Apple delays the rollout of recently announced child safety features, says it will take more time to collect feedback from stakeholders and make improvements
Last month, Apple announced a handful of new child safety features that proved to be controversial, including CSAM detection features for iCloud Photos.
Filings: NLRB is investigating two complaints by Apple employees, including one by senior engineering PM Ashley Gjøvik who alleges workplace harassment and more
The U.S. National Labor Relations Board is investigating two cases filed by employees against Apple, records on the agency's website show.
Sources: Amazon will launch its own TV featuring Alexa and no third-party manufacturer branding in the US, possibly as soon as October
- Amazon is planning to roll out its own Amazon-branded TV, Insider has learned. — A US launch is targeted for as soon as October.
Sources: Apple's planned VR/AR headset will need a wireless connection to an Apple device for full functionality; Apple completed work on VR/AR chips last year
New details of the custom chips designed by Apple for its forthcoming virtual reality and augmented reality headset indicate …
Ireland's Data Protection Commission, on behalf of the EU, fines WhatsApp €225M for privacy violations, the second-largest fine under GDPR; WhatsApp will appeal
Regulators say chat-service unit failed to disclose fully how it collected and shared data about its users Source: Data Protection Commission .
Apple's updated rules allowing web signup links appear to apply only to apps that don't make much money for Apple, like Netflix and Spotify
It's for apps that don't make Apple any money anyways — While vocal app developers accused Apple last week of spinning a lawsuit settlement …
Following Texas' abortion law, tech companies could face suits over providing on-demand rides to clinics, subpoenas requesting user data, and more
With the Supreme Court deciding not to block Texas' effective ban on abortion this week, fears have been rightly focused on the people in Texas …
Sources: Reddit is planning an IPO for as soon as early 2022, following a $10B valuation in August
Reddit Inc, the operator of online message boards that became the go-to destination for day traders chasing this year's frenzy for so-called ‘meme’ stocks, is seeking to hire investment bankers …
Dom Hofmann's Loot, with NFTs of random lists of items ostensibly from a fantasy video game, had $46M in sales in just 5 days, attaining a market cap of $180M+
The latest non-fungible token (NFT) craze is among the simplest - and the strangest - yet: a randomly generated list …
Indian non-profit Together We Fight Society has filed a complaint with the Competition Commission of India accusing Apple of anticompetitive App Store practices
Aditya Kalra / Reuters :
NYU study: from August 2020 to January 2021, publishers known for putting out misinfo got six times more engagement than trustworthy news sources like WHO
Right-leaning pages also produce more misinformation, the forthcoming study found. — A new study of user behavior on Facebook around … Tweets: @kevinroose , @lizzadwoskin , @justinhendrix , @froomki...
Sources: the city of Beijing has proposed an investment in Didi Global that would give state-run firms control of the world's largest ride hailing company
- State-backed firm Shouqi Group part of potential consortium — Proposal lets China control world's largest ride-hailing firm
State of 5G in the US: New York had the fastest download speed at 114 Mbps, while Vermont had the slowest at 42.2 Mbps but the best 5G video experience
As U.S. carriers continue to hit new milestones in their 5G network rollouts, Opensignal has now conducted the most comprehensive analysis …
General Motors says it is temporarily halting production at six of its North American factories due to the global chip shortage
and this is the culprit Michael Wayland / CNBC : GM to significantly cut North American vehicle production due to chip shortage David Shepardson / Reuters : GM to cut North American production, citing...
JD.com's real estate unit has agreed to buy a controlling stake in China Logistics in a deal valuing the company at ~$2.1B, a 7% premium to Wednesday's close
- E-commerce giant agrees to acquire controlling stake — Offer price is about a 7% premium to Wednesday close
Gamesight data shows a dip in Twitch viewership on Wednesday, possibly 5%-15%, as some streamers took #ADayOffTwitch to bring awareness to “hate raids”
and it might be just the beginning: https://www.wired.com/... #ADayOffTwitch https://twitter.com/... Dan Telfer / @dantelfer : My Twitch stream will be dark this week in solidarity of #ADayOffTwitch a...
