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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Google details the commercial spyware Hermit, used in Kazakhstan and Italy, targeting Android and iOS; the iOS version has six exploits, including two zero-days — The spyware has targeted victims in Kazakhstan and Italy — Security researchers at Lookout recently tied …
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The Keyword, Project Zero, iTnews, The Record, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, and CyberScoop
| New York Times: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg's top priority is now the metaverse, not securing elections; Meta has ~60 people focused primarily on elections, down from 300+ in 2020 — Mark Zuckerberg, who once said securing elections was “the most important thing,” has shifted Meta's focus to the metaverse.
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CNBC, Insider, Gizmodo, Input, Engadget, Cointelegraph, Social Media Today, Khaleej Times, Laptop Mag, and WCMU Public Radio
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| Phillip Tracy / Gizmodo: |
Microsoft announces gaming features for Edge, including a new homepage, exclusive free-to-play games, Clarity Boost for streamed games, and a performance option — This latest browser update adds a new gaming interface, graphics enhancements to Xbox Cloud Gaming, and easy access to free casual games.
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Windows Experience Blog, The Verge, YouTube, BigTechWire, BleepingComputer, XDA Developers, ZDNet, OnMSFT.com, Engadget, PCWorld, and Windows Central. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Maddie Ellis / Wall Street Journal: |
Instagram begins testing tools to verify ages, starting with 17 and under, using either Yoti's facial video analysis, photo IDs, or adults vouching for users — Meta's new policy will make it tougher for teens to update to adult accounts. But they can still lie about their age in the first place
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Meta, TechCrunch, The Verge, Gizmodo, Protocol, Washington Post, Social Media Today, Deseret News, MobileSyrup, CNBC, iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneArena, Cybernews.com, Reuters, TechSpot, The Guardian, Axios, BGR India, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @getyoti, @mosseri, @markscott82, @eriqgardner, @rmsherman, @davisantigone, @andymstone, @nickclegg, and @mattnavarra
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool, in preview within the AWS IDE Toolkit, supporting Java, JavaScript, and Python — At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced the launch of CodeWhisperer, an AI pair programming tool similar to GitHub's Copilot … | Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the LUNA and UST crash, as Do Kwon says he's “been devastated by recent events” but has “great confidence in our ability to build back even stronger” — Luna's relaunch might be the ultimate act of chutzpah by the South Korean entrepreneur
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CryptoPotato, networked, Decrypt, Ethereum World News, ZyCrypto, Coinspeaker, Fortune, Bloomberg, Cryptonews, CoinGeek, and The Block
Tweets: @matigreenspan, @aosipovich, @aosipovich, @aosipovich, @fatmanterra, @mbrookerhk, and @wublockchain
| Wall Street Journal: |
Intel delays its scheduled July 22 groundbreaking of a $20B Ohio chip plant due to uncertainty around the Bipartisan Innovation Act, but still plans to build it — Company still plans to build the Ohio chips facility, but frustrated about status of proposed law supporting U.S. semiconductor industry| Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: |
Vibrant Planet, a public-benefit startup that is developing software for forest management, has raised a $17M seed — For Allison Wolff, the 2018 wildfire season in California marked a turning point. During that record-breaking year, she started asking a lot of questions.| Evan Conrad: |
Crypto may be “more bad than good” but it has use cases like cutting out middlemen via decentralization, so the claim that it has “no use cases” is not rational — I've heard many smart people who I trust complain that “after 13 years, there are still no use cases for crypto.”
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google plans to bring Chrome's Enhanced Safe Browsing, which helps track URLs to monitor dangerous websites, to Chrome for iOS, expanding on Android and desktop — Updates to its user interface and translation features are also on the way — Enhanced Safe Browsing, the Chrome feature …
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The Keyword, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, XDA Developers, iPhone Hacks, Engadget, MacRumors, and iClarified
| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Amazon is working on letting Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio, as a way to “make the memories last” of deceased family members — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) wants to give customers the chance to make Alexa, the company's voice assistant, sound just like their grandmother — or anyone else.
