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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Facebook is building an audio chat product, currently in the earliest stages of development, that is similar to Clubhouse — The social network, which has a history of cloning its competitors, has started working on an audio chat product. — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is building …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Users noticed Google iOS apps warning them the apps were out of date, despite Google not updating them since before Apple's Dec. 8 privacy label change — Though Google has promised to update its suite of apps with App Privacy labels to comply with App Store rules that Apple began enforcing in December …
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product considerations. More:
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| Daniel Goldblatt / The Wrap: |
Facebook says Instagram has removed Robert F Kennedy Jr's account for making false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines — Move comes as the company is expanding efforts to crack down on conspiracy theory content — Instagram removed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s account on Wednesday …
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Media Matters for America, Washington Post, and The Guardian
Tweets: @yashar, @camliveshere, @maggienyt, @blakersdozen, and @chelseaclinton
| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Tesla's $1.5B bitcoin purchase conflicts with its environmental goals, as mining the cryptocurrency consumes massive amounts of energy by design — Tesla's banking on a cryptocurrency that's inherently inefficient — Tesla just gave bitcoin a big boost that's likely to result … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Europol, working with US, UK, and others, says 10 people have been arrested for allegedly stealing $100M in cryptocurrency from celebrities via SIM-swap attacks — Eight men were arrested in England and Scotland as part of an investigation into a series of SIM swapping attacks targeting US celebrities.
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Europol, Ars Technica, United States Secret Service, U.S. Department of Justice, PCMag, InsideBitcoins.com, iTnews, Finextra, HackRead, and BleepingComputer
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| New York Times: |
Facebook says it will test a reduction of political content in News Feed for some users in Canada, Brazil, and Indonesia this week, and the US in coming weeks — News feeds will start getting less political content in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia, the social network said, with the change reaching the U.S. in coming weeks.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Microsoft made an offer to acquire Pinterest in recent months; talks are not active right now — Exclusive: Software group looked at potential deal for $51bn social media company — Microsoft approached Pinterest in recent months about a potential deal to acquire …
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Windows Central and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @spottedfirefly, @carlquintanilla, @shivsharma_5, @thekenyeung, @mgsiegler, and @bdsams
| David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg: |
Biden administration asks a federal judge to put litigation over Trump's proposed TikTok ban on hold while it undertakes a review — The Biden administration asked a federal judge in Washington to put on hold the litigation over a ban on the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok that was pursued by former president Donald Trump.
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Tweets: @kylebrussell, @jchengwsj, @azeem, @matthewstoller, @stuartklau, @jenniferjjacobs, and @stokel
| Bloomberg: |
Ahead of its debut Thursday, Bumble raises $2.15B in its IPO with shares priced at $43 each, up from the previous range of $37-39 — - Listing upsized, priced above already elevated range — Wolfe Herd is youngest female CEO to take big U.S. firm public
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| The Information: |
Internal data shows only 11.3M US households regularly watch NBCU's Peacock; sources: NBCU has pitched ViacomCBS about bundling their streaming services — As Netflix and Disney cement their leads over an array of rivals in the video-streaming market, top executives at Comcast and its NBCUniversal arm are in a quandary.| Patrick Clark / Bloomberg: |
Zillow says it will acquire ShowingTime, which makes software to arrange home showings, for $500M, and announces record Q4: Zillow stock up 11%+ after hours — - Company shares surge in late trading on strong results — Stock had already rallied more than 600% since March
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GeekWire, GeekWire, Chicago Business, PR Newswire, HousingWire, Barron's Online, MarketWatch, Inman, and ZDNet. Tweets: @laz
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Uber reports mixed Q4 results: revenue drops 16% YoY to $3.2B, net loss narrows to $968M from $1.1B YoY; net loss in 2020 was $6.77B, down from $8.51B in 2019 — - Uber's losses are narrowing as delivery growth continues to outpace a drop in ride-sharing revenue.
