YouTube investigation finds that the flagged Steven Crowder videos, which include homophobic slurs aimed at Vox's Carlos Maza, do not violate its policies
The company sides with edgy commentator Steven Crowder — YouTube has at last formally responded to an explosive …
Connected bike and treadmill-maker Peloton says it confidentially filed for an IPO; the company raised $550M in August 2018 at a $4B valuation
Exercise tech darling and service provider Peloton has filed for IPO with a confidential draft submission of its S-1 statement to the SEC on Wednesday.
Apple shows it's finally ready to move past the iPhone after unveiling iPadOS, the watchOS App Store, new privacy features, and the end of iTunes at WWDC
Apple's Audacity. https://stratechery.com/... @stratechery : Apple's Audacity https://stratechery.com/... This year's WWDC presented an Apple that was finally ready to move past the iPhone.
Apple debuts Sign In with Apple service, which masks info like email addresses, for iOS and non-iOS apps and web; mandatory for iOS apps using 3rd-party logins
the project I loved and led at Mozilla 6-8 years ago, the project that broke my heart. This is my take, I'm sure it's incomplete. @fastcompany : Apple has been jousting with Facebook and Google over p...
Archive of ~10M tweets from Russia's IRA reveals a vast, coordinated, and incredibly successful misinformation campaign; one account was retweeted 6M times
Internet Research Agency archive reveals a vast, coordinated campaign that was incredibly successful at pushing out and amplifying its messages.
Apple's Dashboard has reportedly been removed from macOS Catalina; the feature has been disabled by default since OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Goodbye widgets, you were always sort of useful — Apple's Dashboard is getting quietly removed from the company's upcoming macOS Catalina update …
At Facebook's annual shareholder meeting last week, 68% of outside shareholders voted in favor of ousting Mark Zuckerberg as chairman, up from 51% last year
- It's now clear that independent Facebook investors voted overwhelmingly in support of proposals last week to fire Mark Zuckerberg …
In new design guidelines, Apple asks developers to put its Sign in with Apple login button above other rival buttons
(Reuters) - Apple Inc will ask developers to position a new “Sign on with Apple” button in iPhone and iPad apps above rival buttons from Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc …
Lab testing giant LabCorp says personal and financial info of 7.7M patients was stolen in the same data breach that affected 11.9M Quest Diagnostics patients
LabCorp is the latest laboratory testing giant this week to confirm it's affected by the same third-party data breach.
Skype brings screen sharing to its iOS and Android apps alongside a redesign aimed at simplifying the video call interface
Skype often with your smartphone? You'll be pleased to know that starting today, you'll be able to share your screen if you're on a supported Android or iOS device …
Google appeals the EU's $1.7B fine over alleged anticompetitive advertising practices; EU says it will defend its decision in court
KEY POINTS — In March, the European Commission fined Google $1.7 billion for anti-competitive practices in the online advertising market.
Report: hidden adware in 238 Play Store apps with 440M+ installs by China-based CooTek made phones nearly unusable; apps now pulled or updated to remove adware
Carefully concealed plugin bombarded users with ads during inopportune times. — If the prevalence of abusive Google Play apps …
Apple's standalone $999 Pro Stand for its Pro Display XDR does not offer any groundbreaking functionality to justify its price tag
You can pinpoint the exact moment when Apple lost the WWDC audience on Monday. John Ternus, the company's VP of hardware engineering …
With Apple making its Sign In with Apple feature mandatory for App Store developers, it starts to feel less like competition and more like brute force
Casey Newton / The Interface : Tweets: @atomkirk and @jacknicas Tweets: Adam Kirk / @atomkirk : Oh man, so many people who have already logged in with google/facebook to an existing app are going to ...
YouTube updates guidelines to ban videos that promote the superiority of any group to justify discrimination, resulting in the removal of thousands of channels
YouTube is trying to reduce the prevalence of extremist content on the platform — YouTube is changing its community guidelines …
Matillion, a developer of cloud data integration software for Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Snowflake, raises $35M Series C led by Battery Ventures
It's safe to say that data warehouses — large stores of data accumulated from a range of systems — are having a moment.
Biz2Credit, an online lending platform for SMBs, raised $52M Series B led by WestBridge Capital
Online lending platform Biz2Credit announced on Tuesday it secured $52 million through its Series B funding round, which was led by WestBridge Capital. Founded in 2007, Biz2Credit is on a mission …
Internal document: EU's Moscow embassy was hacked in Feb. 2017, and it was only discovered in April 2019; source says Russia is believed to be behind the hack
A “sophisticated cyber espionage event” began in February 2017. Russian entities are believed to be behind the hack, a source told BuzzFeed News. Tweets: @albertonardelli , @albertonardelli , @albert...
