Apple becomes the first publicly traded company to close with a $3T market cap; the company hit a $3T market cap during intraday trading in January 2022 (Hayden Field/CNBC)

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A summary of the final day and closing arguments in the FTC v. Microsoft hearing; the FTC focused most of its case on Call of Duty and Xbox console exclusivity (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Unit21 which helps businesses monitor fraudulent activities raised a $45M Series C to expand its Fintech Fraud DAO data sharing consortium to identify fraud (PYMNTS.com)

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Can Canada make big tech pay for news? The country is the latest front in a fight that analysts say has big stakes for news - and democracy. June 30 2023 at 06:56AM

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Ontario-based Passage which is building an online service to help immigrants get funding to learn and work in Canada raised a CA$40M seed led by Drive Capital (Josh Scott/BetaKit)

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Court docs: Satya Nadella said Azure's cloud server business made $34B in revenue in the year ended June 2022 less than half of AWS' revenue in the same period (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

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NYC-based Venn Software which is developing a Secure Enclave product that can be installed on remote employee laptops raised a $29M Series A led by NewSpring (Ryan Naraine/SecurityWeek)

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Internal messages: Reddit tells protesting mods that their communities won't remain private beyond the timeframe set for this week to confirm reopening plans (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Phone monitoring app LetMeSpy used to spy on thousands of Android users says a hacker stole the messages call logs and locations the spyware had intercepted (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

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Cut low-cost broadband VAT to help more online peers say Some people struggle to get online putting them at a disadvantage a Lord's committee says. June 29 2023 at 04:35AM

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Autonomous trucking company TuSimple aims to sell its US business; CEO Cheng Lu says the plan is not the result of pressure due to CFIUS' review of the company (Alan Ohnsman/Forbes)

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Sony accidentally spilled confidential information on Call of Duty's revenue and PlayStation in a court document by making deficient redactions with a Sharpie (The Verge)

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Visa agrees to acquire Brazilian payments infrastructure startup Pismo for $1B in cash by the end of 2023; Pismo had raised a total of $118M until October 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

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Proton launches its E2E encrypted open-source password manager Proton Pass available for free on iOS Android and as a browser extension (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

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Databricks announces LakehouseIQ which lets companies use natural language to search and query their data new tools for its Lakehouse AI platform and more (Andrew Brust/The New Stack)

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New York-based Slang.ai which offers an AI-powered phone answering service for restaurants and retailers raised a $20M Series A led by Homebrew (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Adalytics: 80% of Google's video ad placements on third-party sites violated the company's promised standards between 2020 and 2023; Google disputes the claims (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)

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Report: Google has canceled its "Iris" AR glasses project and is now focused on creating software platforms for AR to license to headset manufacturers (David Heaney/UploadVR)

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SCOTUS 7-2 ruling: for alleged cyberstalkers' words to be "true threats" a court must prove a person recklessly disregarded that the words were seen as threats (Issie Lapowsky/Fast Company)

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TikTok launches the TikTok Creative Challenge which lets US-based creators with 50K followers submit video ads for brands and make money based on performance (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Unity's shares jump 14% after it announces its Asset Store will sell third-party "AI solutions" that can generate game dialogue graphics and more (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

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Internal memo: SiriusXM plans to shut down the Stitcher podcast app on August 29 and move subscribers to its flagship SXM app where podcasts will have ads (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

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Around 45000 people in Vietnam lost jobs in electronics manufacturing in the first five months of 2023 as Samsung and others substantially slowed production (Lam Le/Rest of World)

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Decentralized social media app Damus says Apple rejected an app update and asked it to either remove its tipping feature or use Apple's in-app purchase system (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Jail terms for sharing or creating explicit images without consent Changes to the Online Safety Bill include up to two years in prison for sharing or creating explicit images without consent. June 27 2023 at 04:35AM

