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Federal judge grants a preliminary injunction against a Trump administration order that would have banned TikTok from US app stores — The government said a ban would address its national security concerns. But lawyers for its owner said a ban would be “no different from the government locking the doors to a public forum.”
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Inside eBay's alleged plot that targeted a blogging duo and a Twitter gadfly using cockroaches, porn, death threats, physical surveillance, and pizza deliveries — “People are basically good” was eBay's founding principle. But in the deranged summer of 2019, prosecutors say …
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| Alex Thompson / Politico: |
Facebook exec says right-wing drives more engagement because its “populism is always more engaging” as it speaks to “an incredibly strong, primitive emotion” — Throughout 2020, Democrats have denounced Facebook with growing ferocity as a “right wing echo chamber” …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Parts of Amazon's law enforcement request portal that are visible on the web provide a rare glimpse into how the company handles law enforcement requests — Anyone can access portions of a web portal, used by law enforcement to request customer data from Amazon, even though the portal … | Isobel Asher Hamilton / BusinessInsider: |
Elon Musk voiced his discontent on Twitter that OpenAI is exclusively licensing GPT-3 to Microsoft saying “OpenAI is essentially captured by Microsoft” — - Elon Musk voiced his discontent on Twitter that OpenAI — the AI research firm he helped found — is exclusively licensing …
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| New York Times: |
Amazon, which had struggled to gain a foothold in Italy, benefited from a shift to online shopping during pandemic lockdown as 75% of Italians shopped online — The e-commerce giant had struggled to gain a foothold in a society that prefers to shop in person, with cash, but now Italians are hooked on online shopping.
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| Anne-Marie Brady / Washington Post: |
A look at the Zhenhua database, created by a Chinese tech company with government ties, that compiles personal info on ~2.4M people globally, most from the US — Anne-Marie Brady, a global fellow at the Wilson Center, is a professor at New Zealand's University of Canterbury and executive editor of The Polar Journal.
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| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
A look at VC Guide, which lets startup founders post reviews on VCs anonymously, as critics say it is focused on individuals rather than on firm-level feedback — Hello and welcome to Pipeline. This week: Inside the Zoom boom, anonymous investor ratings, and the worst “Uber for X” idea I've ever heard.
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| Bloomberg: |
Winklevoss Twins' cryptocurrency exchange Gemini expands to UK after receiving an electronic-money license from the country's Financial Conduct Authority — - Gemini says exchange among the first in registration process — Customers will be able to use the pound for all transactions| Financial Times: |
US sets export restrictions on China's biggest chipmaker SMIC, saying exports to SMIC posed an “unacceptable risk” of being diverted to “military end use” — Move further hurts semiconductor sector after penalties on Huawei — The US government has imposed sanctions … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Fitbit says its OS 5.0 has been developed exclusively for the new Versa 3 and Sense smartwatches, and older devices, including last year's Versa 2, won't get it — Fitbit Sense and Versa 3 start shipping today to customers, and as promised, they're arriving with a new software experience on board.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin discloses hack that emptied its hot wallets, with the minimum loss currently estimated at $150M — KuCoin said an intruder drained all its hot wallets today. — Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin disclosed today a mega hack.
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