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NSO CEO claims leaked list of 50K+ phone numbers potentially targeted with NSO spyware has “nothing to do with us” and had first heard about the list last month — “I'll give you a simple statement: Journalists, human rights activists, and civil organizations are all off-limits,” said Shalev Hulio
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VICE, Amnesty International, The Guardian, Reuters, The Times of Israel, Washington Post, Gizmodo, and Pixel Envy
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| Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times: |
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Clubhouse is no longer invite-only as it exits beta and says the 10M people on its waitlist will be added to the app over time — The app goes wide — Clubhouse is going wide. Co-founders Paul Davison and Rohan Seth announced today that the app is no longer invite-only.
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Clubhouse Blog, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Livemint, Engadget, The Wrap, and Adweek
Tweets: @caseynewton, @wongmjane, @djnailz, @producthunt, and @sarthakgh
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, which operates a repository with 4M+ 3D assets, for an undisclosed sum; Sketchfab reduces its store commission from 30% to 12% — New York-based startup Sketchfab has been acquired by Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine.
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Sketchfab Community Blog, Epic Games, VentureBeat, Engadget, UploadVR, Road to VR, VRFocus, and thegamer.com
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| Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: |
Tumblr starts testing Post+, which allows users to charge their followers a monthly fee in exchange for access to exclusive content, with Tumblr taking a 5% cut — Social platform is the latest to let users earn money from posting — Microblogging stalwart Tumblr on Wednesday began …
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The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Mac, MUO, Mashable, SlashGear, and The Mac Observer
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail two new local privilege escalation vulnerabilities, one in recent builds of Windows 10 and the preview of Windows 11, and the other in Linux — Both OSes have flaws that allow attackers with a toehold to elevate access. — The world woke up on Tuesday to two new vulnerabilities …
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q2 revenue of $7.34B vs. $7.32B est., up 19% YoY, global paid net additions of 1.54M vs. 1.19M expected; US and Canada region lost 433K subs QoQ — - Netflix reported earnings that missed on the bottom line. — The company's revenue and global paid net subscriber additions beat estimates.
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Netflix - Investors, PCMag, HotHardware.com News, Hollywood Reporter, Laptop Mag, Android Police, Input, KnowTechie, SlashGear, Financial Times, Android Central, purexbox.com, TechRadar, Coinspeaker, Insider, Polygon, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @zhugeex, @xpangler, @xpangler, @zsharf, @xpangler, @samro, @jboorstin, @lucas_shaw, and @edmundlee
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google Maps expands its crowdedness predictions to 10K+ transit agencies in 100 countries, and will show how crowded individual carriages are in NYC and Sydney — Expanding to ‘over 10,000 transit agencies in 100 countries’ — Google is expanding the number of cities where Maps offers information about public transport crowding.
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The Keyword, Android Police, Search Engine Roundtable, 9to5Google, and CNBC
Tweets: @googlemaps and @awholelottanner
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube says it will test a new feature that will allow viewers to shop for products directly from livestream videos, starting with a few creators and brands — YouTube will begin pilot testing a new feature that will allow viewers to shop for products directly from livestream videos.| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler: stock tokens and stablecoins backed by securities “are implicated by the securities laws and must work within our securities regime” — Stock tokens and stablecoins backed by securities might be treated as securities under U.S. law, SEC Chair Gary Gensler said.
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CoinDesk, U.S. Securities …, The Block, Paxos, Reuters, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, and LAW.com
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google is shutting down Google Bookmarks on September 30, 2021, and clarifies Starred locations in Google Maps will not be deleted after Bookmarks shuts down — After 16 years of service, Google is about to shut down a service that isn't very well known. On September 30, 2021 “Google Bookmarks” will be closed off for all users.
