Apple says it remains “committed to the future of Thunderbolt and will support it in Macs with Apple silicon”
Apple silicon will still work with Intel's port standard — Apple is moving away from Intel's chipsets in favor of its new, custom-designed ARM chips …
Sensor Tower: of the ~910K users that signed up for Quibi's 3-month free trial in April, only 8%, ~72K, converted to a paid subscription after the trial ended
The struggling streaming video platform has a not-so-great conversion rate — Streaming service Quibi only managed to convert …
Facebook says it removed 100+ Pages and accounts linked to felon Roger Stone, as well as some linked to Brazil's Bolsonaro, for coordinated inauthentic behavior
The longtime Trump friend and former campaign adviser used fake accounts and other deceptive tactics to manipulate public debate, the company said
Intel details the Thunderbolt 4 standard coming to laptops later this year: USB4 compatibility, multi-monitor support, and data transfers of up to 40Gbps
which co-developed Thunderbolt with Intel, and was its biggest champion — will bother with it when ARM laptops arrive. The benefits here aren't ones that necessarily benefit Apple, which is perfectly ...
Sources: Coinbase is exploring going public via a direct listing as early as this year; Coinbase was last valued at $8B+ in 2018
Anirban Sen, Joshua Franklin, Anna Irrera — (Reuters) - Coinbase Inc has started plans for a stock market listing that could come as early as this year …
In a first, the CENTRE Consortium has blacklisted an Ethereum address holding $100K USDC stablecoin in response to a law enforcement request
The CENTRE Consortium blacklisted a USDC address in response to a law enforcement request, freezing $100,000 worth of the stablecoin, a spokesperson said Wednesday.
Elon Musk claims Tesla is “very close” to developing fully autonomous vehicles despite Tesla's “Full Self Driving” feature not living up to its name since 2016
- The billionaire says it'll have basics worked out this year — Tesla's in an industry race to develop fully self-driven cars
Epic Games releases an iOS app, called Live Link Face, that lets developers record facial expressions directly into the Unreal Engine
Using Apple's ARKit and the iPhone's TrueDepth camera — A newly released iOS app from Epic Games lets developers record facial expressions …
Police are buying access to hacked data, including passwords, IP addresses, and more to help with investigations in an end-run around the usual legal processes
The sale is “an end-run around the usual legal processes.” — Joseph Cox — Hackers break into websites, steal information …
TikTok says it took down 49M+ videos globally for content violations during H2 2019 and again claims it received no takedown requests from China
TikTok's second transparency report offers more details on video removals — TikTok took down more than 49 million videos from users across …
Microsoft details Kernel Data Protection, upcoming Windows 10 tech that it says blocks malware from modifying OS memory by making parts of the kernel read-only
New KDP security feature is currently being tested with Windows 10 Insider builds. — Microsoft has published today …
Coinbase hires Paul Grewal, VP and deputy general counsel for Facebook, as its chief legal officer
Listen — Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase raided Facebook Inc. for one of its top in-house lawyers on Tuesday, hiring Paul Grewal to serve as its new chief legal officer.
TikTok users are joining in the “Dogecoin Challenge”, driving up the cryptocurrency's market cap by 40% to $500M in a day, as many pitch fanciful price targets
- Dogecoin surges thanks to the latest TikTok challenge — ‘Stay Safe. Be Smart,’ Dogecoin Twitter tells investors
Nvidia surpasses Intel as the most valuable US chipmaker, with a market cap of $248B+ as its stock has surged 68% in 2020
(Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O) has overtaken Intel (INTC.O) for the first time as the most valuable U.S. chipmaker. — In a semiconductor industry milestone …
EU court rules that online platforms like YouTube need not hand over to rights holders the email or IP addresses of users who upload pirated content
A judgment handed down by the EU Court of Justice this morning has found that online platforms, including YouTube, do not have to hand …
Sources describe stories of young, inexperienced investors on Robinhood engaging in riskier trades at far higher volumes than customers of other brokerages
Its users buy and sell the riskiest financial products and do so more frequently than customers at other retail brokerage firms … Tweets: @fintechfrank , @gunjanjs , @stevekopack , @iamkoshiek , @nath...
Google releases Android 11 Beta 2 for Pixel phones, says Android 11 has reached platform stability and all app APIs and behaviors have been finalized
Google today launched Android 11 Beta 2, or the sixth preview of its next mobile OS version. Beta 2 marks Android 11's Platform Stability milestone …
WhatsApp Business adds support for QR codes, allows businesses to create and share links to their catalogs to post elsewhere, and says it has 50M users
The global COVID-19 health pandemic has raised the stakes for businesses when it comes to using digital channels to connect with customers …
An independent audit commissioned by Facebook harshly criticizes the company, arguing that some of its decisions were “significant setbacks for civil rights”
but Facebook will ignore because Facebook is Facebook and will always be Facebook for as long as Facebook is allowed to decide what Facebook shouldn't and shouldn't do on Facebook. https://www.nytimes...