Federal judge rules that AI can't be listed as an inventor on patents because US law requires that an “individual” take an oath that he or she is the inventor
- Federal judge says AI can't be listed as inventor on patents — Case is first U.S. ruling in global dispute over AI inventions
A doge meme NFT that sold for $4M in June is now valued at $225M+ after it was fractionalized into nearly 17B tokens and sold in a one-day auction
Muyao Shen / CoinDesk :
Dallas-based Match Group creates a fund to help cover costs for staff and dependents who need care outside of Texas after the state's near-total ban on abortion
Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg :
Apple begins prompting iOS 15 users for consent to enable Personalized Ads for their Apple ID, which was previously on by default and led to antitrust scrutiny
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac :
Sources: Twitter is testing new privacy-focused tools, including archiving and hiding old tweets and editing follower lists, as part of a “social privacy” push
Users will soon be able to remove followers. This is currently only possible by blocking someone. Twitter plans to test this feature starting this month.” https://twitter.com/... @fancytomboy : Thank ...
Sources: AWS plans to hire content moderators to look for emerging extremist groups and remove content that violates its cloud service policies
you are at risk of being removed from the internet. Until you move, your internet belongs to them. https://www.reuters.com/... Mike Daodas / @mdudas : the open internet was cool while it lasted look, ...
China's SMIC will spend $8.87B to build a plant on the outskirts of Shanghai and set up a $5.5B joint venture with Shanghai's government to oversee the project
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China says it will set up a new stock exchange in Beijing that will primarily serve “innovation-oriented SMEs”
Corelight, which offers a network traffic analysis and security service to enterprises, raises $75M Series D, bringing its total raised to $160M
Corelight, a San Francisco-based startup that claims to offer the industry's first open network detection and response (NDR) platform …
HPE beats in Q3 with revenue of $6.9B, up 1% YoY, Intelligent Edge revenue of $867M, up 27% YoY, and HPC & MCS revenue of $741M, up 11% YoY
Connor Smith / Barron's Online :
Twitter launches Super Follows for iOS, letting a select group of US test users charge either $2.99, $4.99, or $9.99 per month for their tweets
Kait Sanchez / The Verge :
Point, a neobank, raises $46.5M Series B led by Valar Ventures, bringing its total raised to $60M
congrats to the team on your $46.5M raise! https://ow.ly/...
Bangkok-based Sunday, which uses AI and ML to provide personalized insurance products and services, raises $45M Series B from Tencent and other investors
a huge round for a Thai startup but one with regional ambitions https://techcrunch.com/...
Facebook Gaming expands its program that lets streamers play some copyrighted music during live streams from 1,000 to 100,000 streamers
Delivery Hero raises €1.25B via convertible notes, its third equity-linked issuance in less than two years
Bloomberg : Tweets: @bloombergau Tweets: Bloomberg Australia / @bloombergau : Delivery Hero has raised $1.5 billion, with plans to grow the company as customers continue ordering food and grocery del...
Roblox adds voice chat, initially in some games as “spatial audio” where players chat with others around them, and plans a Discord-like persistent voice chat
Jeeves, which is building tools to help startups manage expenses, raises $57M Series B at a $500M valuation, after raising $31M equity and $100M debt in June
Facebook says it helped airlift 175 Afghan citizens out of Afghanistan to Mexico, including journalists and some of its own employees
Panorama, which provides K-12 education software to 50 of the largest 100 school districts in the US, raises $60M Series C, bringing total funding to $105M
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch : Tweets: @geoffreylitt , @aaronfeuer , @generalatlantic , and @jeff Tweets: Geoffrey Litt / @geoffreylitt : Excited that my former employer @PanoramaEd now serves 13 mi...
Simba Chain, which provides a blockchain-based smart contract service to several US defense organizations, raises $25M Series A led by Valley Capital
Erhan Kahraman / Cointelegraph :
Callin, a social audio app founded by David Sacks that offers tools for turning live recordings into podcasts, raises $12M Series A led by Sequoia and others
EU court rules that “zero tariff” offers from Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom that offer unlimited streaming violate EU roaming and net neutrality rules
Botify, which offers AI-powered SEO tools, raises $55M Series C led by InfraVia Growth, bringing total funding to $82M
Solv, a provider of same-day and next-day appointment software for health care providers, raises $45M Series C co-led by Acrew Capital and Corner Ventures
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