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Google announces an in-person Pixel hardware event for October 6 at 10am ET in Brooklyn, where the company will detail the Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, and Pixel Watch — Google this morning announced that it will be hosting its Pixel hardware event on Thursday, October 6.
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Tweets: @madebygoogle, @majinbuofficial, @markgurman, @skylleddev, @vnchocotaco, @mishaalrahman, @tomwarren, @andyboxall, and @journeydan
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
Signal appoints former Google manager Meredith Whittaker as its first president, to guide strategy, communications, and policy; she plans to focus on donations — Meredith Whittaker, the former Google manager, is Signal's first president. She is out to convince users to pay for the free app.
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Meta announces its Connect conference will be held virtually on October 11, when it is expected to debut its high-end Quest Pro standalone VR headset — Meta Connect is on for October 11th, 2022 as a one-day virtual event with announcements outlining the company's next steps in VR and AR.
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| Peter Frontini / Reuters: |
Brazil orders Apple to stop selling iPhones without a charger in the country and fines the company ~$2.38M, citing “deliberate” discrimination against consumers — Brazil's government on Tuesday ordered Apple Inc (AAPL.O) to stop selling iPhones without a battery charger in the country … | Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the US with 600,000+ students, says a ransomware attack over the weekend disrupted its operations — The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack that is causing ongoing technical disruptions.
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Tweets: @laschools, @brettcallow, and @ncweaver
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The trial of former Uber Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan, over allegedly covering up a 2016 data breach and paying off the hackers, begins this week — Joe Sullivan, Uber's former chief of security, faces criminal charges for his handling of a 2016 security breach.
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Protocol. Tweets: @nicoleperlroth, @jtrevorhughes, @arekfurt, @kashhill, @josephmenn, @chasemadar, and @ericnewcomer
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google updates Chrome to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Mojo runtime libraries, its sixth Chrome zero-day patch in 2022 — Google has released Chrome 105.0.5195.102 for Windows, Mac, and Linux users to address a single high-severity security flaw … | Cindy Cohn / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Peter Eckersley, who worked at EFF for 12 years, including as its chief computer scientist, and founded the free Let's Encrypt certificate authority, dies at 43 — With deep sadness, EFF mourns the loss of our friend, the technologist, activist, and cybersecurity expert Peter Eckersley.
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Naked Security, TechSpot, and Dark Reading
Tweets: @evacide, @internetff, @jasonporath, @daphnehk, @isislovecruft, @linuxfoundation, @kateconger, @davidakaye, @eff, @jomc, @dcuthbert, @mcflyhh, @1lexxi, @brianchristian, @letsencrypt, @tarensk, @jsrailton, and @alexstamos. Thanks:@themadhacker
| Mark Bergen / The Verge: |
A book excerpt details how YouTube's love affair with PewDiePie soured in 2017, before he stopped pushing boundaries and signed a livestreaming deal in 2020 — The Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit focused on antisemitism, received an unusual invitation from YouTube in early 2017: come meet our biggest influencer.| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Sources: amid lockdowns, Chinese staff and suppliers contributed more complex work to the iPhone 14 than to past models as Apple tries to cut its China reliance — Apple is taking small steps toward India. But the production of its latest phone, set for introduction on Wednesday, shows how difficult it will be to make big changes.| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
The US Department of Commerce releases its plan for dispensing the $50B CHIPS Act: ~$28B for grants and loans, $10B for expanded manufacturing, and $11B for R&D — The Commerce Department issued guidelines for companies angling to receive federal funding aimed at bolstering the domestic semiconductor industry.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sony says longtime PlayStation hardware architect Masayasu Ito plans to retire on October 1; Ito joined Sony in 1986 and moved to the console division in 2000 — Sony Group Corp.'s PlayStation unit is set to lose its longtime hardware architect Masayasu Ito, who will retire at the end of this month.| Bloomberg: |
Twitter tells Judge McCormick that Peiter Zatko never raised spam concerns until he filed his whistleblower complaint and “started parroting” Musk's allegations — A lawyer for Twitter Inc. said a whistle-blower who claims the company responded inadequately to spam and bot accounts …
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Russia is scrambling to buy semiconductors, transformers, transistors, and other tech parts for weapons, many of which are sanctioned, for its Ukraine war — It's the microchips that look set to get Vladimir Putin in the end. Six months into its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is being throttled …
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Politico
Tweets: @zoyashef, @politicoryan, @jonlemire, @juliadavisnews, @gloefflmann, @ilvestoomas, @ulrichspeck, @zoyashef, @carlquintanilla, @nytimes, and @ngrossman81
| Reuters: |
Zurich-based 21.co, which runs the 21Shares crypto investment service, has raised $25M led by Marshall Wace at a $2B post-money valuation — Crypto investment product firm 21.co, the parent of 21Shares, said on Tuesday it had raised $25 million in a funding round led by Marshall Wace that valued the company at $2 billion.
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Chinese government tenders show research institutions, such as Tsinghua University, rely on Nvidia's and AMD's AI chips, whose export the US has now restricted — High-profile universities and state-run research institutes in China have been relying on a U.S. computing chip to power … | Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: |
Huawei launches the Mate 50 series, the first smartphones to link with China's BeiDou global satellite navigation system, on sale without 5G for ~$720 to ~$980 — Huawei Technologies Co on Tuesday launched its new flagship Mate 50-series smartphones that support satellite communications …
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Nikkei Asia, Strategy Analytics, BGR India, Android Authority, Tech Advisor, and Pandaily
Tweets: @megaconstellati, @trengriffin, @pstasiatech, and @patrickmcgee_
| Lauren Hirsch / New York Times: |
CVS Health plans to acquire Signify Health, which offers analytics and tech to help 10,000 doctors provide in-home health care to 2.5M US patients, for ~$8B — The deal for Signify Health, which has a network of doctors who make home visits, would cement the drugstore chain's move away from its traditional roots.
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CNBC, CVS Health Corporation, CNBC, hitconsultant.net, Finbold, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, Axios, Forbes, Financial Times, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @saralsirota and @stacyfmitchell
| Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
Tencent plans to invest €200M in Ubisoft to increase its direct stake from 4.5% to 9.99% at an implied €80 per share, alongside another €100M in the company — Tencent Holdings Ltd is set to more than double its stake in Ubisoft Entertainment SA, providing an injection of cash … Sponsor Posts
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