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Tweet Facebook has reportedly told the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it is open to granting the agency broader control over its privacy practices in exchange for ending the federal probe on the firm. Read more… Neowin

Tweet The highly anticipated beta for Bethesda’s upcoming multiplayer title, Fallout 76, will take place sometime in October. Everyone who pre-orders is slated to get access as the beta rolls out. Read more… Neowin

Tweet While prior homebrew software efforts focused on firmware 3.0.0 for the Switch, a bootROM coding oversight within its embedded Tegra processor may blow the door wide open for all current models. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Amazon Key allows delivery people into your home to drop off a package, forcing you to trust that they won’t ransack the place. A newly discovered security flaw allows the Cloud Cam to be disabled. Read more… Neowin

Tweet A week after VMware announced its top-priority Infrastructure-as-a-Service play, two more executives associated with de-emphasized technologies have left the company. VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger Both execs, Javier Soltero and Kevin Henrickson  joined VC company Redpoint Ventures as entrepreneurs in residence. Soltero joined VMware by virtue of its acquisition of SpringSource  in  2009 — after having joined SpringSource by virtue of that company’s acquisition of Hyperic. At VMware he was the CTO of SaaS and…