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Sources: Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the first time since agreeing to buy the company, discussing potential layoffs, content moderation, and more — Tesla Inc. Chief Executive officer Elon Musk discussed his stance on what types of content should be allowed on Twitter Inc.'s social network …
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Analysis: 33 of the top 100 US hospitals used the Meta Pixel tracker, sending to Facebook data including medical conditions, prescriptions, and appointments — Experts say some hospitals' use of an ad tracking tool may violate a federal law protecting health information
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft debuts Defender for Individuals, an online security dashboard for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android, part of Microsoft 365 Family and Personal subscriptions — Microsoft is adding the Microsoft Defender for Individuals to its Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: BlockFi was among the groups that liquidated at least some positions held by Three Arrows Capital, which failed to meet margin calls this past weekend — BlockFi was among a clutch of firms that liquidated the Singapore-based group's positions — Three Arrows Capital failed …
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CoinDesk, Reuters, The Block, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, and Web3 is going just great. Tweets: @firstadopter
| Katie Collins / CNET: |
The EU toughens its disinformation Code of Practice, covering deepfakes, bots, fake accounts, and more; Meta, Google, TikTok, Twitter, and others have signed up — Katie Collins — Katie a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's European correspondent … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers find a link between Indian police and hackers who planted evidence in 2018 on the PCs of human rights activists jailed on terrorism charges — New details connect police in India to a plot to plant evidence on victims' computers that led to their arrest.
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Gizmodo, BYJUS, Amnesty International, and The Citizen Lab
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Andy Jassy's first year as Amazon CEO, as he seeks to reverse some of Jeff Bezos' aggressive pandemic investments, close physical stores, and more — Amid one of the worst stretches for financial performance in Amazon's history, the new CEO is working to cut back the excesses …
Tweets: @vader7x, @vader7x, @paulpage, @tednesi, @danamattioli, @conorsen, @modestproposal1, @davecbenoit, @danamattioli, @shiraovide, and @markdistef
| Ed Smith / PCGamesN: |
Activision Blizzard says its internal review found there is “no widespread harassment, pattern or practice of harassment, or systemic harassment” at the company — Following a series of lawsuits, and claims of misconduct, an internal investigation by Activision concludes there is “no widespead harassment” - at Activision
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| Manya Saini / Reuters: |
HomeLight, which offers AI-powered tools for home buyers, sellers, and real estate agents, raised $60M in equity and $55M in debt at a $1.7B valuation — HomeLight said on Thursday it had raised $115 million in a late-stage funding round that valued the real-estate home technology platform at $1.7 billion.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung merges its Pay and Pass apps to create Wallet, letting users organize ID cards, driver's license, house keys, boarding passes, and crypto, available now — Bringing Samsung Pay and Pass under one roof — First, there was Samsung Wallet. Then it became Samsung Pay.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Discord announces the widespread availability of its built-in autonomous moderation tool AutoMod, and expands Premium Memberships to more eligible US servers — AutoMod is getting a widespread rollout — Today, Discord is announcing widespread availability of AutoMod …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft patches the Follina Windows zero-day, which let hackers execute malicious PowerShell commands and that state-backed and cybercrime actors exploited — Microsoft has released security updates with the June 2022 cumulative Windows Updates to address a critical Windows zero …
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| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
Securities regulators in Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Washington are investigating Celsius Network's decision to suspend customer redemptions — State securities regulators in Alabama, Kentucky, New Jersey, Texas and Washington are investigating crypto lender Celsius Network's decision …
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Wall Street Journal, PYMNTS.com, Blockworks, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, and CoinJournal
| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
TikTok's global business solutions head says TikTok is an entertainment platform, not a social network like Facebook, and hasn't seen a slowdown in ad revenue — - Facebook is openly copying TikTok, and calling it out as a significant competitor. — But Blake Chandlee …
