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Video of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee — Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies before Senate Commerce Committee https://www.c-span.org/video/? 515042-...
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60 Minutes publishes the eight SEC complaints filed by Frances Haugen against Facebook, covering 2020 election, Jan. 6 riots, teen mental health, and more — For the first time, read the whistleblower's complaints to the SEC that led to 60 Minutes' report on Facebook.
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VICE, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, and Financial Times
Tweets: @post_market, @60minutes, @60minutes, @jason_kint, @juliacarriew, and @jason_kint
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Haugen's testimony: Facebook puts growth above public safety and must be more transparent, Section 230 reform is not enough, the buck stops at Zuckerberg, more — - Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before a Senate panel Tuesday, telling lawmakers they must intervene to solve the …
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| Santosh Janardhan / Facebook Engineering: |
Facebook says configuration changes on its backbone routers disrupted network traffic between its data centers, causing an outage across its platforms — To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today's outage across our platforms.
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Facebook Engineering, The Guardian, MobileSyrup, inews.co.uk, NPR, Toronto Star, Threatpost, New York Post, CNBC, iMore, Input, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Economic Times, Techaeris, The Hill, Pocketnow, The Verge, MarTech, Search Engine Roundtable, Telecoms.com, cloudpro.co.uk, RCR Wireless News, ZDNet, Cult of Mac, and Gizchina
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Facebook's services and work tools return online after suffering a global outage for over six hours — Update: 5:55 p.m. ET: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are slowly but surely coming back up after more than 6 hours of being down. Your mileage may vary for now …
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| Celso Martinho / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare says prior to Facebook's outage, Facebook issued several BGP updates, causing DNS resolution errors that knocked Facebook off the web — “Facebook can't be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. — Today at 15:51 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google announces the Pixel 6 virtual launch event will be on October 19 at 10am PT — The Pixel Fall Launch is on — Google traditionally holds an October hardware event to reveal its new Pixel phones. This year, it already announced them — here's the Pixel 5A and the Pixel 6.
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Pro 8 review: new modern look, 120Hz display, and improved stylus, but it is expensive, accessories aren't included, and ports are limited — This is the best Surface Pro we've seen in years — I've been waiting for the Surface Pro 8. — Microsoft has been selling …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Europol announces the arrest of two alleged ransomware gang members in Ukraine, with help from US and French authorities, as some think they may belong to REvil — Two members of a ransomware gang were arrested in Ukraine following a joint international law enforcement operation.
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Filing: Circle, which backs the USDC stablecoin, received a subpoena in July from the SEC for documents on “our holdings, customer programs, and operations” — Circle Financial is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange (SEC), the payments company disclosed Monday.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
D-Wave says it aims to build a gate-model quantum computer, but will keep investing and developing the quantum annealing tech that it has pursued for 20+ years — For more than 20 years, D-Wave has been synonymous with quantum annealing. Its early bet on this technology allowed it to become … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat rolls out a new “Run for Office” in-app tool to encourage young adults to run for local office, including a portal with 75K+ curated upcoming elections — Snapchat is rolling out a new ‘Run for Office’ in-app tool to encourage young adults to run for local office.
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Review of Apple's A15 shows big efficiency gains and adequate speed improvements, which range from 2.5% to 37% over A14 depending on the type of workload — A few weeks ago, we've seen Apple announce their newest iPhone 13 series devices, a set of phones being powered by the newest Apple A15 SoC.
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iMore, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, phonearena.com, and MacRumors
Tweets: @catfish_man, @t3mporarybl1p, @aapltree, and @liliputingnews
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Leaked court doc shows US investigators secretly used a “keyword warrant” to order Google to provide data on anyone searching a victim's name and personal info — The U.S. government is secretly ordering Google to provide data on anyone typing in certain search terms, an accidentally unsealed court document shows.
Tweets: @granick, @iblametom, and @iblametom
| Rachel Phua / DealStreetAsia: |
Orca Security, which provides tools for protecting cloud-based assets, extends Series C to $550M led by Temasek at a $1.8B valuation, up from $1.2B in March — Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings has led a $550 million extended Series C round for Los Angeles-based Orca Security …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, and CTech
| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Visa plans to trim the fee banks pay Apple for recurring automated payments next year amid discontent in the banking industry; Apple opposes the change — Banks are nudging Visa to change the way it processes some Apple Pay transactions, according to people familiar with the matter
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @theomegabit and @alexh_johnson
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Sky Mavis, developer of NFT game Axie Infinity, raises ~$150M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, sources say at a nearly $3B valuation — Sky Mavis, the developer of the popular crypto-based online game Axie Infinity, is raising approximately $150 million in Series B funding …
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The Lunacian, Andreessen Horowitz, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Forkast, Crypto Briefing, DealStreetAsia, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @axieinfinity, @jihoz_axie, and @ldrogen
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram ditches the IGTV brand and combines IGTV's long-form videos and Instagram Feed videos into a new Instagram Video format; Reels is unaffected — Instagram head Adam Mosseri recently said was “no longer a photo-sharing app,” noting the company was prioritizing a shift … | Josh Ye / South China Morning Post: |
China's top court ruled in September that a consumer's antitrust suit against Apple can proceed to Shanghai court, a move that some say may bring more lawsuits — Supreme People's Court in China ruled that a lawsuit filed by a Chinese consumer against Apple's China entity on antitrust grounds …
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Online course provider Udemy files for IPO, says its revenue grew from $276.3M in 2019 to $429.9M in 2020, and H1 2021 revenue was up 24.5% YoY to $250.6M — After digging into the Rent the Runway IPO filing this morning, we're turning to Udemy. — The Udemy offering comes in the wake … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Insurance infrastructure startup Sure raises $100M Series C at a $550M valuation to help companies launch insurance products with its APIs — Sure, an insurance infrastructure startup, announced today that it has closed on $100 million in Series C funding at a $550 million valuation.
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