Sir Clive Sinclair, the creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum who helped popularize the home computer, dies at age 81
Creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum and the less commercially successful C5 died after a long illness — Sir Clive Sinclair, the inventor and entrepreneur who was instrumental …
Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents
- Facebook Instagram chief Adam Mosseri came under a flurry of criticism after comparing the value of social networks to society to that of cars. Source: Apple Podcasts .
Apple and Google remove jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's tactical voting app from their stores, bowing to Russian pressure
Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) and Apple (AAPL.O) have removed jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's tactical voting app from their stores, his team said on Friday …
Internal docs show Facebook's weak response after staff flagged human traffickers and drug cartels using its platform for recruitment in developing countries
Employees raised alarms about how the site is used in developing countries, where its user base is already huge and expanding
Apple and Google remove jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's app that coordinated protest voting, bowing to Russian pressure on the eve of an election
The app, from the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, vanished from online stores as polls opened in the parliamentary election it was designed to sway.
Initial benchmarks show iPhone 13's A15 chip offers a roughly 15% improvement for GPU performance and 10%-18% improvement for CPU performance over A14
Geekbench 5 Score 14216 Metal Score Geekbench 5.4.1 for iOS AArch64 Result … Dashia Starr / CNET : AT&T's ‘free’ iPhone 13 trade-in offer is now available: What you need to know Oliver Haslam / iMore ...
How law enforcement's ability to track people via commercially available data blurs the line between investigative due diligence and warrantless surveillance
Agencies' growing use of purchased data without warrants raises new legal questions — In January 2020, a 14-year-old girl …
Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines
Company documents show antivaccine activists undermined the CEO's ambition to support the rollout by flooding the site …
Internal Facebook report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US users/month before the 2020 election; 75% of these users didn't follow any of their Pages
In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook's most popular pages for Christian … Tweets: @_karenhao , @profcarroll , @melissaryan , @adam_k_levin , @katestarb...
Telegram has exploded as an alternative to the dark web where criminals buy, sell, and share stolen data and hacking tools
New research shows growing network of hackers sharing data leaks on encrypted messaging app — Telegram has exploded as a hub for cybercriminals looking to buy …
Sources: Biden admin is preparing an array of actions, including sanctions on some crypto wallets and exchanges next week, hoping to disrupt ransomware payments
Biden administration hopes to disrupt digital finance infrastructure that facilitates ransomware cyberattacks, a threat traced to Russia
Facebook says it will use the same tactics that it uses to remove bot networks to target real-user accounts engaging in tactics like mass reporting
but it's got bigger problems from its past James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Facebook introduces new tactic to fight ‘social harm’ DW.COM : Facebook deletes accounts of German anti-lockdown group Tweets:...
Roboflow, which provides tools for developers to build computer vision models, raises $20M Series A led by Craft Ventures
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! — Roboflow, a Des Moines …
Nate Chastain, OpenSea's head of product accused this week of a form of NFT insider trading, appears to no longer be working for the company
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Avalanche Foundation, whose AVAX token is up 65% over the past week, raises $230M led by Polychain and Three Arrows Capital
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Inside the r/aznidentity subreddit, an unofficial hub of “Men's Rights Asians” subculture, which has gained notoriety by harassing Asian women
Aaron Mak / Slate : Tweets: @ultraviolet , @irenemcho , @adatseng , @eileenxhuang , @er_ique , and @rebeccaseung Tweets: @ultraviolet : “When confronted with the reality and the harm that they were c...
Glean, an enterprise search engine startup cofounded by Google and Facebook veterans, emerges from stealth with $55M in funding across two rounds
When Arvind Jain left his cushy tech job to cofound cloud data management company Rubrik, he ran into a familiar problem: search. Tweets: @kleinerperkins , @wowitsmrinal , @mamoonha , and @tonygentilc...
Tencent now lets WeChat users link to rival services such as Taobao or Douyin for the first time, complying with demands by Chinese regulators
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Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella sues to stop co-founder Dash from selling the copyright to Jay-Z's debut album as an NFT, saying he has no legal right to do so
- Rapper battles co-founder Dash over NFT rights to debut album — Lawsuits proliferate as non-fungible token market takes off Tweets: @sree , @justinaknope , and @aaronwall See also Mediagazer Twee...
DHS: American extremists used TikTok in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 riots to recruit new members and share “tactical guidance” for terrorist and criminal activity
and an indication that TikTok has crossed the brand ubiquity chasm to reach Facebook level familiarity in pop references to a platform. https://twitter.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Any app ...
Brooklyn-based Genius, a music-annotating startup that provides context for lyrics, sells its assets for $80M, less than the total funding it raised
> @Genius — one of the most unlikable tech startups of the past decade-plus, which promised to “debunk the myth of scientific journalism” with its “homiesourcing” — just got sold for less than what in...
Rune Labs, whose software aggregates brain data from multiple sources into an integrated environment, raises $22.8M Series A led by Eclipse Ventures
but the aptly named @Rune_Labs is on the case. https://www.fiercebiotech.com/ ...
Digital identity management firm ForgeRock closed up 46% in its NYSE debut for a market cap of ~$2.9B, after raising roughly $275M in its IPO
Bloomberg :
China is cracking down on pessimistic financial blogs and social media accounts, as well as fraudulent ones; analysts worry independent voices will be silenced
Financial Times : Tweets: @chigrl , @depappas , @gordongchang , @carnage4life , @fritz844 , @sonaliranade , @campuscodi , and @gonglei89 See also Mediagazer Tweets: Tracy / @chigrl : Next level opaqu...
Grailed, a streetwear resale platform, raises $60M Series B led by competitor Goat Group with participation from Thrive Capital and Index Ventures
Lucy Maguire / Vogue Business :
London-based Tyk, which offers open source tools for businesses to manage APIs, raises $35M led by Scottish Equity Partners
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Researchers say they identified around 10,000 Telegram users claiming to sell fake vaccination cards, with sellers often asking for sensitive personal info
Senator Markey and Reps. Castor and Trahan wrote to Facebook calling on it to abandon its plans to launch an Instagram app for kids in light of WSJ's report
Omaze, a charity fundraising platform which offers celebrity meet-and-greets and other experiences, raises $85M Series C led by Moore Strategic Ventures
Michaella Huck / dot.LA :
Whatnot, a livestreaming service for buying and selling collectibles, raises $150M Series C at a $1.5B valuation, its third fundraising round in 2021
UN rights chief calls for a moratorium on sale and use of AI tech that threatens human rights, including facial recognition, until safeguards are put in place
Elodie Games, which makes cross-play, co-op games that run on PCs, mobile devices, and consoles, raises $32.5M Series A led by Galaxy Interactive and a16z
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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