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Facebook removed a post by Trump saying COVID-19 is “less lethal” than flu, only the second time it has done so, as Twitter hides the tweet and adds a warning — Facebook has deleted a post in which President Trump had claimed Covid-19 was “less lethal” than the flu.
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Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @mikeisaac, @willoremus, @donie, @donie, @rmac18, @carnage4life, and @chrisevans
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google rebrands G Suite as Google Workspace, integrates Meet, Chat, and Rooms across all its applications, and introduces new logos for all apps in the suite — Google is rebranding G Suite, its set of online productivity and collaboration tools for businesses that include the likes of Gmail, Drive, Docs and Meet.
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Tweets: @harrymccracken, @jsoltero, @rseroter, @y_molodtsov, @candeira, @doublejake, @wongmjane, @epro, @ingridlunden, @tomwarren, @googleworkspace, and @martinsfp
| New York Times: |
Sources: US House report investigating Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook's power has been delayed as Democrats and Republicans are split on the remedies — WASHINGTON — For all the divisions in Washington, one issue that had united Republicans and Democrats in recent years was their animus toward …
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Reuters, Politico, Bloomberg, Axios, Axios, Bloomberg, CNBC, iPhone in Canada Blog, Observer, Investor's Business Daily, Protocol, PYMNTS.com, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, Yahoo News, iMore, and Business Insider
Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @halsinger, @willoremus, @lam_barrett, @amywebb, @adrjeffries, @jason_kint, @karlbode, @samanthaladuc, and @reutersbiz
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Security flaw meant Qiui's Cellmate chastity device for men could be remotely locked by hackers; the flaw was disclosed after company missed deadlines to patch — Just because almost every gadget or appliance can be connected to the internet, doesn't mean they should be.
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Pen Test Partners, BBC, The Internet Of Dongs Project, Engadget, Gizmodo, The Verge, and Input
Tweets: @doctorow, @chrismessina, @therubbertwink, @thekenmunroshow, @pentestpartners, @the_pc_doc, and @johnfruehe
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces it will hold an event on October 13 at 10am PDT, where it's expected to unveil new 5G iPhones; invites are titled “Hi, Speed.” — Apple today has officially announced its highly-anticipated iPhone 12 event for October 13 at 10 am PT. Much like WWDC 2020 …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Instagram marks its 10th anniversary by expanding in-app warnings when users post nasty comments and adds a private map of stories from the last three years — Instagram is officially 10 years old, and is marking the end of its first decade with new features meant to encourage users to be nice to one another.
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Tweets: @harrymccracken, @thekenyeung, and @dez_blanchfield
| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
The European Court of Justice, EU's highest legal authority, rules that member states cannot collect mass mobile and internet data of citizens — - The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that member states cannot collect mass mobile and internet data on citizens.
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TechCrunch, VICE, Privacy International, Financial Times, The Irish Times, SecurityWeek, ComputerWeekly.com, CityAM, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @freedomonthenet and @davekeating
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has banned the sale of cryptocurrency derivatives and exchange-traded notes to retail users from January 6, 2021 — More than 12,500 users participated in the first phase of a public token sale on CoinList for Flow, a new blockchain platform developed by Dapper Labs, the creator of CryptoKitties.
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Financial Conduct Authority, Decrypt, CoinDesk, BTC Times, Cryptonews, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph, Ethereum World News, and CryptoGlobe
Tweets: @mdudas, @markets, and @scottmelker
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google adds a Stories feature to its Google iOS and Android app, a carousel focusing on publisher content that can include audio, full-screen video, and photos — Google announced today it's introducing a Stories feature to its Google app for iOS and Android, which now reaches over 800 million people per month.
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The Keyword, Android Police, Search Engine Land, 9to5Google, Neowin, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @glenngabe, @tonyromm, @glenngabe, @webcreators, @kellymakena, @cramforce, and @martinsfp
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds support for Netflix to Portal TV and Zoom to Portal Mini, Portal, and Portal+ devices — Facebook announced this morning it's bringing a number of new features and services to its family of Portal devices, including support for Netflix and Zoom.
