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| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
In August, internal research at Facebook showed that ~70% of the platform's most active civic Groups were considered too toxic to recommend to users — The giant struggled to balance Mark Zuckerberg's free-expression mantra against findings that rabid partisanship had overrun a feature central to its future
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Apple releases an iCloud Passwords browser extension for Chrome on Windows — Besides iTunes, Apple's biggest offering on Microsoft's operating system is the iCloud sync client for files, photos, and mail. Apple is now extending its presence on Windows with an iCloud Passwords Chrome extension.
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| NetBlocks: |
Network data indicates the onset of widespread internet disruptions in Myanmar amid reports of a military uprising and the detention of political leaders — Network data from the NetBlocks Internet Observatory indicate the onset of widespread internet disruptions in Myanmar on Sunday 31 January 2021 …
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| Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press: |
Nintendo reports April-December results: ~$3.6B profit on revenue of $13B, 24M Switches sold, and forecasts $3.8B profit for the fiscal year ending March 2021 — TOKYO (AP) — Nintendo Co. reported Monday that its profit for the first three fiscal quarters nearly doubled as people around …
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
More than 2,000 police and fire departments in the US have now partnered with Amazon's Ring, with 1,189 new departments added over the past year — Controversial surveillance network has doubled in size in the country in the past year — More than 2,000 police and fire departments in the US …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Australian cloud data analytics company Phocas Software raises AU$45M led by Ellerston Capital to accelerate its growth in the US and UK — Phocas Software's cloud data analytics tools might be best known in Australia, where they're used by Thermo Fisher Scientific, Fiskars Royal Doulton …
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| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
EU is seeking to overturn Apple's victory in $15.8B tax dispute saying the judges used “contradictory reasoning” when deciding the Irish tax case — - Regulators are challenging court view of Apple's Irish units — Vestager has warned case has larger consequences for tax fight
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| Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance: |
Microsoft says revenue from its various cybersecurity offerings crossed $10B over the past 12 months, up 40% YoY and ~7% of its total revenue for the year — Microsoft ( — MSFT) is officially a cybersecurity giant. For the first time on Tuesday, Microsoft disclosed revenue from its various security offerings as
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| Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood reduces the number of companies with trading restrictions from 50 to 8, according to its website; GME, NOK, and BB are still among those restricted — Robinhood Markets Inc. reduced the number of companies with trading restrictions to eight from 50 on Sunday, according to an update on its website.| Joseph Cotterill / Financial Times: |
Local operators and companies like Google and Facebook scramble to upgrade digital infrastructure in Africa, home to less than 1% of global data center capacity — Johannesburg was built on a gold rush. But in the Isando Campus business park on the outskirts of South Africa's financial centre …
Tweets: @sub8u
| Maggie Miller / The Hill: |
A look at the criticism in DC directed at CSET, a State Dept. bureau focused on cybersecurity and emerging technologies formed in the last days of Trump's admin — A newly established State Department bureau focused on cybersecurity and emerging technologies could give the Biden administration … | Steven Borowiec / Nikkei Asia: |
The pandemic has exacerbated the brutal conditions of workers at e-commerce and delivery companies in Asia even as average earnings per delivery declined — How the pandemic economy relies on overburdened and underpaid couriers — DAEGU, South Korea — The last time Park Mi-suk …
Tweets: @nikkeiasia
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