Apple signs a multiyear NFL deal to have Apple Music replace Pepsi as the main sponsor for the Super Bowl halftime show; sources say the NFL was seeking ~$50M
Apple's pursuit of an N.F.L. media package has broadened to include a sponsorship of one of TV's most-watched events.
Australian telecom Optus suffers a cyberattack, potentially giving the hacker access to data on up to 9.8M customers, per the CEO; the police are investigating
Australian telecoms company says mass breach could have exposed birth dates, phone numbers and other personal data
CFTC fines blockchain protocol bZeroX and its team $250K for illegal off-exchange digital asset trading and files a civil action against its successor, Ooki DAO
The commission said bZeroX offered illegal, off-exchange trading of digital assets, and has also filed a civil action against the Ooki Dao.
Apple releases iOS 16.0.2 to fix repeated copy and paste prompts, a bug that caused cameras in iPhone 14 Pro models to shake in some third-party apps, and more
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Apple AirPods Pro (second-gen) review: improved ANC, sound quality, and clarity, but same old design, a Lightning connector, and no major new software features
the same, but also way better Andrew O'Hara / AppleInsider : Apple Watch Ultra is impressive, but can't replace my dive watch just yet Mashable : The new AirPods Pro look old but sound fresh Joe Rossi...
A look at Germany's hate speech laws, more restrictive than other Western countries, as 1,000+ are charged or punished since 2018 for online speech crimes
Battling far-right extremism, Germany has gone further than any other Western democracy to prosecute individuals for what they say online … Tweets: @satariano , @kashhill , @kashhill , @tjmcintyre , @...
London-based Hadean, which helps game developers scale their infrastructure to support multiplayer, raised a $30M Series A led by Molten Ventures
Hadean, a U.K.-based distributed, spatial computing startup that's setting out to build the infrastructure for the burgeoning metaverse …
A look at the crowded podcast market, where competition has made almost everything in the business more difficult, and some say no one is taking creative risks
It's been ages since the last blockbuster narrative show. What does that mean for the medium as an art form? Tweets: @jonquilynhill , @davechensky , @otherwilljames , @risj_oxford , @tonyamosley , @a...
Ex-Twitter staffer Anika Collier Navaroli reveals herself as the whistleblower who testified to the January 6 committee about Twitter's failure to curb Trump
In an exclusive interview with The Washington Post, a former Twitter official explains what motivated her startling Jan. 6 committee testimony
A look at anti-pornography “accountability apps” used by churches and parents; two apps exploited Android's accessibility permissions to track users' every move
Churches are using invasive phone-monitoring tech to discourage “sinful” behavior. Some software is seeing more than congregants realize.
Google unveils Chromecast with Google TV (HD), featuring a remote control and supporting only 1080p content with HDR, for $30; the 4K version costs $50
at a lower price Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers : Google showcases the Chromecast with Google TV (HD) in retail training video ahead of launch Cesar Cadenas / TechRadar : Google's new Chromecast is ...
Google's Mandiant say it observed four instances of pro-Russian hacktivist groups publishing data within 24 hours of it being stolen by GRU using wiper malware
'We have never previously observed such a volume of cyberattacks, variety of threat actors, and coordination of effort …
Leaked audio: at a Google all-hands, Sundar Pichai expressed some annoyance at staff questions about cost cutting, telling them not to “equate fun with money”
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai spent much of this week's all-hands meeting addressing employee concerns about company cost-cutting measures.
Timbaland and Swizz Beatz settle a missed payments lawsuit with Triller after Triller acquired their music series Verzuz in March 2021; terms were not disclosed
Swizz Beatz and Timbaland have settled their lawsuit with Triller, after suing the service last month for $28 million …
DARPA is launching a review of cryptocurrencies to assess threats to national security and law enforcement posed by the rise of digital assets
New project is part of the U.S. government's wider crackdown on illicit uses of digital assets — The military's innovation office is launching …
A US Senate committee votes to approve the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, letting news organizations jointly negotiate with big tech platforms
Fitbit plans to require a Google account for its new devices and features starting in 2023; Fitbit account users can keep using them “until at least early 2025”
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
India proposes a legal framework to regulate over-the-top communications services, including encrypted apps like WhatsApp and Signal, and intercept messages
France plans to impose a €3 minimum delivery fee for online book orders of less than €35 to help independent bookstores compete against big sellers like Amazon
Twitter informs some users that due to a bug, the company didn't close all of their active logged-in sessions on Android and iOS after their password was reset
TechCrunch :
Nielsen says Amazon Prime Video's first Thursday Night Football game averaged 13.03M viewers; Amazon claimed 15.3M viewers after guaranteeing advertisers 12.5M
DocuSign hires Google executive Allan Thygesen as CEO, starting on October 10; Dan Springer, the company's CEO for the past five years, stepped down in June
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
UK media regulator Ofcom plans to investigate the cloud computing, personal messaging, and smart device markets over the next year due to competition concerns
Ryan Browne / CNBC :
Ookla says global download and upload speeds for SpaceX's Starlink dropped from Q1 2022 to Q2 2022, amid network congestion problems due to soaring popularity
Michael Kan / PCMag :
Paris-based Prophesee, a fabless semiconductor startup building neuromorphic vision systems, raised a €50M Series C, bringing its total funding to ~€130M
Megha Paul / Tech.eu :
Alibaba Cloud, the third-largest public cloud provider with an estimated 9.5% market share in 2021, commits $1B to boost overseas alliances over three years
Rita Liao / TechCrunch :
Q&A with AOL founder Steve Case on his prediction that tech companies will flourish in the US heartland, the current investment slowdown, J.D. Vance, and more
and grilling him on what why he ghosted JD Vance (who led Case's heartlands venture fund) in his book. https://www.wired.com/... Ted Leonsis / @tedleonsis : .@SteveCase on #RiseOfRestBook and the grow...
Adobe argues Figma will help it rethink design tools for the cloud era; Adobe's competing product, XD, generated just $15M in annual revenue after seven years
Adobe executives think there's a lot that critics of its $20 billion purchase of Figma are missing. Tweets: @kantrowitz , @alexrkonrad , and @tolles . Thanks: @inafried Tweets: Alex Kantrowitz / @kant...
Some civil rights groups say they have seen little action from Meta, Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube to bolster election policies ahead of the 2022 US midterms
yet big tech companies continue to do little to stop the continued proliferation of election misinformation on their sites. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @globalextremism : @NaomiNixWrites cov...
AccessFintech, which helps financial institutions collaborate by sharing data, raised a $60M Series C led by WestCap, bringing its total funding to $97M
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he's confident regulators will approve the company's $69B Activision Blizzard purchase, citing several recent Sony acquisitions
Estonia-based 3Commas, an automated crypto trading and portfolio management service, raised a $37M Series B led by Target Global, Alameda, Jump Crypto, and more
Brandy Betz / CoinDesk :
In 70+ lawsuits against Meta, Snap, TikTok, and Google, parents are making product liability claims, blaming algorithms for kids' mental health issues, and more
and are causing real-world harm. https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @BW
Twitter expands its Moderation Research Consortium, for studying its platform governance issues, from select trusted partners to letting all researchers apply
A Delaware judge rules that Elon Musk can amend his counterclaims with Twitter's $7.8M severance to Peiter Zatko to argue he was justified in ending the deal
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.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.