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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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
| 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, Superblocks, and SiliconANGLE
| 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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Tweets: @bryantchappel, @bryantchappel, @bryantchappel, and @josourcing
| Megha Paul / Tech.eu: |
Frankfurt-based AAA games studio Gunzilla Games has raised $46M led by Republic Capital and plans to include in-game item trading with NFTs in an upcoming title — The German startup will use the new funding to build their new platform, GunZ, to enable players to own their in-game possessions
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| 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 … | 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 … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn rolls out new features to court creators, including a clickable link on images, templates for posts, and the ability to mix images and videos — LinkedIn announced today that it's rolling out new features for creators that are designed to make it easier to share visual content on the social network.
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| 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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