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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Activision Blizzard says president J. Allen Brack is leaving the company, replaced by Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra, as the fallout from CA lawsuit continues — Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra will take over as co-leaders — In the last week or so, we've learned about the state of California filing …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan on monetizing Shorts, content moderation with Content ID, YouTube TV, competing with TikTok, and more — YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan joined Decoder this week to discuss YouTube's new $100 million fund to begin paying creators …
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The Verge, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, Android Headlines, The Streamable, The Wrap, and Insider
Tweets: @mhbergen, @reckless, @nealmohan, @earcos, @reckless, and @alexeheath
| Chong Koh Ping / Wall Street Journal: |
After Chinese state media criticized online gaming as “opium for the mind” in a now-deleted article, Tencent announces stricter rules for young users — Shares of NetEase and Bilibili also suffer steep falls — Shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd. and rivals plummeted Tuesday …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Microsoft tells employees it will require proof of vaccination to enter a Microsoft building in the US starting September, with medical and religious exceptions — The full opening of its US offices will be ‘no earlier’ than October 4th — Microsoft has informed employees that it will require proof …
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ZDNet, PCMag, Windows Central, Thurrott, Seattle Business Journal, GeekWire, Gizchina, CNET, StateScoop, CNBC, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @searyanc, @jonmasters, and @tomwarren
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple rolls out three new AMD Radeon Pro graphic card modules for Intel-based Mac Pros; the options range from $2,400 to $5,600 in build-to-order configurations — Apple has rolled out three new graphics card modules for the Intel-powered Mac Pro today. The new graphics card modules include …
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AppleInsider, Ars Technica, iThinkDifferent, MacRumors, The Verge, Macworld, PCMag, Redmond Pie, iMore, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, and iMore
| Bloomberg: |
Q&A with SEC chair Gary Gensler on protecting cryptocurrency investors from fraud, regulating the industry, Bitcoin ETFs, and other SEC priorities like GameStop — It's become a parlor game in Washington, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley to figure out where U.S. Securities …
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The Block, Decrypt, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Politico, CryptoSlate, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Forbes, Crowdfund Insider, Protocol, cryptodaily.co.uk, Crypto Briefing, Insider, AppleInsider, Yahoo News, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @senwarren, @dickerson_des, @wsj, @anthony, @paulvigna, @lazerow, @mayazi, @apompliano, @jtseo9, @hkanji, @garygensler, @crypto, and @brucefenton
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Spotify is testing Spotify Plus, a low-cost tier that includes ads but doesn't impose limits on track skipping and lets users pick specific songs to play — Spotify Plus is being piloted with a ‘limited number’ of users — Spotify Plus is a new $.99 subscription tier being piloted …
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TNW, Neowin, Digital Trends, Android Central, mobilesyrup.com, iDownloadBlog.com, PCMag, TechHive, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Phandroid, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, MUO, Trusted Reviews, Engadget, iMore, MacRumors, phonearena.com, KnowTechie, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Livemint, and Mashable. Tweets: @shiraovide
| The Information: |
Facebook confirms it is building a team of AI researchers to study ways of analyzing encrypted data without decrypting it, potentially helping better target ads — Facebook is bulking up a team of artificial intelligence researchers, including a key hire from Microsoft …
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MacRumors, Engadget, and TechSpot
Tweets: @theinformation, @wcathcart, @mshannahmurphy, @chrisbrogan, @markdistef, @rachelbovard, @alexhern, and @jessicalessin
| Andrew Kersley / Wired UK: |
Sources: well over 100 UK-based employees at Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery unit have lost their jobs since 2019, as the company scales back its ambitions — Amazon has triggered mass redundancies and transfers as it winds down a huge part of its UK drone delivery business
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New York Post, The Verge, CNET, SlashGear, and DroneDJ
Tweets: @tashabernal, @hkanji, @markdistef, @jamestitcomb, @olifranklin, @sam_l_shead, @andrewkersley, and @rupertmyers
| Antoine Gara / Forbes: |
How Michael Dell oversaw Dell's expansion after taking it private, growing the company to $75B, by focusing on providing infrastructure to businesses and others — After years battling Silicon Valley skeptics and Wall Street adversaries, Michael Dell has pulled off the deal of the century …
Tweets: @antoinegara, @forbes, @johnbyrnecso, @danprimack, @antoinegara, @bgurley, and @chrishelman
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Citizen launches Protect, a $20/month service that offers access to a Citizen operator and other features, after a 100,000-user beta test — After months of testing with upwards of 100,000 beta testers, Citizen today is launching its premium Protect offering for all users.
