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| Nicholas McElroy / ABC: |
Australian authorities in public health, weather, and other areas say Facebook has removed posts from their feeds following Facebook's news ban — Facebook has restricted access to news in Australia, and so far the tech giant seems to have taken a pretty broad definition of news.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Facebook's refusal to pay a misguided media tax, pushed by Rupert Murdoch, is a defense of the open web and criticizing it for rejecting a link tax is bizarre — None of this should have been a surprise. Back in September we wrote about Facebook publicly saying that if Australia went forward …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Banning Australian news makes sense for Facebook and may prompt people to visit news sites directly; Google's payoffs, though, will invite global shakedowns — But Google gives in. What's next? — Yesterday, I wrote that Australia's News Media Bargaining Code threatened to splinter the internet.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google releases the developer preview of Android 12, available for Pixel devices, with many developer-focused features and changes — The big, consumer-facing changes will come later this year — Google is releasing a developer preview for the next version of Android, Android 12, for Pixel devices today.
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| Usman Pirzada / Wccftech: |
Nvidia announces dedicated crypto mining GPUs and says RTX 3060 GPU will detect the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm and limit the hash rate by 50% — NVIDIA has finally conceded to the overwhelming mining demand facing the GPU market right now and launched a lineup … | Noam Bardin: |
Former Waze CEO reflects on his time at Google and the impact of the acquisition on autonomy, the brand, hiring and firing, distribution, compensation, and more — It's been two weeks since I left Google and I keep getting asked “why did I leave now”? I think the better question is “why did I stay for so long”?
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Court filing says a Facebook manager warned that the company reported revenues it “should have never made” by overstating how many users advertisers could reach — Lawsuit cites product executive's qualms over figures provided to advertisers — A Facebook employee warned …
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| YouTube: |
Livestream of House Financial Services Committee hearing on GameStop stock with CEOs of Robinhood, Citadel, and Reddit, and YouTube streamer “Roaring Kitty” — Executives from Robinhood, Reddit, Citadel and Melvin Capital, are headed to Washington for Thursday's highly anticipated GameStop hearing at the U.S. Congress.
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| Ben Geman / Axios: |
Facebook says it will expand its program to fight climate lies to other regions, will debunk climate change myths, adds labels to climate change posts in the UK — Facebook is expanding the geographic reach of its recently launched online portal to counter misinformation about climate change …
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| Bloomberg: |
YouTube says YouTube Kids app now has 35M weekly active users and launches new tools for creators to make money from their fans, including an applause feature — - Company says feature called Shorts still in testing stage — Google unit also introduces new revenue tools for creators| João Carrasqueira / Neowin: |
Facebook adds multi-user support and app sharing to Oculus Quest — Facebook is making Oculus Quest headsets easier to share with others with a couple of new features being rolled out starting today. Support for multiple user accounts as well as app sharing are coming to the more recent Quest 2 first …
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About Facebook, CNET, The Verge, UploadVR, and VRFocus
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google will restructure its Responsible AI teams to centralize them under a single Black executive, Marian Croak, in wake of Timnit Gebru's departure — - Company seeks to stabilize department amid internal rancor — Responsible AI teams to be centralized under single executive
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| Tim Anderson / The Register: |
Microsoft releases version 1.0 of Dapr, one of its open-source projects to simplify app development for Kubernetes — API now stable, more on the way — Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), aimed at providing building blocks to simplify application development for Kubernetes.
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blog.dapr.io, Thurrott, TechCrunch, Neowin, and Open Source Blog
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Job listings show Apple is looking to hire engineers to start work on 6G — - Company wants to rely less on others for new technology — Job listings posted for positions in San Diego, Silicon Valley — Apple Inc. launched its first iPhones with 5G wireless speeds a few months ago.
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Gizmodo, Redmond Pie, FierceWireless, MacRumors, Light Reading, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, TechRadar, Apple Terminal, MacDailyNews, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @trengriffin, @mgsiegler, @wholemarsblog, and @northmantrader
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Reuters: |
Sources: Apple is lobbying to participate in a new scheme to boost India's computer exports, as part of plans to bring iPad manufacturing to the country — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Apple Inc is angling to participate in a new scheme to boost India's exports of computer products …
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iPhone in Canada Blog, Apple Terminal, TechRadar, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, iMore, Patently Apple, iDownloadBlog.com, and AppleInsider. Tweets: @reutersbiz
| Bloomberg: |
Webull, the Chinese-owned brokerage that runs one of the fastest-growing retail trading platforms in the US, raises $150M, sources say at a $1B+ valuation — Webull, the Chinese-owned brokerage that runs one of the fastest-growing retail trading platforms in the U.S., raised $150 million … | Mara Hvistendahl / The Intercept: |
Docs: Oracle has been marketing its data analytics tools to Chinese police, touting its ability to mine DNA, vehicle records, and facial recognition databases — Police in China's Liaoning province were sitting on mounds of data collected through invasive means: financial records …
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Protocol. Tweets: @marahvistendahl, @gadyepstein, @bethanyallenebr, @globalhighered, @dtbyler, @marahvistendahl, @lindsaypgorman, @mmasnick, @theintercept, and @marahvistendahl
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
US federal judge rules that Citibank isn't entitled to be returned $500M it accidentally sent to creditors early via Flexcube software, which had a confusing UI — Citibank was trying to make $7.8M in interest payments. It sent $900M instead. — A federal judge has ruled that Citibank …
Tweets: @rsg, @shortformernie, @wolfgangbremer, @sarasoueidan, and @carnage4life
| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Palantir's stock drops over 7% after nearly all shares are unlocked for trading; the company's September IPO restricted sales to one-fifth of shares — - Two longtime investors said they will hold; Soros to exit — Stock restriction was an unusual condition of direct listing| Tyler Sonnemaker / Insider: |
A high-profile engineer at Mailchimp accuses the company of “sexism and bullying” in her resignation announcement — - Mailchimp engineer Kelly Ellis quit Wednesday after accusing the company of “sexism and bullying.” — Ellis said in a Twitter thread that she resigned after a conversation about pay “went south.”
Tweets: @justkelly_ok
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
CrowdStrike to acquire log data analysis startup Humio for $400M — CrowdStrike, a cloud-native cybersecurity company focused on endpoint protection and threat intelligence for enterprises, has announced plans to acquire U.K.-based log-analysis and observability startup Humio in a mostly-cash deal worth approximately $400 million.
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CrowdStrike, Tech.eu, CRN, Tech.eu, ZDNet, TechCrunch, and Business Wire. Tweets: @stockmarketnerd
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: Clubhouse grew from over 3.5M global downloads on February 1, 2021, to reach 8.1M by February 16, 2021 — Social audio app Clubhouse has now topped 8 million global downloads, despite still being in a prelaunch, invite-only mode, according to new data released today by mobile data and analytics firm App Annie.Sponsor Posts
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