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Changpeng Zhao, who built Binance into the largest crypto exchange, as he navigates China's regulatory crackdown in a brutal crypto winter — During the first few months of this year—back when buying digital tokens named after dog memes was still seen, at least …
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Insider. Tweets: @zachweinberg, @sidcoins, @calvinayre, @fintechfrank, @chafkin, @justinaknope, @chafkin, @chafkin, @mhbergen, @ncallanan, @justinaknope, @mattysino, @emilyjnicolle, @johnreedstark, @muyaoshen, @chafkin, @frxresearch, @highyieldharry, and @alastairjmarsh
| Danielle Abril / Washington Post: |
Yelp closes its New York, Chicago, and Washington DC offices as its CEO doubles down on remote work and calls hybrid work policies “the hell of half measures” — CEO Jeremy Stoppelman calls hybrid offices “the worst of both worlds” as he doubles down on remote work| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Spotify replaces Concert Hub with a Live Events Feed, populated by Ticketmaster, AXS, DICE, Eventbrite, See Tickets, and other partners, for finding tour dates — Spotify has expanded its old Concert Hub and added more features to make it easier to find information and tickets for live events in your location.| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
Coinbase plans to shut down its standalone, trader-focused Pro service by the end of 2022 and replace it with Advanced Trade as part of its main app and website — The standalone service will be replaced by Advanced Trade, a feature within the main Coinbase app.
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The Coinbase Blog, TechCrunch, CoinDesk, Inside Bitcoins, Coinspeaker, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, Cryptopolitan, CryptoPotato, The Block, Crypto Daily, Ethereum World News, Benzinga, and Blockworks
Tweets: @rager, @mdudas, @mayazi, @coinbase, @8bit, @titanxbt, @fintechfrank, @worm_emoji, @iamtexture, @rleshner, and @scottshapiro
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
OSOM, founded by ex-Essential employees, scraps its OV1 phone and partners with Solana to produce Saga, a $1,000 Web3-focused Android phone launching in Q1 2023 — The OSOM OV1 was a new Android smartphone built from the bones of Essential, but it's now being rebranded as a crypto/web3 device, the “Solana Saga.”
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Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, Solana, The Verge, Android Police, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Droid Life, and Android Central
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Cryptoys, which is building blockchain-based kids toys in partnership with Dapper Labs, raised a $23M Series A led by a16z, after a $7.5M seed in October 2021 — The past several months haven't been entirely kind to the NFT market — while transaction volume hasn't stuttered too significantly … | Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: |
China issues new rules for live streamers, including requiring influencers to have relevant qualifications to discuss topics such as law, finance, and medicine — The severe acute respiratory syndrome gave the city its first major health scare since the handover, while in the years that followed …
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CNBC, Inside Bitcoins, TechCrunch, and Finbold
Tweets: @eshan_shetty, @lanceulanoff, and @aroondeep
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU is planning a “phase 2” antitrust investigation into Broadcom's $69B VMware acquisition, which could take over one year and derail the deal — Brussels competition regulators plan detailed probe in move that will delay acquisition
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SiliconANGLE, Tech Monitor, and Ars Technica
| Jessica Lucas / Input: |
A look at r/LossPrevention, a subreddit for busting shoplifters; members monitor Reddit's pro-shoplifting community and share videos of people being apprehended — Alex McLeod is an adrenaline junkie. The 24-year-old, who lives in Ontario, Canada, is an avid martial artist with plans to sign up for a professional fighting league.| Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: |
Report: video gaming revenue in China fell for a third consecutive month in May, declining 6.7% YoY to $3.4B, amid a slowing economy and regulatory uncertainty — China's video gaming revenue fell 6.7 per cent to US$3.4 billion in May, driven mostly by a decline in mobile game spending … | Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: |
A hacktivist claims DALL-E-like Craiyon, formerly DALL-E mini, generated portraits of brown-skinned women in saris almost every time he ran a blank request — The images represent a glitch in the system that even its creator can't explain. — Like most people who are extremely online …
Tweets: @anirvan, @nickstatt, @mtrc, @nilchristopher, @sub8u, @flitteronfraud, and @anupkaphle
| Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: |
Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell says she does not support the bipartisan privacy bill, a significant blow to long-stalled federal protections for user data — Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell said she's not close to supporting a major proposal, dealing a significant blow to efforts to revive the long-stalled bill
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