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Sources: Microsoft is testing a browser-based version of its xCloud game streaming service, currently for Chromium browsers like Chrome and Microsoft Edge — This is what Xbox looks like in a browser — Microsoft has started testing its xCloud game streaming through a web browser.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Clubhouse, which centralizes creation and consumption into a feedback loop, will do for audio what Twitter, Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video — To what extent are new companies, particularly those in new spaces, pushed versus pulled into existence? Last week I wrote about how Tesla is a Meme Company:
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
UK filing: OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei's new venture Nothing has acquired Essential, Andy Rubin's now-defunct smartphone brand — After a series of launch teasers and little information on upcoming product lines, Carl Pei's flegling technology brand Nothing is now the sole owner of the one-time smartphone brand Essential.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Parler says it is now accessible for existing users and will accept new signups starting next week, announces Tea Party activist Mark Meckler as interim CEO — An Amazon suspension shut it down in January — The alternative social network Parler has reopened after a month offline.
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| @pwnallthethings: |
[Thread] A breakdown of significant issues with Bloomberg's recent Supermicro story, which may have relied on misunderstandings of an FBI briefing by a source — tl;dr is a source misunderstood an FBI defensive briefing on China's supply chain activities, leaked it to the press, and bloomberg has *again* failed to do the work necessary to verify the sensational claims, because they mistake impressive credentials with domain expertise.
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| Financial Times: |
France is pushing for changes to EU's upcoming tech regulations so that member states will have expanded powers to punish bad behavior and police more content — Paris wants member states to have more power to act against illegal content — France is pushing for the EU's upcoming regulations …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
France says Russia-linked Sandworm hacking group breached several French entities running the Centreon IT monitoring software in a three year operation — New ANSSI report exposes new Sandworm APT attacks targeting IT companies using Centreon servers. — France's cyber-security agency …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Trend Micro details an unpatched remote code execution bug in the Android version of SHAREit, an app with 1B+ Play Store downloads that lets users share files — The vulnerabilities impact SHAREit, an app used for sharing files between users and their devices.| Nicole Perlroth / Wired: |
Early 0-day exploit brokers, some active in the late 90s, share stories about a nascent industry that became key to espionage, organized crime, and war planning — The lucrative business of dealing in code vulnerabilities is central to espionage and war planning, which is why brokers never spoke about it—until now.
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| Reuters: |
France says Google Ireland and Google France have agreed to pay €1.1M after an investigation found Google's hotel rankings could be misleading for consumers — PARIS (Reuters) - Google Ireland and Google France have agreed to pay a 1.1 million euros ($1.34 million) …
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| Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: |
Ahead of EU recommendations on platform workers, Uber CEO says it is ready to improve social protections for gig workers but new legislation is needed — - EU looks to improve labor conditions for gig economy workers — Uber says it's willing to improve protections for drivers
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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.Sponsor Posts
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