Twitter says it is testing Communities, invite-only topic-based public feeds curated by moderators, initially limited to a few topics, such as dogs and skincare
Twitter is a useful place for following breaking news and keeping up with what the people you're already interested in are doing … Source: Twitter .
Coinbase says SEC threatened to sue over its yet-to-be-launched Lend program, following discussions with the regulator that have lasted almost six months
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Amazon introduces the Fire TV Stick 4K Max, its new flagship streaming device, with WiFi 6 and faster performance, for $55, shipping October 7
And it still comes in at an appealing $54.99 price — Amazon is today introducing a new flagship streaming stick that joins the Fire TV Stick 4K, Fire TV Stick, and Fire TV Stick Lite.
Amazon launches the Fire TV Omni Series, its first smart TVs, starting at $410 and shipping in October
Amazon is officially in the TV set business. — After years of selling Fire TV devices that plug into third-party HDTVs and teaming with TV makers for Fire TV-based products … Source: About Amazon .
While SEC rules are hazy, Coinbase's Lend product likely does constitute a security; to avoid SEC oversight, Coinbase would need to be regulated like a bank
Is lending your Bitcoins a security? — Oh, sure, yes, absolutely. The rule in the U.S. is that an “investment contract,” …
Facebook launches $299 Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses in six countries including the US; users can capture photo and video, listen to music, or take phone calls
Hands-on with Facebook and Ray-Ban's first pair of smart glasses — Starting Thursday, the first pair of smart glasses …
Microsoft indefinitely postpones the return to its offices in the US, saying it has “decided against attempting to forecast a new date for a full reopening”
The pandemic keeps pushing back Microsoft's plans — Microsoft is shelving its plans to fully reopen its US offices next month. Source: The Official Microsoft Blog .
Twitter begins testing emoji reactions to tweets, starting with five options, in Turkey on iOS and Android for a limited time
Starting today, Twitter is testing Tweet Reactions in Turkey for a limited time. Users in the region will be able to react to tweets using , , , , in addition to .
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro temporarily bans social media companies from removing accounts and content that violate their rules, ahead of a presidential election
The new rules in Brazil appear to be the first national policy that restricts how tech companies can control their sites, analysts say.
Amazon announces updates to its Luna game streaming service, including Chromebook support, a $2.99/month family tier for 35 games, and local co-op Couch mode
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : Source: Amazon Luna .
Sources: Chinese regulators are slowing approvals for all new online games, revealing the move in a meeting with Tencent and NetEase
Sources said the move to slow down new video game approvals is in line with Beijing's initiative to reduce gaming addiction in minors It is unclear …
UK network Three joins EE and Vodafone in adding a £2/day charge for EU roaming starting May 2022; O2 will offer free EU roaming as an add-on for some plans
Three has become the latest UK mobile network to reintroduce EU roaming fees, in another post-Brexit setback for customers traveling abroad. Source: Three Media Centre .
Microsoft says it has fixed a flaw that could have let hackers access the data of some Azure customers; Palo Alto Networks reported the flaw in July
Microsoft (MSFT.O) warned some of its Azure cloud computing customers that a flaw discovered by security researchers could have allowed hackers access to their data. Source: Microsoft Security … .
Hackers leak a list of ~500K Fortinet VPN login names and passwords; a source in the IT security industry says at least some of the leaked credentials are valid
A threat actor has leaked a list of almost 500,000 Fortinet VPN login names and passwords that were allegedly scraped from exploitable devices last summer.
Xiaomi says its upcoming 11T flagship series will get three years of OS updates and four years of security updates, matching Samsung and Google
Ahead of the release of the Xiaomi 11T Pro and 11T, the Chinese firm is promising extended support for the upcoming duo with three years … Source: Mi Blog .
Twitter says it is testing edge-to-edge pictures and videos in tweets on iOS to better support visual and text-based conversations
Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge : Tweets: @twittersupport , @boo , @simoncurtis , @larakate , and @megalo224 Tweets: @twittersupport : Now testing on iOS: Edge to edge Tweets that span the width of t...
Google announces Workspace updates, including spaces for collaboration, Meet calling within Gmail, and 27" and 65" video calling devices by Logitech and Avocor
A new GamesBeat event is Google today announced a series of updates across Workspace, its collection of cloud computing … Source: Google Cloud Blog .
Mastercard acquires CipherTrace, which offers a crypto-focused analytics service that specializes in anti-money laundering and forensics
Mastercard has announced that it has acquired cryptocurrency tracking firm CipherTrace with a view to providing “additional transparency and support” for the emerging ecosystem of digital assets.
Snyk, which helps fix vulnerabilities in open source dependencies and container images, raises $300M at a $8.5B valuation, up ~2x from its March valuation
Boston-Based cyber security software startup Snyk on Wednesday said it raised $300 million in fresh funds and the company was now valued at $8.5 billion.
Investigation reveals how social media influencers in Kenya are hired to spread disinformation on Twitter against Kenyan journalists, judges, and activists
It's a lucrative gig for content creators, who can make $10 to $15 a day by smearing journalists and activists on social media.
