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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
As a mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building, Facebook and Twitter allowed Trump to cheer them on using their platforms — As rioters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, President Donald Trump clung to his last vestiges of power: his social media accounts.
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| @twittersafety: |
[Thread] Twitter says Trump's account will be locked for 12 hours following removal of recent tweets, and further violations will result in permanent suspension — As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, D.C., we have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted earlier today for repeated and severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy. https://help.twitter.com/...
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook will remove content supporting violence at the Capitol, including photos and videos of the event, require admin review for group posts, more — After removing a video in which President Trump praised a violent group of his supporters who broke into the U.S. Capitol building …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Facebook and Instagram have banned President Trump from posting for the next 24 hours citing two policy violations — The company follows Twitter in restricting Trump's presence — Facebook has blocked President Trump from posting on the site for 24 hours, the company said Wednesday evening.
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| BuzzFeed News: |
The Trump supporters who rioted in the US Capitol on Wednesday had been openly planning online for weeks, including on mainstream and niche social media sites — The supporters of President Donald Trump who rioted in the US Capitol building on Wednesday had been openly planning for weeks … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Facebook and YouTube have removed a video of Trump addressing supporters; Facebook says it risked adding to violence, YouTube says it violated election rules — YouTube also removed it, but Twitter left it up — As rioters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, Facebook removed a video …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
After labeling some Trump tweets due to “risk of violence”, Twitter removed three Trump tweets, including the video to his supporters — Twitter has suspended Donald Trump and locked the president out of his account for the next 12 hours, after warning that his tweets posed a “risk of violence.”| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
Some Facebook employees say internal forum admins froze comments on at least three threads in which employees discussed removing Trump from the site — Facebook employees were appalled by President Donald Trump's encouragement of his supporters as they stormed the US Capitol building …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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| New York Times: |
Sources: US intel agencies are investigating JetBrains as possible entry point for SolarWinds hackers; JetBrains isn't aware of any investigation or compromise — Russian hackers may have piggybacked on a tool developed by JetBrains, which is based in the Czech Republic …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
DOJ says SolarWinds hackers accessed about 3% of its email accounts, but there's no indication that the breach impacted classified systems — - Hackers who tapped into government networks through SolarWinds software potentially accessed about 3% of the Justice Department's email accounts, a spokesperson said Wednesday.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says App Store users spent $1.8B on goods and services between December 24 and New Year's Eve and $540M on New Year's Day alone; Books has 90M MAUs — Apple has announced today that App Store customers spent a record amount throughout the holiday season.
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| Bloomberg: |
Facebook's Andrew Bosworth says its smart glasses, built in partnership with Ray-Ban, will arrive “sooner than later” in 2021 without AR features — - Company has more than 6,000 staff on AR, VR and hardware tasks — Zuckerberg seeking the next computer platform after smartphone
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Intel launches RealSense ID, an on-device facial authentication tool, launching in Q1 2021 for $99 and aimed at smart locks, ATMs, and kiosks — Intel today launched the newest addition to RealSense, its product range of depth and tracking technologies designed to give machines depth perception capabilities.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
An oral history from 24 people describing how Microsoft developed the original Xbox, initially an over-budget ungainly product, and reshaped the gaming industry — The original product was ungainly, over-budget and nearly canceled. Here's how it became a hit and reshaped an industry.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Roblox announces a $520M financing round led by Altimeter Capital and Dragoneer at a $29.5B valuation, says it plans to go public soon via direct listing — - Robolox raised $520 million at a $29.5 billion valuation in a financing round led by Altimeter Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group.
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| Michael Vizard / VentureBeat: |
Pax8, which helps IT companies centralize provisioning and billing processes across multiple cloud apps, raises $96M and announces the acquisition of Wirehive — Pax8, the provider of a platform that makes it simpler for IT services firms to centralize the provisioning and billing processes … | Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Filing: Poshmark plans to price its IPO between $35 and $39 per share, raising $257.4M and valuing the company at $2.9B at the top of the range — Poshmark, known for being a social platform to buy and sell fashion and accessories, is moving forward with its initial public offering …
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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Jim Keller, a star chip designer at Apple, AMD, Tesla, Broadcom, and Intel, has joined Toronto-based Tenstorrent, a startup building AI chips — It is high praise when someone like Jim Keller says that your company ‘has made impressive progress, and has the most promising architecture out there’.| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
After Democrats won both of Georgia's Senate seats, a look at potential tech legislation under a unified government, including a federal privacy bill — Democrats have won both Senate races in Georgia, taking back control of the Senate after five years of Republican leadership.
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Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Politico
Tweets: @cat_zakrzewski, @freepress, @jason_kint, @foxcahn, @eff, @reckless, @repjones, and @issielapowsky
| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
Trump signs an executive order banning transactions with Ant Group's Alipay, Tencent's WeChat Pay and QQ, and five other Chinese payment apps — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese software applications, including Ant Group's Alipay.
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JetBrains Blog, The White House, CoinDesk, Reuters, Bloomberg, CyberScoop, Bloomberg, IT Management, AppleInsider, PYMNTS.com, Bitcoin News, and Android Headlines
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| Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers: |
WhatsApp updates its Terms and Privacy Policy to mandate data sharing with Facebook, including transaction data, mobile device information, IP address, and more — WhatsApp users are receiving an in-app notice today regarding the service's new terms and privacy policy.
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