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Sources shed light on the increasingly personal battle between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg, who in private reportedly said “we need to inflict pain” on Apple — Animosity between CEOs Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook erupts over privacy and dueling visions of internet
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Examining the links between the Rationalist community, with Slate Star Codex blog as its epicenter, and influential leaders in tech, including OpenAI's founders — Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future. Then it disappeared.
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After researchers raised data privacy concerns, Clubhouse says it is taking steps “to prevent Clubhouse clients from ever transmitting pings to Chinese servers” — The audio chat app “Clubhouse” went viral among Chinese-speaking audiences. Stanford Internet Observatory examines …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Microsoft's quantum computing ambitions suffer a setback after its researcher, who claimed to have found the Majorana particle, prepares to retract his findings — In a 2018 paper, researchers said they found evidence of an elusive theorized particle. A closer look now suggests otherwise.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
House committee says Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, and YouTube streamer Keith Gill will testify at GameStop hearing on February 18 — On February 18th, the House Financial Services Committee will hold a virtual hearing to look into how GameStop's shares
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| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Out of about $150B raised by US companies in VC funding in 2020, only $1B went to Black or African-American startup founders — Last year, U.S. companies raised record amounts of venture capital, at just under $150 billion. But of that capital, only $1 billion went to Black …
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance is exploring a sale of India operations of TikTok to rival unicorn Glance, in talks initiated by SoftBank, a backer of Glance's parent InMobi — - TikTok banned in India amid poor relations with China — Talks are early and complex, according to people familiar| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google resumes updating its major iPhone and iPad apps, starting with YouTube; Google did not update the apps since before Apple's Dec. 8 privacy label change — The vast majority of Google's iOS apps have not been updated since early December. A trio of smaller Google applications saw …
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Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z create ₿trust endowment with 500 bitcoin, worth $23M+, to fund teams working on Bitcoin development, initially in Africa and India — Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey and rapper Jay Z have created an endowment to fund bitcoin development initially in Africa and India, Dorsey said Friday.
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Report: African startups raised $1.43B in 2020, down 29% YoY, declining for the first time in almost a decade — - Pandemic related slowdowns make investors wary of big deals — Funding rounds increased in Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa — Funding for African startups slowed … | Dr. Tom Robinson / Elliptic Blog: |
The founder of Joker's Stash, one of the most popular marketplaces for stolen credit card and identity data, has allegedly retired with a fortune of $1B+ — Elliptic's Co-founder and Chief Scientist discusses cryptocurrency forensics, investigations, compliance, and sanctions.
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Minneapolis City Council unanimously approves an ordinance banning the use of facial recognition, including Clearview AI's software, by its police department — Minneapolis voted Friday to ban the use of facial recognition software for its police department, growing the list of major cities … | Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Sources: Qualcomm has told regulators around the world, including the FTC and UK's CMA, that it is against Nvidia's $40B acquisition of Arm — - Qualcomm has told regulators around the world that it is against Nvidia's $40 billion acquisition of British chip designer Arm, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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