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Nieman Lab, Tubefilter, Gizchina, Android Headlines, Phandroid, and The Economic Times
| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Roku raises its ad revenue share for ad-supported streaming channels to 45% from 40% and requires linear channels to use Roku's ad insertion technology and CDN — In recent weeks, Roku began to send notices to many of its content partners, informing them that it would change a key distribution agreement.| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Reddit will acquire Spell, a platform for running machine learning experiments founded in 2016 by a former Facebook engineer, for an undisclosed amount — Reddit announced Thursday that it would buy Spell, a platform for running machine learning experiments, for an undisclosed amount.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
eBay plans to launch a beta of eBay Live, an interactive live shopping service, later in June 2022, starting with a livestream event to sell rare trading cards — eBay announced today that it's launching eBay Live, a dedicated shopping platform that gives users a way to purchase products in a live and interactive environment.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Adobe reports Q2 revenue of $4.39B, up 14% YoY vs. $4.34B est., Digital Media revenue of $3.2B, up 15% YoY, and Digital Experience revenue of $1.1B, up 17% YoY — - Like some other large software companies, Adobe pointed to foreign-exchange rates when it announced its latest forecast.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Boston-based remote notarization startup Notarize has laid off 110 of ~440 employees, or 25% of its workforce; Notarize was valued at $760M in March 2021 — Notarize, a startup that offers remote online notarization services, has let go of 110 people - or 25% of its workforce.| New York Times: |
Sources, docs, and a Google staffer's discrimination lawsuit: religious sect Fellowship of Friends dominated Google Developer Studio, which makes promo videos — A video producer claims he was fired after he complained that an obscure group based in the Sierra foothills dominated a business unit at Google.
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Android Police and Kevin Lloyd
| Reuters: |
Lyft reaches a $25M settlement to resolve shareholder claims that it concealed safety problems, including sexual assault by drivers, before its IPO in 2019 — Lyft Inc (LYFT.O) has reached a $25 million settlement to resolve shareholder claims that the ride-hailing company concealed safety problems … | Bloomberg: |
Some Ethereum miners express reservations about the planned August 2022 shift to a proof-of-stake model, arguing it renders expensive mining equipment useless — The Ethereum mining community is a diverse bunch, geographically and demographically. There's a 28-year-old translator in Ukraine …
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CryptoSlate. Tweets: @nalanpog, @davidpan_1, @firstadopter, @bitfinexed, @icopilots, and @basche42
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
In occupied Ukraine, Russia is forcing multiple ISPs to shut down connections or reroute traffic through Russia's powerful censorship and surveillance machine — In occupied Ukraine, people's internet is being routed to Russia—and subjected to its powerful censorship and surveillance machine.
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CyberScoop, New World Same Humans, and Gizchina
Tweets: @mattburgess1, @mattburgess1, @mattburgess1, @mattburgess1, @malloryknodel, @tanyalokot, @brianhonan, and @mattburgess1
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
The White House launches a task force to examine whether existing federal laws are adequate to address online abuse and recommend changes by the end of 2022 — Group will create recommendations for governments, companies and schools to address the link between online harassment and violence in the wake of mass shootings
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The White House and Fortune
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
A look at Twitter's research into its offensive content tweet pop-up, resulting in a positive change in long-term behavior even though 69% still sent the tweet — This Is What Friction Looks Like — Twitter released some really interesting research last week regarding that sort …
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Twitter, aaai.org, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, and The Guardian
Tweets: @codinghorror, @codinghorror, @twittereng, @brosandprose, @edmundheaphy, @twittereng, @broderick, and @raju
| Financial Times: |
China's tech crackdown, combined with a macroeconomic slowdown, has led to mass job cuts at its tech giants and a record 18.4% youth unemployment in May 2022 — Becky Sun has submitted her CV to 80 companies since being dismissed from a midsized Beijing internet group at the start of the year.
Tweets: @rwmcmorrow and @adam_tooze
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