Unc0ver team files a DMCA notice against developer Coolstar for their Chimera13 jailbreak, which GitHub then removed; Coolstar files a DMCA counter-notice (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: Unc0ver team files a DMCA notice against developer Coolstar for their Chimera13 jailbreak, which GitHub then removed; Coolstar files a DMCA counter-notice  —  Jailbreaking tools are generally protected from copyright infringement claims through a DMCA exemption.  This week, however, GitHub removed the Chimera13 jailbreak...

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Coinbase hires Paul Grewal, VP and deputy general counsel for Facebook, as its chief legal officer (Bloomberg Law)

Bloomberg Law: Coinbase hires Paul Grewal, VP and deputy general counsel for Facebook, as its chief legal officer  —  Listen  —  Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase raided Facebook Inc. for one of its top in-house lawyers on Tuesday, hiring Paul Grewal to serve as its new chief legal officer.

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TikTok users are joining in the "Dogecoin Challenge", driving up the cryptocurrency's market cap by 40% to $500M in a day, as many pitch fanciful price targets (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: TikTok users are joining in the “Dogecoin Challenge”, driving up the cryptocurrency's market cap by 40% to $500M in a day, as many pitch fanciful price targets  —  - Dogecoin surges thanks to the latest TikTok challenge  — ‘Stay Safe.  Be Smart,’ Dogecoin Twitter tells investors

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Sources: Spotify will launch in Russia on July 15, likely partnering with telco MTS; the move is Spotify's next major global expansion after India in 2019 (Tim Ingham/Music Business Worldwide)

Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: Sources: Spotify will launch in Russia on July 15, likely partnering with telco MTS; the move is Spotify's next major global expansion after India in 2019  —  Spotify's long-awaited launch in Russia will arrive next Wednesday (July 15), Music Business Worldwide can reveal.

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Facebook says it removed 100+ Pages and accounts linked to felon Roger Stone, as well as some linked to Brazil's Bolsonaro, for coordinated inauthentic behavior (Washington Post)

Washington Post: Facebook says it removed 100+ Pages and accounts linked to felon Roger Stone, as well as some linked to Brazil's Bolsonaro, for coordinated inauthentic behavior  —  The longtime Trump friend and former campaign adviser used fake accounts and other deceptive tactics to manipulate public debate, the company said

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Amazon will require US marketplace sellers to display their business name and address on public profiles in September, already a rule in Europe, Japan, Mexico (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon will require US marketplace sellers to display their business name and address on public profiles in September, already a rule in Europe, Japan, Mexico  —  - Amazon informed U.S. sellers on Wednesday that it will soon require them to disclose their business name and address on their public profile.

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Sources: in May, Google abandoned "Isolated Region", a major new cloud service for China and other "sensitive" markets, over geopolitical and pandemic concerns (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: in May, Google abandoned “Isolated Region”, a major new cloud service for China and other “sensitive” markets, over geopolitical and pandemic concerns  —  - ‘Isolated Region’ said to be shelved over tensions, pandemic  — Cloud providers racing to isolate data for companies, nations

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Sources describe horror stories of young and inexperienced investors on Robinhood, many engaging in riskier trades at far higher volumes than at other firms (Nathaniel Popper/New York Times)

Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: Sources describe horror stories of young and inexperienced investors on Robinhood, many engaging in riskier trades at far higher volumes than at other firms  —  Its users buy and sell the riskiest financial products and do so more frequently than customers at other retail brokerage firms …

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Facebook says it has cut greenhouse gas emissions by 59% since 2017, 86% of its operations use renewable energy, as it unveils a heat recycling pilot in Denmark (David Pierce/Protocol)

David Pierce / Protocol:Facebook says it has cut greenhouse gas emissions by 59% since 2017, 86% of its operations use renewable energy, as it unveils a heat recycling pilot in Denmark  —  As Facebook has gone from “social network for chatty college kids” to effectively powering a version of the internet with data centers …

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Boston-based Notarize, a service that lets users sign and notarize official documents digitally, raises $35M Series C led by Camber Creek (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Boston-based Notarize, a service that lets users sign and notarize official documents digitally, raises $35M Series C led by Camber Creek  —  Notarize, a platform that enables consumers and businesses to sign and notarize official documents digitally, has raised $35 million in a series C round of funding.

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