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| Jason Koebler / VICE: |
Served with warrants, Meta gave a teen's Messenger chats to Nebraska authorities, who charged her and her mother with breaking laws related to an abortion — Motherboard has obtained court documents that show Facebook gave police a teenager's private chats about her abortion.
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| Meta: |
Meta says the warrants in the Nebraska case didn't mention abortion, only the burning and burial of a stillborn, came before Roe's reversal, and had a gag order — Much of the reporting about Meta's role in a criminal case against a mother and daughter in Nebraska is plain wrong.
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Global Community Weekly. Tweets: @andymstone, @andymstone, @metanewsroom, @metanewsroom, @chriswelch, @daveleeft, @dellcam, and @jjvincent
| Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal: |
Filings: Elon Musk sold around 7.9M Tesla shares, worth nearly $7B, between Friday and Tuesday, likely to preempt a judge forcing his Twitter acquisition — The billionaire suggested stock sales were aimed at avoiding a fire sale if forced to buy the social-media company
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Cloudflare says some employees fell for an SMS phishing scam, but the company's hardware MFA keys stopped the hackers from accessing its internal network — Unusually resourced threat actor has targeted multiple companies in recent days. — At least two security-sensitive companies …
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung debuts Galaxy Z Fold 4 with 6.2" and 6.7" displays, Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, 12GB RAM, 256GB+ storage, and 50MP camera, available to pre-order for $1,799 — Minor camera and software improvements, big $1,799 price tag — Samsung, purveyor of the only serious foldables available on a global scale …
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| Nirave Gondhia / XDA Developers: |
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Tweets: @backlon, @backlon, @backlon, @cherlynnlow, @androidcentral, @andrewmartonik, and @patrick_orourke
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Coinbase misses with Q2 revenue down 64% YoY to $808.3M, vs. $832.2M est., a $1.1B net loss, trading volume down 53% YoY to $217B, and 9M MTUs; stock falls ~5% — - Coinbase's revenue declined almost 64% in the quarter as cryptocurrency prices fell. — The exchange operator lowered its full-year forecast for transacting users.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Spotify quietly begins selling event tickets to users in the US directly, instead of redirecting buyers to Ticketmaster and Eventbrite — Spotify has launched a new site to sell fans tickets to live gigs directly from its platform instead of redirecting users to partners like Ticketmaster and Eventbrite.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung announces the Galaxy Z Flip 4, featuring the same 1.9" and 6.7" displays alongside battery and camera upgrades and Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, starting at $999 — As expected, Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Z Flip 4 — but the phone's greatest improvements might come through upgrades to software, not specs.
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
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| Florence Ion / Gizmodo: |
Samsung announces $230 Galaxy Buds 2 Pro with a smaller form factor, improved active noise cancellation, 24-bit Hi-Fi audio, and more; pre-orders start today — New buds alert! Samsung has announced the second-generation Galaxy Buds 2 Pro in tandem with its latest batch of foldables.
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| Bloomberg: |
A jury finds former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia by turning over Saudi dissidents' account data in exchange for bribes — A former Twitter Inc. employee was convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia by turning over personal information of platform users … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches Get The Message, a campaign to pressure Apple to support RCS over SMS/MMS, highlighting low-resolution photos and videos, no e2ee, and more — For the past year, Google has been increasingly calling out Apple for not adopting RCS (Rich Communication Services) on the iPhone.
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Samsung debuts $280 Galaxy Watch 5 and $450 Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, both with a touch bezel and improved BioActive sensor; pre-orders open today — It's also aiming for the Garmin crowd with the Watch 5 Pro — After weeks of leaks and rumors, Samsung finally announced the $279.99 Galaxy Watch 5 …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Walmart has held talks with Paramount, Disney, and Comcast, as the retailer explores bundling a streaming service into its Walmart+ membership program — The retail giant is exploring bundling a streaming service into its Walmart+ membership program.
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Android Authority, Tom's Guide, SlashFilm, and PYMNTS.com
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Many small businesses that use personalized online ads are cutting back on marketing, in part due to Apple's ATT, as they face rising customer acquisition costs — Online brands reliant on personalised ads ramp back marketing spending — Small businesses are cutting back marketing spending due … | Tiyashi Datta / Reuters: |
Meta says it raised $10B in its first-ever bond offering, as it looks to fund share buybacks and investments to revamp its business — Facebook-parent Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) said on Tuesday it had raised $10 billion in its first-ever bond offering, as it looks to fund share buybacks and investments to revamp its business.
Tweets: @borrowed_ideas
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DOJ is preparing to sue Google over its ad market business as soon as September, as the DOJ's antitrust division lawyers interview publishers — The US Justice Department is preparing to sue Google as soon as next month, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Engadget, TechCrunch, New York Times, and International Business Times
Tweets: @anthony, @rustybrick, @econliberties, and @counternotions
| Kim S. Nash / Wall Street Journal: |
AWS, Splunk, IBM, CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Okta, and 12 others announce the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework to help monitor hacking attempts — Amazon's AWS, Splunk, IBM and others cooperate on format for cyber alerts — This feature is powered by text-to-speech technology.
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| Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: |
Snap launches Snapchat+ in India for ~$0.62 per month, offering exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features; the service costs $3.99/month in the US — Snapchat+, which unlocks a collection of exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features, will be available for a monthly fee of Rs 49
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TechCrunch, The Economic Times, Livemint, Fossbytes, Gadgets 360, and Republic World
| Reuters: |
A report from Iran's Tasnim agency says the country paid for its first import order using cryptocurrency this week, worth $10M, helping circumvent US sanctions — Iran made its first official import order using cryptocurrency this week, the semi-official Tasnim agency reported on Tuesday …
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Blockworks, Crypto Briefing, CoinDesk, CoinGape, The Register, Finbold, Politico, Cointelegraph, and Bitcoin News. Tweets: @peymanpak_ir
| CoinDesk: |
An anonymous Tornado Cash user sent ETH to high-profile crypto users, such as Jimmy Fallon and Brian Armstrong, from a sanctioned address, likely to troll them — An anonymous crypto user sent small amounts of ether from a sanctioned Tornado Cash address to celebrities and prominent crypto figures on Tuesday.
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| Tom Matsuda / The Block: |
Layer 1 blockchain Injective, which focuses on DeFi, raised $40M in a private token sale led by Jump Crypto — - Injective, a layer 1 blockchain focused on decentralized finance uses cases, has raised $40 million in a round led by Jump Crypto. — BH Digital, the crypto division …
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CoinDesk and TechCrunch
| Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
After suffering huge losses, SoftBank plans to reduce its Alibaba stake from 23.7% as of June 30 to 14.6%, raising around $34B in the current quarter — Japanese tech investor has been reducing its ties to the Chinese e-commerce company and using holdings to raise cash
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TechCrunch, The Economic Times, Livemint, South China Morning Post, Barron's Online, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and Nikkei Asia
Tweets: @muradahmed and @landerswsj
| Russell Redman / Supermarket News: |
Amazon plans to expand its Amazon One palm-recognition payment service to 65+ Whole Foods locations in California in the coming weeks, its first broad rollout — Palm-recognition payment service to expand to another 65-plus locations — Amazon has stepped up its rollout of the Amazon … Sponsor Posts
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