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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Starting with iOS 14.5, Apple will proxy the Safe Browsing service in Safari through its own servers instead of Google's to protect user data — Starting with iOS and iPadOS 14.5, Apple will proxy Google's “Safe Browsing” service used in Safari through its own servers instead of relying …
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The 8-Bit, Computerworld, Engadget, appleosophy.com, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, Firstpost Tech, iMore, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @othermaciej and @ourielohayon
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft drops the price of foldable Surface Duo by $400 to $999 and says it will arrive in the UK, France, Germany, and Canada on Feb. 18, expanding beyond US — The first international release for Microsoft's dual-screen device — Microsoft is dropping the price of its foldable Surface Duo device …
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Thurrott, Android Police, 9to5Google, Engadget, Windows Central, TalkAndroid.com, MUO, Droid Life, Pocketnow, SlashGear, OnMSFT.com, Android Central, and Neowin
Tweets: @drasticactionsa, @tomwarren, @backlon, and @tomwarren
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Microsoft made an offer to acquire Pinterest in recent months; source says the talks are not active right now — Microsoft approached Pinterest in recent months about a potential deal to acquire the $51bn social media company popular with hobbyists posting home decor …
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The Verge, PYMNTS.com, TechSpot, Neowin, MUO, OnMSFT.com, Insider, coinspeaker.com, cloudpro.co.uk, MSPoweruser, and Windows Central
Tweets: @pandodaily, @spottedfirefly, @carlquintanilla, @shivsharma_5, @thekenyeung, @mgsiegler, @tomwarren, @counternotions, and @bdsams
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Microsoft president says US and other countries should consider adopting rules like Australia's proposed laws forcing tech companies to pay for news content — Microsoft President Brad Smith told Axios in an interview that the U.S. and other countries should consider adopting media rules …
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Microsoft On the Issues, Bloomberg, The Keyword, The Keyword, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @stevesi, @msftissues, @caseynewton, @sarafischer, @kylebrussell, and @fxshaw
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Facebook says bullying and harassment takedowns reached 6.3M in Q4 2020, up from 2.8M in Q4 2019, due to increased reviewer capacity and AI improvements — It's ramping up moderation after a COVID-19 dip last year — On Thursday, Facebook released a new moderation transparency report showing …
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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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Wall Street Journal, Media Matters for America, Ars Technica, Washington Post, The Guardian, Reuters, and BBC
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Microsoft patches a 12-year-old Windows Defender bug that could potentially let an attacker run malicious code, after researchers discovered it last fall — Microsoft has finally patched the bug in its antivirus program after researchers spotted it last fall. — JUST BECAUSE A vulnerability is old doesn't mean it's not useful.| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
Clubhouse employs an unusually aggressive user onboarding process, pressuring users to upload contacts before ranking those contacts based on total connections — The app pressures you to upload your phone's contacts — and makes them visible in surprising ways
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| Mordechai Rorvig / VICE: |
Researchers unveil the Ramanujan Machine, a software-based automated conjecturing system that develops new formulas for universal constants in mathematics — Pushing the boundaries of math requires great minds to pose fascinating problems. What if a machine could do it? Now, scientists created one that can.| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Modern Health, whose app helps employers provide digital mental health care to employees, raises $74M at a valuation of $1.17B, bringing total raised to $172M — Modern Health, a San Francisco-based mental health platform, says it has raised $74 million in a funding round that pushes its valuation to $1.17 billion.| Jeremy B. Merrill / The Markup: |
Google says it will update its ad policies after an investigation found advertisers could exclude people who identify as “unknown gender” from job ads and more — Dozens of advertisers instructed the company to not show their ads to people of “unknown” gender … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Immunai, which uses AI to analyze the human immune system, raises $60M Series A led by Schusterman Foundation and others — Immunai, a startup developing an AI platform to analyze the human immune system, today announced that it raised $60 million. The company says it will use the funds …
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| Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
Source: Amazon Connect, its cloud call center software, had $175M in sales during 2020, up ~150% YoY, and the company expects $1B annual sales by 2022 — A few years ago, Amazon released a cloud service that used some of the same software smarts behind Alexa—its voice assistant … | 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: @stilgherrian, @dlberes, @ozm, @freakonometrics, @davegershgorn, and @willoremus
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's BharatPe, which helps offline merchants accept digital payments, raises $108M Series D, at a $900M valuation, led by Coatue Management — India may soon have another fintech unicorn. BharatPe said on Thursday it has raised $108 million in a financing round that valued …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: EU is considering a deal with TSMC or Samsung to build an advanced semiconductor factory in Europe in an attempt to avoid relying on the US and Asia — - EU wants to boost semiconductor production in the region — Goal is to reduce reliance on Taiwan for cutting-edge chips| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Labelbox, which develops data annotation and labeling software, raises $40M Series C led by B Capital Group, bringing its total raised to $79M — Labelbox, a startup developing a data annotation and labeling platform, today announced that it's raised $40 million, bringing its total raised to $79 million.| Financial Times: |
Banks hope to persuade Biden admin that Big Tech and fintech startups should not be able to offer services that compete with banks without facing the same rules — Banks see a chance to direct tougher regulation against Facebook, Google and fintechs — Wall Street executives see the prospect … | 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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Protocol, SiliconANGLE, WinBuzzer, Laptop Mag, Threatpost, The Verge, Sonatype Blog, BGR, Gizmodo, Insider, MacRumors, Security Boulevard, TechRadar, AppleInsider, SecurityWeek, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, The Hacker News, ZDNet, and The Overspill
Tweets: @rungrage, @sanjiva, @jacobian, @doctorow, @samnewman, @rdbinns, @benjaoming, @securestep9, @raredata, @knurd42, @youngnick, @adam_k_levin, and @weldpond
| 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 …
Tweets: @bobbyallyn, @wexler, @kuow, @fark, and @npr
| Naman Ramachandran / Variety: |
HBO Max to launch in Latin America and the Caribbean in June; existing HBO-branded streaming services in Europe will shift to HBO Max later this year — WarnerMedia's streamer HBO Max is set to launch across 39 Latin American and Caribbean territories in June.| Amy Lewin / Sifted: |
Dublin-based food ordering service Flipdish raises €40M round from Tiger Global Management — Pre-Covid, says McCarthy, lots of restaurants relied on platforms like Deliveroo for a small portion of orders, but when everything moved online, “they realised they weren't making a whole load …
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| Diep Tran / Backstage: |
SAG-AFTRA approves an influencer agreement, extending its coverage to anyone who is paid to advertise products via their social media platforms — If you make your living as an influencer on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, or any other social media platform, you will soon have union protection.
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Axios, Talking Influence, and Tubefilter
Tweets: @brendengallager, @mylawyerfriend, and @thecultureofme
| 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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Tweets: @rmantri, @dhume, @twittersafety, @chandyanil, @alfonslopeztena, @mshannahmurphy, @evan_greer, @dhume, @gaamuk, @rasmus_kleis, @glakier, @rasmussen_poll, @rasmus_kleis, @raheelk, @sagarikaghose, @dangillmor, @michaelkugelman, @iamnikhilnanda, @basuashis, @lfreshthelion, @prasanto, @calamur, @pranavdixit, and @nixxin
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