OnlyFans says it will prohibit users from posting any “sexually explicit conduct” starting in October, but will allow nude photos and videos
- Popularity of the website has exploded during the pandemic — Many sex workers use OnlyFans to charge customers online
Internal memo: Apple is delaying its return to corporate offices from October until January at the earliest because of surging COVID-19 cases and new variants
- Company pushes back return from October, encourages vaccines — Apple doesn't plan to close stores, offices on rising cases
Elon Musk says Tesla is working on a humanoid robot that will handle “tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring”, with a prototype “sometime next year”
A prototype is supposedly coming ‘sometime next year’ — Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his company is working …
An overview of the most interesting internal emails from the Apple v. Epic trial, including discussions about an “iPhone nano” and lowering App Store fees
and we have questions Stephen Warwick / iMore : Apple's fraud chief knew it had a child porn problem, messages reveal Tweets: Sean Hollister / @starfire2258 : I wrote a thing. A thing where if you're ...
Binance mandates know-your-customer verification that includes government ID and facial verification in response to heightened regulatory scrutiny
New customers will have to supply government ID and pass facial verification to meet Binance's “Intermediate” verification.
China passes a data privacy law mandating that data collection has a reasonable purpose, user consent, and limited to “minimum scope”, taking effect November 1
China's National People's Congress on Friday passed a law designed to protect online user data privacy and will implement …
Facebook rolls out new security features for people in Afghanistan, including a one-click tool to quickly lock accounts and limit account discoverability
Facebook said Thursday it is rolling out new user controls for people in Afghanistan who are rushing to delete their digital footprints …
Internal documents show OnlyFans moderators can give multiple warnings to successful accounts posting illegal content before closing them
Internal documents, leaked to BBC News, reveal that OnlyFans allows moderators to give multiple warnings to accounts that post illegal content …
Court docs: Google's “Premier Device Program” gave Android OEMs a greater share of Search revenue for not preinstalling third-party app stores on their devices
Android OEMs couldn't preload apps that could install other apps — Newly unredacted sections of Epic's antitrust complaint …
Epic complaint alleges that Google paid game developers hundreds of millions in incentives to keep their games on the Play Store as part of its “Project Hug”
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge :
Binance is aiming for an IPO for its US division after an unsuccessful VC deal and the resignation of its CEO
and why investors balked. https://www.nytimes.com/... Emily Flitter / @flitteronfraud : SCOOP: @BinanceUS is trying to raise outside $$$ as part of a plan to eventually go public, but the going is h...
Google Health VP David Feinberg, who led Google's COVID-19 initiatives, will depart the company to take over as CEO at electronic health records company Cerner
Wall Street Journal :
Microsoft says it will raise the prices of commercial Microsoft 365 subscription bundles in March 2022, the first major price change since their 2011 launch
- This is the first major price change for Office 365 since Microsoft launched it in 2011. — Microsoft has also expanded Office …
Apple launches Siri Speech Study, an iOS app that lets invited participants share their voice requests and other feedback with Apple
Apple recently began a research study designed to collect speech data from study participants. Earlier this month, the company launched a new iOS app called …
How the Taliban moved away from its technophobic roots and began using WhatsApp, Twitter, and Facebook to launder its brand and advance its agenda
Gavin Butler / VICE :
Report: Google is dismantling its Health division, formed in 2018, and scattering its units across the company
Google is reportedly dismantling its health technology initiative and splitting its projects across other teams as the chief of the division departs the company. Source: Insider .
AT&T says it did not suffer a data breach after a threat actor started selling a database purportedly containing the personal info of 70M AT&T customers
AT&T says that they did not suffer a data breach after a well-known threat actor claimed to be selling a database containing …
FTC's new suit says Facebook has a monopoly in “US personal social networking services”, distinguishing it from TikTok, and Lina Khan will not recuse herself
Facebook announces Horizon Workrooms, a virtual meeting space with avatars, spatial audio, a whiteboard, and more, in beta on Oculus Quest 2
here's how it works Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain : Work From Borg — Welcome to Galaxy Brain — a newsletter from Charlie Warzel about technology … Tristan Greene / TNW : Facebook's Metaverse is just...
