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21 October 2021 16:20

Facebook rebrand, Trump’s social network, and Elon’s boring company
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 403

👉 Sources: #MarkZuckerberg has not settled on a new name for #Facebook, which could be announced as early as Monday 🔗


👉 #Trump announces the Trump Media & Technology Group and #TRUTH Social, a social network coming in Nov. to “stand up” to Big Tech, in the #AppStore for preorder 🔗


🍎 Internal email: #Apple will test unvaccinated corporate staff each time they enter offices starting Nov. 1, and asks #US staff to report vaccine status by Oct. 24 🔗


🐦 #Twitter acquires London-based #Sphere, which develops a group chat app and has raised $30M to date 🔗


🇨🇳 Report: #Yahoo Finance's mobile app disappeared from the #AppStore in #China, days after republishing a #Bloomberg story critical of China's tech crackdown 🔗


👉 #FacebookMessenger now lets an entire group share an #AR experience 🔗


🚦 #ElonMusk’s #BoringCompany gets green light for Las Vegas tunnel system 🔗


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06 October 2021 15:59

Mark vs Frances, Telegram’s win, and new features
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 401

👉 #MarkZuckerberg says that #Facebook does not prioritize profit over safety and well-being and argues that many of #FrancesHaugen's claims don't make sense 🔗


👉 A #4chan user leaks alleged #Twitch source code, creator payouts from 2019-2021, proprietary SDKs and internal AWS services, and more; source says Twitch is aware 🔗


📈 #Telegram says it added 70M users on Monday amid the outage of #Facebook's products; Telegram recently reported passing 1B total downloads and 500M MAUs 🔗


👉 #Google announces updates to Search, Maps, Travel, and Nest, focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions for users 🔗


👉 #Google announces the #Pixel 6 virtual launch event will be on October 19 at 10am PT 🔗


🎧 #Apple's latest #AirPods Pro and AirPods Max firmware update adds Find My feature support 🔗


👉 #Amazon updates #Alexa on #iOS and #Android with an opt-in feature to make Alexa wait longer for users to finish speaking, to help those with speech impediments 🔗


📺 #Instagram ditches the #IGTV brand and combines IGTV's long-form videos and Instagram Feed videos into a new Instagram Video format; #Reels is unaffected 🔗


👻 #Snapchat adds ‘challenges’ with cash prizes to its #TikTok competitor 🔗


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02 October 2021 20:51

Apple’s next iPad Mini, Clubhouse’s new features, and panic at Facebook
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 399

🍎 #Kuo: #Apple has canceled plans to release an #iPad Air with an OLED display in 2022 due to quality and cost concerns, will still release mini-LED 11" iPad Pro 🔗


👉 Sources: emergency meetings continue inside #Facebook amid #WSJ exposé, as some research staff decry Facebook's public response in group chats 🔗


👉 #Microsoft details #MicrosoftOffice 2021 features and pricing ahead of Oct. 5 release: Office Home and Student will cost $150 and Office Home and Business will cost $250 🔗)(/channel/iXNews/106401)


👋 #Clubhouse announces several features, including Clips, letting listeners snip 30 seconds of audio, and Replay, which lets hosts record a room 🔗


🐦🇳🇬 #Nigeria says it will lift #Twitter ban if the company meets certain conditions 🔗

🐦 #Twitter for Professionals will begin to roll out this week for businesses and creators 🔗

🐦 Donald #Trump sues to get his #Twitter account back 🔗


🍎 #iOS15 update to fix #AppleWatch unlock bug is here 🔗


👉 #Samsung seems to have pulled ads from its stock apps, as promised 🔗

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28 September 2021 13:39

Facebook’s metaverse, WSJ’s Instagram slide decks, and greener bitcoin
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 397

👉 #Facebook defines its #metaverse and plans to invest $50M over two years in programs and external research to “responsibly” build the “next computing platform” 🔗


👉 #NickClegg says #Facebook will release two internal slide decks central to #WSJ's story on #Instagram's impact on teens to the public “in the next few days” 🔗(/channel/iXNews/105923)


🤔 Hands-on with an #Android 12.1 build with support for foldable devices, including an updated taskbar, split-screen view, and more 🔗


