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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Chair of the House Financial Services Committee says Facebook should halt development of Libra until Congress investigates, calls on Facebook execs to testify — “Facebook is continuing its unchecked expansion and extending its reach into the lives of its users," Rep. Maxine Water said
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| Wired: |
Inside Facebook's ambitious plan to make Libra accepted as a global currency, especially for those underserved by banks, despite Facebook's tarnished reputation — NEAR THE END of 2017, on a Dominican Republic beach with his family, Facebook executive David Marcus wrestled with a question …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
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| Alastair Marsh / Bloomberg: |
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Mozilla patches a Firefox zero-day exploit that was discovered by Google's Project Zero and Coinbase's security teams, and it says was being abused in the wild — Mozilla releases Firefox 67.0.3 to fix actively exploited zero-day. — The Mozilla team has released earlier today version 67..3 …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Sources: Samsung will launch the Galaxy Note 10 on August 7 at an Unpacked event in New York City — Samsung will show off its Galaxy Note 10 during a flashy Unpacked event on Aug. 7 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, according to people familiar with the company's plans.
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Android Authority, Gizchina, International Business Times, Neowin, BGR, TechSpot, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, TmoNews, Firstpost Tech, SamMobile, SlashGear, The Next Web, Android Central, Digital Trends, Android Police, The Verge, 9to5Google, Engadget, MSPoweruser, and Phandroid. Tweets: @sharatibken
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube unveils AR Beauty Try-On, which lets viewers virtually try on makeup while watching beauty tutorials, currently in testing, coming in summer — Makeup tutorials and reviews are some of the most popular content on YouTube, as they help people learn about new products as well as how to apply them.
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Tweets: @claybavor, @aparnacd, and @glenngabe
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
GitHub acquires code review company Pull Panda, makes subscriptions free for Pull Reminders and two other services but will discontinue enterprise subscriptions — Microsoft is buying Pull Panda and immediately making all subscriptions to its tools available for free in the GitHub Marketplace.
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The GitHub Blog, Thurrott, Windows Central, The Next Web, Phoneweek, Packt Hub, NDTV Gadgets 360, Neowin, WinBuzzer, MSPoweruser, The Register, Inquirer, Softpedia News, OnMSFT.com, GeekWire, DEVCLASS, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @andreasklinger, @ruv, @gpeal8, @maryjofoley, and @jszmajda
| The Keyword: |
Google says it will help build 20K homes in the Bay Area over the next ten years by putting $1B toward the goal, repurposing some of its land as residential — As we work to build a more helpful Google, we know our responsibility to help starts at home. For us, that means being a good neighbor …
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| Corinne Reichert / CNET: |
In response to claims Google lifted lyrics from Genius, Google has asked its lyrics partner to investigate, will soon include 3rd-party attribution on lyrics — Google has responded to reports that it's stealing lyrics from Genius, explaining how it finds lyrics to show on its search pages.
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The Keyword, Search Engine Roundtable, Neowin, Wired, Hackaday, Digital Music News, BGR, and The Verge
Tweets: @searchliaison, @ajkohn, @lyricfind, and @stshank
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Dish may make a $6B+ deal this week for T-Mobile and Sprint assets including spectrum and Sprint's Boost Mobile as the carriers try to get DOJ approval — - Deal for Boost brand, wireless spectrum could come this week — Justice Department wants T-Mobile and Sprint to unload assets
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Engadget, AppleInsider, Telecoms.com, Gizmodo, Android Police, Digital Trends, Android Authority, GeekWire, CNET, TmoNews, and MacRumors
Tweets: @thekenyeung, @chriswelch, @taralach, and @chriswelch
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft launches public preview of Azure Bastion, a service for remotely accessing virtual machines more securely — Microsoft's newest Azure service, Bastion, is now in public preview and is meant to bring another level of security to remotely accessing virtual machines.
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Microsoft Azure Cloud …, Petri, The Register, IT PRO, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @markrussinovich and @azure
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google's Safe Browsing service gets its own Chrome extension, which notifies users of deceptive URLs and lets users report suspicious sites — Google today released the Suspicious Site Reporter Extension. As its name implies, the extension lets users report suspicious sites to Google's Safe Browsing service.
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Chromium Blog, Engadget, ZDNet, The Next Web, Help Net Security, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Techdows, TechCrunch, and Search Engine Journal
Tweets: @emschec, @swiftonsecurity, and @winter_heidi
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Apple adds a feature in iOS 13 beta 2 that tells users about ongoing subscriptions for apps they are about to delete — ‘Do you want to keep your subscription for this app?’ — Apple has added a warning in iOS 13 beta 2 that appears when you try to uninstall an app which still has an active subscription.| Anna Baydakova / CoinDesk: |
Microsoft and Salesforce have joined the Hyperledger blockchain consortium, an umbrella project for various business blockchains run by the Linux Foundation — Two of the world's largest top-10 enterprise software companies by revenue have joined the Hyperledger blockchain consortium.
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Open Source blog, PYMNTS.com, Coinspeaker, MSPoweruser, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @openatmicrosoft
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In watchOS 6, many built-in apps will have their own App Store listings, letting Apple Watch users delete and redownload some currently unremovable apps — Good news for Apple Watch owners who don't want to clutter up their Watch with unused apps. With the release of the new watchOS 6 …
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