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Changelog (7.10 - 7.12.1)

Dwayne.xyz

Red Hook NYCHA Tenants Face New Gas Outages in Maddening Pattern

THE CITY - All

Material Bank, which runs an online marketplace for architectural and design sample materials, raises $100M Series C at a ~$1B valuation led by General Catalyst (Amy Feldman/Forbes)

Techmeme

Epic needs to tarnish Apple’s App Store halo

The Verge - All Posts

Yours Truly on Peter Kafka’s ‘Recode Media’ Podcast, Talking Epic vs. Apple

Daring Fireball

Rikers Staff Sick Call Spike Spurs Lockdown, Trapping Mentally Ill in Cells

THE CITY - All

PSA: Don’t drive while you are on a Zoom meeting

The Verge - All Posts

Bill.com, a cloud-based payments service for SMBs, has agreed to acquire expense management software provider Divvy for $2.5B in cash and stock (Luisa Beltran/Barron's Online)

Techmeme

Apple rejects more than a third of App Store submissions

Cult of Mac

Twitter is testing a new Tip Jar feature for sending money to your favorite accounts

The Verge - All Posts

How AI Dungeon, a text adventure game that uses the GPT-3 text generator, can create sex scenes involving children, and why attempts to stop it aren't working (Tom Simonite/Wired)

Techmeme

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal: The Movie trailer brings magical girl action to Netflix

Polygon - All

New ‘Staten Island First’ Party Spawned by Democratic Borough President Candidate

THE CITY - All

Apple is giving a laser company that builds some of its AR tech $410 million

The Verge - All Posts

Dropbox beats Q1 estimates with $511.6M in revenue, up 12% YoY, with 15.83M paying users, up from 14.59M YoY, and average revenue per paying user of $132.55 (Stephanie Condon/ZDNet)

Techmeme

Bodies of Hundreds of New York COVID Victims Still in Trucks on Brooklyn Pier

THE CITY - All

Diagnose your charging woes with Plugable’s tiny power meter [Review]

Cult of Mac

South Carolina House Votes to Add Firing Squad to Execution Methods. Why? Beats Me, Y’all

The Root

Peloton says it ‘could take months’ to bring treadmill back after recall

The Verge - All Posts

Researchers detail a new type of attack that could increase the energy consumption of neural networks by adding small amounts of noise to a network's inputs (Karen Hao/MIT Technology Review)

Techmeme