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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Source: Twitter's board plans to comply with Elon Musk's demands for internal data on bots by offering access to its full “firehose”, after a weeks-long impasse — The billionaire is in a protracted battle with the company over information about spam and fake accounts
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple will handle Apple Pay Later's lending, a first for the company; in-house subsidiary Apple Financing LLC will oversee credit checks and make loan decisions — Apple Inc. will handle the lending itself for a new “buy now, pay later” offering, sidestepping partners as the tech giant pushes deeper …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Source: Meta has halted development of a smartwatch with dual cameras, which was in development for two years, and is instead working on other wrist devices — Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has halted development of a smartwatch with dual cameras and is instead working …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft plans to stop adding noncompete clauses to US employment agreements, drop NDAs from US worker settlements, add salary ranges to US job posts, and more — Bending to employee sentiment and legislative mandate, Microsoft announced a series of reforms Wednesday that will curtail …
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| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
South Korean crypto exchanges Bithumb and Upbit plan to delist Litecoin, saying the token's new privacy features violate the country's anti-money laundering law — Two major exchanges in South Korea said they will delist Litecoin due to new privacy features enabled by the protocol.
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CoinDesk, cafe.bithumb.com, Xspringdigital's Newsletter, CoinGape, Crowdfund Insider, and Coinspeaker. Tweets: @twobitidiot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub is sunsetting Atom, the text editor for developers it launched in 2011, and will archive all projects under the Atom organization on December 15, 2022 — GitHub today announced that it will sunset Atom, the text editor for software development that the company introduced in 2011.| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Ethereum's proof-of-stake Merge upgrade goes live on Ropsten, Ethereum's oldest testnet for blockchain development testing before deployment on the mainnet — First rolled out in 2016, Ropsten is Ethereum's oldest testnet that allows for blockchain development testing before deployment on the mainnet.
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| Prakhar Khanna / Digital Trends: |
Apple says Stage Manager is limited to M1 iPads because the feature relies on iPadOS 16's fast memory swap, which lets demanding apps use storage as virtual RAM — At its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2022, Apple announced numerous new features for iPadOS 16.
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| Florence Ion / Gizmodo: |
Google releases Android 13 Beta 3 for Pixel phones and says Android 13 has reached platform stability, meaning the developer APIs and how apps perform are final — As the beta reaches Platform Stability, Google would like to remind you that Android tablets aren't dead yet. — Alerts
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
In an email, ByteDance says Joshua Ma, who leads UK's TikTok Shop, will “step back” during a probe into comments that he “didn't believe” in maternity leave — Joshua Ma will ‘take some time off’ after claims were brought to TikTok by the Financial Times| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Sweden-based Juni, a neobank catering to e-commerce and online marketing, raises a $206M Series B, made up of $100M in equity led by Mubadala and $106M in debt — Sweden's Juni has raised $206 million ($100 equity/$106 debt) in a Series B funding round. — Swedish integrated payment …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Snapshot: 54% of ApeCoin owners vote in favor of remaining on Ethereum, after Yuga Labs floated creating its own blockchain after its huge metaverse land sale — ApeCoin owners have decided to keep the token, which is expected to be key to snagging exclusive metaverse game items and deals …
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The Block, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, and Crypto Briefing
| Wall Street Journal: |
Documents show how Cerebral used social media ads to grow its ADHD drug business, as federal prosecutors look into possible Controlled Substance Act violations — The online mental health company surged to a $4.8 billion valuation after it started dispensing ADHD medication …
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Forbes. Tweets: @anfuller, @anfuller, @tomfitton, @anshelsag, @contingentvalue, @mkarolian, @theo_wayt, @richardhanania, and @marcelolprince
| TechCrunch: |
Researcher says over 120K passports, drivers licenses, and IDs of users of Chinese bike-sharing service Mobike was not encrypted and exposed online — A massive trove of more than 120,000 passports, drivers licenses and identity documents uploaded by users of bike-sharing service Mobike have been found online.
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @mayhemdayone, and @zackwhittaker
| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Vanta, which offers enterprise data security compliance tools, raises $110M led by Craft Ventures at a $1.6B valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$163M — In some ways, Vanta Inc. looks like a startup from a frothier era. It's run by a 35-year-old entrepreneur in San Francisco and sells software primarily to other startups.| Financial Times: |
Palantir is preparing to bid on a £360M contract to underpin UK NHS' operations, to be awarded in November; Palantir employs 600 in the UK and plans to add 250 — US data analytics group hires health service executives in bid to secure £360mn contract| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amsterdam-based Backbase, which helps banks analyze data, raises €120M from Motive Partners at a €2.5B valuation and says it has 150 banking customers — Larger banks and other financial service providers are getting a lot more serious when it comes to competing with upstarts …
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Tech.eu, Benzinga, and Silicon Canals
| Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter: |
UK startup Papercup, which uses AI for video dubbing, raises a $20M Series A led by Octopus Ventures to invest in adding “more human-like voices” to AI dubbing — The capital injection will allow the British firm to invest in bringing “more human-like voices” and “human emotion” to artificial intelligence dubbing.
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| Financial Times: |
Warehouse robotics and automation company Symbotic raises $725M after going public via SPAC, valuing it at over $10B after shares jumped 120% to ~$20 — Symbotic executive eyes automation trend due to wage costs and labour shortages — Rising retail wages will fuel “hyper growth” …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple's iOS 16 introduces the ability to transfer an eSIM from another iPhone via Bluetooth while setting up cellular service — iOS 16 introduces a useful new feature that allows an eSIM to be transferred between iPhones via Bluetooth while setting up cellular service.
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The Verge, CNET, MobileSyrup, Softpedia News, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @dcseifert, @annkur, @connorjewiss, @saranbyte, and @detroitborg
| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
Meta faces eight lawsuits this week that claim its algorithms lead to attempted suicide, eating disorders, sleeplessness, and other issues in young people — Meta Platforms Inc. is now a leader in another social media trend — lawsuits claiming the company built algorithms in its platforms …
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