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Facebook attacks Apple in full-page newspaper ads, claiming upcoming iOS 14 changes that limit data gathering and targeted ads are bad for small businesses — - Ads criticize Apple's plan to require opt-in for ad tracking — Facebook placed ads in the NYT, WSJ and Washington Post
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Facebook says it will assist Epic Games in its legal battle against Apple, including providing supporting documents — Social-networking company also dials up criticism of Apple's plan to allow iPhone users to restrict access to personal data — Facebook Inc. said it would assist …
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Facebook for Business, New York Times, CNBC, Agence France-Presse, Patently Apple, Apple Terminal, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @morfid_plays, @karissabe, and @jstrauss
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Texas AG says the state and nine others have filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming Google illegally hurt competition in the ad tech market — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday that he's leading a multi-state lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Substack launches Substack Reader, an RSS reader for tracking newsletter subscriptions and other feeds, in beta — Substack Reader is now available in beta — If you're worried about all your newsletter subscriptions getting lost in your inbox, Substack may have a solution.
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Substack Blog, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, and Engadget
Tweets: @substackinc, @delia_cai, @charlesflehman, @britnidlc, @pratikpoddar, @nathanblawrence, @rklau, @rklau, @rklau, @film_girl, @carnage4life, @jake_k, @edbott, @sub8u, @ebencuya, @tim_stevens, @silviakillings, @joannastern, and @can
| Jacob Cohen Donnelly / A Media Operator: |
Tweets: @can, @annehelen, @mathewi, @jryedinak, @tomcritchlow, @jaycodon, and @mdudas
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google says its new Chromecast with Google TV will get an Apple TV app in early 2021, giving users access to TV+ originals and iTunes purchases — Coming in early 2021 to the Chromecast with Google TV — Google's latest Chromecast with Google TV is filling in one of its biggest missing apps …
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The Keyword, XDA Developers, Reuters, AFTVnews, Gizmodo, Android Authority, Bloomberg, Android Police, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, Variety, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Washington Post: |
CISA's Einstein, which cost billions and monitors US agencies' networks for bad actors, missed the SolarWinds hack, which now counts the NIH among its victims — When Russian hackers first slipped their digital Trojan horses into federal government computer systems, probably sometime in the spring …
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Krebs on Security, CRN, Gizmodo, Dark Reading, and CyberScoop
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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Tweets: @msftsecintel, @jennamc_laugh, @chicagocyber, and @campuscodi
| Manuel Vonau / Android Police: |
Netflix is rolling out a Video Off button at the top of the full-screen video player and an audio only mode in settings for its Android app — Netflix might not be playing nicely with Google TV for some reason, but the company is pouring tons of resources into its Android app.| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google's Stadia arrives on iOS and iPadOS in beta for mobile web, letting users access their game library on Apple devices — Playing Cyberpunk 2077 on an iPad is pretty great — Google Stadia has finally made its way to iOS over a year after launch. The company's mobile web beta …
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Tweets: @googlestadia and @martinsfp
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Twitter says it will start removing tweets that spread harmful COVID-19 vaccine misinformation starting next week and will label conspiracies starting in 2021 — It may apply labels early in 2021 — Twitter announced Wednesday that it will remove tweets making false or misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccinations.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku and WarnerMedia have reached an agreement to distribute HBO Max on the Roku platform, starting Thursday — Roku and WarnerMedia have reached an agreement for the distribution of the HBO Max on the Roku platform — nearly seven months after the streaming service launched.