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The robotic falcon maker who lost 100000 to cyber criminals John Donald transferred the money to fraudsters as his business struggled during the Covid pandemic. June 26 2023 at 02:10PM

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'We want Brixton to be a black Silicon Valley' A trio of entrepreneurs have raised over 5m to invest in 30 British black-led start-ups by 2026. June 26 2023 at 10:40AM

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NYC says the MOVEit flaw exposed 45K students' data following March 2022's breach of 820K students' data via the Illuminate Education grading software hack (Jessica Gould/Gothamist)

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A profile of Christina Cacioppo the co-founder and CEO of data security compliance startup Vanta which has an $80M ARR a $1.6B valuation and raised $203M (Phoebe Liu/Forbes)

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While there are effective laws in some states including Virginia and California outlawing the sharing of nonconsensual deepfake porn a national law is needed (Nina Jankowicz/The Atlantic)

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An interview with Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz who became Asana's majority owner after a post-listing share buying spree on AI's risks as a philanthropy focus (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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As the use of AI-generated ads in political campaigns increases lawmakers political consultants and election researchers push for creating new guardrails (New York Times)

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FTC v. Microsoft: Phil Spencer says Xbox isn't a "robust business" failing to meet internal targets and the Activision deal is a way to expand into mobile (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Bluesky publishes proposals for new moderation and safety tooling focusing on user lists and reply controls for community-driven moderation hashtags and more (Bluesky)

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US law enforcement seized the clear web domain of BreachForums on June 22 after arresting the data leak site's alleged operator "Pompompurin" on March 15 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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Many LastPass users say they've been locked out of their accounts and can't access their vault after being asked to reset their authenticator apps in early May (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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A survey of 305 experts on their expectations for digital advances by 2035 like AI systems and smart eyewear and earbuds and concerns over the darker sides (Pew Research Center)

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The EFJ and media experts condemn the latest European Media Freedom Act draft that would let national security agencies place spyware on journalists' phones (Lisa O'Carroll/The Guardian)

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The Twitter-to-Mastodon migration that started in November 2022 failed because of Mastodon's exclusionary culture decentralization making the UX worse more (Bloonface/Café Lob-On)

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Social media startup IRL is shutting down after an investigation by its board concluded that 95% of its claimed 20M MAUs were "automated or from bots" (Mark Matousek/The Information)

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At the FTC v. Microsoft hearing Phil Spencer says Microsoft bought ZeniMax for $7.5B to stop Starfield and other Bethesda games becoming PlayStation exclusives (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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A profile of Alibaba co-founder Eddie Wu set to become CEO in the fall who has a close relationship with mentor Jack Ma and will manage the company's breakup (Financial Times)

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Source: Jacob Devlin who quit Google to join OpenAI in January 2023 after complaining Bard was being trained on ChatGPT data has returned to Google (Jon Victor/The Information)

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A profile of Michael Kives a Hollywood agent turned investor as FTX's bankruptcy lawyers sue his VC firm K5 Global to recover $700M that SBF had invested (New York Times)

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Representatives of Prosus and Peak XV formerly Sequoia India resign from Byju's board; Deloitte quit as Byju's auditor over a delay in handing over financials (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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AWS is investing $100M in a new program to help companies use generative AI by connecting them with AI experts with Highspot and Twilio among its first clients (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Students switch to AI to learn languages Many people are using AI like ChatGPT to improve their language skills but learning that way has drawbacks. June 23 2023 at 04:30AM

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New York-based Captions an AI-powered video editing app raised a $25M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins bringing its total funding to $40M at a $250M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

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Filing: Microsoft says Xbox "lost the console wars" with a 16% share of console sales in 2021 behind Nintendo and PlayStation and a 21% installed base share (Rebekah Valentine/IGN)

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Argonne and Intel say they installed the Aurora supercomputer announced in 2015 which will come online later in 2023 with 2 ExaFLOPS of processing power (Anton Shilov/AnandTech)

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