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Instagram is internally testing Candid Challenges, a BeReal-like feature that gives users two minutes to take and share a photo at a different time each day — Instagram is testing a new feature called Candid Challenges, which bears a striking resemblance to BeReal, a photo sharing app popular among …
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Intel will bring “chiplet” packaging to its Meteor Lake chips in 2023 and Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake chips slated for 2024, to better compete with Apple silicon — For decades, you could test a computer chip's mettle by how small and tightly packed its electronic circuitry was.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
LockBit ransomware's leak sites suffer a DDoS attack after it claimed responsibility for breaching Entrust in June; LockBit blames Entrust for the DDoS attack — The LockBit ransomware operation's data leak sites have been shut down over the weekend due to a DDoS attack telling them to remove Entrust's allegedly stolen data.
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Xiaolang Zhang, a former Apple employee accused of stealing Apple's car project trade secrets, pleads guilty and faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250K fine — - Xiaolang Zhang, a former Apple employee who was accused of stealing computer files with trade secrets about Apple's secretive car division …
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Elon Musk subpoenas former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, ahead of his trial with Twitter set to begin on October 17 in the Delaware Court of Chancery — Dorsey joins the battle — As Twitter and Elon Musk prepare for their October 17th trial date in the Delaware Court of Chancery to argue …
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Sources: in Q2 Instacart's revenue rose 39% YoY to $621M, orders increased 25% YoY to 60M+, and order volume rose 21% YoY to $7.1B, as the company plans its IPO — Grocery-delivery platform is one of the few Silicon Valley startups headed for a public listing soon| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
eBay plans to acquire online trading card marketplace TCGplayer for up to $295M; TCGplayer, which employs 600+, will operate independently — eBay is acquiring TCGplayer, an online marketplace for collectible trading card games, in a deal valued up to $295 million, the company announced on Monday.
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Ethereum's Merge will introduce new participants, called builders, who gather transactions to be sent for validation, potentially altering its power structure — The much-anticipated upgrade of Ethereum will create new participants called builders in the blockchain ecosystem … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Zoom reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $1.1B, vs. $1.12B est., Enterprise customers up 18% YoY to 204.1K, and Q3 guidance below estimates; stock is down 7%+ — - Zoom's revenue growth slowed to 8% from 12% in the year-ago quarter, a lesser result than analysts had predicted.
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Apple expands its Self Service Repair offerings to cover the M1 MacBook Air and M1 MacBook Pros; the repair kit is available to rent for $49 — Four months after opening its Self Service Repair offerings to iPhone owners in the U.S., Apple is adding a handful of MacBooks to the mix.
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Microsoft is putting more ads in Outlook for iOS and Android for users of its free services; ads appear at the top of inbox and look like real emails — Free users can avoid most of them by using Focused Inbox — Microsoft has started putting more ads in Outlook mobile for iOS and Android in recent months.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Computer Services, which offers payment processing and compliance tools, agrees to be acquired by Centerbridge and Bridgeport for $1.6B in cash — Showing that the regtech industry remains robust to economic headwinds, private equity firms Centerbridge Partners and Bridgeport Partners today announced plans …
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