An in-depth look at Microsoft's ElectionGuard voting software, led by cryptographer Josh Benaloh, which aims to check whether election results are accurate
A mathematician's quest to make American elections more trustworthy. — Near the end of last year, I met Josh Benaloh … Tweets: @bradsmi , @tonitwhitley , @tomburt45 , @brennancenter , @ahier , and @...
XM Cyber, which develops simulation and remediation software to expose cyberattack vectors, raises $17M Series B, bringing its total raised to $49M
XM Cyber, a startup developing a simulation and remediation platform to expose cyberattack vectors, today announced it raised $17 million.
Microsoft announces Together Mode for Teams, which overlays group call participants onto the same virtual background, and adds meeting transcripts and more
but fight Zoom fatigue Tweets: Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Microsoft Teams' new Together Mode turns you into a virtual avatar in meetings. It's designed for pandemic-era meetings and it's part of a mass...
Open source database startup MariaDB adds $25M extension to its $27M Series C, bringing total raised to $125M+, says it's doubled its last valuation of ~$354M
Cloud services continue to be a key component of how organisations remain operational even as so much else …
Study finds 15B credentials in circulation on hacker forums with 5B+ of them unique; average price of logins for banking and other financial services is $70.91
Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer :
Ookla: T-Mobile's 5G coverage extends to 5,013 US cities, compared to AT&T's 237 and Verizon's 39; Verizon's 5G had the highest speed score of 870.5
By a Wide Margin T-Mobile : Independent Report Finds T‑Mobile Has Nearly 20x More 5G Cities Than Verizon and AT&T Combined Corinne Reichert / CNET : T-Mobile has thousands more 5G cities than Verizon ...
Google has open sourced Tsunami, a vulnerability scanner for large-scale enterprise networks consisting of thousands of internet-connected systems and servers
Google says Tsunami is an extensible network scanner for detecting high-severity vulnerabilities with as little false-positives as possible. Tweets: @quinnypig Tweets: HydroxyCoreyQuinn / @quinnypig :...
Unc0ver team files a DMCA notice against developer Coolstar for their Chimera13 jailbreak, which GitHub then removed; Coolstar files a DMCA counter-notice
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak :
US Treasury Department says Amazon settled allegations that it violated US sanctions, primarily due to flaws in its automatic screening process, for $135,000
The e-commerce giant's screening system allegedly failed to flag transactions with blacklisted customers
Google says it has shut down Isolated Region, a major new cloud service project for China, and isn't weighing other options to offer its cloud platform in China
Bloomberg :
Amazon will require US marketplace sellers to display their business name and address on public profiles in September, already a rule in Europe, Japan, Mexico
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
Facebook's Oversight Board says it won't be operational until “late fall”, likely after the US presidential election
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
In Hong Kong, Facebook and WhatsApp have a penetration rate of around 80% according to Statista, Instagram has around 60%, whereas WeChat is used by just 54%
Karen Chiu / South China Morning Post :
Silver Lake buys French company Silae, which offers cloud-based payroll and HR software to 550K+ customers, reportedly for €500M+
Selin Bucak / Private Equity News :
Nandini Jammi, one half of pressure group Sleeping Giants, which has targeted Breitbart, Facebook, and others, leaves over disagreements with Matt Rivitz
Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @beccalew , @buzzfeednews , @shannoncoulter , @carnage4life , @scottlucas , @arb , and @kerrymflynn Tweets: Becca Lewis / @beccalew : I wish I could say th...
BlueCity, owner of Chinese LGBTQ dating app Blued, closed up 46% in its Nasdaq debut, after raising $85M at $16 per share
Crystal Tse / Bloomberg :
Report: US DOD and federal law enforcement have thousands of previously unreported contracts with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Dell, IBM, HP, and Facebook
April Glaser / NBC News :
Facebook says it has cut greenhouse gas emissions by 59% since 2017, 86% of its operations use renewable energy, as it unveils a heat recycling pilot in Denmark
David Pierce / Protocol :
Tinder begins testing video chat in the US and other select markets, with a retroactive ratings system for moderation to help avoid nudity and hate speech
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Boston-based Notarize, a service that lets users sign and notarize official documents digitally, raises $35M Series C led by Camber Creek
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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