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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
In leaked audio from open meetings in July, Mark Zuckerberg talks about Facebook's challenges and potential breakup, politics, competitors, content moderators — In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Airbnb is planning a direct stock listing for its planned 2020 IPO, following Spotify and Slack — - Spotify and Slack have opted for similar path to public market — Hot IPOs of this year, like Uber, Lyft have had a chilly debut — Airbnb Inc.'s long-awaited Wall Street debut …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Appeals court upholds FCC's 2017 repeal of net neutrality, but also rules the FCC can't stop states from setting their own regulations — But the 200-page ruling says the FCC can't stop states from setting their own regulations — A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed …
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| Associated Press: |
Former Yahoo engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into the accounts of about 6,000 Yahoo users in search of sexual photos and videos — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A former Yahoo software engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into the accounts of some 6,000 Yahoo users in search of sexual photos and videos.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Sony drops the price of PlayStation Now by 50% to $10 per month or $25 per quarter in the US, with similar cuts in Japan, EU, and UK — Facing new competition for consumers' entertainment spending, Sony is slashing the price of the PlayStation Now game-subscription service …
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| Brent Rose / The Verge: |
GoPro Hero8 Black review: doesn't require special housing for mounts, has even better image stabilization, but the camera gets hot while recording — Let's start with the body. Since the Hero 5, GoPro cameras have been waterproof up to 33 feet without the need of an additional housing …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Confiant: a bug in Webkit has allowed 1B+ malicious ads to exploit code that's redirected users to hostile websites, affecting primarily iOS and macOS users — Flaw rendered ad-sandboxing protections “entirely useless,” researchers say. — Attackers have bombarded the Internet …
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blog.confiant.com, Threatpost, Forbes, The Mac Observer, Inquirer, WinBuzzer, The Hacker News, Security Affairs, BleepingComputer, and ResearchBuzz
Tweets: @jstrauss and @eliyastein
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Skydio debuts the $999 Skydio 2 autonomous drone, an update to the original that is 50% smaller and lighter with 43% more flight time, coming next month — The drone a three-year-old could fly — Last year, I got to play with one of the most amazing gadgets I've ever touched …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Twitter says all iOS users will be able to search their direct messages by names and groups, but not content, starting today — Sorry, Android fans — Twitter has announced that it's launching direct message search for all users on iOS starting today, October 1st.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Block.one settles with the SEC for $24M in penalties for conducting an unregistered securities sale; Block.one had raised ~$4.1B via ICO over a one-year period — EOS maker Block.One must pay $24 million in penalties for conducting an unregistered securities sale, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Leaked images reveal the upcoming Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3 (13-inch and 15-inch), and an ARM-powered Surface 2-in-1 device — Well dang, there they are — Microsoft's new Surface lineup appears to have leaked almost in its entirety, thanks to product images obtained by journalist and leaker Evan Blass.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Alex Davies / Wired: |
UPS says its drone service is the first of its kind to be recognized by the FAA as a commercial airline, but each new site it operates in must be approved — The FAA has granted a Part 135 certification for the logistics giant's drone business, propelling the little fliers closer to a commercial future.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pandora unveils a revamped mobile app with a new For You tab that recommends music, podcasts, and more — Pandora is doubling down on personalization and revamping its app in order to better compete with rivals like Spotify and Apple Music. Today, the company is introducing a new mobile experience …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Collaborative presentation software startup Pitch launches in private beta and raises $30M Series B led by Thrive Capital — The software industry is no spring chicken, and that fact that brought us to an interesting moment in technology: some of the biggest legacy apps — ubiquitous as they may be …
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| Marko Tupper: |
A software engineer's account of his year and a half at Snap, from dealing with a micromanaging director to the move from the Venice to the Santa Monica offices — I spent the last year and a half working as a software engineer for Snap, Inc.. The experience was...unique, if nothing else.
Tweets: @richardmatthias, @tompjacobs, @tomwhitwell, and @holman
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rapyd, which helps companies integrate payment and related services into their platforms, raises $100M led by Oak HC/FT, sources say at a ~$1B valuation — The digital payments market is forecast to balloon to $3 trillion by 2023, and today a startup that lets businesses implement not just payments …
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PR Newswire, Cointelegraph, FinSMEs, Fortune, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, CoinDesk, EU-Startups, and Crowdfund Insider. Tweets: @mdudas
| David Pan / CoinDesk: |
Skale Labs, parent to Skale Network, which develops a scalable and elastic blockchain network, raises $17.1M from Arrington XRP Capital and others — SKALE Network, a blockchain scalability platform, has raised $17.1 million to launch its mainnet. The firm says it could be ethereum's …
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SiliconANGLE, The Block, Decrypt, Arrington XRP Capital, and Decrypt
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU top court rules that active consent is needed for non-essential cookies, like tracking cookies for targeted ads, rendering pre-checked consent boxes illegal — Europe's top court has ruled that pre-checked consent boxes for dropping cookies are not legally valid.
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The Next Web. Tweets: @alexanderhanff, @lukolejnik, @mikarv, @lukolejnik, @lukolejnik, @accessnow, and @mikarv
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers discover issues with the PDF standard, allowing exfiltration from encrypted PDF files, and show 27 desktop and web viewer apps are vulnerable — All the 27 desktop and web PDF viewer apps that were tested were found to be vulnerable in a way or another.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Armor: over 500 US schools and colleges have been hit by ransomware in 2019, with 100 schools across fifteen school districts attacked in the last two weeks — Fifteen US school districts, accounting for 100 schools, were hit in the past two weeks alone. — In the first nine months of the year … | The Verge: |
A look at iPhone 11's Deep Fusion camera tech, meant to offer a big step forward for images taken in medium-light, now in the iOS 13 developer beta — Sweater mode is on its way — Apple's Deep Fusion photography system has arrived in the latest developer betas of iOS 13 …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers find eight flaws in Android's VoIP components that allow unauthorized VoIP calls, spoof caller IDs, and can execute code remotely; some are patched — The vulnerabilities can be exploited to make unauthorized VoIP calls, spoof caller IDs, deny voice calls, and even execute malicious code on users' devices.
Tweets: @campuscodi, @campuscodi, and @campuscodi
| Simon Cohen / Digital Trends: |
TiVo unveils its TiVo+ live streaming service, with channels like TMZ and Food52, coming alongside new DVR hardware, in a bid to rival the Roku Channel — Surprise — TiVo is not dead. Well, not yet anyway. Confirming an earlier leak, the company has just announced two new models of its famous DVR.Sponsor Posts
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