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Android Police, Android Headlines, ZDNet, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Search Engine Land, and SlashGear
Tweets: @killedbygoogle, @ra, and @pinboard
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Top US Catholic Church official resigns after a Catholic media site obtained his alleged Grindr app and phone location data from an undisclosed data broker — The top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after a Catholic media site told the conference it had access …
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Ars Technica, VICE, New York Times, The Pillar, New York Post, and CNET
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Spanish police have arrested UK citizen Joseph O'Connor at the US' request over his alleged involvement in last year's hack of high-profile Twitter accounts — Authorities are still cracking down on participants in the July 2020 — Twitter celebrity hacks. Spanish National Police have
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U.S. Department of Justice, BBC, The Verge, MacRumors, NBC News, CyberScoop, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Samsung announces its next Galaxy Unpacked event will be held virtually on August 11, where it is expected to unveil new foldables — Samsung just sent out invites for its next Unpacked event. There are those companies that like to sneak hints into their invites — and then there's Samsung.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Byju's acquires Epic, a reading service for kids with a presence across 90% of elementary schools in the US, for $500M — Byju's said on Wednesday it has acquired California-headquartered reading platform Epic for $500 million, the latest in a series of moves from India's most valuable startup …
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Bloomberg, DealStreetAsia, Entrackr, VentureBeat, The Economic Times, and Tech in Asia
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Core Scientific, which says it is the biggest bitcoin mining company in the US, says it will go public via SPAC at a valuation of around $4.3B — - Cryptocurrency mining operator Core Scientific is listing on the Nasdaq through a merger with Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp.
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PR Newswire, GeekWire, Forbes, The Block, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @michael_saylor, @core_scientific, @djohnson_cpa, and @wublockchain
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EU Commission proposes a new law that would force companies that transfer Bitcoin or other crypto-assets to collect details of recipients and senders — Proposed changes to EU law would force companies that transfer Bitcoin or other crypto-assets to collect details on the recipient and sender.
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CoinDesk, Reuters, CNET, Tom's Hardware, The Daily Hodl, and VICE
Tweets: @exiledsurfer, @davidcasamep, and @eu_commission
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Argo AI says it plans launch up to 1,000 autonomous vehicles on Lyft's network in some US cities over the next five years, starting with Miami later this year — Autonomous vehicle technology startup Argo AI and its backer and customer Ford plan to launch up to 1,000 self-driving vehicles …
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PYMNTS.com, Ars Technica, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, CNBC, Engadget, SlashGear, Reuters, and Tech Xplore
| Geoff Mayfield / Variety: |
TikTok touts two studies that show around 75% of its users discover artists on the service and around 67% seek out songs from TikTok on music streaming services — Unless you've been sleeping as long as Rip Van Winkle, you know TikTok has become the new big man on music's campus and a catalyst for pop culture.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Zoom says Zoom Apps and its virtual events service Zoom Events are now generally available, with 50 apps available at launch, including Asana and Dropbox Spaces — The video communications giant said the updates are designed to offer users a greater degree of collaboration …
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9to5Mac, The Verge, Zoom Blog, TechRepublic, and SiliconANGLE
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Robinhood plans to sell as much as a third of its initial public offering, or $770M of shares, directly to customers through its app — The stock trading app is opening its initial public offering and investor presentations to everyday investors. The risks are significant.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
LiveControl, whose software enables remote livestream camera operation from professional videographers, raises $30M Series A, bringing its total raised to $33M — One thing seems certain: The past year-and-a-half has fundamentally transformed the world of live events.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Safe Security, which offers a cybersecurity risk assessment service, raises $33M from UK telecom BT, which gets exclusive rights to sell its products in the UK — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Safe Security, which provides a platform …
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TechCrunch, Dark Reading, Livemint, SiliconANGLE, and Reuters
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter begins rolling out a preview of a revamped TweetDeck in the US, Canada, and Australia, featuring an option for wider columns, an Explore column, more — Twitter is beginning to test a completely redesigned version of TweetDeck, the company announced today.
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TechCrunch, KnowTechie, gHacks Technology News, Pocket-lint, and Appleosophy
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils over 50 new features for Alexa devices to drive growth for skills developers, like featured skill cards, which are recommended on the home screen — Widgets, featured skill cards, and more — Amazon's Alexa devices are ambient computers, not the kind you use all day.
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TechCrunch, ZDNet, Protocol, and alexa-blog
| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Instagram is testing a new feature called Collab in India and the UK that lets users invite a public account as a collaborator on a post or a Reel — Bengaluru: With collaborations being a major part of how people create content on Instagram, the Facebook-owned platform is now making it easier … | Packy McCormick / Not Boring: |
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