NY governor signs a bill to suspend the use of facial recognition and other biometric ID tech in schools until July 2022, the first such regulation in the US
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Apple will reduce its App Store cut to 15% from any developer who earns less than $1M in revenue per year from all their apps, starting January 1
but there's a catch Firstpost Tech : Apple to cut App Store commission from 30 to 15 percent for developers with up to $1 million annual revenue Stephen Warwick / iMore : Fury as Tim Sweeney compares ...
Apple has agreed to allow Facebook to process payments for its paid online events feature via Facebook Pay, without taking a 30% cut, until December 31
for now — when Facebook sells online classes Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat : Facebook takes a shot at Apple over stance on paid online events for game creators Bloomberg : Apple to Let Facebook Online ...
Google says it won't “build custom AI/ML algorithms to facilitate upstream extraction in the oil and gas industry”, after new Greenpeace report on Big Oil ties
How Tech Companies are Helping Big Oil Profit … Sam Shead / CNBC : Google plans to stop making A.I. tools for oil and gas firms Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica : Google pledges not to make custom softwa...
Sources: after complaints about privacy practices around children's videos on YouTube, FTC is in late stages of a probe, causing YouTube to rethink its strategy
Data Sheet Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter : YouTube Reportedly In Late Stages Of Federal Investigation For Violating Children's Privacy Laws Haydn Taylor / GamesIndustry.biz : YouTube reportedly under inves...
Cameron Poetzscher, a top dealmaker at Uber, has resigned following report about allegations of sexual misconduct
The Unexplored Gold in Apple's Advertising Opportunities Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios : Uber's top dealmaker resigns Becky Peterson / Business Insider : Uber's top dealmaker and trusted adviser to the CEO...
Openpath, a workplace security startup that lets employees enter offices with their phone, raises $20M Series B led by Emergence Capital
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Sources: Amazon Web Services is considering selling its own networking switches to business customers, challenging companies like Cisco, Juniper, and Arista
For Now Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch : Cisco and other networking stocks plunge amid Amazon competition fears Mitch Wagner / Light Reading : Will Amazon White Box Switches Take On Cisco, Juniper & Ar...
SF Board of Supervisors voted to regulate electric scooters from startups such as Bird and Spin, requiring them to apply for a permit to operate on city streets
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Experts reveal 13 alleged flaws in AMD Ryzen and EPYC chips, just 24 hours after showing AMD, that allow malware to be installed on secure portions of the chips
And Face Their Own Backlash Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware : Report Claims AMD Ryzen, EPYC CPUs Contain 13 Security Flaws (Updated) Viceroy Research : AMD - The Obituary — Viceroy analyze CTS Labs' re...