💰🇺🇸 #Coinbase says it will let #US users directly deposit any percentage of their paychecks into their Coinbase account, in #USD or #cryptocurrencies 🔗


📈 #TikTok says it now has 1B MAUs 🔗


🌿 Some #bitcoin miners, including #TeraWulf and #CompassMining, are partnering with nuclear power plant owners amid criticism from environmentalists 🔗


👉 #FCC details a $1.9B program to reimburse mostly rural #US telecom carriers for removing network equipment made by Chinese companies like #Huawei and #ZTE 🔗


🎟 #LinkedIn confirms it is testing a new, paid ticketed events service and says 21M people attended an Event on LinkedIn in 2020 🔗


👾 #WarnerMusic signs a deal to use #Twitch's new content reporting system and launch dedicated Twitch channels for its artists 🔗


👉 #Skype reveals a colorful redesign, new features and performance upgrades 🔗


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24 September 2021 13:02

USB-C mandate in Europe, Bitcoin tips on Twitter, and nude-friendly Android photos
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 395

🇪🇺 #EuropeanCommission proposes legislation mandating USB-C charging for mobile devices, citing electronic waste; #Apple is the main USB-C holdout 🔗


🐦 #Twitter integrates #StrikeWallet to let users receive tips in #bitcoin, rolls out Tips globally on #iOS, and will explore support for #NFT authentication 🔗


👉 #Google announces a range of features for #Android, #GoogleTV, #GoogleAssistant, and #Gboard, including some that were previously #Pixel exclusives 🔗


🎮 #Xbox gets a new #Edge browser that can play #Stadia games, access #Discord, and more 🔗


🍄 #ChrisPratt and #CharlieDay headline the #MarioBros movie in 2022 🔗


🔇 If audio is missing from your #InstagramStories, a fix is on the way 🔗


👋 #Clubhouse launches ‘Wave,’ a new way to pull friends into audio chats 🔗


🐦 #Twitter will make it easier to discover and listen to #TwitterSpaces 🔗


👀 #GooglePhotos’ nude-friendly folders coming to all #Android phones soon 🔗


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22 September 2021 14:27

​​Facebook’s problems continue, Apple’s macOS fix isn’t working, and Netflix’s chocolate factory
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 393

👉 #Facebook's #OversightBoard wants the company to explain its “cross-check” system, which reportedly lets celebrities, politicians, and others break its rules 🔗


👉 #Facebook shareholders allege Facebook conditioned its $5B #CambridgeAnalytica settlement on the #FTC dropping plans to sue and depose #MarkZuckerberg 🔗


🍎 #macOS is susceptible to running arbitrary code when a user opens a malicious .inetloc file, and #Apple's first attempt to silently fix the issue failed 🔗


👉 Sources: #FBI refrained from sharing a #ransomware decryptor with businesses for almost three weeks, as it carried out an operation to disrupt the #REvil Gang 🔗


👉 Overview of the market for #NFTs, where the majority of #NFT assets sold on #OpenSea in the past 90 days have not seen another deal 🔗


👉 Following #WSJ's investigation series, #Facebook says it has spent over $13B on safety and security since the 2016 election and 40K employees work on these issues 🔗


🍫 #Netflix is acquiring the rights to #RoaldDahl’s books — like Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Matilda and James and the Giant Peach 🔗


🍎 #Apple Wallet is getting verifiable #COVID19 vaccination cards 🔗


👉 Gitamini is a cute, compact, cargo-carrying robot that will follow you around like a dog 🔗


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20 September 2021 12:34

​​Surface Pro 8 leaks, less screen time for kids in China, and opposition repression on Telegram
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 391

👉 A possible retail listing of #Surface Pro 8 with a 13" 120Hz display, narrow bezels, and two Thunderbolt ports leaks ahead of #Microsoft's event on Wednesday 🔗


🚗 #NTSB head says #Tesla shouldn't roll out its Full Self-Driving update with the city-driving tool before addressing safety deficiencies 🔗


📊 The #EpicGames v. #Apple ruling shows gaming apps account for ~70% of #AppStore revenue; in Q3 2017, <0.5% of Apple accounts made up 53.7% of all App Store billings 🔗


🇨🇳 #TikTok parent #ByteDance adds time limit for kids under 14 on its video app in #China 🔗