FTC files a new antitrust complaint against Facebook, after a judge dismissed the first complaint in June; Facebook has until October 4 to respond
This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Tweets: @fbnewsroom : We are reviewing the FTC's amended complaint and will have more to say soon. Lina Khan / @linakhanftc : FTC Alleges...
Library of Congress bomb suspect livestreamed on Facebook for 71 minutes as he sat in his car surrounded by federal agents before Facebook took down his account
Emily Birnbaum / Politico :
A look at the rise and fall of Skycoin, a cryptocurrency that had a ~$5B total value in 2018, ran a team of social media “shills”, and was plagued by scandals
The cryptocurrency promised to change the world and make its users rich in the process. Then it began to fall apart. Tweets: @ofnumbers , @michaelluo , and @hkanji Tweets: Tim Swanson / @ofnumbers : ...
UK's CMA recommends an in-depth investigation into Nvidia's planned $40B acquisition of Arm, saying there are “serious competition concerns” about the deal
Kate Beioley / Financial Times :
Around 1,500 Stitch Fix employees quit after new CEO announces they will no longer have flexible work hours and part-timers must work at least 20 hours per week
Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News :
How Amazon contributed to the drop in the number of babies named Alexa in the US, UK, and Canada, after an initial surge upon the device's 2014 release
Joe Pinsker / The Atlantic : Tweets: @anthroptimist , @mgsiegler , @afteralexa , @hashtagheyalexa , @alexahumanbeing , @malcolmmoore , and @marshacollier Tweets: Dr Alexa Hagerty / @anthroptimist : I...
Twitter is rolling out the ability to DM a tweet to multiple people in different chats at once on iOS and web, and long press messages for reactions on iOS
Adobe says it will acquire Frame.io, which makes video collaboration software, for about $1.3B in cash
Bloomberg :
A look at the fintech boom in Nigeria, where 60M adults without bank accounts are driving explosive growth; fintech has seen ~40% of Nigeria's $307M VC funding
there are so many things to solve,” says @oviosu, CEO and co-founder of @paga, in this article by @neiLmunshi that examines the growth of fintech in Nigeria https://www.ft.com/...
DriveWealth, whose tech enables businesses to build fractional trading like Robinhood, raises $450M round led by Insight and Accel at a $2.85B valuation
Bloomberg :
Facebook's new report reinforces its narrative that most content on the News Feed is not news, but doesn't provide enough data to make meaningful conclusions
Ethan Zuckerman :
India-based AgNext Technologies, which uses AI to assess food quality and accelerate trade, raises $21M Series A led by Alpha Wave Incubation fund
The Economic Times :
Chris Sacca on his move to climate investing, Jack Dorsey's inability to confront big questions, and Travis Kalanick's weakness in managing company culture
and Travis Kalanick. https://www.newcomer.co/... Tom Dotan / @cityofthetown : Sacca said more than he probably meant to in this chat, including his disappointments with Jack Dorsey, why Uber's diminis...
Epic says its Game Store has 58M MAUs, up from 56M at the end of 2020 and 32M in 2019; Steam's Valve had 120M MAUs in 2020
Nick Statt / Protocol :
Metabase, which makes open-source analytics and business intelligence software, raises $30M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing total raised to $42.5M
Christine Hall / TechCrunch :
Google shares data for the first time on geofence warrants received from US authorities: 8.3K in 2019, 11K in 2020; federal law enforcement made up 4% of total
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch : Tweets: @goyal_abhei and @zackwhittaker Tweets: Abhishek Goyal / @goyal_abhei : Geofence warrants in US help to identify people of interest who were in the near vicinity...
Balto, which uses AI to enable call centers to improve conversations in real time, raises $37M Series B led by Stripes, bringing its total raised to $51.2M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Facebook says it is testing Reels in the News Feed and Groups in the US, after launching the feature in India, Mexico, and Canada earlier this year
How Big Tech companies use shell corporations to get massive tax breaks from US cities for data centers that create few jobs and consume a lot of power
Sources: data analytics service Databricks is raising new funding at a valuation of $38B, with Morgan Stanley leading a round of at least $1.5B
D1 Brands, which acquires third-party merchants selling on Amazon's marketplace, raises $123M Series A led by CoVenture and Crossbeam Venture Partners
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
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