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| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing — Stereotyping the tech industry as a bunch of secretive right-wingers isn't correct, and it isn't helpful. — 11 hr ago
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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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| Wall Street Journal: |
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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The Guardian, MUO, Mike's List, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, phonearena.com, Patently Apple, MacDailyNews, Redmond Pie, Insider, iMore, Upstract, and The Independent
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| Stanford Internet Observatory: |
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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Reuters, Bloomberg, Toronto Star, The Verge, Vox, Engadget, TechRadar, The Overspill, Gizmodo, iPhone Hacks, Mashable, AppleInsider, Apple Terminal, and Insider
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| Chainalysis Blog: |
Research: $1.3B or 55% of all money laundering in cryptocurrency in 2020 was driven by just 270 deposit addresses owned by five illicit fund receiving services — This blog is an excerpt from the Chainalysis 2021 Crypto Crime Report. Click here and sign up to get the full document emailed …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with Unity CFO Kim Jabal, about the impact from Apple's upcoming IDFA changes, the tug of war between targeted ads and privacy, competition with Epic, more — Unity Technologies recently reported better than expected earnings for the fourth quarter ended December 31.| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
What we want from Facebook and other platforms is not less politics but less of a distortionary effect on politics caused by an algorithmic bias toward outrage — Social networks would love to show users less political content. Here's why that's a problem.| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
London-based Solidatus, which helps clients like HSBC and Citi visualize, manage, and monetize their data, raises £14M Series A led by AlbionVC — Solidatus, a London-based data lineage and metadata management company, is today announcing it has raised £14 million in Series A funding.
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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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Silicon Republic, TechRadar, MSPoweruser, and Slashdot
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| PYMNTS.com: |
Nymbus, which helps roll out full-service digital banking in under 45 days for financial institutions, raises $53M Series C led by Insight Partners — Banking-as-a-service (BaaS) startup Nymbus raised $53 million in a Series C funding round led by existing investor Insight Partners.| Rest of World: |
Inside “PGM” Facebook groups, the largest of which has 160,000+ members, where Brazilians collect, share, and memorialize the accounts of the recently deceased — Long before the Covid-19 pandemic, Brazilian Facebook users were gathering to memorialize total strangers.
Tweets: @renske_visser, @restofworld, @telliotter, @garrytan, @restofworld, @decka227, @cengizyar, @j_fuller, @restofworld, @pribellini, @iethics, @lmatsakis, @iethics, and @restofworld
| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
Libeo, a French startup that lets SMEs easily process invoices and B2B payments, raises €20M Series A and says it is processing €100M annually — Libeo, a French fintech software that simplifies invoices and payments for SMEs, has closed a €20 million Series A round …
Tweets: @georgehdf
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