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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Apple says it parted ways with recent hire Antonio García Martínez, an ex-Facebook staffer and author, after employee petition citing “misogynistic statements” — Apple has severed ties with recent hire Antonio Garcia-Martinez, a former Facebook employee and author …
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The Verge, Insider, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and AppleInsider
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Elon Musk says Tesla no longer accepts bitcoin for vehicle purchases due to its environmental cost, is looking at more environmentally friendly cryptocurrencies — Tesla has stopped accepting bitcoin as payment for its cars out of concern that it will contribute to greater consumption of fossil fuels …
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New York Times, CNBC, VICE, Forkast, Silicon Valley Business …, CNN, Gizmodo, NBC News, Engadget, Decrypt, Forbes, CoinDesk, Reuters, Tom's Guide, The Block, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, Financial Times, Bitcoin News, MarketWatch, Electrek, and SlashGear
| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Colonial Pipeline says it has restarted operations, after being shut down for five days due to DarkSide's ransomware attack — Colonial Pipeline, operator of the largest U.S. fuel pipeline, said Wednesday it is restarting operations after being shut down for five days due to a cyberattack.| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Biden signs EO to strengthen US cyber defenses, including the development of cybersecurity standards for software companies that sell to the government — President Biden signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at shoring up the federal government's digital defenses as his administration grapples …
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The White House, New York Times, The White House, The Hill, Reuters, The Verge, iTnews, BleepingComputer, CNET, Engadget, Politico, Wall Street Journal, NPR, CRN, CyberScoop, Associated Press, NBC News, Federal Computer Week, Nextgov, CNN, Financial Times, ABC News, SC Media, CNBC, FedScoop, and New York Post
Tweets: @c_c_krebs, @edokeefe, @erratarob, @jeremiahg, @malwarejake, @jsrailton, and @w7voa
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Epic v. Apple is shining a light on Apple's anti-steering rules, which prevent developers from pointing users to better deals on their website or elsewhere — Would ending anti-steering rules fix the App Store? — Last week, the judge in Epic v. Apple asked whether Epic really had an antitrust case …
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| Bloomberg: |
US agrees to remove Xiaomi from blacklist that could have restricted American investment in the company, following Xiaomi's lawsuit earlier this year — - U.S. to vacate order designating company as military-linked — Xiaomi had sued U.S. government following the Trump order
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Wall Street Journal, The Verge, PCMag, Reuters, KnowTechie, MUO, Android Police, Light Reading, Pocketnow, Ars Technica, Thurrott, CNET, Telecoms.com, Forbes, PingWest, and TalkAndroid.com
Tweets: @rover829, @ianfogg42, @reuters, @dwallbank, @jchengwsj, and @thesiriusreport
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Researcher details an exploit for Apple's Find My network that allows packets of arbitrary data to be transmitted by simulating a Find My broadcast — The Find My network is used by Apple to report locations of items and devices via the data connection of any nearby iPhone, Mac, or other Apple device.| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Researcher discovers a series of vulnerabilities, known as Frag Attacks, impacting Wi-Fi devices from the past 24 years, even when WEP and WPA are activated — A Belgian security researcher has discovered a series of vulnerabilities that impact the WiFi standard, with some bugs dating …
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FragAttacks and Mathy Vanhoef, PhD. More:
ICASI, iTnews, SiliconANGLE, HackRead, Gizmodo, Wi-Fi Alliance, Threatpost, Tom's Guide, HotHardware.com News, SlashGear, Candid.Technology, PCMag, and Softpedia News
Tweets: @vanhoefm, @lukolejnik, and @campuscodi
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service on September 10, six years after initial launch, and no new deployments are being supported as of May 10 — Six years after its initial launch, Microsoft's Azure Blockhain as a Service is going to be shut down this September.
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Microsoft Docs, MSPoweruser, Petri, and Windows Central
Tweets: @quinnypig, @c_gandhi, @ryannosaurusrex, @francis69610984, @stshank, and @marypcbuk
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Review of Asus' new ZenFone 8 flagship, available for $599-$799: thoughtful and compact design, robust build, and great performance, but battery life is average — The ZenFone 8 delivers flagship-level build quality and performance in a small package — After a couple of generations making phones …
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Gizmodo, CNET, Engadget, Laptop Mag, Android Headlines, Android Authority, Digital Trends, GSMArena.com, AndroidGuys, Android Police, AnandTech, phonearena.com, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, HotHardware.com News, t3.com, Wired, techadvisor.com, TechRadar, PCWorld, Tom's Guide, The Verge, and Notebookcheck.net
Tweets: @mcclure111 and @allisonjo1
| Sonia Faleiro / Rest of World: |
An in-depth look at how a team of fact-checkers at Alt News in India is struggling against misinformation spread by the ruling BJP party on Facebook services — As the pandemic rages across the country, one team of fact-checkers contends with a post-truth dystopia.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon updates the Echo Show 8 and 5 with better cameras, the ability to turn on Alexa's security mode, and adds a $95 Kids Edition of the Echo Show 5 — Plus a price drop for the Echo Show 5 — Amazon is refreshing a handful of products in its Echo line: the Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 5 … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram will let users list up to four pronouns on their profiles, viewable to friends or the public, available in a “few countries” — You can make this public or only viewable to friends — Instagram is making it easier to address people by their defined pronouns.
