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Twitter removed the verified badge from the New York Times' main account after Elon Musk responded to a meme outlining the outlet's decision not to pay for Blue — The Times and other news organizations say they won't pay for the icon, which is designed to protect against impersonation.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Twitter updates the description of all blue checkmarks to say “This account is verified because it's subscribed to Twitter Blue or is a legacy verified account” — On Sunday, Twitter did something different: It updated the language in the description of verified users …
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| Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance: |
In a now-deleted tweet, Elon Musk said Twitter would give verified accounts “a few weeks grace” but take away their checkmarks if “they tell they won't pay now” — - The first day of Twitter's previously announced axing of “legacy” verified checks nearly passed without incident.
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| Zach Baron / GQ: |
An interview and profile of Tim Cook on running Apple, succeeding Steve Jobs, being an outsider, creativity, avoiding smartphone addiction, rivals, and more — As Apple CEO, he has defied his skeptics and refashioned the world's most creative company on his own exacting terms.
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
After an uproar, the Arbitrum Foundation plans to break up a controversial governance package into separate votes, including on its 750M ARB token allocation — Arbitrum will hold a standalone vote on its 750 million token allocation. — Join the most important conversation in crypto …
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| Yana Gaur / Reuters: |
Western Digital discloses a network security incident, taking some systems offline, and says the hacker obtained internal data but the scope is so far unknown — Data storage devices maker Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) on Monday said it is looking into a network security incident … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
a16z now openly courts Saudi money; Horowitz compared the US harshly to Saudi because the US government did little after Andreessen's “time to build” essay — Andreessen Horowitz is now openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia, despite U.S. strains.
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| CNN: |
Source: soon after Pinduoduo's app updated to remove backdoor exploits, most of the team working on them was moved to work on Temu, which is a top app in the US — It is one of China's most popular shopping apps, selling clothing, groceries and just about everything else under the sun to more than 750 million users a month.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
The Tor Project partners with VPN maker Mullvad to launch the Mullvad browser, available on Windows, macOS, and Linux, seeking to reduce a user's “fingerprint” — The Tor Project, the organization behind the anonymous network and browser, is helping launch a privacy-focused browser that's …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: in November 2021, five days after Joe Biden put NSO on a Commerce Department blocklist, a US government front company licensed NSO's geolocation tool — The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO.
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Metacurity and Haaretz
| Bloomberg: |
One year after Rishi Sunak pledged to make the UK a crypto-friendly hub, UK crypto executives say banks are increasingly unwilling to support crypto companies — Edouard Daunizeau's crypto company SavingBlocks has an office in East London's technology hub and more than 200 customers testing its services.
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
In a referendum, 89% of Parisians voted against keeping shared e-scooters in the city; Lime, Dott, and Tier will have to pull their fleets out by September 1 — In a major blow to shared micromobility companies Lime, Dott and Tier, Paris has voted to ban rental e-scooters from their streets.
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