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Tweets: @mattrosoff, @mattrosoff, and @lorakolodny
| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
A researcher was able to breach 35+ companies, including Microsoft and Apple, using a software supply chain attack that leveraged an open source ecosystem flaw — A researcher managed to breach over 35 major companies' internal systems, including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix …
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Alex Birsan. More:
Threatpost, MacRumors, Gizmodo, BGR, The Verge, Insider, SiliconANGLE, Sonatype Blog, Security Boulevard, The Overspill, TechRadar, AppleInsider, and WinBuzzer
Tweets: @jacobian, @doctorow, @samnewman, @rdbinns, @benjaoming, @securestep9, @raredata, and @knurd42
| The Information: |
Sources: Stir Money, whose software helps video and audio producers, writers, and performers manage their income, raises Series A led by a16z at $100M valuation — Andreessen Horowitz recently won a competitive deal to lead the Series A financing of Stir Money, a startup whose software helps video … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it has suspended 500+ accounts in India for violating rules but has not taken any action on accounts of journalists, activists, and politicians — Twitter said on Wednesday it has taken actions on more than 500 accounts and reduced visibility of some hashtags in India …
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Twitter, pib.gov.in, The Economic Times, New York Times, BuzzFeed News, MediaNama, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Voice of America, Financial Times, and The Verge
Tweets: @twittersafety, @dhume, @rmantri, @rasmus_kleis, @chandyanil, @gaamuk, @alfonslopeztena, @evan_greer, @mshannahmurphy, @dhume, @glakier, @rasmussen_poll, @rasmus_kleis, @raheelk, @sagarikaghose, @dangillmor, @michaelkugelman, @iamnikhilnanda, @basuashis, @lfreshthelion, @prasanto, @calamur, @pranavdixit, and @nixxin
| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Google launches Google News Showcase in UK and Argentina, after debuting the service in Australia last week, and says it now has over 450 publications globally — Google News Showcase is starting to roll out to more countries worldwide, including the UK and Argentina, on the heels of its Australian launch last week.
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The Keyword, The Verge, Neowin, Trusted Reviews, and The Keyword
Tweets: @googlenewsinit, @googlenewsinit, @googlenewsinit, @glenngabe, @pete_nq, @jwhittingdale, @googleuk, and @googleuk
| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : |
CBP scanned 23M+ people with facial recognition tech at airports, seaports, and pedestrian crossings in 2020, and reveals it caught zero imposters at airports — U.S. Customs and Border Protection scanned more than 23 million people in public places with facial recognition technology in 2020
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Tweets: @dlberes, @ozm, @freakonometrics, @willoremus, and @davegershgorn
| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Copenhagen-based Labster, which sells virtual STEM lab software to educational institutions, raises $60M Series C led by a16z, bringing total raised to $100M — Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm with $16.5 billion in assets under management, has poured millions into an edtech startup …
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Andreessen Horowitz, FinSMEs, PR Newswire, and Labster
| Varsha Bansal / MIT Technology Review: |
India's COVID-19 vaccine management system, Co-WIN, has multiple technical glitches of different kinds, resulting in significant delays to its vaccination goals — Instead of using its successful door-to-door approach, it's scaling up a new system linked to fingerprints and iris scans. — hide
Tweets: @charlottejee, @varshaabansal, @engagemedia, and @techreview
| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Interview with Rob Monster, CEO of Epik, on serving sites like Gab, why his company severed ties with 8chan and The Daily Stormer, Parler shutdown, and more — Toggle more options — When websites flooded with hate speech or harmful disinformation become too radioactive for the Internet … | Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
California's Fair Political Practices Commission proposes to fine Lyft $3,371 for failing to properly disclose what it paid for ads supporting Prop 22 — California's Fair Political Practices Commission is proposing a $3,371 fine for Lyft, which saw its market value soar by the billions after Prop 22 passed.
Tweets: @bigblackjacobin and @quinnypig
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