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The Guardian, Mashable, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Central, NBC News, Social Media Today, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @instagram, @instagramcomms, @micaburton, @nic_hamilton, @sarah_nicolas, @johnlegere, and @dosomemolly
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
The US cable industry sees Biden's broadband plan as a grave threat because its language favors fiber and prioritizes funding for locally owned networks — The Biden administration's broadband plan read like a dream come true to Donnel Baird. The $2 trillion American Jobs Plan …
Tweets: @benbrodydc, @issielapowsky, @dlberes, @karlbode, @issielapowsky, and @michellemanafy
| Maya Gebeily / Reuters: |
Instagram and Twitter apologize for deleting pro-Palestinian posts, blaming technical errors, but critics say their “discriminatory” algorithms are to blame — Instagram and Twitter have blamed technical errors for deleting posts mentioning the possible eviction of Palestinians …
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BuzzFeed News, VICE, Insider, ARTICLE 19, and Access Now
Tweets: @joeyayoub, @rmac18, @caseyjohnston, @ramulous, @mominasl, @zakirspeaks, @7amleh, @rmac18, @reem_alharmi, and @rmac18
| Tanya Basu / MIT Technology Review: |
Q&A with Unicode Consortium's Jennifer Daniel, the first woman leading the Emoji Subcommittee, on inclusivity, how emoji are perceived globally, and more — As the new head of the Emoji Subcommittee for the Unicode Consortium, Jennifer Daniel has a vision for how to make these symbols work for everyone.
Tweets: @techreview and @tanyabasu
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Stampli, which helps companies manage invoices and see how costs are allocated, raises $50M Series C led by Insight Partners and says it has ~1,000 customers — This morning Stampli, a software platform that optimizes corporate invoice management, announced a $50 million Series C financing round …
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PYMNTS.com, Stampli, Globes Online, and CTech
| Neal St. Anthony / Star Tribune: |
NetSPI, which provides penetration testing and vulnerability management services to enterprises, raises $90M; NetSPI expects sales of about $50M in 2021 — It's the second large round of outside investment raised by NetSPI, a provider of cyber security services and tests for businesses and institutions.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
VMware names COO of products and cloud services Raghu Raghuram as its new CEO, after Pat Gelsinger left to become Intel's CEO in January — The virtualization company has been vetting CEO candidates since the departure of Pat Gelsinger in January. — VMware has named Raghu Raghuram …
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SiliconANGLE, The Register, FierceTelecom, TechCrunch, and The Economic Times
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Cloudflare, which is already doing all of its computing on the edge, is uniquely suited to a world where politics matter more than economics — Matthew Prince, at the end of his prepared remarks after Cloudflare's recent earnings report, related a story from the company's earliest days:
Tweets: @stratechery
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
FBI warns that cybercriminals are abusing search ads to promote phishing sites, often targeting banks, a growing trend since at least mid-2020 — The Federal Bureau of Investigation says that cybercrime gangs are using search results and search engine ads to lure victims on phishing sites …
Tweets: @benkow_, @benkow_, @benkow_, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, and @campuscodi
| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
As part of its Q2 earnings, Sonos says a German court granted a preliminary injunction against a Google subsidiary over a patent dispute — Sonos scored a point in its legal fight against Google: A German court issued a preliminary injunction against an Irish Google subsidiary for violating … | Erika Kinetz / Associated Press: |
Investigation: an army of bots covertly amplify Chinese propaganda on Twitter by retweeting posts from diplomats and state media tens of thousands of times — BRUSSELS (AP) — China's ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media.
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Platformer, Washington Post, and Politico
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon wins appeal over $300M EU tax bill, as EU court annuls a 2017 decision, saying regulators had failed to prove that the company got an illegal advantage — Ruling deals a setback to EU competition chief who is seeking to rein in U.S. tech giants — Amazon. com Inc. struck a new blow …
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The Verge, New York Times, Associated Press, Sky News, Protocol, Coinspeaker, BBC, Thurrott, MacDailyNews, RTÉ, and The Guardian
Tweets: @jjvincent, @jjvincent, and @bergmayer
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Facebook's Diem says it has withdrawn its application for a Swiss payment license and will shift its operations to the US via a California state-chartered bank — - Diem, the digital currency project backed by Facebook, has abandoned plans to secure a payment license from Switzerland's FINMA watchdog.
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Decrypt, CNET, PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, Diem Association, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Crowdfund Insider, and The Block. Tweets: @documentingbtc
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: blockchain-based gaming infrastructure startup Forte raises $185M Series B at a $1B post-money valuation led by Griffin Gaming Partners — Forte, a blockchain-based gaming infrastructure startup, recently agreed to raise $185 million at around a $1 billion post-money valuation, according to multiple sources.
Tweets: @danprimack
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