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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Two Democratic senators introduce a bill to strip away social media platforms' Section 230 liability shield if they amplify harmful public health misinformation — A new bill would make Facebook liable for misinformation — As coronavirus cases rise in unvaccinated populations …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
The Biden administration's promise to “review” Section 230 in response to anti-vax posts on Facebook will fail since being wrong online is protected speech — ‘Reviewing’ Section 230 isn't the answer to anti-vax posts — Last week, the White House declared war …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Q&A with Zuckerberg about his vision for the metaverse and its potential to further splinter our sense of shared reality, Biden's comments about Facebook, more — As June came to an end, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees about an ambitious new initiative.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Many large websites were down on Thursday, including PlayStation Network, Steam, and UPS, due to issues with Akamai's Edge DNS service — Update 12:48 p.m. ET: Akamai says it has implemented a fix for the issue. “We have implemented a fix for this issue, and based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations.
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| Edwin Chan / Bloomberg: |
Sources: China sees Didi's decision to go public despite regulator pushback as a challenge to its authority and is considering unprecedented penalties — - Regulators weigh several penalties, from fine to delisting — Ride-hailing startup raised $4.4 billion in U.S. listing
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| Nature: |
Arm details PlasticARM, a 32-bit processor built on a flexible substrate, that it says can lead to embedding of low-cost, ultrathin chips into everyday objects — - John Biggs 1, - James Myers 1, - Jedrzej Kufel 1, - Emre Ozer — Abstract — Nearly 50 years ago, Intel created the world's …
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| Bloomberg Law: |
California Department of Fair Employment and Housing has sued Activision Blizzard for sexual harassment of and discrimination against its female staff — Video game giant Activision Blizzard Inc., maker of games including World of Warcraft and Diablo, fosters a “frat boy” …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
DeepMind says it used AI to create a “transformative” map of human proteins; some compare the potential impact of the work to that of the Human Genome Project — DeepMind plans to release hundreds of millions of protein structures for free — AI research lab DeepMind has created …
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| Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: |
Grindr has a track record of saying that data shared with brokers is encrypted and unidentifiable, despite the use of such data to out a Catholic priest, others — The latest scandal to rock the Catholic Church was both incredibly unnerving and entirely preventable. Why isn't anyone doing anything about it?
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Kaseya says it obtained a universal decryptor for the REvil ransomware and is helping customers recover their data; it is unclear if Kaseya paid the ransom — Remote management software vendor Kaseya said today it obtained a universal decryptor for the REvil ransomware and is now in the process …
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BleepingComputer, Ars Technica, CRN, and CyberScoop
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter is testing a way to downvote replies on iOS to understand the types of replies users find relevant to a conversation; downvotes won't be public — Last year, Twitter's chief product officer Kayvon Beykpour confirmed that the social network was “exploring” the idea of adding a dislike button to the app.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Twitter beats with Q2 revenue of $1.19B, up 74% YoY, vs $1.07B est., ad revenue of $1.05B, up 87% YoY, and mDAUs of 206M, up 11% YoY; stock is up 8%+ — - Twitter's revenue growth accelerated and surpassed analysts' expectations. — The social-media company introduced its first subscription service in the quarter.| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Visa buys Currencycloud, which sells software for banks and fintech companies to process cross-border payments, in a deal valuing the UK startup at £700M — - Visa is buying Currencycloud in a deal valuing the British payments start-up at £700 million.
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Visa Inc, PYMNTS.com, FinLedger, TechCrunch, Currencycloud, Coinspeaker, Reuters, and Tech.eu
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram is testing Limits, which lets users facing a flood of harassment temporarily limit comments and messages from specific groups of followers — Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed the company is testing a new feature called “Limits,” which would give users the ability to temporary lock … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google's unified smartwatch platform with Samsung to be called Wear OS 3 and come as an update to a few watches in H2 2020, not including any Tizen watches — Only a few current watches will get it, but not until late 2022 — Google has finally given its new, unified smartwatch platform a name — and it's an obvious one: Wear OS 3.
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Android Police, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, support.google.com, 9to5Google, TechSpot, CNET, Engadget, and SlashGear. Tweets: @backlon
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Filing: grocery delivery startup Gopuff is raising up to $750M Series H at a valuation of $13.5B; Gopuff last raised $1.15B at an $8.9B valuation in March — Gopuff, the “instant” grocery delivery startup that has been on an acquisition and expansion tear in the last several months to scale its business … | Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Uber Freight to acquire Transplace, which makes transportation management software, from TPG, in a deal that values Transplace at $2.25B — - Uber Freight, the rideshare company's trucking division, said Thursday it's acquiring Transplace in a deal that values the transportation logistics company at $2.25 billion.
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Barron's Online, International Business Times, Transplace, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Economic Times, Forbes, San Francisco Business Journal, Tech Xplore, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Hill
Tweets: @frankcnbc, @morganlbrennan, @jbursz, @stevekovach, @danprimack, @transplace, and @rihardjarc
| Just Security: |
Concerns over China's online influence campaigns overseas, while valid, are often overblown as there is little evidence to show campaigns are actually working — On April 27, 2021, Tristan Harris, a tech critic and former Google employee, warned at a U.S. Senate hearing that we are facing …
Tweets: @citizenlab and @yoyoel
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Snap Q2: revenue of $982M, up 116% YoY, DAUs up 23% YoY to 293M, and net loss shrunk 53% YoY to $152M; stock is up 13%+ after hours — - Snap on Thursday reported its second-quarter earnings, beating expectations across the board for earnings, revenue and user growth.
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Index Ventures closes a $900M early-stage fund, a $2B growth-stage fund, and a $200M seed-stage fund, giving Index $3B in new capital, its largest tranche yet — Index Ventures has closed a trio of new funds: a $900 million early-stage fund, a $2 billion growth-stage fund and a previously announced $200 million seed-stage fund.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q2 revenue of $18.5B, up 2% YoY, vs. $17.8B est., Data Center Group revenue of $6.5B, down 9% YoY, while PC unit sales were up 33% YoY — - Intel reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday in CEO Pat Gelsinger's second earnings report at the helm of the American chip giant.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yoobic, an app for service workers to manage tasks and communicate with colleagues, raises $50M Series C, source says at a valuation between $300M and $400M — Slack set the standard in many ways for what knowledge workers want and expect out of a workplace collaboration app these days …
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Tech.eu, Silicon Canals, and FinSMEs
| Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: |
Analysis: 740 organizations faced ransomware attacks and had their data posted to leak sites in Q2 2021, up 47% QoQ; attacks on retail sector grew 183% QoQ — Digital Shadows' Q2 ransomware report highlighted that the number of victims posted to data leak sites increased by 47% compared to Q1.
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| Reuters: |
Filing: Teads, which provides automated buying and selling of online ad space, plans to raise up to $808.5M in its US IPO, at a valuation of about $5B — Advertising technology company Teads BV, owned by French telecom company Altice, said on Wednesday it aims to raise up to $808.5 million through … Sponsor Posts
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