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Sources: Apple is cutting orders for all iPhones by ~20% compared to its plans in December for H1 2021, with iPhone 12 mini production cut by 70% — Total iPhone target for 2021 still at 230m units despite global parts shortage — TAIPEI — Apple is slashing its planned production …
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Data center operator OVH says a fire destroyed some of its sites in France, affecting cyber threat intelligence company Bad Packets, game maker Rust, and others — In a major unprecedented incident, data centers of OVH located in Strasbourg, France have been destroyed by fire.
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Roblox begins trading under RBLX at $64.50, up 43% from its Jan. funding round, giving the company a $33.5B valuation; NYSE set Roblox's reference price at $45 — - Roblox held its stock market debut on Wednesday through a direct listing, and is now trading under ticker symbol RBLX.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
By bringing disparate parts of gaming into one place, Roblox has created the conditions for interlocking feedback loops that typify transformational products — Manage your Stratechery subscription. — The degree to which Stratechery Weekly Articles are pre-planned varies; Eddy on Twitter, though, had this article pegged:
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| Geoffrey Fowler / Washington Post: |
Amazon is the only major publisher that withholds its digital books from public libraries, preventing people from downloading over 10,000 e-books and audiobooks — Its monopoly is stopping public libraries from lending e-books and audiobooks from Mindy Kaling, Dean Koontz, Dr. Ruth Westheimer … | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple says it will invest €1B in Germany over the next three years and will make Munich its European Silicon Design Center — Apple will make Munich its European Silicon Design Center, the company announced today. Work already being undertaken by Apple in Bavaria's capital is contributing … | Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Creators are monetizing through hyper-specific revenue streams like NewNew, which lets fans pay to vote to control a creator's day-to-day decisions — Digital stars are coming up with new ways to make money. Yet fans still hold the power. — A rash of new start-ups are making it easier … | Stephen Warwick / iMore: |
Twitter says it is testing displaying large images, instead of cropped previews, on iOS and Android and will add support for 4K photo uploads — “Sometimes it's better said with a picture or a video.” — What you need to know — Twitter is testing new features that will let you see a single image in full on your timeline.
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| Reuters: |
Russia says it is slowing down Twitter for not removing 3K+ posts containing “illegal content” and threatens a total block if Twitter ignores deletion demands — MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it was slowing down the speed of Twitter in retaliation for its alleged failure …
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| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook says it has filed motions to dismiss antitrust lawsuits brought by the FTC and state AGs, arguing its conduct did not harm competition or consumers — Action marks its first legal salvo since the FTC and 46 states sued the company in December — WASHINGTON— Facebook Inc …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Instagram Lite, an Android app that takes up just 2MB of storage space, in 170 countries, and says Facebook Lite has 200M+ MAUs — Growth for Facebook is coming from the developing world, and so the social network today made another key move to cater better to consumers in those countries.| Tim Ferriss / The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss: |
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To ease its dependence on US, China's new five-year plan calls tech development a matter of national security and pledges to raise R&D spending by 7% annually — Beijing's leaders plot a path to go it alone, vowing to spend big to fill gaps in innovation and avoid dependence on the United States and others.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Dependency confusion attacks, where package managers override local packages with global ones, are flourishing, impacting Microsoft, Zillow, Lyft, and others — New dependency confusion attacks take aim at Microsoft, Amazon, Slack, Lyft, and Zillow. — A new type of supply chain attack unveiled …
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Sonatype Blog, Sonatype Blog, Contrast Security, and The GitHub Blog
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
TikTok gives users the ability to approve all new comments before they appear and adds in-app prompts to discourage nasty comments — TikTok is introducing new features meant to — reduce bullying and harassment on its platform: new comment controls and in-app prompts to discourage nasty comments.
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TikTok, TechSpot, MUO, 9to5Mac, CNET, and The Verge
Tweets: @stokel, @mattnavarra, and @tiktokcomms
| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
Hackers say they breached Verkada, accessing feeds and archives of 150K surveillance cameras inside clinics, police precincts, jails, schools, Tesla facilities — - Hacker group says it wanted to show prevalence of surveillance — Video footage was captured from Sequoia-backed startup Verkada
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| Amos Barshad / Rest of World: |
A look at Unit 8200, an elite intelligence unit within the Israeli Defense Forces and a pipeline for the country's sprawling network of cybersecurity startups — The country's hacking software is recognized the world over. Not everyone thinks it's a good thing.
Tweets: @restofworld, @leomschwartz, @cengizyar, @restofworld, and @_meher
| Shiyin Chen / Bloomberg: |
Epic Games sues Google in Australia, arguing Google forces developers to use its payments system, expanding on lawsuits in US and UK against Google and Apple — - Fortnite maker has already sued Google in the U.S. and U.K. — Dispute centers around fees charged by app store operators
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| Bloomberg: |
Bipartisan group of US lawmakers re-introduce a bill that will let news organizations negotiate collectively with Google, Facebook, and others — - News media could band together under bill to bargain with tech — Australia law marked a major victory for news publishers
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Gizmodo, CNET, U.S. Senator John Kennedy, News Media Alliance, TechCrunch, and Politico
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| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
As part of the $1.9T American Rescue Plan, Congress voted to give $1B to the Technology Modernization Fund, focusing on improving government IT systems — On Wednesday, Congress voted to give $1 billion to the Technology Modernization Fund, an unprecedented cash infusion that will go a long …
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Wall Street Journal, Axios, New York Times, and Washington Post
Tweets: @brfreed and @birnbaum_e
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Via, a software and operations platform for cities, buys Remix, which makes mapping software for city transport planning, for $100M in cash and equity — Remix, the startup that developed mapping software used by cities for transportation planning and street design, was born out of a hackathon during a Code for America fellowship.
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| Bloomberg: |
Taiwan, undergoing its worst drought in 56 years, says it has enough water to keep its semiconductor industry going until late May, when monsoons are expected — - Government expects rain in 2021 to be slightly less than usual — TSMC sees no impact on production so far, has contingency plan
Tweets: @kylebrussell
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
DataGrail, which helps companies deal with privacy regulations around the world including GDPR and CCPA, raises $30M Series B, bringing its total raised to $39M — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — DataGrail, a data privacy startup …
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FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, and TechCrunch
| Maddy Savage / BBC: |
Rural Sweden is getting cashierless shops thanks to BankID, a national ID app operated by Sweden's banks, and barcodes that bill pre-registered bank cards — Dark clouds loom over the pine forest surrounding Hummelsta, a town of 1,000 people that hasn't had any local shops for a decade.
Tweets: @andybtravels, @maddysavage, and @maddysavage
| Bloomberg: |
The crackdown on Jack Ma risks backfiring on Xi's master plan for Chinese tech as founders and investors show concern over heavy-handed suppression — In barely 40 years, China has dramatically opened up its economy and become one of the world's primary growth engines.| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Facebook details a 10-year vision for its AR glasses, imagining they will work alongside a wristband to measure hand and figure gestures, with haptic feedback — Facebook is working on a neural wristband for AR glasses, with haptic gloves in the works — Facebook's first pair of smart glasses is arriving this year.
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Facebook Technology, Input, ZDNet, and Laptop Mag
Tweets: @alexchudesign, @kentbye, @kentbye, @amandhingrayt, and @xrandrew
| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
LA-based NuOrder, a B2B fashion service that helps brands process orders and operate virtual showrooms, raises $45M, source says at an ~$800M valuation — - Round is said to value company at about $800 million — Bright Park Capital, Imaginary Ventures lead $45 million round
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