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| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
The US FTC seeks public comment on federal online privacy rules, which could take years to enact, and is considering various paths, such as focusing on children — Lack of a broad federal law has become a growing concern as online platforms and others amass troves of consumers' search data and other information
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Federal Trade Commission, Federal Trade Commission, CSO, PCMag, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Accountable Tech, U.S. Senate Committee …, Engadget, The Verge, CyberScoop, and BankInfoSecurity.com
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| Felix Krause: |
A detailed look at how Facebook and Instagram for iOS open links with a custom in-app browser, letting Meta track every interaction including entering passwords — The iOS Instagram and Facebook app render all third party links and ads within their app using a custom in-app browser.
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Adrian Holovaty, The Guardian, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, The Mac Observer, iPhone in Canada Blog, International Business Times, and Insanely Great Mac
Tweets: @krausefx, @simonw, @katebevan, @krausefx, @adrianholovaty, @katebevan, @anildash, @slightlylate, @aulia, @drbarnard, @choldgraf, @krausefx, @funnymonkey, @elkmovie, @sil, @hhariri, @richfelker, @migueldeicaza, @francoisz, @fraying, @zachleat, @froomkin, @jbrodsky, @slightlylate, @andreban, @adrianholovaty, @katebevan, @slightlylate, @aaronpk, @mitsuhiko, @krausefx, and @katebevan
| Twitter: |
Twitter outlines its Civic Integrity Policy ahead of the 2022 US midterm elections, including redesigned tweet labels and “prebunks” for misleading narratives — Twitter is the place to find real-time, reliable information about the 2022 midterms - whether you're looking …
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CNET, PCMag, Gizmodo, The Hill, Engadget, New York Post, Mashable, Reclaim The Net, and CNN
Tweets: @twittersafety, @twittersafety, @bretweinstein, @shayan86, and @donie
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
After the Nebraska abortion case, Meta tests more E2EE chats and backups in Messenger, and says default E2EE messages and calls will roll out globally in 2023 — The company says an expansion of privacy features in Messenger is unrelated to a high-profile Nebraska abortion case.
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Tweets: @alaricaloor, @runasand, @justinschuh, @lilyhnewman, @evacide, @mattblaze, @evacide, @evan_greer, @zackwhittaker, @metanewsroom, @runasand, @andymstone, and @loredanacrisan
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Google says Search info snippets will use its latest AI model, Multitask Unified Model, to find consensus in results and expands its “About this result” tool — You know that highlighted piece of text at the very top of a Google search results page when you look up a piece of information?
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Tweets: @pedrodias, @badams, and @searchliaison
| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Ethereum's third and final proof-of-stake test merge goes live on the Goerli test network, a dress rehearsal for the mainnet merge planned for September 2022 — - Ethereum has passed the final test for proof of stake merge on Goerli. — The event served as a dress rehearsal for the eventual mainnet merge planned in September.
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CNBC, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Fortune, Decrypt, The Verge, crypto.news, Gizmodo, Onchain Wizard's Cauldron, CoinJournal, Cryptonews, CryptoSlate, Bloomberg, Micky, CoinGape, and Bloomberg
| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft and CISA warn users about DogWalk, a now-patched actively exploited RCE vulnerability in Windows 7, 10, 11, and Server 2008 through 2022 — The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two more flaws to its catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, based on evidence of active exploitation.
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The Record, Security Affairs, The Stack, MyBroadband, IT PRO, and SC Media
Tweets: @spoofyroot, @windowsupdate, @wdormann, @brdpoker, and @j00sean
| Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg: |
Some companies are hiring B2B influencers, mostly on LinkedIn, to pitch to other companies; LinkedIn says 11M+ users have enabled “creator mode” as of July 2022 — Bernard Marr, 49, who has degrees in business, engineering, and information technology, is interested in topics …
Tweets: @oliviasolon and @britopian
| Jason Nelson / Decrypt: |
Mailchimp is suspending the accounts of crypto-related creators and media outlets, telling some that crypto content conflicts with its Acceptable Use Policy — The email marketing platform Mailchimp has been suspending the accounts of crypto-related content creators and media outlets this week.