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Axios, Business Insider, The Verge, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Engadget, CNBC, IGN, Tom's Guide, GameSpot, SlashGear, Deadline, TVLine, Decider, Polygon, and Cord Cutters News. Tweets: @sarafischer
| Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: |
A pessimistic look at Facebook and its enormous, uncontrollable impact on the US and world, giving Zuckerberg incredible power with little oversight — The Doomsday Machine was never supposed to exist. It was meant to be a thought experiment that went like this: Imagine a device built … | CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin crosses $20K to reach an all-time high after doubling in the past three months — After testing investor patience for three weeks, bitcoin has finally crossed above $20,000 to reach fresh all-time highs. — The number one cryptocurrency by market value jumped …
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Gizmodo, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fortune, Bloomberg, TechSpot, ZDNet, Neowin, Bitcoinist.com, Axios, TechCrunch, Bitcoin Magazine, Forbes, and Mashable
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple AirPods Max review: high-luxury design, terrific sound quality, and very effective noise cancellation, but they are heavy and the case is an abomination — Apple's over-ear headphones have tremendous build quality and sound, but there's no denying they're expensive
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PCMag, Rolling Stone, Android Police, AppleInsider, Apple Terminal, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @maxwinebach, @tomwarren, @ourielohayon, and @cnet
| The Guardian: |
Invoices show Israeli surveillance firm Rayzone leased access to SS7 traffic from a Channel Islands mobile operator to spy on cell communications and locations — Crofton Black, Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Dan Sabbagh — The Israeli private intelligence company Rayzone Group appears …
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The Bureau of Investigative …. Tweets: @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @zackwhittaker, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @karlbode, @vijayshekhar, and @tbij
| danah boyd / LinkedIn: |
The Biden administration needs a VP of Engineering to debug problems that prevent government agencies from successfully building and deploying technical systems — If you look at the roster of the Biden-Harris transition team, it's quickly apparent that the incoming administration is tech-forward.
Tweets: @zephoria, @frankpasquale, @ldrogen, @internetrebecca, @mikeolson, and @kimfox
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Mozilla releases Firefox 84 with native support for Apple M1 Macs, saying the browser launches over 2.5 times faster and web apps are now twice as responsive — Mozilla today released Firefox version 84 with native support for Apple Silicon Macs with the M1 chip, touting … | Joe Tidy / BBC: |
Dutch prosecutors find researcher Victor Gevers did successfully log into Donald Trump's Twitter account; the White House and Twitter denied the incident — Dutch prosecutors have found a hacker did successfully log in to Donald Trump's Twitter account by guessing his password - “MAGA2020!”
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Tweets: @bbcworld, @troyhunt, @ai6yrham, and @zackwhittaker
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BigID, which helps monitor and protect enterprise customers' data, raises $70M Series D led by Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global at a valuation of $1B+ — BigID, a NYC-based leader in data discovery and intelligence for privacy, protection and perspective, raised $70Mm in series D financing …
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TechCrunch, New York Business Journal, and Security Boulevard
Tweets: @edsim, @shomikghosh21, @etdurbin, and @shaig
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest says it will adopt recommendations from a special committee created to address racial and gender discrimination, including unconscious bias training — Pinterest has committed to adopting the recommendations from its special committee of the Board of Directors, the company wrote in a blog post today.
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Fast Company, Pinterest Newsroom, Social Media Today, and The Verge
Tweets: @rtulshyan, @harrymccracken, @beingbrina, @ifeomaozoma, and @operaqueenie
| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
At an end-of-year, company-wide meeting, Facebook said it is working on TLDR, an AI tool that would summarize longform articles in bullet points — Facebook told employees on Tuesday that it's developing a tool to summarize news articles so users won't have to read them.
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CNET, Reclaim The Net, Input, KnowTechie, and Voicebot.ai
Tweets: @rmac18, @stephaniemlee, @xtophercook, @jamesrbuk, @emilybell, @rmac18, @mattlynley, @mattlynley, @jfagone, @mattlynley, @audreyhasnews, @mattlynley, @shortformernie, and @mg
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Coalition for App Fairness says Digital Content Next, representing NYT, NPR, WaPo, and others, has joined; the coalition calls for the regulation of app stores — A group of major U.S. news publishers have joined the Coalition for App Fairness (CAF), the advocacy group pushing …
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Engadget, Forbes, Coalition for App Fairness, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, and Apple Terminal. Tweets: @carnage4life
| Hirsh Chitkara / Protocol: |
Interview with Stanford comp lit professor Adrian Daub on the naiveté of undergrads eager to work in tech, “useless” VC Twitter, and challenges to SV narratives — In the early 2010s, professor Adrian Daub began noticing changes in some Stanford undergraduates that troubled him.
Tweets: @chrmanning
| Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes: |
CloudTrucks, which helps truck drivers find work and advises them on which loads to take to increase revenue, raises $20.5M Series A led by Caffeinated Capital — CloudTrucks, a platform helping truck drivers find work and organize their business announced today that it has raised $20.5 million …
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