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The European Commission opens two antitrust investigations into Apple's App Store and Apple Pay practices — Both investigations begin today — The European Commission is opening two antitrust investigations into Apple's App Store and Apple Pay practices today.
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CIA report: security was so lax at the time of the Vault 7 breach, that if WikiLeaks hadn't published said files, CIA may have never known they were compromised — The theft of top-secret computer hacking tools from the CIA in 2016 was the result of a workplace culture in which the agency's … | BBC: |
Report finds 11% of people under 25 use Instagram for news compared with 12% for Twitter, predicts Instagram will overtake Twitter next year as a news source — Photo-sharing app Instagram is set to overtake Twitter as a news source, research suggests. — The 2020 Reuters Institute Digital …
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Gallup/Knight poll: nearly two-thirds in US support Section 230 in principle; 85% favored removing intentionally misleading health information from social media — (Reuters) - Most Americans do not trust social media companies to make the right decisions about what should be allowed on their platforms … | Bloomberg: |
Being a Black CEO in Silicon Valley can be humiliating, from being advised to have a white wingman in meetings, to being judged on a different rubric by VCs — Will Hayes has grown accustomed to an awkward start to business meetings. On numerous occasions, venture capitalists would confuse Hayes …
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Graphika report details a Russia-based influence campaign, known as Secondary Infektion, that ran over 6 years and 300 sites, but failed to win a large audience — Group known as Secondary Infektion used multiple languages, burner accounts to circumvent attempts to detect it
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers disclose 19 flaws in a TCP/IP library, first released in 1997, found in many IoT products; patches are available but unlikely to be widely applied — Security researchers disclose 19 vulnerabilities impacting a TCP/IP library found at the base of many IoT products.
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| Frank Jordans / Associated Press: |
Germany launches a COVID-19 contact tracing app on iOS and Android, saying it cost €20M to develop and will require €2.5M- €3.5M per month to operate — BERLIN (AP) — Germany launched a coronavirus tracing app Tuesday that officials say is so secure even government ministers can use it.
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says it is deploying AI-powered software called Distance Assistant in warehouses that tells workers if they are too close to colleagues — - Workers failing to keep safe distance will be circled in red — Robotics engineer likens technology to highway speed checkers
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Gmail on Android and iOS now lets you join a Meet video call by simply clicking an event link in an email, without needing the standalone Meet app — Google today announced a deeper integration between Gmail on mobile and its Meet video conferencing service.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Dropbox launches a password manager, a secure vault for storing documents like birth certificates, a backup service, and a family plan — The company announced a bunch of new updates today — Dropbox is launching a bunch of new features today, many of which are security-focused …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
New York AG asks Apple and Google to ensure that coronavirus contact tracing apps on iOS and Android do not collect sensitive personal health information — Both Apple and Google are having a hard time regulating all the third-party COVID-19 contact tracing apps that popped up on their app stores recently … | Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: in letters, Facebook and Google signaled they'd dispatch their CEOs to testify to Congress at antitrust hearing provided other tech giants' CEOs went — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai signaled they are open to testifying to Congress as part … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft moves its Windows 10 Insider Program from rings to channels, to focus more on release quality rather than frequency of builds — For the last few years, Microsoft has given Windows enthusiasts the ability to opt in to early release “rings,” with the choice to pick between “fast” …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Sources: SoftBank plans to sell up to two-thirds of its T-Mobile stake, worth around $20B, early next week — - SoftBank plans to sell up to two-thirds of its stake in T-Mobile early next week, sources told CNBC's David Faber Tuesday. — The transaction would represent as much as $20 billion.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Smart calendar startup Clockwise raises $18M Series B as it looks to expand its tool to Microsoft Office 365 and other services — Smart calendar startup Clockwise today announced it has raised $18 million, with plans to grow its workforce and expand to other platforms, including Microsoft Office 365.
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ConsenSys launches a pilot “staking-as-a-service” tool, with customers including Binance, ahead of proof-of-stake tech being rolled out with Ethereum 2.0 — Ethereum development house ConsenSys is being backed by heavy hitters like Binance and Huobi to test its new …
Tweets: @coindesk
| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Basecamp debuts Hey, an email service for $99/year that tries to reimagine email, blocks tracking pixels, but needs its own client and can't import old email — David Heinemeier Hansson, the co-founder and CTO of Basecamp, is trying very hard to not say “I told you so.”
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| Hiroyuki Nishimura / Nikkei Asian Review: |
China proposes an East Asian digital currency based on the Chinese yuan, Japanese yen, South Korean won, and the Hong Kong dollar — Beijing backs private-sector-led East Asia digital money in challenge to US — TOKYO — Global competition for supremacy in digital currencies has entered …
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| Shakeel Hashim / Protocol: |
Brightside, a financial health service offering expert assistance, says it closed a $35M Series A at the end of last year, led by Andreessen Horowitz — A pandemic in which thousands of businesses are struggling to pay bills seems like an odd time to voluntarily take on debt, especially for a startup.
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How location-tracking firms, once under fire from privacy activists, are now being used by officials to monitor the movements of people during the pandemic — Location-tracking companies were under fire from privacy advocates, but now officials are using them to monitor populations as the economy reopens| George Anadiotis / ZDNet: |
Streamlit, an open-source Python app framework geared toward data scientists, raises $21M Series A co-led by Gradient Ventures and GGV Capital — Streamlit wants to be for data science what business intelligence tools have been for databases: a quick way to get to results, without bothering much with the details
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Starburst, a startup based around an open-source data analytics project from Facebook called Presto, raises $42M Series B led by Coatue Ventures — An open-source software company with close ties to Facebook has raised a new funding round from one of the tech giant's former key executives.Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired: |
Chess on Twitch has taken off as professional chess streamers, like GM Hikaru Nakamura, have embraced legions of streaming personalities discovering the game — Hikaru Nakamura is the top-ranked blitz chess player in the world—and his channel has seen a meteoric rise as he coaches streamers in the ancient game.
Tweets: @wired, @fide_chess, @theeconomist, and @nxthompson
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