📱 #Google reportedly has a second foldable in the works 🔗


👉 #Amazon leaks new #Kindle Paperwhite models on its own site 🔗


🇷🇺 #Telegram blocks #Russia’s opposition leader's chat bots during vote 🔗


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19 October 2021 16:42

Apple’s Unleashed event, user spending on YouTube, and Google’s Pixel event
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 402

🍎 #Apple announces #M1Pro and #M1Max chips for Macs: M1 Pro is 70% faster than M1 and has 2x the GPU performance with a 32GB RAM limit; M1 Max supports 64GB RAM #AppleSilicon 🔗

🍎 #Apple unveils #MacBook Pros with 14.2" and 16.2" ProMotion displays with a notch, M1 Pro or Max chips, MagSafe, no Touch Bar, HDMI port, SD card slot, and more 🔗

⚡️ #Apple confirms its 140W charging brick, bundled with the 16-inch MacBook Pro, uses the USB-C PD 3.1 standard and is its first gallium nitride (GaN) charger 🔗


👉 #Facebook posts an odd thread attacking 30+ unnamed journalists “finishing up a coordinated series of articles based on thousands of pages of leaked documents” 🔗


👉 #Google says its Play Store labels that detail user data collection will launch in February 2022 🔗


💰 #YouTube passes $3B in global consumer spending on #iOS, ranking third behind #Tinder and #Netflix 🔗


📱 How to watch #Google’s #Pixel 6 Fall Launch event 🔗


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05 October 2021 14:17

Facebook’s outage, whistleblower, and stocks… Not a good day!
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 400

🚨 #Facebook's services and work tools return online after suffering a global outage for over six hours 🔗

👉 #Facebook says configuration changes on its backbone routers disrupted network traffic between its data centers, causing an outage across its platforms 🔗

👉 #Facebook employees and an internal memo say that, several hours into the incident, Facebook's security experts were still trying to identify the root issue 🔗


👀 #FacebookWhistleblower, #FrancesHaugen's prepared Senate testimony: #Facebook putting profits over safety has resulted in a system that amplifies division, extremism, and polarization 🔗

📉 #MarkZuckerberg's personal wealth fell ~$7B amid whistleblower exposé and #Facebook outages; Facebook stock dropped ~5% Monday and is down ~15% since mid-Sept. 🔗


🚔🇪🇺 #Europol announces the arrest of two alleged #ransomware gang members in #Ukraine, with help from #US and #France authorities, as some think they may belong to #REvil 🔗


👻 #Snapchat launches Run for Office portal to encourage users toward political campaigns 🔗


🪟 #Microsoft releases #Windows11 a day early 🔗


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29 September 2021 14:45

​​Amazon Astro and everything that comes with it, the latest on Netflix gaming, and Windows App Store
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 398

🤖 #Amazon debuts #Astro, a $1K short robot with an #EchoShow-like 10" display on top, meant to roam around the home; invite-only program is open for applications 🔗

🤖 Internal docs detail #Amazon's #Astro, including its use of facial recognition and “Sentry” mode; sources who worked on Astro say it is a “privacy nightmare” 🔗


🎮🇵🇱🇮🇹🇪🇸 #Netflix is launching a trio of members-only casual games in #Poland, #Italy and #Spain 🔗

🎮 #Netflix acquires its first game studio, #NightSchoolStudio, which was founded by #SeanKrankel and #AdamHines in 2014 and is best known for the game #Oxenfree 🔗


👶 #WSJ’s #TheFacebookFiles: #Facebook was “exploring playdates as a growth lever”, including engaging tweens as they hung out together 🔗


🪟 #Microsoft opens the #Windows app store to third-party app stores; #Amazon and #EpicGames will add the first storefront apps in the coming months 🔗


🐛 Researcher discloses #AirTag Lost Mode vulnerability that enables a phishing attack, and says #Apple spent three months investigating and refused basic questions 🔗


👉 #Valve reportedly developing standalone #VR headset codenamed ‘Deckard’ 🔗


🚀 #ElonMusk to #JeffBezos: ‘you cannot sue your way to the Moon’ 🔗


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27 September 2021 15:29

Instagram stops its kids app, Tesla’s full self-driving feature, and Apple’s issue
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 396

