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Google has patched an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in its Chrome 88 update — Google Chrome 88.0.4324.150 released with a fix. Users advised to update. — Google has released today version 88.0.4324.150 of the Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
Democratic senators' SAFE TECH Act will strip Section 230 immunity for any ads or posts violating civil rights, antitrust, cyberstalking, human rights laws — Three top Democratic senators added to the stack of proposed Section 230 reforms Friday, introducing their own bill …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Democrats' Sec. 230 bill is a dumpster fire of cluelessness that effectively wipes out protections for entire internet while pretending it's just a minor change — For the past few months we've been seeing a ton of terrible/ridiculous/awful/unconstitutio nal bills coming from mostly Republicans …
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| Associated Press: |
Draft bill in Nevada to establish “Innovation Zones” would let tech companies with large areas of land form governments with the same authority as counties — CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies …
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Microsoft suspends contributions for the rest of the 2022 election cycle to all members of Congress who voted to object to the presidential election results — Microsoft announced Friday it will suspend contributions for the rest of the 2022 election cycle to all members of Congress who voted …
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| Harvard Business Review: |
Facebook's claims about the size of losses small businesses will suffer due to iOS 14 privacy changes don't hold up under scrutiny and are likely exaggerated — by - Bart de Langhe and - Stefano Puntoni — Summary. — Apple will soon require consumers to opt in if they want to allow businesses …
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Snap says Apple's changes to IDFA will interrupt demand; Unity says IDFA changes will affect how mobile game developers “optimize lifetime customer value” — - Snap and Unity Software, which reported fourth quarter earnings after the bell Thursday, both warned of the upcoming impact …
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| Ben Gilbert / Insider: |
Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance on Clubhouse on Thursday, discussing VR, AR, Facebook's Reality Labs group, and remote work — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on a Clubhouse talk show on Thursday evening. — Zuckerberg appeared on The Good Times Show, a talk show on the buzzy new social networking app.
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Sources: while Trump was in office, the Trump Org negotiated a 40% stake in Parler in exchange for making it his main social network; the deal never finalized — Documents seen by BuzzFeed News show that Parler offered Trump 40% of the company if he posted exclusively to the platform.
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| Ashwin Manikandan / The Economic Times: |
PayPal says it will wind down its domestic payment operations in India by April 1 and focus on its existing cross-border trade business — Mumbai: PayPal Inc. will wind down its payment operations in India this year, a spokesperson said on the condition of anonymity.
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| Arthur Holland Michel / Wired: |
A look at surveillance data fusion, which happens when thousands of disparate devices and tools become one all-seeing surveillance platform — Security cameras. License plate readers. Smartphone trackers. Drones. We're being watched 24/7. What happens when all those data streams fuse into one?
Tweets: @torproject, @wired, @gadgetlab, @wired, and @hypervisible
| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Class, formerly ClassEDU, which makes a video-conferencing product for schools called Class for Zoom, raises $30M Series A, bringing its total raised to $46M — Class, launched less than a year ago by Blackboard co-founder Michael Chasen, integrates exclusively with Zoom to offer …
Tweets: @nmasc_
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Myanmar's new military government orders local telecom operators and ISPs to block Twitter and Instagram, days after imposing a similar blackout on Facebook — Myanmar's new military government has ordered local telecom operators, internet gateways, and other internet service providers … | Bloomberg: |
Shares of Kuaishou jumped 161% in its Hong Kong debut, valuing the company at $159B, after the main rival of ByteDance in China raised $5.4B in an IPO — - Tencent-backed short-video startup raised $5.4 billion in IPO — Debut performance is second best globally after Alibaba.com| Michelle Chan / Nikkei Asia: |
Users in mainland China are flocking to Clubhouse, a rare space outside the country's firewall where they can speak freely with people from Hong Kong and Taiwan — Audio-based social-media platform becomes free-speech haven for mainland users — The Clubhouse app had two million users globally as of Jan. 24.
Tweets: @loh, @harry_jerry, @charlesmok, @kylebrussell, @mikeelgan, @chingrachelwong, @wongmjane, @peterguest, @yoda, @joshschoen, and @napolitanodean
| Orla McCaffrey / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: CFPB probes Venmo's debt-collection tactics; Venmo actions like threatening to send debt collectors after users who are scam victims are under scrutiny — The payment app's tactics—including threatening to send debt collectors after customers who are scam victims—have previously come under scrutiny| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India is restoring 4G internet services in Jammu and Kashmir, 18 months after imposing a sweeping communications blackout in the Muslim-majority region — India is restoring 4G internet services in Jammu and Kashmir, a senior government official said Friday evening, 18 months after imposing … | Micah Singleton / Billboard: |
Sources: SoundCloud is preparing to introduce a new payment system that would allow users to pay artists directly — The company is close to announcing an alternative streaming payout plan. — SoundCloud is preparing to introduce a new payment system that would allow fans to pay artists directly … | Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Metalenz, a Boston-based Harvard spinout developing meta-optic lens chips, raises $10M Series A from 3M Ventures, Intel Capital, and others — Metalenz, a developer of meta-optic technologies for new lenses, has secured a $10 million Series A as the company looks to exit stealth … | Konrad Krasuski / Bloomberg: |
Huuuge raises $445M in its IPO, valuing the developer of mobile casino games at $1.1B and making it the second-biggest studio listed in Warsaw after CD Projekt — - CD Projekt's Cyberpunk glitches didn't dent investor sentiment — Company to be Warsaw's second-largest listed gaming studio
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