FOIA records show Google settled with a software engineer allegedly fired for his workplace activism in 2019; settlement was approved in July by the NLRB
- U.S. Labor Board said five employees were wrongly terminated — Trial is ongoing over remaining allegations against company
Spain's La Liga soccer league partners with French platform Sorare to offer NFTs of all its players, the first major European soccer league to do so
Spain's La Liga has become the first of Europe's top soccer leagues to offer non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for all its players.
Mobile banking startup Varo Money raises $510M Series E at a $2.5B valuation, which it says is up ~5x since May 2020, bringing total raised to $992.4M
Varo Bank, which last year became the first U.S. neobank to be granted a national bank charter, announced this morning it has raised …
Documents: LAPD directs its officers to collect social media information of every civilian they interview, including those not arrested or accused of a crime
Australia's High Court affirms earlier rulings that media companies can be held responsible for Facebook comments posted under stories on their Facebook Pages
Affinity, which offers AI-powered CRM tools, raises $80M Series C led by Menlo Ventures at a $600M valuation, bringing total funding to $120M
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Researchers: China-linked fake social media accounts tried to draw Asian-Americans to protests against racism; Facebook, YouTube, Twitter suspended the accounts
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal : Source: FireEye .
US Commerce Dept. says it is forming the National AI Advisory Committee, which will advise POTUS and federal agencies on AI research, competitiveness, and more
consider nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the National AI Advisory Committee: https://www.commerce.gov/... @nist : Experts in artificial intelligence: @CommerceGov is looking for leaders...
Amazon says it will offer to cover 100% of college tuition for its 750,000 hourly employees in the US after 90 days of employment, starting in January 2022
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
Tinder launches an Explore section, letting users find matches based on over 15 interests, initially in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand
Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal : Source: Tinder Newsroom .
NYC police officers and critics describe the NYPD's growing use of post-9/11 digital surveillance tools, initially used for counterterrorism, in minor cases
because of 9/11, because of other terrorist attacks and things that have happened — unquestionable, unchecked power."https://www.nytimes.com/ ... Arthur Holland Michel / @writearthur : Crazy tidbit he...
Tim Berners-Lee joins Proton board in privacy advisory role, amid privacy backlash at ProtonMail, which disclosed an activist's IP address to Swiss authorities
Gareth Halfacree / The Register :
Security researchers say Apple's bug bounty program is undermined by Apple's insular culture, confusion about payments, and long delays in fixing bugs
Reed Albergotti / Washington Post :
Milan-based buy now, pay later service Scalapay raises $155M Series A led by Tiger Global
Dan Taylor / Tech.eu :
A look at Sila Nanotechnologies' new battery model, which ships in the new Whoop wearable and may fuel a change in energy storage for electric cars and more
Cade Metz / New York Times : Tweets: @silagene , @kurtkelty , @silananotech , @shaylekann , and @gleb_yushin Tweets: Gene Berdichevsky / @silagene : “New kinds of batteries may not dazzle consumers l...
PayPal to acquire Japan-based Paidy, a buy now, pay later service, for $2.7B in cash; PayPal expects the deal to be completed by December
Singapore-based online gaming and e-commerce company Sea is seeking to raise about $6.28B in a secondary offering of stock and equity-linked debt
your regular reminder that going public can be an absolute game-changer in SE Asia https://twitter.com/...
AI ethics chiefs at Google, IBM, and Microsoft say their companies rejected client requests for developing AI for credit scoring, facial recognition, and more
Canadian startup Nuula, which offers app-based financial services for SMBs, raises $20M equity and a $100M credit facility
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Source: PR Newswire .
As carmakers use infotainment systems to stand out from competitors, the essentially unregulated displays are becoming flashy, feature-packed distractions
Lenovo unveils the 14-inch IdeaPad Slim 7 Carbon and 16-inch Slim 7 Pro laptops, powered by AMD, both expected by October and priced from $1,290
Munich- and Beijing-based robotics startup Agile Robots, which will work with Foxconn, raises $220M led by SoftBank, source says at a ~$1B post-money valuation
Shai Oster / The Information :
Resecurity: hackers gained access to UN's proprietary project management tool Umoja from April 5 to August 7, stealing an unknown amount of data
Bloomberg : Tweets: @williamturton and @williamturton Tweets: William Turton / @williamturton : NEW: Hackers breached the UN's computer networks earlier this year and made off with a trove of data th...
Mobile game publisher Jam City raises $350M in equity and debt, after a $1.2B SPAC merger fell apart, and buys rival Ludia for $165M
Filing: Nvidia requests European Commission approval of its Arm acquisition, beginning the EU's official probe; provisional deadline for a ruling is Oct. 13
TrueFort, which protects enterprise apps by defining normal app behavior and then tracking usage through partners like CrowdStrike, raises $30M Series B
Aviva Links, which aims to make chips to enable low-latency data-sharing in connected cars, raises $26.5M Series A led by Marvell Technology's founders
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Shutterstock acquires Seattle-based online photo editing service PicMonkey for $110M in cash
Documents show Microsoft and AWS secured contracts, worth $50M total, that appear linked to the Pentagon's Project Maven, following Google's exit
Thomas Brewster / Forbes : Tweets: @iblametom and @carnage4life Tweets: Thomas Brewster / @iblametom : NEW - After Google stopped working on drone surveillance software for the DOD Project Maven in 2...
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