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| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Ad-measurement company Tenjin: following Apple's IDFA changes, spending on iOS ads fell one-third between June 1 and July 1, while Android spending rose 10% — Android ad prices have jumped, as iOS users opt out of being tracked, early data show — Advertisers have begun shifting …
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9to5Mac, SiliconANGLE, iThinkDifferent, iPhone Hacks, iMore, AppleInsider, and MacRumors
Tweets: @lanceulanoff, @f, @aripap, @carnage4life, and @drgonzo123
| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
An attempt led by Baidu, Tencent, and ByteDance to circumvent Apple's privacy policies, called CAID, has failed to get traction after Apple blocked app updates — Tracking system for iPhones developed by Chinese tech groups fails to gain traction — A co-ordinated attempt by Chinese tech companies …
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MacRumors, fossbytes.com, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, and iMore
Tweets: @cma_1973, @alexdbauer, and @astaniscia86
| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook, Twitter, and Google have privately warned Hong Kong's government that they could stop offering services if planned anti-doxxing rules go ahead — Industry group representing companies says proposed anti-doxing rules could put staff based locally at risk of criminal charges
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The Hill, New York Times, Engadget, Forbes, South China Morning Post, The Economic Times, City A.M., fossbytes.com, and Patently Apple
Tweets: @hk_watch, @aaronmcn, @wongmjane, @newley, @newley, @newley, @evelyndouek, and @jason_kint
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
In a post on the REvil dark web blog, the gang takes credit for the Kaseya attack, claims it infected 1M+ systems, and demands $70M in bitcoin for the decryptor — The REvil ransomware gang is asking for a $70 million ransom payment to publish a universal decryptor that can unlock …
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Sky News, Sophos News, BleepingComputer, Huntress Blog, CRN, Finbold, Securelist, Reuters, Decrypt, SC Media, Bitcoinist.com, Politico, Blocks and Files, The Register, Crypto Briefing, MUO, Laptop Mag, Neowin, Forbes, Candid.Technology, Security Affairs, DataBreaches.net, CRN, and Security Affairs
Tweets: @wdormann, @vxunderground, @campuscodi, @pwnallthethings, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, @bdsams, @campuscodi, and @ncweaver
| Trevor Hunnicutt / Reuters: |
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Federal Bureau …, iThinkDifferent, Tom's Hardware, BleepingComputer, SiliconANGLE, Bitcoin News, Check Point Software, TNW, The Guardian, Gizmodo, and ABC
Tweets: @erratarob, @serghei, @raj_samani, @kellen_browning, @symantec, @fbi, @_johnhammond, @bad_packets, @0xdude, @secmayorkas, and @randahabib
| Joshua Zitser / Insider: |
GETTR, the new pro-Trump social platform, acknowledges it was hacked on its July 4 launch, with the usernames of prominent accounts being defaced — - GETTR, founded by former Trump aide Jason Miller, was hacked on the day of its official launch. — The accounts of Miller …
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Reuters, The Verge, Slate, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @ztpetrizzo, @ztpetrizzo, @gettr_official, @ztpetrizzo, @j0hnnyxm4s, and @travofoz
| Julia Reda: |
GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright; the free software community should not adopt a maximalist copyright stance as it will only hurt in the long run — This is a slightly modified version of my original German-language article first published on heise.de under a CC-by 4.0 license.
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thelig.ht, TechnoLlama, Better Programming, fossbytes.com, MSPoweruser, Towards Data Science, and Drew DeVault's blog
Tweets: @eevee, @mitsuhiko, @bphogan, @mark_riedl, @posco, @maxandersson, @eevee, @mitsuhiko, @beautyon_, @carnage4life, @grady_booch, @egee_irl, @bphogan, @nixcraft, @mark_riedl, @mark_riedl, @storagezilla, @carnage4life, and @eevee
| Don Clark / New York Times: |
A look at Dutch company ASML, the global leader in $150M+ EUV chip making machines, which are used by firms like TSMC and are subject to export bans to China — A $150 million chip-making tool from a Dutch company has become a lever in the U.S.-Chinese struggle. It also shows how entrenched the global supply chain is.| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber wants to fund education and career-building programs for drivers and Lyft is exploring ways to reduce drivers' expenses, as they deal with driver shortages — Pressure builds at companies to make gig work more attractive; ‘it is absolutely a reckoning’| Robin Harding / Financial Times: |
Inside Japan's strategy to boost its once-dominant chip industry; Japan has 84 chip factories, more than any other country, but they are mostly small and old — After decades of decline, Tokyo wants to boost the country's once-dominant chip industry — This article is an on-site version of our Trade Secrets newsletter.
Tweets: @alanbeattie and @chadbown
| Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
Barclays stops UK clients from sending funds to Binance following last month's warning from regulators that Binance is not authorized to conduct business in UK — Move comes after regulator said exchange not authorised to conduct crypto business in Britain
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Finextra, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, and cryptodaily.co.uk
Tweets: @ahcastor and @maneco1964
| Wall Street Journal: |
China launches probes into truck hailing apps from Full Truck Alliance and an online recruiting app from Kanzhun, both Chinese firms listed on NYSE and Nasdaq — Reviews follow a similar move against ride-hailing giant Didi — A unit of China's cybersecurity regulator launched data-security reviews … | Bloomberg: |
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ZDNet, Softpedia News, MacRumors, South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, Reuters, Gizmodo, Business Wire, SiliconANGLE, CNN, South China Morning Post, Cult of Mac, iMore, MediaNama, Coinspeaker, BBC, The Register, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Verge, Tech in Asia, Wall Street Journal, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, Pandaily, Quartz, Engadget, New York Times, Forbes, AppleInsider, Axios, Financial Times, caixinglobal.com, RFI, news.cgtn.com, Synced, and Livemint
Tweets: @apompliano, @carlminzner, @jchengwsj, @caixin, @ramyinocencio, @chorzempamartin, @herbgreenberg, @next_china, @followtheh, @ryanfedasiuk, @reutersus, @chrismessina, @grizzlemedia, @blainecapital, @pinboard, @winfieldsmart, @stanphylcap, @etnowlive, @tanvi_ratna, @prashanth_krish, @akramsrazor, and @chinaresearchgp
| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Egypt-based MaxAB, a B2B food and grocery delivery startup, raises $40M Series A led by RMBV — Globally, food and grocery delivery startups have been raising mega-rounds of late, especially those in Europe as the pandemic has given rise to more people ordering online more than ever.
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TechCabal, Techpoint Africa, and FinSMEs
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Katy Perry to offer NFTs via Theta Labs, a blockchain-based P2P video streaming network with 1M MAUs that gives out rewards in exchange for unused bandwidth — - Theta has built a peer-to-peer video streaming network — Katy Perry takes stake in Theta Labs, to offer NFTs to fansSponsor Posts
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