The Daily Beast confirmed the identity of the uploader of the distorted Pelosi video via a source at Facebook, who apparently accessed private user activity
What mastermind created the infamous, slowed-down video of Nancy Pelosi — the one intended to make her sound drunk that went viral across right-wing media two weeks ago?
Australian National University says its systems were hacked in late 2018, with staff, student, and visitor data exposed, affecting ~200,000
Apple says users of iTunes on Windows will not see any immediate changes, despite the app being shuttered on Mac
Samuel Axon / Ars Technica :
A eulogy for iTunes, launched 18 years ago as a digital jukebox, as Apple sunsets it to make way for Music, TV, and Podcasts apps on the Mac
We are gathered here today to say goodbye to our friend iTunes, who went to the great trash can in the sky on Monday. — It was a gentle, dignified passing.
Netflix says it is testing a feed, called Extras, with trailers, photos, and alerts about shows in its mobile app
Senior Silicon Valley Correspondent @https://twitter.com/jank0 FOLLOW — Netflix has begun to test a new feed in its mobile app that aggregates trailers … Tweets: @jank0 Tweets: Janko Roettgers / @ja...
SentinelOne, which provides autonomous, real-time, AI-based endpoint security protection, raises $120M Series D led by Insight Partners
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
SEC is suing Kik for allegedly running an unregistered securities sale when it launched an ICO for its Kin token in 2017
Following the announcement of a lawsuit … Adrian Barkley / Crypto Daily : How Valid Is The SECs Suit Against Kik? Jasmine Solana / CoinGeek : SEC lawsuit accuses Kik of conducting illegal $100M ICO Te...
iOS 13 has an option to optimize long-term battery life by “reducing the time it's fully charged”, charging to 80% until it thinks the remaining 20% is needed
Josh Hendrickson / How-To Geek :
Salesforce beats with Q1 revenue of $3.74B, up 24% YoY, net income of $392M, and subscription and support revenues of $3.5B, up 24% YoY
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :
Firefox starts blocking third-party cookies by default and brings its Lockbox password manager to the desktop, rebranding it as Lockwise
have decided that tracking should be opt in, not opt out: https://blog.mozilla.org/... @dhh : Firefox now blocking tracker cookies by default ❤️. We must come to terms with the fact that Chrome is ins...
Instagram says it will now let advertisers promote creators' organic branded content posts as feed ads, extending the reach of influencers
Megan Graham / CNBC :
YouTube bans kids from live-streaming video unless accompanied by an adult following NYT report about YouTube's recommendation algorithm for posted videos
why not just turn off recommendations on videos of kids? Your system can already identify videos of kids automatically.The recommendation algorithm is driving this whole child exploitation phenomenon....
Source: the FTC has been questioning Amazon's competitors about Amazon Prime's bundling of services and how Amazon competes with its own marketplace sellers
Jason Del Rey / Vox :
Blind, an anonymous chat app used by tech workers to share workplace grievances, says Tesla is blocking employees from accessing or being verified for the app
Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo :
AllyO, which develops an AI-driven hiring and onboarding platform, raises $45M Series B from investors including Sapphire Ventures and Scale Venture Partners
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Spotify Stations, a lightweight listening app offering easy access to curated playlists, has arrived in the US after initially launching in Australia last year
iPhone Screenshots — Easily create … David Nield / Gizmodo : Why It Still Matters Which Music Streaming Service You Sign Up For Adrian Willings / Pocket-lint : Spotify launches a lightweight listeni...
Shifting strategy, Microsoft closed all its specialty stores and kiosks in the US, while over 80 full-retail stores remain
Daniel Rubino / Windows Central :
NoBroker, which helps apartment seekers in India avoid real estate brokers by connecting them to property owners, raises $51M Series C led by General Atlantic
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
AI-powered automated news service Radar now writes thousands of stories a month, including general interest stories, for up to 350 local news titles in the UK
Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times : Tweets: @financialtimes and @matthausk Tweets: @financialtimes : 'The readers couldn't care less who wrote it, frankly.' https://www.ft.com/... Matthus Krzykowski...
Highspot, an AI-powered sales enablement platform, raises $60M Series D led by Iconiq Capital, bringing its total raised to $124M
Nat Levy / GeekWire :
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