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Daily Crunch: Used-car marketplace Sylndr lands $12.6M pre-seed round, sets new record for MENA startups

TechCrunch

Annie reported on a civil lawsuit that drivers in Kenya have filed against Uber BV with claims that the ride-hailing company had plans to “further reduce commuter charges in Kenya, months after the 35% cut of 2016.” Today’s mobility news is brought you by the letter “H,” the letter “B” and the word “oops.”

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The good and the bad in the government’s case against Facebook

The Verge

If successful, the FTC’s case — which was joined by 46 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam — could force the company to divest itself of Instagram and WhatsApp, radically reshaping the digital economy. Facebook, though, calls all that “revisionist history.”

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US says it has seized millions in cryptocurrency meant to fund terrorist groups

The Verge

The groups appear to have conducted these campaigns primarily on the internet, using a variety of platforms and tactics. The US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has indicted two individuals, Mehmet Akti and Hüsamettin Karata? who it says acted as “related money launderers.”.

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Feds move to block California’s net neutrality law

The Verge

In 2017, the Trump Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal the Obama-era internet regulations that barred internet service providers from throttling or blocking traffic and instituting paid fast lanes. A decision on the Justice Department’s filing isn’t expected until at least mid-October.

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FCC win clears the way for a massive Wi-Fi 6E upgrade

The Verge

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has backed up an April 2020 decision by the FCC to open up 1,200MHz of spectrum in the 6GHz band for unlicensed use. Illustrator by Alex Castro / The Verge. A ruling ( pdf ) on Tuesday by the U.S.

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Trump?s Twitter order violates the First Amendment, new lawsuit claims

The Verge

The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday and is one of the first legal actions taken against Trump’s executive order. Under current law, internet companies like Twitter have broad immunity from liability for the content their users post on their platforms.

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TikTok’s biggest problem is outside its control

The Verge

When he opened TikTok, he found approximately 210 network requests in the first nine seconds, totaling over 500 kilobytes of data sent from the app to the Internet. First, I think there’s no putting these concerns or the scale of the internet back in the tube. In an amicus brief filed Monday, the U.S. government.”

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