John Warnock, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke and served as the company's CEO until 2000, died on August 19 at age 82 (Dayana Mustak/Bloomberg)
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Adobe’s Co-Founder John Warnock Dies at 82
Technology entrepreneur John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Inc., died on Saturday at age 82, the company said in a statement.
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John Warnock, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke and was the company
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X appears to have deleted all images posted directly on the website between 2011 and 2014; links that used Twitter's native shortening service are also broken (Matt Novak/Forbes) https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/08/19/twitter-deletes-all-user-photos-and-links-from-2011-2014/
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Many images uploaded directly to X between 2011 and 2014 are not loading and links from those years that used Twitter
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US intelligence agencies warn China and Russia are targeting private US space companies and preparing cyberattacks that could disable satellites in a conflict (Julian E. Barnes/New York Times)
Intelligence Agencies Warn Foreign Spies Are Targeting U.S. Space Companies (Published 2023)
U.S. officials say Chinese and Russian spy agencies are trying to steal technology from private American space companies and preparing cyberattacks...
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US intelligence agencies warn US space companies that China and Russia are targeting them and preparing cyberattacks that could disable satellites in a conflict
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Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta's news fight with Canada's government makes it harder for them to share lifesaving information (Pete Evans/CBC News) https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/nwt-wildfire-evacuation-meta-blocking-news-1.6939286
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Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta
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Twitch plans to roll out a long-requested anti-harassment feature in the next few weeks, letting streamers block banned users from watching streams (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)
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Twitch will let streamers block banned users from watching streams | TechCrunch
Twitch's chat ban tools have been around for ages, but the platform is about to hand streamers a way to control who can watch a stream to begi...
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Twitch plans to roll out a long-requested anti-harassment feature within weeks that automatically blocks a streamer
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Lyft and Uber threaten to leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill on August 23 that mandates at least $1.40/mile and $0.51/minute for drivers (CNN) https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/17/tech/minneapolis-rideshare-minimum-wage/
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Lyft and Uber threaten to leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage ordinance by August 23 mandating at least $1.40/mile and $0.51/minute for drivers
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Internal document: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to "talk" content that could boost Spotify's annual gross profit by €35M (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
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Spotify Looked to Ban White Noise Podcasts to Become More Profitable
An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform
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Internal doc: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to “talk” content, which would boost the company
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Apple says The Glenn Beck Program was removed from Apple Podcasts because of a trademark dispute that has since been resolved (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Apple Says Glenn Beck Program Podcast Removed Over Trademark Dispute
Apple Podcasts removed all episodes of "The Glenn Beck Program" — then restored them — citing a trademark dispute that has since been resolved.
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Apple says the company removed all episodes of The Glenn Beck Program from Apple Podcasts because of a trademark dispute that has since been resolved
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Court filings: Tesla engineers admit that the company did nothing to address Autopilot's inability to recognize crossing traffic following a fatal crash in 2016 (Bloomberg)
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Tesla Failed to Fix Autopilot After Fatal Crash, Engineers Say
Tesla Inc. failed to fix limitations in its Autopilot system following a gruesome Florida crash that killed a driver in 2016, company engineers sai...
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Court filings: Tesla engineers admit that the company failed to fix Autopilot
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The US Commerce Department has built a team of people from Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, KKR, and other Wall Street firms to help allocate $39B in chip subsidies (Yuka Hayashi/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-white-house-went-to-wall-street-to-revive-the-u-s-chips-industry-fe0a0aac?mod=djemalertNEWS
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The US Commerce Department forms a team of financiers from Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, KKR, and other Wall Street firms to help allocate $39B in chip subsidies
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