Sources: Zuckerberg told staff Facebook won't change policies because of “threat to a small percent of our revenue”, expects advertisers to return “soon enough”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees he was reluctant to bow to the threats of a growing ad boycott …
Rep. David Cicilline says Tim Cook will testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee in late July, alongside Facebook, Amazon, and Google CEOs
Apple CEO Tim Cook, the last chief executive of four big tech companies targeted in a U.S. House Judiciary Committee antitrust probe … Source: @karaswisher .
400+ advertisers suspend Facebook ads for a month, as sources say talks with some advertisers broke down; Zuckerberg has agreed to meet with boycott organizers
Police infiltrated Encrochat, an encrypted phone network used by organized crime, and read millions of messages for months, leading to international arrests
Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots.
As part of UK antitrust investigation of Google, the CMA says Safari's use of Google as its default search engine is “a significant barrier to entry” for rivals
(Reuters) - The payments by Alphabet Inc's Google to Apple Inc to be the default search engine on Apple's Safari web browser create …
Of the top 25 Facebook advertisers in 2019, which include Uber and Netflix, only three, Microsoft, Starbucks, and Pfizer, have said they are pausing ad spending
the ones with presumably the most leverage — have stayed quiet https://www.cnn.com/... Barry Ritholtz / @ritholtz : Walmart, Wells Fargo, Uber, Netflix, Domino's, American Express. AT&T, among big bra...
Twitter removed a picture from a Trump tweet after receiving a DMCA complaint from the NYT, which owns the rights to the photo taken in 2015
Twitter has removed a picture from a tweet by President Trump on Tuesday after it received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) …
Facebook says it is shutting down Lasso, its TikTok clone launched a year and a half ago, on July 10
Facebook is no longer betting on Lasso, an app it launched a year and a half ago, to take on TikTok . The social juggernaut's TikTok clone is shutting down on July 10, Facebook said.
UK's Competition and Markets Authority calls for a “pro-competition regulatory regime” to monitor Facebook, Google, and other digital ad giants
for now) https://twitter.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : I should add to this thread for those outside beltway. It's important regulators have gotten so smart, so quickly, so nonpartisan around glo...
Researchers expose a flaw in at least three major crypto wallets, Ledger Live, Edge, and Breadwallet, which could be exploited for double spending users' funds
A standard way to transact Bitcoin could be vulnerable to double-spending, new research has found.
Google says it has discontinued the Pixel 3a and 3a XL, with remaining stock only available through 3rd parties; Google has yet to announce a rumored successor
In a statement provided to Android Police, Google has confirmed that its Pixel 3a and 3a XL smartphones are now discontinued.
Facebook says it continued sharing data of inactive users with around 5,000 developers even after their apps' 90-day cut-off date expired; issue is now fixed
A Facebook privacy mechanism blocks apps from receiving user data if users didn't use an app for 90 days.
A mystery shopper who irked online merchants by abandoning thousands of shopping carts carrying only one item was a Google bot scraping pricing information
Merchants have seen a lot of browsing by John Smith, who picks up items, then leaves without buying; ‘it started getting out of hand’
VMware to acquire Datrium, which provides disaster recovery services for hybrid cloud environments, for an undisclosed sum; Datrium had previously raised $170M
The deal for the hyper-converged infrastructure startup looks to advance VMware's hybrid cloud standing with a cost-optimized solution for backing up data in the cloud.
Sources: India's additional scrutiny of imports from China is causing delays in operations at plants owned by Foxconn and impacting other companies like Dell
Aditya Kalra, Sankalp Phartiyal — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's additional scrutiny of imports from China has disrupted operations …
A look at “Prison TikTok”, a subgenre where inmates use contraband cellphones to share dance videos, funny skits, and broadcast their living conditions
The lives of incarcerated people are usually hidden from society. On prison TikTok, they're going viral. Tweets: @ramulous , @lmatsakis , @wired , @godfatherrach , @vtitunik , and @lmatsakis Tweets: ...
Dish has completed its acquisition of Boost Mobile from T-Mobile in a deal worth $1.4B
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge :
WhatsApp announces contact-adding QR codes, animated stickers, dark mode for desktop and web, and a new group calling button
Jon Porter / The Verge :
TuSimple is partnering with UPS and others to create a mapped network of shipping routes for its fleet of self-driving trucks that will extend across US by 2024
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
California regulators have sued Cisco Systems, saying an engineer faced discrimination because he is a Dalit, the lowest caste in the Indian caste system
NEW YORK (AP) — California regulators have sued Cisco Systems, saying an engineer faced discrimination at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters because he is a Dalit Indian.
Apple says it will close 30 more US retail stores as COVID-19 cases spike, bringing the total re-closed stores in the US to 77 in recent weeks
where the stores are closed, it's the riskiest? Apple to re-close 30 more stores bringing total to 77... including LA area stores https://www.cnbc.com/... Chance Miller / @chancehmiller : Shut them al...
Analysis of 1B+ leaked credentials: “123456” accounts for one out of every 142 passwords, making it the most commonly reused password over the last five years
The ‘123456’ password was spotted 7 million times across a data trove of one billion leaked credentials … Tweets: @spencerchen Tweets: Spencer Chen / @spencerchen : Drop the “6”. Fool the hackers. htt...
Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell and executive Matt Hansen discuss Mountaintop, their new studio focused on multiplayer games
James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz :
COVID-19 is amplifying the cybersecurity risks for schools as they move to distance learning; they were already at risk due to a lack of dedicated funding
and that was before classes moved almost entirely online. https://www.wired.com/... Lily Hay Newman / @lilyhnewman : “When I took a look, there was so much that was vulnerable—just a stupid amount of ...
Vendia, founded by two former AWS executives and aiming to build a multi-cloud serverless platform, raises $5.1M seed led by Neotribe's Swaroop Kolluri
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
An African American manager and two job applicants filed a complaint against Facebook with the EEOC, alleging a culture of bias against Black workers
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post :
Spotify expands its Premium Duo plan, which allows ad-free streaming for two people for $12.99 per month, to 55 markets including the US
Billy Steele / Engadget :
Facebook says it will pin a voter registration information box at the top of the News Feed for every US user of voting age starting July 3
Jay Peters / The Verge : Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg : Tomorrow we're kicking off a July 4th voter registration drive …
Curv, which is building secure crypto custody management tools, raises $23M Series A from CommerzVentures, Coinbase Ventures, and others
Ian Allison / CoinDesk :
Ahead of a key contract renewal date, activists are pushing to end facial recognition use in Detroit, the US city with the highest percentage of Black residents
Alfred Ng / CNET : Tweets: @alfredwkng , @edmarkey , @phil_lewis_ , @combsthepoet , and @alfredwkng Tweets: @alfredwkng : New: Detroit is the largest city in the US with a majority Black population. ...
Report: Twitch topped 5B hours watched in Q2, up 62.7% QoQ, YouTube Gaming hit 1.5B hours, up 39.6%, and Facebook Gaming reached 822M hours watched, up 48.5%
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Anduril Industries, founded by Palantir veterans and Palmer Luckey, raises $200M led by a16z at a $1.9B valuation for its AI-powered drone and surveillance tech
Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg :
The EU is examining whether Google's proposed acquisition of Fitbit will give the company more data to entrench its search engine and advertising businesses
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times : Tweets: @martinsfp Tweets: Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp : ....is there any doubt? https://twitter.com/...
Zoom has missed its self-imposed June 30 deadline to disclose government data requests, pushing it back to “later this year”
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
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