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CoinDesk, Waivly, Fortune, CryptoSlate, and Crypto Adventure
Tweets: @onejasonknight and @readdanwrite
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stockholm-based Superblocks, whose drag-and-drop tools help companies build internal apps, raised $37M led by Kleiner Perkins, Greenoaks, Spark, and Meritech — The economic downturn prompted a hiring slowdown across the tech industry, forcing CTOs — and the teams that they manage — to do more with less.
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FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, and Superblocks
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
The US FEC approves Google's proposal to keep campaign emails from being marked as spam, after GOP lawmakers said Gmail was censoring right-wing emails — It's good news for Republicans facing falling fundraising — On Thursday, the Federal Election Commission approved a new proposal …
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CNN, 9to5Google, The Register, The Hill, Engadget, Washington Post, Axios, Politico, Mashable, and Michael Tsai
| Bloomberg: |
CryptoCompare: Coinbase's market share of global spot trading volume among the top 15 crypto exchanges fell from 10.7% in January 2022 to 6.3% in July 2022 — The doubling of Coinbase Global Inc.'s stock since the end of June is masking one of the biggest concerns for investors … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google appears to be testing a feature to let users launch cloud games from Stadia, Amazon Luna, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Nvidia's GeForce Now from search results — See where you can play games instantly, then do so — Friction is the mind-killer when it comes to cloud gaming.
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Game Developer and SamNews 24
Tweets: @bryantchappel, @bryantchappel, @josourcing, and @bryantchappel
| South China Morning Post: |
Chinese chipmaker SMIC reports Q2 revenue rose 41.6% YoY to $1.9B vs. $1.89B est., but net profit fell 25% YoY to $514M, amid lockdowns and harsher US sanctions — Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) reported better-than-expected earnings for the June quarter … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
FundamentalVR, a cross-platform simulation tool for medical and health care workers, raised $20M led by EQT Life Sciences, bringing its total funding to $30M+ — FundamentalVR, an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to …
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Fundamental VR, Road to VR, VentureBeat, MedCity News, FinSMEs, hitconsultant.net, PYMNTS.com, and Gizmodo
| Eric Mandel / Atlanta Business Journal: |
Mailchimp co-founder Ben Chestnut plans to step down as CEO after 21 years and transition to a founder-advisor role; Intuit's Rania Succar will take over — Managing Editor, Atlanta Business Chronicle — See Correction/Clarification at end of article — Ben Chestnut is stepping …
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Mailchimp, Reporter Newspapers …, Intuit, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @benchestnut, @destraynor, and @dharmesh
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers bought 5G IoT plans from 10 carriers and found security flaws exposing private SIM card data and, in some cases, large streams of other users' data — New research found troubling vulnerabilities in the 5G platforms carriers offer to wrangle embedded device data.
Tweets: @lilyhnewman
| Financial Times: |
A look at livestreamed e-commerce, already mature and established in China, which TikTok, YouTube, Meta, Amazon, and others want to bring to the US and Europe — Manrika Khaira regularly broadcasts live on TikTok to her following of more than half a million people.
Tweets: @aulia, @astaniscia86, and @mattnavarra
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Cisco confirms the Yanluowang ransomware group breached its network in May 2022; Yanluowang claimed to have stolen 2.75GB of data, or ~3.1K files including NDAs — Cisco confirmed today that the Yanluowang ransomware group breached its corporate network in late May and that the actor tried …
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Cisco Talos Intelligence Group. More:
tools.cisco.com, CSO, Dark Reading, The Hacker News, PCMag, VentureBeat, Forbes, TechRepublic, Bloomberg, Cybersecurity Dive, Security Affairs, SecurityWeek, TechRadar, and The Record
Tweets: @ido_cohen2, @craiu, @danielcid, @vxunderground, @pogowasright, @benedictevans, @gossithedog, @racheltobac, @lawrenceabrams, and @eastdakota
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