Microsoft says Bing is not displaying image results for “tank man” on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre due to “accidental human error”
“There are no results for tank man,” the Bing website reads after searching for the term. — Joseph Cox
In a letter to Tim Cook, written and edited by about 80 people, Apple employees push back against a policy requiring them to return to the office in September
“Over the last year we often felt not just unheard, but at times actively ignored” — Apple employees are pushing …
Nigeria announces it will block access to Twitter, after the site deleted tweets of President Buhari making threats to the southeastern part of the country
The Nigerian government via its Ministry of Information and Culture today announced its decision to suspend the activities of social media platform Twitter in the country.
In response to Oversight Board ruling, Facebook suspends Trump's accounts until January 7, 2023, and says it will then reconsider suspension if conditions allow
but not until at least 2023 Transparency Center : Counting strikes — If you post content that goes against the Facebook Community Standards … Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain : Facebook's two-year Trum...
Director of FBI says it is investigating ~100 types of ransomware, many tracing back to Russia, and compares the challenge of this wave of cyberattacks to 9/11
Christopher Wray points to Russian hackers, calls for coordinated fight across U.S. society — FBI Director Christopher Wray …
A 2007 email between Steve Jobs and then Apple SVP of Software Engineering, approving 3rd party iPhone apps and an App Store, surfaces among Epic trial docs
An email has been going around the internet as a part of a release of documents related to Apple's App Store based suit brought by Epic Games.
Finance ministers of G7 countries, the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan, agree to back a new global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15%
The agreement by seven of the world's largest industrial nations is seen as an important step toward changing the global tax structure.
Teams behind Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge unveil a development forum at W3C to standardize and build a unified, more secure foundation for extensions
The teams behind the Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge browsers have banded together to improve extensions …
Investigator says hackers breached Colonial Pipeline through a VPN account whose password has since been discovered inside a batch of leaks on the dark web
- Investigators suspect hackers got password from dark web leak — Colonial CEO hopes U.S. goes after criminal hackers abroad
Jack Dorsey says Square is considering the development of a bitcoin hardware wallet
Square is considering the development of a bitcoin hardware wallet, according to Jack Dorsey, CEO of the payments firm. — Such a product launch isn't a done deal, according to Dorsey, who previewed ...
US DOJ says it is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack
the federal government — is (inarguably) for. https://twitter.com/... Chris Krebs / @c_c_krebs : This is a positive indication that we're getting serious about stopping ransomware. Much more needs to ...
Sources: Apple to announce better multitasking and widget placement for iPadOS, status-based notification alerts, an improved Messages app, and more at WWDC
- Company pitching to developers amid uproar over App Store — Messages, Health apps among those gaining new capabilities
EU and UK regulators coordinate to open antitrust investigations into Facebook's classified ad service Marketplace; UK is also probing Facebook Dating
Investigations into classified-ads service Marketplace ramp up regulatory scrutiny on the company in Europe
Facebook taking feedback from critics, and Zuckerberg transparently signing off on a concrete policy change, shows the Board's valuable, if limited, function
Facebook has agreed to follow some of the board's non-binding recommendations regarding the Donald Trump suspension. That's progress.
Facebook announces that politicians' posts will no longer be exempt from the company's rules that prevent users from engaging in harmful speech
Several companies and clinicians are using VR therapy, which has shown success in treating PTSD, to treat other disorders like social anxiety and phobias
An experimental treatment seems poised to address a dire mental health crisis. — When a Veterans Affairs therapist first suggested …
Survey of ~400 open-source code maintainers reveals poor pay, with 46% saying they go unpaid and, of those who were paid, only 26% say they earn $1K+ annually
Maintaining open-source code is a vital but stressful job. Despite that, a recent Tidelift survey found that almost half of code maintainers aren't paid at all. Tweets: @aschmitt Tweets: Andrew Schmi...
Crypto exchange FTX to spend $210M over 10 years to rename the professional e-sports team TSM as TSM FTX, rivaling the biggest naming rights deals in pro sports
Kellen Browning / New York Times :
Analysis: Palantir's Alexander Karp got compensation worth $1.1B last year and DoorDash's Tony Xu got $400M, both among the biggest CEO pay packages since 2007
Data-analysis company's Alexander Karp and meal deliverer's Tony Xu received compensation far exceeding that of S&P 500 CEOs Tweets: @danpriceseattle Tweets: Dan Price / @danpriceseattle : DoorDash: *...
Ripple Labs files a motion seeking to force the SEC to disclose why it came to the conclusion that bitcoin and ether are commodities, not securities like XRP
James Rubin / CoinDesk :
Mozilla report found more than a dozen TikTok influencers who had undisclosed paid relationships to post political messages; TikTok banned political ads in 2019
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post :
In a bid to clean up WeChat livestreaming service, Tencent bans dozens of “violations” including fortune telling, “seductive lip licking”, and nose picking
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC :
Capchase, a lending service that helps SaaS companies with recurring revenue to grow their operations, raises $125M Series A led by QED Investors
Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News : Tweets: @crunchbasenews Tweets: @crunchbasenews : .@GetCapchase launched its platform 8 months ago as an alternative to venture funding. “Founders are flocking to th...
Xometry, an online marketplace for companies to find manufacturers with excess capacity, files its S-1, revealing a loss of $31M in 2020 on revenue of $141M
This is an initial public offering of shares of Class A common stock of Xometry … TechCrunch : Xometry is taking its excess manufacturing capacity business public
Snowflake CEO says diversity shouldn't “override” merit in hiring decisions, claiming other CEOs feel the same way but are reluctant to say so publicly
Bloomberg : Tweets: @helpmeskeletor , @theryanford , @nicolewong , @base10 , @betterallies , @harisevugan , @danprimack , @danprimack , @asteadwesley , @tientzuo , @antoniogm , and @oduneweniyi Tweet...
Unchained Capital, which offers bitcoin custody, lending, and trading services, raises $25M Series A led by NYDIG and Stone Ridge Holdings
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk :
Sources: Facebook plans to launch Bulletin, its Substack clone, at the end of June; it will live outside Facebook in part to evade Apple and Google's 30% fees
Peter Kafka / Vox :
Cybersecurity company SentinelOne files for a US IPO, says revenue grew 108% YoY to $37.4M and net losses grew to $62.6M in the three months ending April 30
In 2013, my childhood friend and I started SentinelOne to solve one of the largest … Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : SentinelOne files for IPO after landing $3B valuation in most recent funding round...
IBM and the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council announce a five-year $297.5M AI and quantum computing research initiative
Damon Poeter / VentureBeat :
Synchron, which is developing a brain-computer interface that helps paralysis patients text, email, and shop online, raises $40M Series B led by Khosla Ventures
Andrea Park / FierceBiotech :
Cross-border payments startup dLocal's shares closed up 54% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, after raising $617.6M in its IPO, valuing the company at ~$10B
Luisa Beltran / Barron's Online :
AWS hired at least 66 former US government officials since 2018; AWS employee says such hires give the company a “leg up” in winning government contracts
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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