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Reuters, CITIZEN, CNN, Engadget, PCMag, Vox, The Verge, and USA Today
Tweets: @richardhanania, @hypervisible, @gregghoush, @eculliford, @citizenapp, and @eculliford
| Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
The confusing language in the infrastructure bill's crypto provision suggests that nearly any entity in crypto is a broker and must collect their users' data — The forthcoming Senate draft of Biden's infrastructure bill—a 2,000+ page bill designed to update the United States' roads …
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Bloomberg, Washington Post, Jeremy Rubin, CoinDesk, Techdirt, New York Times, Tom's Hardware, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Blockonomi, Decrypt, Breitbart, and Forkast
Tweets: @sentoomey, @eff, @opensecretsdc, @reptedbudd, @hshaban, and @technologypoet
| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Sources: NLRB probe found Amazon illegally interfered with workers organizing in Staten Island, NY; NLRB officer recommends election rerun for Alabama warehouse — The National Labor Relations Board found that Amazon illegally interfered with worker organizing at its Staten Island, New York warehouse in May.
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| Boris Metodiev / Strategy Analytics: |
Xiaomi became Europe's top smartphone vendor in Q2 with 12.7M units shipped, up 67.1% YoY, followed by Samsung with 12M, down 7% YoY, and Apple with 9.6M — According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Europe smartphone shipments grew a strong +14% YoY to 50.1 million units in Q2 2021 …
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers were able to quickly circumvent security protections of a laptop that followed virtually all NIST recommendations, including TPM and UEFI SecureBoot — Sometimes, locking down a laptop with the latest defenses isn't enough. — Let's say you're a large company that has just shipped …
Tweets: @mjg59, @dangoodin001, @concentrateddon, @dangoodin001, @dangoodin001, @dangoodin001, and @dangoodin001
| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
A bipartisan Senate investigation finds that, despite years of warnings, many US government agencies have not established effective cybersecurity programs — Several major federal agencies continue to fail to address recurring cybersecurity vulnerabilities or implement basic standards …
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Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Gizmodo, CyberScoop, The Hill, CBS News, Engadget, NBC News, Washington Post, and FedScoop. Tweets: @ron_miller
| Rob Price / Insider: |
UK-based Emojipedia, an encyclopedia for emoji founded in 2013, says it has been acquired by smartphone software company Zedge — - Emojipedia has been acquired by smartphone software company Zedge for an undisclosed amount. — The online emoji encyclopedia was founded in 2013, and has 500 million-plus yearly pageviews.
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Emojipedia, ACCESSWIRE, and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @jeremyburge, @jeremyburge, and @emojipedia
| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Apple makes Magic Keyboard with Touch ID available as a standalone product for $149; the keyboard is only compatible with Apple silicon Macs — Apple has made the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, which previously was only available with the purchase of the new 24-inch iMac, available for purchase individually for $179.
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Tweets: @reneritchie, @michaelsteeber, @_inside, @samifathi_, and @davezatz
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
After Chinese regulators halted its IPO, Alibaba's Ant Group reports Q1 profit fell to $2.1B, down 37% from the previous quarter — Ant Group Co.'s profit fell to $2.1 billion in the March quarter after Chinese regulators thwarted its record initial public offering and told it to overhaul its sprawling operation.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google unveils Pixel 6, with 6.4" 90Hz display, and Pixel 6 Pro, with 6.7" 120Hz display and 4x optical zoom, with a Google-designed Tensor SoC, coming in fall — Google's new Tensor SoC is the heart of its next phone — Google is announcing the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro today …
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| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
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Tweets: @sundarpichai, @deitaone, and @atomicthumbs
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