Sources: the US DOJ is in the early stages of drafting a potential antitrust complaint against Apple but has not decided whether or when to sue the company
Justice Department lawyers are in the early stages of drafting a potential antitrust complaint against Apple, according to a person …
An interview with Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko; some current and former Twitter employees suggest some of his allegations are misleading or overblown
Peiter Zatko, the Twitter whistle-blower, is a black belt in jiu-jitsu. The day before his complaint against the social media company …
Google brings back the original Google Duo icon and name as a shortcut to Google Meet in Android's app launcher, in an attempt to mitigate user confusion
In an amusing turn of events today that's most likely a bug, an update to Google Meet (which was previously the Duo app) on Android brings back the Google Duo icon.
Sources: Netflix may launch its ad-supported tier in 2022 in a half dozen markets, and plans to charge $7-$9/month in the US, with ~4 minutes of ads per hour
Netflix Inc. is considering pricing its new advertising-supported tier at $7 to $9 a month, half as much as its current …
Meta's VP of Horizon, Vivek Sharma, is leaving the company after six years; the Horizon team will report directly to Meta's VP of Metaverse, Vishal Shah
- Vivek Sharma has been with Meta for six years and was most recently its VP of Horizon. — Sharma's team will now report directly to Meta's VP of metaverse Vishal Shah.
Kaspersky details how the North Korean APT Kimsuky is using a multi-stage validation scheme to ensure their malware is only downloaded by specific targets
The North Korean ‘Kimsuky’ threat actors are going to great lengths to ensure that their malicious payloads are only downloaded … Source: Securelist .
Twilio says hackers accessed the accounts of 93 users of its 2FA app Authy as part of its recent breach, effectively letting the attackers generate login codes
U.S. messaging giant Twilio has confirmed hackers also compromised the accounts of some Authy users as part of a wider breach of Twilio's systems.
Facebook agrees in principle to settle a lawsuit alleging it violated consumer privacy laws by sharing user data with 3rd parties, including Cambridge Analytica
Meta Platforms Inc's Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages …
Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more
Mark Zuckerberg is the chief executive of Meta Platforms Inc. … David Molloy / BBC : Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship Justin Carter / Game Developer : Meta's n...
Analysis of carrier data sent to FCC: 10 of the top 15 US carriers collect geolocation data and don't let users opt out; most keep data for two years on average
Ten of the top 15 mobile carriers collect geolocation data and provide no way for consumers to opt-out, according to information …
Shuffles, Pinterest's invite-only collage-making iOS app that launched in late July, is going viral on TikTok; Sensor Tower estimates the app has ~338K installs
Collage-style video “mood boards” are going viral on TikTok — and so is the app making them possible.
Netflix is testing “game handles” in some mobile games, and code suggests it's developing other social gaming features like the ability to invite others to play
Netflix is developing features that would allow members to play its mobile games with one another and competitively rank themselves on gaming leaderboards.
An overview of Ethereum's proof-of-stake Merge upgrade, which is set for September 15 and is expected to cut energy use by ~99%, and some of the risks involved
A long-awaited upgrade to Ethereum, the most popular crypto platform, may make the technology more environmentally sustainable.
California's AG says Sephora agreed to pay $1.2M for failing to tell customers that it was selling their data, marking the start of CCPA privacy law enforcement
failure to disclose it was selling consumer data and failure to adhere to GPC opt-out signals. https://oag.ca.gov/... Wafa Ben-Hassine / @ousfourita : This is the first #CCPA enforcement action. $1.2M...
DoorDash says hackers accessed some of its internal tools and customer information after compromising a third-party vendor through the Twilio breach on August 4
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Some Google staff say they are getting a lot of COVID-19 exposure notifications after returning to office; unvaccinated staff ask Google to drop vaccine mandate
- Google employees say they've been receiving a deluge of Covid exposure notifications since being asked to return to offices. Tweets: @jenn_elias and @jenn_elias . Thanks: @mattrosoff Tweets: Jennife...
El Salvador appears to be heading deeper into an economic crisis with funding sources drying up, one year after it adopted bitcoin as legal tender
Daniel Alvarenga / Rolling Stone : Tweets: @rollingstone and @rollingstone Tweets: @rollingstone : El Salvador's authoritarian government is continuing to crack down on citizens speaking out against ...
US and China announce a deal to share audits of US-listed Chinese companies like Alibaba; US says it is preparing to begin audits in Hong Kong by mid-September
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Nvidia says it is dealing with excess inventory of RTX 3000-series GPUs ahead of its next-gen RTX 4000 series release, signaling that the GPU shortage is over
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica :
Gartner: global spending on tech, including cloud services, is expected to rise ~3% in 2022, well below the 10% annual growth in 2021 and the nearly 7% in 2020
Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @siddarthpaim Tweets: Siddarth Pai / @siddarthpaim : After years of pandemic-fueled gains, cloud companies are contending with a more conservative busines...
Equinix and Digital Realty, the world's two biggest data center operators, are stockpiling diesel for back-up power in case of winter blackouts across Europe
Financial Times : Tweets: @sam_l_shead Tweets: Sam Shead / @sam_l_shead : Courtesy reminder that if data centres go offline the world grinds to a complete halt https://twitter.com/...
TikTok has cut jobs in its US advertising department as part of a restructuring, offering affected employees the chance to find roles in other units
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information :
IRCTC, which has a monopoly on online train ticket booking in India, scraps plans to monetize customer data following uproar when its plans were uncovered
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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