze bought a 2016 Mazda Miata for $16,450 from Shift Technologies Inc., one of a crop …
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| Kaya Genç / Rest of World: |
As Istanbul becomes the world's capital of casual mobile gaming, with an estimated size of $880M in 2020, a look at the industry's exploitative labor practices — Overworked and underpaid engineers are helping fuel Istanbul's mobile gaming bonanza. — • ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Tweets: @kayagenc, @dlepeska, @cengizyar, and @anupkaphle
| Steve Kovach / CNBC: |
Amazon's new PC game New World is a hit, with hundreds of thousands on Steam playing it at any given time, representing a leap for Amazon's gaming ambitions — - Amazon released a new video game for PCs this week called “New World.” — The game is already a smash hit … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Vareto, which makes software to help companies with financial planning, raises $4.2M seed led by Menlo Ventures and $20M Series A led by GV — Vareto, a startup aiming to help companies conduct more forward-looking financial planning and analysis, is coming out of stealth today with $24 million in total funding.
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