👉 #AdamMosseri says #Instagram is pausing work on #InstagramKids, after criticism from parents, experts, regulators, policymakers, and others 🔗


🚘 #Tesla begins letting drivers request its “Full Self-Driving” beta, prompting criticism from regulators and safety advocates 🔗


🍎🇨🇳 #Apple suppliers like #EsonPrecisionEngineering, #UnimicronTechnology, and #ConcraftHolding halt production until Friday as #China tightens its energy policy 🔗


🍎📱⌚️ #Apple says it will fix a bug preventing some #iPhone13 users from using the Unlock with #AppleWatch feature, in an upcoming software update 🔗


🐦 #Twitter shows off new concepts for filtering and limiting replies 🔗


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23 September 2021 11:59

​​Apple leaks and fights, Discord’s YouTube solution, and Microsoft’s event
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 394

🍏 #TimSweeney, CEO of Epic Games, says #Apple told #EpicGames that it will not consider reinstating Epic's developer account until all legal appeals have concluded, likely years from now 🔗


👉 #Facebook CTO #MikeSchroepfer says he will step down next year and shift into a part-time adviser role; #AndrewBosworth will become CTO 🔗


🍎 Leaked email: #TimCook says recent leakers of info about #Apple products and internal meetings “do not belong here” and the company is tracking them down 🔗


👉 #Discord is testing Watch Together, a feature that lets members broadcast #YouTube videos, after #Google forced the shutdown of two popular music bots on Discord 🔗


🦁 #Brave’s non-tracking, browser-based video conferencing tool is out of beta 🔗


🐦 #Twitter plans to stop tweets from disappearing when the timeline auto-refreshes, in a series of updates over the next two months 🔗


📺 #YouTube is testing letting Premium subscribers download videos from its desktop site through October 19 🔗


🍎 #AppleSilicon's GPU performance gains have averaged 19% YoY over the past five years, but the A15 Bionic jumped 52% 🔗 #Apple


👉 #Microsoft unveils #SurfaceDuo 2 with 8.3" 90Hz dual displays, three 12MP rear cameras, #Snapdragon 888, 5G, Android 11, curved screen for exterior notifications 🔗

👉 #Microsoft announces #Surface Pro 8 with a 13-inch edge-to-edge 120Hz display, Thunderbolt 4, Surface Slim Pen 2, up to 32GB of RAM, and more 🔗


🇺🇸🇲🇲 #US federal judge orders #Facebook to hand over records on posts removed for promoting violence against Rohingya Muslims in #Myanmar 🔗


🏹 #Robinhood muscles deeper into #Coinbase’s territory with new #crypto wallet feature 🔗


😋 Now you can use #emoji to search for food in #UberEats 🔗


🐛 An email ‘autodiscover’ bug is helping to leak thousands of #Windows passwords 🔗


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21 September 2021 13:19

​​The next iPhone - already! Free Netflix in Kenya, and Fortnite’s Balenciaga merch
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 392

🍎 #Kuo: an #iPhone SE with 5G is coming in H1 2022; a cheaper 6.7" iPhone and two high-end models with a punch-hole display and 48MP wide camera are due in H2 2022 🔗


📺🇰🇪 #Netflix launches a free plan in #Kenya with a quarter of the content from its paid plans, available only on #Android phones 🔗


🕶 #Netflix releases #EdenUnearthed, a free #VR game for #OculusQuest that appears to be related to a Netflix anime series 🔗


👉 #Coinbase quietly updates its blog to say it is tabling the launch of #CoinbaseLend, a product intended to pay users interest for lending out tokens, after #SEC pressure 🔗


🏹 A beta version of #Robinhood's #iOS app shows code and a waitlist page related to an unannounced #cryptocurrency wallet feature 🔗


🇹🇭 Researcher finds data on 106M international visitors to #Thailand, including passport numbers and travel records dating back a decade, were exposed on a database 🔗


👉 Sources: #Apple is working with #UCLA and #Biogen to identify depression, cognitive decline, and other issues using sensor data, such as typing behavior and sleep 🔗


👻 #Snapchat's new lenses and stickers can teach you basic sign language 🔗


🌊 #OpenSea has an app, but you can’t buy #NFTs on it 🔗


😳 #Balenciaga is now selling #Fortnite-themed drip 🔗


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