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About Facebook, TechHive, The Verge, Adweek, Neowin, Social Media Today, CNET, iMore, Pocket-lint, and MSPoweruser
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
As AT&T stops connecting new DSL users, a new report co-written by an AT&T workers union says only 28% of AT&T territory has fiber-to-the-home internet — AT&T stops connecting new DSL users; only 28% of AT&T territory has full fiber. — AT&T has deployed fiber-to-the-home Internet …
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Communications Workers of America, USA Today, VICE, Techdirt, SlashGear, Cord Cutters News, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @usatodaytech, @jbrodkin, @robpegoraro, @efffalcon, and @gigastacey
| Bloomberg: |
Health insurance startup Clover Health, which uses health and behavioral data to lower costs, agrees to go public via Social Capital's SPAC at a $3.7B valuation — - Deal values the health-insurance startup at $3.7 billion — ‘We need companies like Clover,’ Social Capital III CEO says
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Tweets: @chamath, @johnstcapital, @joshk, and @katie_roof
| Daniel Oberhaus / Wired: |
FEC data: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle employees have donated ~19x more to Biden than Trump since 2019 and far more overall than in 2016 — A WIRED analysis finds roughly 95 percent of contributions by employees of six big tech firms have gone to Trump's Democratic challenger.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Chrome 86 with stronger password protections on iOS and Android, VP9 video codec for macOS Big Sur, a slew of new developer features, and more — Google today launched Chrome 86 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Chrome 86 brings password protections for Android and iOS …
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9to5Google, ZDNet, BleepingComputer, Android Police, XDA Developers, Android Authority, Dark Reading, Pocketnow, Engadget, MSPoweruser, and Android Headlines. Tweets: @caseynewton
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google integrates Assistant with dedicated assistive devices through a partnership with Tobii Dynavox and makes Action Blocks more accessible — October is International Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month, and Google is working to make Assistant available …
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The Keyword, Android Authority, VentureBeat, The Verge, and Engadget
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
After two senators' inquiry into warrantless tracking by the IRS, the agency is being investigated for its use of location info from data brokers — The IRS used smartphone location data from a contractor to try and track Americans without a warrant. — Joseph Cox| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple removed headphones and speakers from Bose, Logitech, and Sonos from its online store at the end of September and asked retail employees to do the same — - Apple is working on first over-ear headphones, smaller HomePod — Products from Sonos, Bose, Logitech pulled from online store
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Tweets: @markgurman, @jon_prosser, @benwood, @varunkrish, @hshaban, @jonyiveparody, @tculpan, @patrickmoorhead, and @leaksapplepro
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Remotion, a workplace video service for short chats, raises $13M across seed and Series A; its Mac app is live in beta with a waitlist for Windows and Linux — One of the broader trends of the pandemic has been the unbundling of Zoom with startups pulling out a feature or two and designing …
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| Liam Frost / Decrypt: |
China says the People's Bank of China has processed 3M+ transactions in digital yuan, worth ~$162M, as part of its digital currency pilot — The People's Bank of China (PBoC) has processed over three million transactions—worth 1.1 billion yuan ($162 million) as part of its trial of the DCEP …
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FinTech Futures, CoinGeek, CoinDesk, and PYMNTS.com
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
After years harshly criticizing Big Tech's impact on the publishing industry, News Corp now has partnerships with Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Snapchat, and others — One of the biggest news publishing companies in the world has slowly backed away from its harsh public criticism of Big Tech platforms … | Martin Giles / Forbes: |
Unqork, a “no-code” enterprise app development service, raises $207M C round led by BlackRock at a valuation of $2B — When Gary Hoberman founded Unqork in 2017 after standing down as CIO of giant insurer MetLife, he had a frustrating time trying to get venture capitalists …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher says that Macs with T2 chips are vulnerable to a variant of the checkm8 exploit, which could jailbreak certain iPhones and was unpatchable — Jailbreak involves combining last year's checkm8 exploit with the Blackbird vulnerability disclosed this August.
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ironpeak.be, Six Colors, ExtremeTech, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, MacDailyNews, O'Grady's PowerPage, iMore, Threatpost, and SlashGear
Tweets: @chronic, @e_kaspersky, @chronic, @campuscodi, and @chronic
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Pittsburgh-based Abridge, which connects doctors and patients to provide insights on proposed treatment plans, raises $15M across seed and Series A — Abridge announced $15 million across seed and Series A rounds. The Pittsburgh-based company's new app connects doctors and patients …
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FinSMEs, Forbes, and Venture Capital Journal
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Microsoft says the US Labor Department is probing whether Microsoft's diversity efforts constitute racial discrimination by a government contractor — The Labor Department has been probing whether Microsoft's goal of increasing Black representation in its ranks constitutes racial discrimination, the software maker disclosed Tuesday.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says Iranian state-sponsored hackers are actively exploiting Zerologon, a Windows vulnerability in the Netlogon protocol — Microsoft links back the attacks to an Iranian hacker group known as Mercury, or MuddyWater. — Microsoft said on Monday that Iranian state-sponsored hackers …
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